Scientist: "God, we don't need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning."
God: "Oh, is that so? Tell Me..." replies God.
Scientist: "Well," says the scientist, "we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of you and breathe life into it, thus creating man."
God: "Well, that's very interesting...show Me."
So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil into the shape of a man.
God: "No, no, no..." interrupts God, "get your own dirt.”
So, we can refrain from entertaining that avenue of discussion, and what is left? Is this an attempt to pigeonhole the Ancient Astronaut Theory? Hardly, though it does become more plausible than the contemporary accepted paradigms. Although, if we are to make an honest effort, we must think outside all preconceived notions and parameters.
Who were we?
A species, though community oriented and smart enough to use basic tools, but lacking a heightened consciousness and self awareness.
Who are we now?
We create, we destroy, we dream of everything in between. We describe our past as primitive, and our future as technologically advanced, and a relatively straight path between the two. New evidence breaks this up, and we must ask hard questions that challenge beliefs.
What has changed? Why?
Though modern man suddenly had drastic changes to his genetic code, altering his brain activity in ways that have allowed shed some ignorance, the chains still hold fast. Is this the final step, or the first?
These are the existential questions of modern man. Once fledgeling beings concerned mainly with survival from the elements and that which would consume them, Modern man wants to know who he is, why he is here, and what he is to become. Is he alone in the universe? Is someone responsible for him, or is he responsible?
Finally, how did it happen?
This is where I take issue. There has always been some form of what we call today, Science. Older forms have been called religion, quackery, and a sign of ignorance. Newton theorized gravity, but failed to understand relativity. Einstein brought us relativity, but failed to explain the quantum. We are attempting to explain the quantum, but our experiments have failed to prove our theories. It's almost as strange as our propensity to explain everything in numbers, yet numbers still can't explain a theory for everything.
What is the language of God? It's certainly not English, Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, or even Math.
I digress.
If we take our own (flawed) understanding of the universe, a single trip to our planet from another star would take longer than we have walked the Earth. We assume that there are ways around this, but we fail to find them, and so we can only speculate. Lest we forget, many things behave differently in space, of which I point out two:
Life : As discussed earlier, the very idea that something is alive at all is a very human and presumptuous concept. As we explored earlier, everything that lives must die, and if it never has lived or died, how would we recognize it as sentient? We can barely decide whether a virus is alive or dead, much less an interstellar being or diety.
Light : It has been recently proven, as well as in the past, that the speed of light is not constant. This being the case, how could we ever measure anything or assume there is a certain agreed upon distance between two objects? The light that reaches the earth is bio luminescent, artificial or from a star. There are no other light sources known to man. In fact, our reality is based in large part by light. For us to assume that light has any more meaning to ET or God is absurd, yet we quote Himself as saying, “Let there be light.”
Our scientists believe today that the universe is made up in large part of invisible, undetectable stuff. What is this stuff? We aren't really sure.
Dark matter accounts for 23% of the mass-energy density of the observable. In comparison, ordinary matter accounts for only 4.6% of the mass-energy density of the observable universe, with the remainder being attributable to dark energy From these figures, dark matter constitutes 83%, (23/(23+4.6)), of the matter in the universe, whereas ordinary matter makes up only 17%.
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How can we begin to comprehend what we can not verify, test, or study?
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