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Originally Posted by Wildcat
Research in any facet of academia is usually proven innacurate years after the research was conducted.
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That is true. And what disproves the previous research? Why, none other than new research conducted in the same academic vein.
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Sometimes science needs to take a back seat to common sense. Look at the number of planets in the universe and get back to us..
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I spent all day looking at every star chart I could find, and came to this conclusion: A thousand years ago, common sense told man that the world was flat, and the oceans inhabited by mermaids and krackens. This made absolute logical sense when you look at the vastness of the sea, and the fact that the earth does not curve to the naked eye. Of course, this is not true in the least, and science has proven that.
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The reality is we are not the only living thing in this universe. Science has no way to prove otherwise, but shear numbers definately lean in the direction of there being life, and a lot of it, somewhere in the universe.
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It is not science's function to disprove, but to prove. Until proven, that 'reality' remains only a theory. Again, statistics are not evidence.
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It's more than just naive to think there's nothing else out there.
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You're right: It's scientifically sound too.