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Old 12-June-2009, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by JayUtah View Post
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.
I don't think the ETH is itself untestable, rather the ETH in regards to UFOs is untestable.
The randomness in time & place as well as their bizarre properties are uncontrollable or repeatable indeed.
Again, this is why I think if some UFOs are ET craft we'll come to know it not by our efforts but by the ETi.
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