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Originally Posted by Wildcat
You don't need absolute proof as an indicator that something exists. For example, in the 1600's it could not be proven that water was made up of several different specific elements. So, those elements do not exist? Or what?
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That is completely illogical, and flies in the face of everything that scientific research stands for. Research in any facet of academia requires nothing short of absolute proof when accepting any new item of existence. This is why molecular structures were not known. Furthermore, I did not ever say that aliens do not exist. I also never said that God does not exist. I said that there was no
proof of the existence of either, but there is more proof for God, as you can move beyond step A. (See above)
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It would be very naive to think that out of the thousands of billions of planets, no life could exist elsewhere. Even if you can't 'prove' that life is also out there somewhere, the numbers STRONGLY suggest that life IS somewhere out there. We exist. If we exist, someone else exists out there too. The universe is big enough that humans probably will never come into contact with a species from another starsystem or galaxy, but who knows.
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Suggestion, even strong suggestion, is not proof either. Yes, we exist, and no idea how we came into being, where we came from, or even how long we have been here. All we have are theories. When it boils down to it, science and archeology's answer to these questions is 'we really don't know'.