[Physicist]

there is no evidence for even ONE single species that could make it to Lord Howe Island.

Let me get this straight: you expect a tropical island to be devoid of all palms, because you personally don't know the dispersal mechanisms by which they arrived?

Qualitatively where do you see the fact that the earth hasn't been visited by other possible civilisations existing somewhere in the universe ?

Qualitatively, I see it in a completely unrelated thread on another website, and in a different language. (I have no clue as to where you're going with this one.)

[Notforprophet]

I have read through this entire thread and am now dumber than I was before. Thanks, Truth666!

NFP

[Truth666]

"Qualitatively, I see it in a completely unrelated thread"
Qualitatively I see it in the same category as the absence of non-endemic palms in Lord Howe Island. I capitalised the word "ONE" before, to show that.
But let's compare both facts quantitatively : Fact 1 - NO traces of non-endemic palms in Lord Howe
Fact 2 - NO traces of civilisations of other planets in Earth.
What is statistically more astonishing ?