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Originally Posted by RB2004
They do indeed, but most religions are based around some kind of external influence manipulating people and playing on nieve people.
Think about it, if you went back today 2000 years and started treating people with modern medicine they too would probably think you are a god because you have miraculously healed somebody that would of normally died.
And it is completely plausible that some kind of alien race did that thousands of years ago.
Yes it sounds absurd, but I still dunno why some people are narrow minded enough to believe we are the only living intelligence in the universe.
Say we did evolve on our own, no external influences on this planet.
We are a single solar system in the Milky Way galaxy, there's millions if not more star systems in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is just one galaxy... There are also billions of galaxies... The Big Bang happened a few billion years ago and ever since the universe has been expanding at the speed of light so even 1 million light years is nothing in terms of the size of the universe... And there are people who think in that massive expanse we are the only intelligent living life?
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You are confusing the concepts of "imaginable" and "plausible". Just because you can construct a sentence that describes a scenario, it does not follow that that scenario is plausible. For it to be plausible, it must meet a number of conditions - the laws of physics being chief among them.
Sorry to pour cold water on all this fantasising, but Stargate SG-1 was a TV drama series, not a documentary. As was Star Trek. Both of those shows were guilty of dressing up their plot lines with pseudo-science, giving the impression that what occurred in them might not only be plausible, but an almost inevitable future stage of our scientific development. Sadly that is not the case.
Dr Brian May made an interesting point on Astronomy Live the other week - essentially that the chances of life occurring are so utterly slim, that despite the fact that exo-planets are now known to be common, it is entirely likely that Earth is still the only place where it has taken place. Even if life is common, and has developed into intelligent life on at least one other planet, Einstein established in the last century that it would take an impossibly long time for that life to cross from one planet to another.
Holding that Earth is the only place in the universe where intelligent life exists is not "narrow minded" - it's an entirely rational approach to the minuscule probabilities involved. And neither is holding that intelligent life could not find its way to Earth.