And what if mankind is only one of millions of beings and civilizations across the universe (or another universe; parallel of otherwise). Look at FOAM theory. The concept that our universe is merely a single bubble in a foam of bubbles where each bubble is a universe unto itself. The Catholic church supports the existence of other beings. This has been publicly stated by them. The church has some of the most sophisticated observatories in the world for a reason. They don't believe what you're trying to claim as religious belief.
There may well be, per the Drake Equation, which depending on the estimates entered indicates there may be between 20 to 50,000,000 in the our galaxy, one of billions of galaxies.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”― Carl Sagan
Many stars, and possibly the civilization that was warmed by that star died at the end of their life cycle. When the star died the heavy elements described by Carl Sagan were created in the dying star.
For all you know you live in nothing more than an alien ant farm... or perhaps you're only a virtual simulation in a software program... or perhaps you don't exist at all but are merely an attribute of connected energies, or purely mathematics. What is certain is that you as a living being embody the principle of entropy. And what I'm certain of this that my creator is a wonderful mathematician.
We consider ourselves civilized, but are we really. One marker of civilization it the construction of infrastructure, that we have done. But is that truly intelligent life? Based on how we treat our fellow man, we are not even on par with the ants in the ant farm, and the source of much of that hostility between members of the species, the belief in the imaginary deity. Perhaps an alien version of Captain Kirk has visited our planet, and made the call "beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here". After we are barbarians that worship idols, or at least a majority do.
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Delta(s) U > 0. When you understand this you'll understand creation, life and death. Science does support religion. Mathematics do support religion. And all scientists aren't atheists. Some of the best minds of mathematics and science know the mathematical chances of all this being an accident is so remote as to be compared to winning the mega lottery more than 1,000 times in a row. Thus the numbers are mind-boggling. No sir. This is no accident.
The numbers in the universe are really beyond the capability of most of us to grasp. But keep in mind when unimaginably numbers are involved, it is possibly to buy enough lotto tickets to win 1,000 times in a row. It was no accident, but a definite mathematical probability given the vast numbers, and in no way indicates that any deity was involved or exists.
And while there are scientists that believe in god, they are clearly a tiny minority. According to a 1998 report in the journal Nature, a recent survey found that 93% of NAS members are either atheists or agnostics.
The biologists in the National Academy of Sciences were found to possess the lowest rate of belief of all the science disciplines, with only 5.5% believing in God.
Interesting that the science that studies life has the lowest belief rate. Why would that be, other than the greatest threat to religion is knowledge. And I doubt any of them rage against those that don't like Ringo and a few others.
