Is it a form of religious delusion?

>>16710141 (OP)
My Gen X Network Admin (that is to say, decent IQ, doesn't actually work in the relevant fields) uncle believes in shit like the singularity and aliens.
But this seems to be a function of his obsession with "science fiction" in his youth, rather than a logical position.

>Believe extraterrestrial life can exist
>Believe its possible for civilizations more advanced then ours to travel and explore other star systems
>If one of them came here to study us, they would probably want to stay hidden to not screw with their data
>If they are more advanced then us, it would be futile to try finding them since they would just outsmart us

Considering this, isn't "we are could be watched by aliens who are just really hard to find" actually that crazy of a take?

>>16710163
Considering that not only is there no evidence whatsoever, but also that there is evidence against such a thing, I wouldn't say it's "crazy," but rather a manifestation of inherent human religiosity.

>Aliens are real man
Ok have you seen them?
>Yeah billy bob's cows were abducted in 79 and-
I mean actual evidence not bar stories
>the govermment is hiding aliens in area 51
Is that really the best you got?
>They are so much more advanced than us with their antigravity and invisibility fields. Impossible to detect on camera man

>>16710182
there is no evidence of aliens.

Occassionally some people think they see UFO's and even though its usually an illusion with none having any indication of being aliens, my personal opinion is that its plausible enough that advanced civilizations would want to study inferior ones that I wouldn't be all that surprised if some of them turned out to be aliens.

I guess it depends on your definition of religion

But id certainly say so

aliens probably exist in the universe, just probably not in our galaxy
i think the probability of multicellular life forming from single cellular is overstated and is probably one of the biggest bottle necks preventing the formation of civilizations

>>16710190
You can just go by how long each thing took on earth to see how easy it is for life to achieve it

>life itself arose basically as soon as it could
>Eukaryotes arise halfway between now and then
>Animals get complex even closer to now than the eukaryotes arose
>Civilization popped up basically this instant on geological timescales

>>16710192
one example isnt enough to determine probability
also multicellularity required that the solar system to stabilize before it formed, before then meteor strikes would constantly reset any progress
venus and mars are examples of what happens when a planet doesn't have a large moon and wasn't hit by another large proto plant warming its core
both very likely had some kind of single cellular life bet it never progressed past that because multicellularity requires way more to go right for it to survive long

we simply do not have enough data yet to assert any possibility