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In reply to the discussion: Almost Two-Thirds of 18-29 Year Olds Believe in "Demon Possession" What Is Happening to America? [View all]EOTE
(13,409 posts)That doesn't mean that everything that is not known does not exist. I'll gently rib the late great Carl Sagan by saying "Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense". I think there's been enough scientific trials regarding dowsing to fully discredit it. Aliens? Not even close. We live in an unfathomably large universe, even our own galaxy is incomprehensibly big. Are you willing to say that there is ZERO chance of intelligent life in these billions of star systems? That seems like a rather close-minded viewpoint there. That's not to say that any or all UFO sightings have anything to do with actual alien life, but life is not restricted to just Earth, that just seems silly to me. Saying that aliens have been disproved is saying "I've analyzed every conceivable place in the universe and we're the only life that there is." Life will form wherever the conditions are right for it. To think that Earth is the only place in this vast universe which has life seems to me to be a belief associated with the religious fundamentalists, not those who value science.