(August 10, 2016 at 4:22 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Some people just want to believe so badly. There is a lack of evidence of what is causing a cyclical dimming in this star. A lack of evidence is so far removed from the idea that it's caused by an extraterrestrial mega-structure. People equating a lack of evidence with proof of something is the very thinking that we as Atheists are so often critical of. So this isn't proof of anything. I also would say the fact that it is cyclical, means that it's more likely a natural phenomenon. We see cyclical things in nature all the time. If it was random, that would be more interesting.
I agree 100% with what you said. Until there is observational evidence, all that exists are possibilities. But, clearly, an alien mega-structure is either there or it is not.
