Resolved: Earth has been visited by ancient aliens.

I would like to prove that this will indeed be a philosophical debate. After my opponents argument, I have concluded that I may circumstantially be held to my own burden of proof. However, I think I will adequately meet that burdon of proof for readers who may not have prior knowledge of my arguments.Who the Anunnaki Really are Right from the beginning my opponent asserts that aliens are the Anunnoki. The legend of the Anunnoki comes from a religious Sumarian text called THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH written on clay tablets. The purpose of this text was to Diefy the current leadership(kings or ememperors) and to impliment a heirarchal system in which the leadership was unquestioned because of thier connections with God, or the gods depending on your comprehension of the Text. What the Epic of Gilgamesh is really meant to beThe text defines Ishtar as being the queen of heaven who arbitrarily called on Gilgamesh to visit thier god Anu from whence he recieved untold knowledge and passed it on to his sons so they could rule over all of the lands forever. This type of diefication of humans is not something that hasn't been replicated in other cultures. Specifically the Bhagavad Gita which speaks of Krishna, a Hindu Deity. Seperating the Facts from the FictionThere are number of fallicies used to assert the actual existance of the Anunnaki as being real. The least of which is seperating the content from the context and believing the content to be anything other than metaphoric or for manipulating the masses into believing that Emporer was theocratically ordained. The Sumar's were more advanced than alien theorists give them credit forThe context of The Epic of Gilgamesh indicates several things which are self evident. However, many of these thing do fit within our concept of history. The fact that the epic was written in the first place indicates that the Sumarians lived in a tool age and had lived in that age long enough that they were using writing tools and they had the mental capacity to create a Twelve part document and intigrate thier history into it. They even built the Hohokum Irrigation system as a sure sign that they were indeed an advanced society. I say that this doesn't fit into our idological concept of history, because the text was written long before the time we refer to as the "age of enlightenment" which ended the dark ages. Anunnaki defined"Those who from the heaven's came" is an impossible translation that uses modifiers to manipulate the text for meaning.The cuniform used by the Sumarians was a one symbol equals one word type of writing that is still used by the Chinese today. The addition of things like past and present tense is something that even latin languages have trouble identifying. Often in Latin languages a modifier is used to represent past actions such as yesterday, or earlier. You don't have to speak spanish to understand this language complication, you just have to listen to a broken english speaking individual to understand that they have problems implementing past tense modifications that we as English speakers take for granted. At best, I think we can say that with all of the modifiers and the expert used of adverbs we can at length say that the phrase means "heavenly." But it takes some digging to find that Anaki is the first born son of Anu. and the likely translation for Anu-naki means the decendants of God, or Heavenly Decendants. What better way to confirm an emporer than to call him a haeavenly descendant?If you want to read the full Epic of Gilgamesh, you can do it here: http://www.ancienttexts.org...or the Bhagavad Gita for reference only, it is here:http://www.bhagavad-gita.org...;The theory of EzekialIf we look directly at Ezekial's text and compare it to his other writings, we can assert that he had authoritative command over the Hebrew language. The language is recent enough and extensive enough for us to believe that he knew exactly what he was talking about and exactly how to describe his "vision." Understanding that it was a vision in the first place and not an actual experience can bring this into reality and into proper context. Several other biblical writings claim to have seen a similar beings. Including Daniel, Isiah, and John (in revalations). The only thing that we can concur from taking the texts together, is that he definitely saw a throne and the other texts confirm that it was an actual throne that used by the Almighty as a place to sit down. I don't doubt that he imagined other mythical beings which he names cheribim during his vision, but I do want to confirm that everyone of the other biblical texts and including his refers to these creatures being seen in visions and not in real life. Architecture Having a commonality is not an automatic assumption that all structures were created by the same peoples. However, the people have common roots and they spread across the world with these common roots and ideals that led them to build similar structures. The structures from ancient Japan, and ancient Rome have distinct structures, and the Egyptian Pyramids have a different distinct purpose than that of the Aztecs. One thing we do know about ancient civilizations (the Aztecs being the most recently removed) is that men have an infatuation with the stars. There is a lot to be said about the importance of stars in Navigation, Seasonality, Dates, and Religious practices. There is no denying that nearly every civilization has at some point realized the Earth/Star relationships and made some conclusion as to thier relative location to the Earth. However. this doesn't fit into our ideological concept of history, because it proves that men have had intellegence for a long time before we want to give them credit for. Most alien theorists attempt to assert that humans didn't have the tools to build the pyramids. However, we know for certain that is not true. Archeologists have found tools that are completely capable of creating the stone and maneuvering the pyramid stones in each civilization. I don't think that any one today will claim that their tools are as efficient as the tools we have today, but that isn't in question. The civilizations also had large groups of slaves and nothing better to do than build exotic ritualistic structures. JP Houdin has even found evidence for a plausible man made internal ramp system that was used to build the egyptian pyramids. (Learn Away) http://www.youtube.com...Nazca LinesThey are worn foot paths used for pilgramage walks that were meant to please thier imaginary gods. They never washed away do to the dryness of the desert. I want to apologize if I have arbitrarily exceeded my charachter limit. It seems that many of these simple assertions made by my opponent could be entire debates within themselves. We certainly know that the History Channel has prduced a pleathora of videos concerning this topic on both sides. So anything you will find in this debate is a small drop in the bucket of possible imaginations that have been created by alien theorists to hide the truth about the complexity of past civilizations to uphold the idea that all of the past humans were ignorant and moronic creatures.