Me: I think that if aliens showed up, I’d be one step closer to believing in God.
Who: Who asked you?
Me: Sorry, just trying to make conversation.
Who: No, that’s fine, it’s just, nobody asked if you believed in God or why. Or what, if anything, aliens have to do with it.
Me: It’s my blog. I had this conversation in my head as I was trying to fall asleep and thought I’d get up and type it out.
Who: Fair enough. So, elaborate.
Me: That’s it. I had this dream a few nights ago, where…
Who: You’ve lost half your readers.
Me: …there was a solar eclipse. And because of the solar eclipse, the light from the sun didn’t drown out everything that was going on in the sky. And you could see flashes of scenes going on around the planet. I saw the surface of Mars in the sky, then a flash, then a big photo of Jupiter. And then I saw something that made my skin crawl.
Who: What?
Me: Two flying saucers.
Who: Flying saucers makes them sound like they’re from the 50s.
Me: They looked like they were, only they were solid and very modern looking. But they had the two stationary plates with the spinning centerpiece. Anyway, it was scary, but not because of the fact that it was aliens.
Who: Then why?
Me: It was undeniable proof, right there in our own sky, that aliens were actually out there somewhere and because of the imagery, we had already seen them.
Who: Why did that scare you so much? When you saw the news report about lights in the sky a few months ago, you said you weren’t scared, just relieved.
Me: I am not afraid of the aliens arriving on our planet. I was just thrown off by the sudden confirmation–at least, in my dream–that they are, in fact, real.
Who: Being thrown off and scared are two different things.
Me: I’m not being articulate enough. I was scared.
Who: Because …?
Me: It meant that God had to exist.
Who: A lot of people say that if aliens end up being real, it might throw religion into complete chaos.
Me: Earthly religion.
Who: Yeah.
Me: What if the aliens ended up having the same beliefs?
Who: Is that what happened in your dream?
Me: No, I only saw two saucers. But it doesn’t matter. It was the idea that another form of life out there evolved enough to the point where it made space faring vehicles that, in the bigger picture, might not look all that different from ours.
Who: That scared you?
Me: Yes, because think about how complex things are and how we ended up this way.
Who: What do you mean? God snapped his fingers, and here we are.
Me: To some. I’m talking about me, here, remember? My blog.
Who: And how do you believe we got here?
Me: The way that there is actually scientific evidence for. That somehow there was a single cell that divided into two, etcetera etcetera etcetera until millions of billions of years later, the first human stepped up and said, “I am alive.”
Who: You don’t think that could have happened on another planet, too?
Me: The Star Trek fan wants me to think it is very common, but in my heart, I think it’s rare.
Who: Why?
Me: Let me rephrase… I think that *life as we know it* is rare. I’m sure there are many things out there on other planets that are “alive” by definition, but for something to have evolved that we could converse and interact with, I think, would be extremely rare. Or rather, *should* be rare.
Who: Because we are special.
Me: Well, yes. Think about all the variables. Why do we have two arms and two legs? Scientifically, I mean. Why are we, on average, 5.5 feet tall? Why do we have one heart?
Who: I’m not sure I follow.
Me: Because of the chemicals on our world. Because of the moon’s gravitational pull. Because of the fact that an asteroid or volcano stayed away long enough to make evolution from primates possible.
Who: And that’s not possible on another world?
Me: Possible, but unlikely to happen the exact same way. If one variable is off, let’s say the world has two moons, so their gravity is different and so they grow totally different and develop a method of communication so far removed from ours we can’t even fathom communication.
Who: Uh huh.
Me: What I mean is that a flying saucer, as we think of it, means that there is another race of beings out there who design things based on our level of intellect. We assume they’re bipedal, operate within a chain-of-command, and presumably have enough interest in us which means they would be able to communicate.
Who: And you’re saying that’s unlikely.
Me: I think it would be.
Who: And if it were true, it scares you?
Me: Because if something that unlikely were to happen, it almost feels like it’s too much for just a random turn of events. Like it was supposed to happen. We’d have two creations in this vast, insanely huge universe that are so similar they can talk to each other and maybe even live and work together.
Who: God created them, too?
Me: Maybe.
Who: So you’d be one step closer to believing in God? Why not completely convinced?
Me: I don’t think I’ll ever be completely convinced. I used to “ask” God to send a messenger, to appear in a poof of smoke and say “Hey, here I am. You can believe now.” But that’s absurd, because I’d just think I was crazy. And because something like that will never happen, I can never be completely convinced.
Who: Just always one step closer.
Me: I’ve been putting a lot of faith into the concept that we are all fragments of God. Our consciousness, which science has not been able to provide a precise explanation for as of yet, is a result of God. Little bits of his energy, though, and not a “creation” in that sense of the word.
Who: I think Buddhists think that way, too.
Me: I think so, too, but I don’t have the energy to research it right now. But I’m willing to extend the faith that consciousness as we know it is a form of energy from some greater force. The One Being, even.
Who: And if there are other creatures out there that share our level of consciousness…
Me: …then that energy would have to come from the same source. Even if you don’t want to label that “God,” as I don’t, it’s still “the universe.” That energy comes from somewhere… and that’s scientifically proven. E=mc2 and all that.
Who: So the aliens come, and you’re one step closer to believing that.
Me: I’m one step closer to something. I’d be two steps closer if they had two arms and two legs.
Who: God created us in His image, right?
Me: That’s what they say. But I absolutely do not believe in a God with two arms and two legs and a brain. I think they took some liberties with that when they wrote the Bible. Would it be too much of a stretch that “His image” is actually “His being,” or “His essence?”
Who: His energy.
Me: The energy of the universe.
Who: That, too.
Me: So, anyway. That was my dream.
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