Maybe if half the astrophysics community didn’t take the approach of global warming ‘scientists’ we might have an answer. Instead, they play the same games, politics ect with their papers/journals, backbite each other and do little actual science.
Only recently could the mere IDEA that aliens ‘could’ exist be spoken in public without the entire community coming down on itself.
Lastly, Scientists aren’t as smart as they think they are. 500 years ago they were putting each other in jail for hersey. They only barely grasp the generalities of the big things they can see on a cosmological scale, much less fully understand them. Overall, they are like a kid with his first copy of Guitar World thinking he can play Steve Vai solos after reading the interview.
We’ve busted open the atom, and have seen down to scales where Higgs bosons may lurk,
Looked out as far as has ever been seen, and possibly found the greatest evidence for God yet in mathematical sequencing.