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Old 10-June-2009, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by A.DIM View Post
Indeed; I understand but because we don't know the properties of hypothetical ET craft I tend not to apply so low an a priori probability, or likelihood, to what an ET craft might look like.
That's precisely what makes the ET hypothesis untestable and therefore untenable. In order to attribute an effect to a cause according to evidence, the nature of the cause must first be understood so that its effects can be falsified. You're simply expanding the desired cause to fit almost any supposed effect. That's not science. That's the opposite of science.
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