The Prophets...of Bajor? What's the deal?

[TheGodBen]

The scientific definition of the word theory is the one that is wrong. The word existed with one definition, the common vernacular definition, then scientists came along and decided to redefine it. Sorry it doesn't work that way. You can't just change the language to suit your need. The original and correct definition of a theory requires no facts in support of said theory. Sorry. You lose. Did you even go to the link? Probably not.

http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/PSEUDOSC/WhatTheory.HTM

I shall concede my point in the light of this evidence.

 

[Odo's_Bucket]

^ In the past people have often thought a lot of notions to be silly that today are reality. Powered flight. Space travel. A non-white American been elected to the office of the president. It might seem silly and fanciful but given time and the will humanity has proved that it is capable of extraordinary things.

I think there is a huge difference between using knowledge to build a machine to do something extraordinary (space travel) or overcoming diversity in the case of Obama...and the ability to make the entire universe bend to your will.

Again, I'm not saying we're not capable of acquiring great powers, but Q-like powers? That needs to stay in the fictional world.

I was under the assumption that Star Trek was fictional. Sorry.

 

[SonicRanger]

... Just like humans are supposed to one day evolve into the Q...

Considering that the Q Continuum almost executed all of humanity in "All Good Things," that doesn't make much sense.

 

[Odo's_Bucket]

... Just like humans are supposed to one day evolve into the Q...

Considering that the Q Continuum almost executed all of humanity in "All Good Things," that doesn't make much sense.

Perhaps they were never aware of or had forgotten their origin. If you went into the past and found some single celled organism, from which humans had evolved, would recognize the connection?

 

[The Grim Ghost]

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_age.html

That link has nothing to do with how long humans have existed. It is all about the age of the Universe.

and humans have existed as a species for a few million years.

Directly from the page.

You're right, I completely skimmed over that somehow. Sorry.

 

[RoJoHen]

^ In the past people have often thought a lot of notions to be silly that today are reality. Powered flight. Space travel. A non-white American been elected to the office of the president. It might seem silly and fanciful but given time and the will humanity has proved that it is capable of extraordinary things.

I think there is a huge difference between using knowledge to build a machine to do something extraordinary (space travel) or overcoming diversity in the case of Obama...and the ability to make the entire universe bend to your will.

Again, I'm not saying we're not capable of acquiring great powers, but Q-like powers? That needs to stay in the fictional world.

I was under the assumption that Star Trek was fictional. Sorry.

I was under the assumption that our debate had moved beyond Star Trek.