We are not alone

We are a small, a very small, a very tiny part of a huge universe. Where did we get the idea that we are the only ones or the most important ones?

How has this universe unfolded? Science tells us that it was first a lot of heat, and the constituents of matter (maybe super strings and super surfaces) but not really matter yet. It was too hot for matter. Then it cooled down and eventually became cool enough for matter. Things started happening. Order sort of happened. Matter started ordering itself eventually forming stars and planets and so on. I know this is short but I invite you to inquire. Talk to an astrophysicist or surf the web (here is one but don't take everything for truth This one is PBS so it is pretty dependable but remember there is no truth here). Then there was life and then there was consciousness.

The funny thing about these two “history of the universe” is that they stop being concerned with the universe and start being interested in earth, not to say man, for a while. I have no objection. But if it happened here at that moment, would it not be reasonable to suppose that it happened at approximately the same time elsewhere in the universe? Let us suppose that the universe was at a point in its development where it could support life; we know this because we are here. It was cool enough, matter had managed to get organized enough, and so on. Those conditions were the same at many points in the universe. And if life developed at a certain moment because the universe could support it, could we not say the same about consciousness? That’s what I mean by unfolding. The unfolding of the universe, or of God, involves a complexification of matter, which leads to life and then to consciousness. And it is very likely that this happened at approximately the same time at many points in the universe.

We already know a few instances of this simple idea. Things seem to happen at the same time on earth at different places at the same time: the conditions were there. The most famous example of this, but it is not the only one, is the much documented case of the "discovery" or "invention" of calculus at the same time by Leibniz and Newton. I would assume, and I claim that this is very reasonable, that there is life elsewhere in the universe and furthermore, I would assume that it is at about the same level of development as we are. Forget UFOs. I doubt anybody in the universe is much more advanced than we are. When we are capable of building UFOs, we probably won’t be the only ones…