Sparklite2- that’s what the Fermi Paradox begs- why if so much scale, no evidence? So, if it is foolish, then some really smart folks like Fermi Hart et al wondered the same thing....
Personally I think it as all built on a false premise- that everything is bazaillion of eons old....
Genesis states that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth....and gave it to man to manage.
Darwin, Hawking, Dawkins et al say “over the passage of untold eons, all of this popped up on its own accord for no known reason and then random chance accidents brought forth life and humans are the culmination on this small rock, o obviously there must be more like ( sic) us, yay...”
We have to choose, wisely...
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If we could leave religion out of it (I know, I know), it's because of the unimaginably large scale and distances that it would be amazing to find any evidence of intelligent life looking out from this planet
If Drake and Fermi could have seen this Hubble image of galaxies in deep space, and still deny the possibility of extra terrestrial life, then, yeah, I'd call it foolish. And anthropomorphic to a fault. Those little specks are not stars, they're galaxies.
