[Thapsus_epiphany]

Sorry folks.
There are no aliens from space. It’s a sci-fi fantasy.
Think of the logistics.
It took 35 years, from 1977 to 2012 for Voyager to reach the edge of our solar system, several billion miles out. It is now in interstellar space, and it will take 40,000 years to reach the next star system inside our own galaxy.
Any alien life forms would be subject to the same restrictions of time, space and gravity as we are.
People throw around the term ‘light years’ very casually, as if traveling such a distance is humanly possible. One light year is 6 trillion miles, many many many times the distance Voyager managed in 35 years.
The very idea strains all credulity.
For better or worse, we humans are the only intelligent life form known in the entire universe. The only sentient creatures anywhere, which is what makes the sanctity of human life so real.
We are all made in the image of God, not because we look like God, but because we know of the existence of Providence, with a divine spark in all of us.
Leave space aliens to the sci-fi writers, and focus on the human condition.

[Macho MAGA Man]

The extraterrestrials have the ability to bend space and time allowing them to travel great distances in short time. David Gruch testified this to Congress several months back.

[chaosagent]

Shown by the Hubble Telescope, there are Billions of other galaxies out there, each with Billions of stars. And based on recent findings, billions and billions of planets.

And you don't think that on even one other planet, life has arisen like it did.

And I remember reading about 'reputable' scientists of the time saying Man will never fly, Going faster than 40mph will kill you, Man will never fly faster than the speed of sound, etc.

Are you so certain that sometime in the next 100-200 years, someone won't find a way to get around the speed of light limitation? And that someone on another planet has already done it?

[RoosterRedux]

We are all made in the image of God

We were CREATED in God's image...but then we fell.

Humans are only a hint of what God created us to be. That's why it takes Jesus to restore (i.e., resurrect) us.

When you look at humans, you are not looking at God's image. You are looking at the mess that we humans made of what God created.

[DouglasKC]

For better or worse, we humans are the only intelligent life form known in the entire universe. The only sentient creatures anywhere, which is what makes the sanctity of human life so real. We are all made in the image of God, not because we look like God, but because we know of the existence of Providence, with a divine spark in all of us. Leave space aliens to the sci-fi writers, and focus on the human condition.<> Well said...

[Hot Tabasco]

Any alien life forms would be subject to the same restrictions of time, space and gravity as we are.

As we CURRENTLY know.

Assuming we're still alive, no one can predict what technology will have been developed in the next 10,000 years.....

IF there is intelligent life out there, they could very well be a half a million years more advanced than us.

[chaosagent]

Shown by the Hubble Telescope, there are Billions of other galaxies out there, each with Billions of stars. And based on recent findings, billions and billions of planets.

And you don't think that on even one other planet, life has arisen like it did.

And I remember reading about 'reputable' scientists of the time saying Man will never fly, Going faster than 40mph will kill you, Man will never fly faster than the speed of sound, etc.

Are you so certain that sometime in the next 100-200 years, someone won't find a way to get around the speed of light limitation? And that someone on another planet has already done it?