just personally speculating here. I'm not saying either is right, I myself am trying to find the holes in either side of the arguement. Frankly I would like to be able to say that "humans" are the reason our society is the way it is, however I wouldn't be upset if we had some help. So if the message was recieved by the ETs as soon as we sent it, because they always on our earth, why took the answer 27 years? Maybe it could be possible they did not understand the message, because it was to complicated or they didn't know the right answers instantly? On the other hand, they told us, their organisms would be based on silicon... thats very implausible! Also it could work, silicon-based-beings would be very slow in their chemical reactions and its simply unlike for the nature to build up inefficient structures of life, disregarding carbon is a way more dominant element in the whole universe. You follow the contradicting bible and you think this is far fetched.. Why is it so hard for you to believe? It's simple probablity really. The universe is far to vast for life to not have evolved elsewhere. It's selfish & naive to believe there's nothing beyond Our solar system. Every year over 70,000 reports of UFO sightings are claimed. Granted half of those likely have a perfectly logical, of this earth explanation.. however you can't reduce all of them down to mere coincidence. And for the sake