[beethovenfan]

That’s not evidence, it’s just a plausibility argument.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Indeed. There is no evidence. Not yet.

[cgbg]

“it’s just a plausibility argument.”

Worse than that, it is a homo sapiens-centric plausibility argument.

Truly intelligent aliens will have broken all the “rules” of homo sapiens “science” millions if not billions of years ago...and they are not going to politely knock on the door.

[SunkenCiv]

What's not evidence, the evidence he cited?

[Reily]

Exactly! ...also, one complete with bias toward intelligent life being out there, primarily because “wouldn’t it be cool!”.

I agree it would be cool, but that’s not evidence!

However, thinking that way does get you on TV, the Internet and the rest of the media. Isn’t that’s what really is important being on TV, etc.?

[Deo volente]

Forget about the question of “intelligent life”, right now the cosmologists are not at all sure that the Big Bang actually happened. There are many holes in this long-standing theory. The latest problem is, the James Webb telescope is apparently finding fully formed galaxies in the early universe which shouldn’t be there.

[Mr. K]

Exactly.

Are there no intelligent editors these days?

[Paal Gulli]

"That’s not evidence, it’s just a plausibility argument."

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Statistics and probability are NOT evidence of ANYTHING apart the existence of statisticians.