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Originally Posted by bojan
Your line of thinking (and Bert's) is more or less the same as mine 
However, to satisfy the scientific processes and procedures (excuse me for this "managerial talk") we have to go on searching for evidence, direct and indirect., of course. |
Hmm… some might say that the search for evidence is to satisfy human curiosity.
Having said this, I do believe that there is an undeclared scientific theory of the existence exo-life. And this is under investigation.
Strange, because formally, a theory is an explanation of an
observed phenomenon. But we don't have
any observations yet, (outside Earth).
The other interesting aspect to this, is that this approach will never be able to reveal the ultimate 'truth' of of it all, because of the problem of induction, (it only takes one negative example to destroy a theory), and you can't examine all examples of this phenomenon, throughout all time and space.
It'll never be a scientific law, because a law is a phenomenon which has been observed many times, and no contrary examples found, so then it is accepted as a universal phenomenon .. a law.
So why all the talk of scientific process?
Perhaps a straw-man (hypothesis) ?
Amazing how science is warped around beliefs in disguise !
Cheers