Neighbors

What happens to the idea of God if extraterrestrial contact is ever made? Genesis says God created heavens and earth, but there is no mention of beyond our little rock. 

The more I learn about the physical universe, the more impossible that we're alone. With trillions of trillions of stars, certainly innumerable solar systems will have equidistant planets that harbor life in some form. Types of living organisms may vary like limitless forms of energy. We cannot imagine what we cannot invent even with our imagination. The universe must be vastly teeming with biological possibilities.

So, where is any trace of it, life?

Why haven't we heard from these statistically innumerable cosmic neighbors? Why no proven contact in all humankind history, so far, at least? In a word: distance. Anything out there has the same dilemma everything else has: the unthinkable distances of space, unfathomable to the mind's sense or dimensional and proportional comprehension. 

We cannot conceptualize a single light year, or roughly nine trillion miles. That's just one! Imagine galaxies that are 100 billion light years away Distance. And, everything is moving apart at accelerating speed, so even greater distances between things. 

The closest galaxy to our sun is Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy at 25k light years away. Think about how the distances between stars and other objects is so immensely vast, that entire galaxies can pass straight thru each other with no collisions. That sort of vastness.

So, what about the distance between incompatible beliefs? If aliens show up, where does God go? Are they final proof that the idea of God is an old myth? 

Would extraterrestrials be left out of the Bible, and other far older religious works? Seems very unlikely, at best. Or, impossible.

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