You've got to hide your love away

The Fermi paradox continues to befuddle people. Over the years many have suggested answers to this riddle. Today we look at one more attempt.

Quotes and comments;

1. Aliens who hide, survive;
'In order to explain the Fermi paradox, Kent [Adrian] turns to natural selection – and suggests that it may favour quiet aliens. [1.]

- If the grand theory of evolution (M2M) were true this 'real paradox' shouldn't exist. One wonders how evolution can be a fact while this paradox remains.

Is there any reason to believe these imagined aliens are any smarter or more prescient than humans. I mean we unintentionally revealed ourselves (with signals) long before Sagan did so intentionally. I would suspect any aliens would have done the same.
- can you use natural selection to 'analyze' imaginary creatures?

2. 'Has ET evolved to be discreet? An evolutionary tendency for inconspicuous aliens would solve a nagging paradox – and also suggest that we Earthlings should think twice before advertising our own existence. [1.]

- An evolutionary tendency? does that mean anything?

This doesn't explain why we don't see the aliens who don't hide. Don't all these cave cowering aliens have to be hiding from something?

Talking about an e. tendency in intelligent creatures doesn't make a lot of sense to me. We're told everyday that we're in the post evolutionary phase of our existence, that we need to take control of a random (natural) process and engineer our future e. in terms of rational goals. Wouldn't thinkers with the same views exist among the aliens?

If there really are billions of alien civilizations out there it seems quite a stretch to suggest they would all act the same way.

3. 'He argues that it's plausible that there is a competition for resources on a cosmic scale, driving an evolutionary process between alien species on different planets. Advanced species, for example, might want to exploit other planets for their own purposes.'

- I don't find that plausible at all. I don't see how advanced technology would require such a crude approach. surely in a universe as large as this there are an almost infinite number of unpopulated bodies to exploit if need be.

Summary;
I think this 'theory' is evidence of how badly the Fermi paradox bothers e. advocates. In my experience they take this far more seriously than any ID critique of evolution theory. They feel sure if E. theory is correct that there Has to be billions of aliens out there. If there isn't E. has been refuted. (Most, if not all Darwinists believe this... this is why they find countless ways to try and answer the paradox.

In the minds of most people; no aliens = creation. This is not so much a matter of irrefutable logic, but of feeling. i.e. until aliens are discovered (if they ever are) there will be doubt; doubt that evolution is true, doubt that creation isn't true.

With apologies to the Beatles, we'll end on a musical note.
"Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If they're gone I can't go on
Feelin' two-foot small." YouTube

Notes;
1. Exo-evolution: Aliens who hide, survive - Mark Buchanan - New Scientist
'As physicist Enrico Fermi argued in 1950, unless the evolution of life is unique to Earth, there must be many intelligent species out there. So why have they neither phoned home nor been detected by us?
"It's a real paradox," says Adrian Kent of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
2. You've got to hide your love away - Beatles
"Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feelin' two-foot small."
- in my scenario, the song gets sung by Seth Shostak.