The Absence of Alien Contact
Secularists know that aliens exist out there, thataway — because evolution. Like other things related to atoms-to-alien evolution, they rely on the compex scientific principle of Making Things Up™. Those of us who are not content to simply accept "scientists say" want explanations.
There is a glamorous idea of noble space aliens who are friendly, curious, and scientific. Do secular scientists consider that their invisible friends may be hostile, joyriding children, escaped criminals, trophy hunters, or conquistadors? Asking for a friend. Even so, secularists try to determine their motives for avoiding us.
Alien spaceship, Pixabay / Lance |
But I digress.
The biggest clinker in the search for communications with ETs is the travel problem. No, not that old car in the back. I mean radio transmissions. Some secularists acknowledge this, but many seem to have faith that aliens are defying laws of science and listening in. Oh, please!
Reporter Stephanie Pappas gives storyteller Amri Wandel license to give his evidence-free response to the “Fermi Paradox.”
This paradox, voiced by physicist Enrico Fermi, asks why the aliens have not visited Earth by now if they have been evolving for billions of years. Pappas summarizes Wandel’s answer thus: “A new paper claims that intelligent aliens would only be interested in contacting the most technologically advanced planets, and Earth doesn’t make the cut.”
Wandel’s story attributes godlike powers to space aliens he has never seen:
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