jayscheuerle said:
I've done enough research not to believe in being visited by aliens or flying saucers. If you want to believe, knock yourself out.
I have no problem with UFOs. It's when the U changes to an I and critical thinking goes out the window that makes me shake my head. People jump to silly conclusions. A man's gotta know when to live by his sig..
No offense, but you seem like you'd disagree with someone if they said the sky was blue. So far, I have yet to see you accept any other opinion or idea beside your own; which is not surprising, as you repeadedly say if we cannot prove it, it must not exist.
100 years ago, we could not prove that information could be carried across phonelines, and then later be retrieved by a device that would show an image on a screen. Today, we prove that every minute on the internet (those with dialup , anyway).
My point being: Just because we cannot prove the existence of something does not mean it does not exist. There are billions of things, extraterrestrial or not, that we have yet to prove simply because we have not yet developed the technology that will allow us to do so.
The chance of other life existing beyond our planet, beyond our solar system, it not just probable - it's very high. To think that we are the only planet with life is not only foolish, it's rather arrogant.
Life does exist elsewhere; some more intelligent than us, others far more primative. Today, the public cannot "prove" that life exists in far away galaxies...but equally, you cannot prove it does not. You cannot claim life does not exist elsewhere anymore than I can claim it does. Proof of evidence sides with neither party (believers vs. unbelievers) on this issue; statistics however do side with those who believe.
Now you are correct in bringing up the vast distances between galaxies, and the amount of time it would require to get from one far away to ours. But have you considered the (most likely) possibility that their means of travel are nothing like ours?
Even if there is no device that can go faster than the speed of light (just because we haven't built it doesn't mean another species has not), you can still get from point A to point B faster than the mere speed allows; you do that by bringing point A closer to point B.
Modern research has shone light on the possibility of folding space, thus bringing one point closer to another.
You have to realize that we as humans are very young in the universe, and just because WE cannot prove something exists does not mean it does not. If WE cannot travell from one galaxy to another does not mean something else cannot.
If we as humans are to follow the principles you base your claims on, we'd still be hunting elk with slingshots and rocks. If we are to accept that nothing more can exist because we have not discovered it, or because we lack the means to, that it is not possible than nothing is possible.
Critical thinking does not mean disbelieving until proven otherwise. It means not knowing one way or the other until enough proof allows one to do so. There is not ONE bit of evidence that shows life is unlikely elsewhere, or that travel is unlikely from one galaxy to another - so why be so quick to assume it does not or cannot?
