Vitamin_C
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
If just one or two people make a claim, not when 1000s of credible people make the same claim.
One word is enough to defeat that argument: Religion.
Claiming something doesn't make it true regardless of how many people claim it. Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence: Hitchen'z Razor.
Stawmen argument. No one en masse are making those claims.
I didn't claim that it is being claimed en masse. I said those claims cannot be disproven regardless of how ridiculous there are. My point that you completely ignored is that: Just because you cannot disprove something, makes no claim towards the likelihood of is existence.
Enough circumstantial evidence exists to back those claims up.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence that indirectly points towards a claim, on its own, circumstantial evidence is not enough to prove a claim. Direct evidence on the other hand, does not require additional evidence to prove a claim.
Both direct evidence and circumstantial evidence are still evidence such as finger prints and can be studied independently. Claims of sightings of flying saucers are not evidence as they cannot be verified independently.
There is zero evidence, direct or indirect to support the idea that Earth has been visited by alien life forms. If you think I am wrong, show me any piece of evidence that can be studied and verified by third party.