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For a variety of reasons I was looking at a website linked below where I came across a great quote that sums up, I think, what happens for a lot ufology situations. I am giving the context for this quote because it's interesting but it's the quote that I am interested in relaying here.

I give the full quote and bold the part that is the sum up: "Whenever I read a passage from The Two Babylons, I cannot help recalling a note which was scribbled on one of my university essays by a lecturer in ancient history:

Your discussion of the various cultural forces at work is sound, although here you become the victim of too little learning combined with a boldness of style. Sounding plausible doesn’t make it right, as your analysis of the cultural influences implies. The idea is good; the sensitivity to evidence is less apparent.

A careful examination of The Two Babylons will reveal that the Reverend Hislop has fallen victim to the same rush of enthusiasm. He has begun with a preconceived idea, located a number of sources that appear to give it credit, and extrapolated a probable (but ultimately fallacious) conclusion from what amounted to very little evidence in the first place."

The Two Babylons - Hislop's hypothesis debunked
LINK: The Two Babylons - Hislop's hypothesis debunked - Christadelphian Info

The 'field' of alternate histories is littered with extrapolations and 'ultimately fallacious' conclusions, sad to say.

As the man said: 'Sounding plausible doesn’t make it right.'

<blockquote data-quote="Tyger" data-source="post: 198603" data-attributes="member: 6534">For a variety of reasons I was looking at a website linked below where I came across a great quote that sums up, I think, what happens for a lot ufology situations. I am giving the context for this quote because it&#039;s interesting but it&#039;s the quote that I am interested in relaying here.I give the full quote and bold the part that is the sum up: &quot;Whenever I read a passage from The Two Babylons, I cannot help recalling a note which was scribbled on one of my university essays by a lecturer in ancient history:Your discussion of the various cultural forces at work is sound, although here you become the victim of too little learning combined with a boldness of style.&nbsp; Sounding plausible doesn’t make it right, as your analysis of the cultural influences implies.&nbsp; The idea is good; the sensitivity to evidence is less apparent.A careful examination of The Two Babylons will reveal that the Reverend Hislop has fallen victim to the same rush of enthusiasm. He has begun with a preconceived idea, located a number of sources that appear to give it credit, and extrapolated a probable (but ultimately fallacious) conclusion from what amounted to very little evidence in the first place.&quot;The Two Babylons - Hislop&#039;s hypothesis debunkedLINK: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/christadelphianinfo/articles/apologetics/dbhislop" target="_blank">The Two Babylons - Hislop&#039;s hypothesis debunked - Christadelphian Info</a>The &#039;field&#039; of alternate histories is littered with extrapolations and &#039;ultimately fallacious&#039; conclusions, sad to say.As the man said: &#039;Sounding plausible doesn’t make it right.&#039;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tyger, post: 198603, member: 6534"] For a variety of reasons I was looking at a website linked below where I came across a great quote that sums up, I think, what happens for a lot ufology situations. I am giving the context for this quote because it's interesting but it's the quote that I am interested in relaying here. I give the full quote and bold the part that is the sum up: [I]"Whenever I read a passage from [U]The Two Babylons[/U], I cannot help recalling a note which was scribbled on one of my university essays by a lecturer in ancient history: [B]Your discussion of the various cultural forces at work is sound, although here you become the victim of too little learning combined with a boldness of style. [U]Sounding plausible doesn’t make it right,[/U] as your analysis of the cultural influences implies. The idea is good; the sensitivity to evidence is less apparent.[/B] A careful examination of [U]The Two Babylons[/U] will reveal that the Reverend Hislop [B]has fallen victim to the same rush of enthusiasm. [U]He has begun with a preconceived idea, located a number of sources that appear to give it credit, and extrapolated a probable (but ultimately fallacious) conclusion from what amounted to very little evidence in the first place.[/U]"[/B][/I] [SIZE=4][B]The Two Babylons - Hislop's hypothesis debunked[/B][/SIZE] LINK: [URL='https://sites.google.com/site/christadelphianinfo/articles/apologetics/dbhislop']The Two Babylons - Hislop's hypothesis debunked - Christadelphian Info[/URL] The 'field' of alternate histories is littered with extrapolations and 'ultimately fallacious' conclusions, sad to say. As the man said:[I][B] 'Sounding plausible doesn’t make it right.'[/B][/I] [/QUOTE]

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