Seriously, if you read the article, the Trappist-1 system is about 40 light years from Earth. Thus, if there was life there, they've been picking up any broadcasts etc through 1980. I did some further research, and all seven planets there are likely to have one side of each planet permanently facing the star, which basically means its day or night all the time, i.e. No life.
God created the Universe and Earth and thus I don't have any problem exploring the heavens. But there are zillions of problems associated with the speed needed for interstellar travel where, even if we found ET, we could never visit him. And if we did, he would eat us or enslave us.
Searching for life on other planets is the same as searching for Bigfoot... the Bigfoot searchers come across as wackos while ET searchers have better credentials and more expensive equipment and better PR people. There is really little between these two groups of people.