So, you don't believe any of the UFO sightings, not even one of the millions which have been recorded, not a single solitary one of them are occupied by ETs coming to visit earth?
Not one?
See, I'm not asking for evidence, I'm asking if you believe it. One can believe it, on a gut feeling, and not have evidence, there is no requirement for evidence just to believe something.
Now, you might be the type who needs evidence to believe in something, and that's fine, but note that if there were evidence, it wouldn't be a belief, eh?
And there is an overwhelming amount of thin evidence. Now, I wouldn't believe anything on thin evidence, necessarily. But, I would if there were an overwhelming amount of it, not saying in every case, but in some cases where it is logical.
Now, if you don't know that there is an overwhelming amount of thin evidence, if you don't know that, you are not a curious person, because, if you were a curious person, you would know that. Am I right? Even if that assumption is incorrect, ......
If you accept the possibility that interstellar space travel is possible that circumvents linear space travel with some other method, warping space, ( who knows? ) something other paradigm shift hitherto unknown and undiscovered by man, whereby Einstein's speed limit is not necessarily being violated, it is being rendered moot, something that highly advanced beings know that he didn't think of, not because Einstein is stupid, but because aliens are a million years ahead of Einstein, so if it is possible, and I believe it is possible, then out of the millions of planets that are likely to have intelligent life on them, ( or whatever the big number is, which is now the consensus, I believe) does it seem logical that not even ONE of them are advanced enough to have conquered practical interstellar space travel? And if at least one of them has, doesn't it seem logical they MIGHT have came here because they are likely to have cosmic scanners for the universe for budding planets that are on the verge of destroying themselves and who knows what else via their newly discovered atomic bombs?
You know it's possible that Earth, with earthlings and atomic bombs, is not a unique thing, that there might be a crew of aliens in the galactic federation tasked to seek out other earths who are similarly on the verge of self destruction with nukes because of the damage they could do to one corner of the universe, the kind of wise beings who understand that, cosmically speaking, we are all connected , and atomic bombs is NOT a good thing in this cosmology, so an effort worthy of preventing such evil from coming to its' evil fruition is very likely? No?
One thing you must stop doing, as all doubters tend to do, is second guess how they operate and think, and don't use your assumptions to dispel a reason to believe if there is a logical basis to believe. I think I have presented a logical basis to believe, no?
Here's what I don't get. Carl Sagan once proclaimed that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence'.
That seems logical, but only if you deem that having neighbors are extraordinary.
Carl Sagan's proclamation is only logical from a human perspective which is limited compared to what advanced aliens might possess in terms of knowledge, perspective, and overall consciousness. It only seems extraordinary to US.
Why should ETs visiting earth be any more extraordinary than your next door neighbor asking you for a pat of butter?
Now, I might not have ever witnessed a neighbor asking a neighbor for butter, but, because the earth has billions of neighbors, can we not presume that at least one of these neighbors, in the annals of history, asked another neighbor for butter?
Is the proclamation that out of the millions of planets with intelligent life, in the annals of history of earth, is it any more extraordinary than the above that alien spacecraft have visited earth, for whatever reason, the likely one being that we are children playing with atomic matches?
In the physical universe, in any category, there is not a single one of anything.
There is not one cat, one dog, one bug, one germ, one tree, there is not one planet, and there simply cannot be one planet with life, and not one planet with intelligent life, and one living condition where there is only one spectrum of life, meaning a life with a range of intelligence, from single celled to humans and beyond, there isn't one of that, either. There must be, just by observing nature, more than one universe.
Therefore, what is the upper limit on that range of intelligence? Does it fall short before intelligence can discover interstellar travel that is practical?
In a sense, it seem to me, your position is the illogical position.
Think about it.
