This is the logic of SETI scientist, Jill
Tarter , for example, who constructs an entire scenario based upon the Drake
equation. Although to date no contact of any sort with extraterrestrial
intelligent life has occurred, Tarter can imagine
than three decades of active SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence) research, no radio or visual contact has occurred. If we rely
solely on empirical evidence, then we have no reason to believe that anyone
else is out there.
life, from which the SETI project gets its name. In what follows, I plan to use
the acronym ETIL to refer to extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Exotheology is the name I have given for
that branch of theology which reflects upon