The title rings a bell…? Yes, these were the exact words used by FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully indicating to aliens. When I was kid, as expected, I had this huge belief in the existence of extra-terrestrial life and I guess it all started with the Hollywood hit ‘E.T’. I was so fascinated by this movie that in the years to come I was totally into Star Trek, The X-Files, Men in Black and other famous TV series based on aliens. Now that I have grown up (at least I think I have...!) I wouldn’t say that I don’t believe in aliens, but rather I would like to share some of the thoughts and questions that I have had, as a kid, regarding these creatures from far, far away…
I guess most of you, who’ve read this blog from the beginning, would have seen my 1st post about Creation vs. Evolution. Well…I actually believe in a combination of both. What if we were created millions of years ago by extraterrestrials? What if they have not only been watching us evolve but also quite possibly shaping it, making us what we are today? What if the entire planet is just a test lab for them, just as we have test labs, where we try to play God with little rats and rabbits in a cage? For all you know, this alien race might be thousands or even millions of years advanced than us and might possibly explain the famous ‘sighting an alien’ or a ‘space ship’, which might’ve been just a routine visit to procure a new batch of ‘test subjects’ or rather ‘abductees’ if you’d prefer calling. As you all must be aware, the genetic difference between man and monkey is only 6%. Maybe man is just the result of a so called successful experimentation.
The theory of existence of extra-terrestrials is quite reasonable too, if you consider the following. From what we know, the universe is about 15 billion years old. With trillions of planets and stars, the probability that at least a minority of them would support life is not a negligible number. For all you know, we may have hundreds and even thousands of civilizations that have evolved in the stars, making Star Trek or Star Wars not so hard to believe.
Most of us would never be able to see this as a reality, as ours minds are relatively closed and evidently we don’t see past the things that we cannot comprehend or believe in. But the future always hold surprises beyond our wildest dreams, which at this time, if someone were to tell us, it would sound like magic. Our reaction would be same as that of an early man looking at BMW d320 or that of a middle earth priest looking at TFT display television. Ten or twenty years from now, we may discover the presence of other life forms in the universe and that may be the final factor that would succeed in bringing the human race together as a single species. Earth may one day be the abode of aliens from across the galaxy and our grandchildren might be lucky enough to have E.T’s as college-mates or flat-mates.
This would also throw more light on the religious beliefs across the globe, providing more clarity of thought. For one day we may end up finding that, what all ancient civilizations have been trying to describe as God, was only an advanced species that has its origin from outside this planet and as they say in X-Files ‘what we call God is only alien, an intelligence much greater than us’ might prove right.
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