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Originally Posted by sciguy125
This sort of comes back to my points. If we're supposed to spread out, who's to say that we're not the result of another civilization that decided to do the same?
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if we were part of this effort to spread life, and the 'project' has already been underway for thousands or millions of years, then breaking the continuity of knowledge of the project would be counter-productive to the project itself.
That would be like us deciding as a society, instead of teaching each generation of our children all the things we know (language, science, math, medicine) we will let each of them find their own language, and re-invent everything from scratch. If we did that we would keep humanity in the stone age forever.
On the other hand, if we were placed here without our own knowledge, then our situation remains the same: as far as we can tell we are alone.
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Again, evidence can be interpreted any way that you want to.
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as a scientist and engineer I must disagree with this. One of the foundations of science is that the universe is knowable, and the laws of physics are predictable. If I design a circuit, and it does not work correctly, the logical thing to do is test and debug based on what I can observe and measure. If I tell my boss that reality only exists in our minds, and the circuit may or may not be actually working, I will be out on the street so fast my head would spin.
If reality is unknowable, then science is a waste of time.
All we can ever do is make our best observations and measurements, and proceed towards our goals with the information we have.