He made perfect sense
It is very a very rational stance
- there is no evidence for aliens every visiting, the USAF allowed all sorts of ridiculous stories to develop around Roswell. It was deliberate. They were test flying experimental and secret aircraft from the base the misinformation was a good way of avoiding any reliable accounts of anything getting reported anywhere. Similar stuff happened in the UK, they recently released the previously top secret papers relating to UFO sightings - none were alien and all had rational explanations.
- The universe is vast and there may be as many as a billion of habitable planets similar to our own. We are pretty sure life starts when ever the conditions are right and evolution will then take over. It is highly likely if not inevitable that life exists elsewhere.
- The universe is vast and you would need to have a very good reason to spend thousands of years travelling to visit earth.
no he did not make perfect sense.
the universe is indeed vast, however, time travel in theory is totally possible, and are you suggesting it is not possible for an advanced civilization to understand how to possibly leap the time/travel distance?
and perhaps their "good reason" is the same as our reasons for sending probes, space telescopes, etc...discovery, exploration, curiosity.
You say it as a "very rational stance"...no it is not. you say there is no evidence for aliens ever visiting...true...but you say they exist, yet there is no evidence of that either.
so they may have visited...how do you know? you do not even know they exist, so how would you know if they visited?
You claim, like Phil, that they exist, but that they have never visited...do you have the secret files from their culture? If an alien race was so advanced as to travel thousands of light years, don't you think they have the technology to outwit you and Phil Ayesho as to their presence?
are you and phil monitoring their possible movements? You do not know if htey have managed to cloak their travel, but it is a safe bet that creatures who have learned to travel through the universe with enough ease to use wormholes, tremendous speed, etc. would have figured out how to avoid our radar, and to remain less visible in some way.
the fact is, that you cannot claim that they exist with certainty, based on the scientific likelihood of life throughout a billion other solar systems, and then claim with equal certainty that they have never been here.
I do not believe most of the UFO encounter nonsense, but, it is safe to say, that if we can fly stealth fighters at night that can rarely be detected by our most powerful radar, it is highly likely that an advanced race that has learned to travel through space with far greater efficiency than we can, can avoid our detection too, and likely, rather easily.
you cannot say that they exist somewhere, yet have never been here, because you do not have those facts in your possession.
they probably do exist, and they may very well have been here. Neither you or Phil know if they have been, and neither do i...but your certainty, is laughable.
You do not even know where Russian submarines are operating at this moment...would you have a better idea of where the aliens were if they visited?