timschochet said:
She's a ####### nutcase all right?
If she were a Republican you would've started the thread about it.
What exactly is wacky about the possibility we've been visited by aliens?This is a country where 87% of the people believe there's a...wait for it...an invisible man in the sky. I find aliens far more probable.
It's implausible for reasons we have discussed before. Distance alone is a huge barrier. Not to mention it is only the 80-90 years we've been giving off any signal data to indicate there might be sentient life here. Unlikely that those signals have reached anyone. There is no reason to come to what appears to be a fairly common system in a distant part of a fairly common galaxy. Why would any civilizations expend the resources necessary to come here?
Distance
from what? Might not some aliens be omnipresent? Why would aliens need to receive
signals from us to know we're here? Might not some aliens be omniscient? No reason to come to earth
in whose opinion? Might not some aliens take interest in us because they are omnibenevolent?
If you can rule out all of those possibilities, it seems that you've ruled out God as well.
I think cstu's statement is provably correct as a matter of statistical law. The set of all possible aliens includes God. It necessarily follows that the chance that we've been visited by aliens is
at least as great as the chance that we've been visited by God.