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To: Matchett-PI

Who is talking about SETI? SETI is by definition speculative because last I checked, there is no evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations (the odd UFO incident not withstanding). The scientists in favor of SETI acknowledge the odds of detecting a signal of intelligent origin are long.


371 posted on 12/11/2005 3:00:26 PM PST by megatherium (Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: megatherium
SETI is by definition speculative . . .

So is a large part of science in general.

374 posted on 12/11/2005 3:08:30 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: megatherium

"Who is talking about SETI? SETI is by definition speculative because last I checked, there is no evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations (the odd UFO incident not withstanding). The scientists in favor of SETI acknowledge the odds of detecting a signal of intelligent origin are long." ~ megatherium

Your focus was on something you called, speculative and poorly-supported, when you wrote: "But the truth is that ID is speculative and poorly-supported." ~ megatherium

Since that was your focus, that's why I asked you, "You mean like SETI?"

You could have merely answered, "yes". LOL


375 posted on 12/11/2005 7:58:15 PM PST by Matchett-PI ( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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