JHoagland opened this issue on Dec 18, 2007 · 45 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 19 December 2007 at 12:48 PM
Quote - the thing that always tickled me was how important it was for some folks to prove that there weren't any aliens..;)
That can't be proven. But the existence or the non-existence of such beings in and of itself isn't the point.
The point is that even 'secular' astronomers are looking for their salvation in outer space these days. Outer space is by definition a much nicer place than Earth is. Our imaginations can people outer space with whatever we'd like to see there: whatever tickles our own fancies.
The difficulty comes in when individuals begin to confuse their fantasies with reality.