PandaTar said:

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Humans, brains and theories are simply too limited. Our perceptions, contraptions, senses, interests and assumptions are too limited. We have just our planet as reference. We are not even 100% sure we exist or we are just a computational simulation. And faith is just another tool, just as limited as humans are.

90% of our universe (observable, that is, which could mean another infinity of possibilities, so even that number is just hypothetical) is made of something people tagged a name on but have no idea of what it is. The rest is made of limited information, matter, based on long-range observations of the past, which might be blatantly different from what's really happening there.

We don't even know all stuff happening on our own planet, what's happening at the deepest depths of our oceans. We don't now how many species of creatures are present on this planet. We still find new elements to add to our chart, some new metal, gas, etc., keeping in mind we don't have other places to fumble upon. We have some organisms that survive at very extreme conditions, such as the tardigrades. And even that extreme condition is so partial. It's solely based on ourselves.

Other civilizations might not be even bothered with these questions. Might not even be limited to our 4 dimensional cage, might have a very different correlation with time – 1 second could be their whole civilization timespan, whilst others might evolve for the next trillion years and we'll not know. There will be plenty of starts by then, more stable ones. Or they might not exist on our 4 dimensional vector and are just wondering about other civilizations right now on this very planet, as much as 'now' means, that is, not able to perceive our existance.

Other life forms, even intelligent, might not be organized as a civilization. There might have another, more successful relationship between creatures of the same species, even proving civilization is bound to failure. What do we know? We observe animals, insects, ourselves. That's our cue.

I believe there are other forms of intelligence outside our minuscule and petty planet. But I rather understand religion-guided people. The hope is just akin to mine, just on different sides of the spectrum, but the essence is the same. A god could be just another life form. There's always a saying that the man cannot truly understand the designs of god, so how come people still say that god wants this and that all the same? Still, people simply choose to believe, that's their interpretation. It's not necessary a truth. Science is similar, there are many unknown factors out there, but scientists generally don't choose to believe about them, they theorize through observation and, at some point, interpretation as well. Either sides cannot prove the whys of a lot of unknown variables as for now, be that God's plans or what happens beyond the event horizon of a black-hole. Either sides simply choose an action to deal with that, whichever makes them feel more comfortable with, more loved, more curious, more exilarated, complete.

I personally think that having both things, advanced civilizations and a God is giving much more credit to God than focusing on our own, little bubble of air. That's the best scenario on my humble opinion. Creation and destruction is all around us. And we are not going to find all answers in our lifetime, nor in our afterlife, if such thing exists.

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