Heiser-The-Facade - Sparkling Eyes

"No you don't! You have no appreciation for man being in God's image. I believeyou when you say you couldn't stop them, but don't make excuses for what they've done!""That's why they take the uterus, isn't it?" Mark inquired pensively. "The uterus ofa cow is physiologically closer to that of humans than any other species.""That would be my guess," Dr. Marcus answered."I'm with the Father here," Deidre piped up. "You sound like the alien PR guy. IfI've listened to one hypnotic regression on some woman who claimed she'd been madepregnant during an abduction only to be abducted later and returned without the fetus,I've heard a hundred. I say we can't trust them, especially if they could have used cows. Ifthey're so advanced, why couldn't they create artificial wombs? For God's sake, even westupid humans can do that.""I'm anything but the `PR guy,' Doctor. I can't answer your question, but I can saythat the visitors have never shown any sign of overt hostility or contempt for us.""Other than introduce a virus that's gonna bake our buns in thirty years," quippedMalcolm."You misunderstand their urgency," Dr. Marcus countered. A collective sigh ofexasperation reverberated through the room."Dr. Marcus is just being honest—that is what you people want, isn't it?" theColonel said in a perturbed tone. "We don't know why, but they configured this thing toforce us into a decision at this time. My guess is that they need access to the planet nowbut can't act unilaterally because of the threat we'll make that access point-less.""They have to know we would never do such a thing. It doesn't make sense,"Melissa criticized the Colonel's speculation. "Well, I think that they've witnessed humanbeings kill enough of their fellow humans, as well as willfully pollute our own life-givingresources, that they believe we'd do it. They may think we're that primitive that we'd killeach other off rather than throw away our power and our worldview paradigm.""My estimation of their intelligence just went up a notch," Deidre deadpanned."I'm sorry," Dr. Garvey spoke up, "but I'm just not buying it. The whole idea isasinine. It's not that I don't want to believe, but I need proof—substantive, irrefutableproof, and in this case, an abundance of it.""I'd have to say the same," Melissa admitted. "It's just too far out. What do the restof you think?" The team members exchanged glances. The Colonel, Neil, and Dr. Marcussurveyed the expressions on each face, as well as the body language. It was apparent thatonly Mark Chadwick appeared to have been swayed."I guess we're back to square one then," said the Colonel. "Tomorrow morningwe'll proceed with the same briefing that we gave Dr. Bandstra a little over a month ago.We suspected that you would need to be convinced. Major Lindsay will conduct yourinitiation into the history of our country's contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life."110