Religion - Reflections on the Fermi Paradox

In a period of less than one hundred years, humankind advanced from traveling by horse and buggy to making a trip to its planet’s satellite.

Many years ago the famous physicist Enrico Fermi, when asked about aliens, replied: Where are they? Fermi makes a strong point. Stars in our galaxy range up to ten billion years in age and our own planet has more than four billion years of history.Indeed, there were even intelligent humans ten thousand years ago, and what if the alien civilizations have been around for even longer, maybe even for millions of years? Aliens, if they are out, would have visited us long ago, and without any visible signs of alien visitation, Fermi concluded that we are alone.

Fermi’s logic, however, relies on a couple of underlying assumptions that have yet to be proven. First, it assumes that alien technology is no more advanced that what we can imagine for ourselves in the future.

The moral of this story is that the quickest road to finding aliens might come from looking into our past rather than looking into deep space.Among these stand the mysterious drawings on the desert floor near Nazca, Peru, drawings that were clearly intended to be viewed by an intelligent creature from the sky.

Sadly, even the late Carl Sagan, one of the great proponents of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, felt compelled to join the debunking effort, suggesting that they merely worshipped the Moon and made those drawings to entertain their god. As anyone who has studied the ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle would know, humankind has acquired a lot of knowledge over the years but we remain no more intelligent than our ancestors.

One such instance in post-mythological times was Muhammad’s encounter with the archangel Gabriel, which produced far more than what could be attributed to ahallucinations. I’m sure almost everyone in the world (who is not a Muslim) would instantly write Muhammad off as a quack, but let’s be careful. From the other side of the world we see another sign of potential alien contact, namely, the Nazca Lines, arising during Muhammad’s lifetime.

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