Yesterday I couldn't sleep, I just finished 'Deception Point' of Dan Brown and something was bugging me. Something I hadn't thought about in a while... the Universe. We want to explore and find new life, but last night there was something on the edge of my mind, that wouldn't let go of the stranges thought....Why is the Universe so depleted of life? Are we missing the big picture here. If there's a God, are we but an experiment?
Why are there so many stars and planets circling around each other for no other reason than to exist to push and pull...over and over again, solarsystem after solarsystem? What's the use? All living things on our little planet Earth have there function and fit neatly into a system, each form of life depending on the other to exist. It just doesn't make sense that there are billions of stars and planets that are without life but do exist without any reason then to exist?
And if there's a God and he created the Universe, why on earth did he only give the spark of life to our little planet? And not to the thousands of planets in our surrounding solarsystems? You would expect planets buzzing with life only next door. So why isn't it so? Why create all those planets and stars and give life to only one? Some would say, because we're special, chosen. I would say if where the only one in such an immense space...we're an experiment or an accident. It's not the extraterrestrial life that freaks me out, but the lacking of it. It couldn't be that in this infinite Universe we are the only ones. How lonesome, small and vulnerable does that feel like...but also very special, unique even if we are but an experiment...don't you think?
Yesterday I couldn't sleep, I just finished 'Deception Point' of Dan Brown and something was bugging me. Something I hadn't thought about in a while... the Universe. We want to explore and find new life, but last night there was something on the edge of my mind, that wouldn't let go of the stranges thought....Why is the Universe so depleted of life? Are we missing the big picture here. If there's a God, are we but an experiment?
Why are there so many stars and planets circling around each other for no other reason than to exist to push and pull...over and over again, solarsystem after solarsystem? What's the use? All living things on our little planet Earth have there function and fit neatly into a system, each form of life depending on the other to exist. It just doesn't make sense that there are billions of stars and planets that are without life but do exist without any reason then to exist? 
And if there's a God and he created the Universe, why on earth did he only give the spark of life to our little planet? And not to the thousands of planets in our surrounding solarsystems? You would expect planets buzzing with life only next door. So why isn't it so? Why create all those planets and stars and give life to only one? Some would say, because we're special, chosen. I would say if where the only one in such an immense space...we're an experiment or an accident. It's not the extraterrestrial life that freaks me out, but the lacking of it. It couldn't be that in this infinite Universe we are the only ones. How lonesome, small and vulnerable does that feel like...but also very special, unique even if we are but an experiment...don't you think?
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