Maybe some of us (yer news writer, for one) have been unkind to Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer who continues to insist that space debris Oumuamua is an extraterrestrial lightsail.
Anyway, at 29:06 in this vid, Loeb says “nature does not produce such things.”
We’re told Loeb is using a design filter like design theorist William Dembski’s explanatory filter. Interesting use of design detection.
Anyway, Loeb has a book coming out, in which he makes his case:
Obviously, if you believe that there are many extraterrestrials out there, it makes much more sense to believe that the universe is fine-tuned for life than that it is all just a big cosmic accident.
Are we being too hard on the guy?
See also: Harvard Astronomer: Aliens Visited In 2017! Now A Book!