Placed here by a higher consciousness? "Aliens" if you will, "God", if you won't? Suppose we are a giant petri dish (Earth) and we are just an ant farm for a few hundred species that may have created human religion just fo their amusement or whatever...to see how we would manifest over millenia with major methods of thinking about divinity (god) and worship in place?
2006-10-05 15:53:19 · 11 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very interesting question.
It seems perfectly reasonable to me that none of our contemporary worldviews, whether that be religious or atheist or anything in between or otherwise, are ultimately correct with regard to what or why we humans are. There is a whole sphere of possibilities beyond not only what we can imagine, or have access to understanding . . . but perhaps even in principle are even capable of understanding. That is not to say that some worldviews may not be on the right track, or closer to reality than others . . . but rather that I find it very unlikely that any of the worldviews are entirely correct. I imagine the future will look back upon us -- and perhaps other beings already do -- in a way similar to how we look upon people who lived three thousand years ago. Basically clueless.
Now alien experimentation in particular seems like a perfectly reasonable possibility. Of course, when dealing with the unknown, who can say what is or is not reasonable, but even within what we do know, and are capable of knowing, the idea of alien experimentation -- while I may not personally subscribe to the idea -- is perfectly reasonable given all the evidence we have of UFOs and alien abductions and experimentation, which is rather quite extensive despite popular belief to the contrary.
But in the end, precisely because currently we cannot know -- we can believe, but we cannot know -- this is why, in my personal opinion, it is best to structure one's life not around a worldview or large belief about what our ulimate purpose is, but rather around those things that are self-evidently true, and will be true regardless of whether we are an alien experiment or not, or anything else. By that I mean that happiness is inherently greater than suffering, that friendship is more valuable than hatred, that peace, kindness, understanding, love, etc., are greater qualities of life than their opposites. Indeed, if you look at those who question such self-evident truths, you will usually find them falling back upon a worldview as a means to justify such views. But, again, worldviews are always terrifically flimsy, and in my opinion, most all of the current worldviews will, in the far distant future, either be revealed to be at best partial, or at worse entirely false altogether.
2006-10-05 16:19:59 · answer #1 · answered by Nitrin 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nah, Aliens are just us in the future. God is also us in the future. Take a guy from 2000 years ago and show him today . . . how would he describe it? I feel he would describe it the best he could with the limited ability possible.
Would Google (or Yahoo in this case) be considered omnicient to a person 2000 years ago?
Would an atom bomb be omnipotent?
Would television be a means to have four angels come from the four corners of the earth?
Would a meteor shower be fire and brimstone?
We used to do a rain dance to make it rain, we are no longer that nieve. When will we realize that most of the miracles Jesus did are things we do now everyday we even raise the dead.
We are god, we are aliens, we are the whole thing.
As God is, man once was, as God is man may become.
2006-10-05 16:10:41 · answer #2 · answered by Payne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever read or seen the movie Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy? For those who haven't; they find out that earth was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice as an experiment on humans. How nice of them to let us test on them huh? A very clever book/movie.
Anyway anything is possible isn't it?
2006-10-05 16:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by Gypsy Cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think its natures experiment... it doesn't seem so... its more like.. a cycle... Unicellular, to multi-cellular... and later complex beings... then to the most superior beings... being followed by total destruction... and then it begins again... from the start... and so it goes... a cycle... We're not the experiment... just a part of it... a controlled variable... freely helpless... Cheers!!!!!
2016-03-18 05:27:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many science fiction writers (esp. Star Trek) subscribe to the idea of a super-race known as The Preservers, and that they seeded life on planets throughout the galaxy.
2006-10-05 15:56:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let me see...if I think MAYBE....just maybe, humans may be a giant experiment? .....Maybe not.
2006-10-05 15:57:14 · answer #6 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, we are! It's an experiment of free will and its effects on a society.
2006-10-05 15:56:28 · answer #7 · answered by ohio healer 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've often thought this exact scenario...it's damned depressing...we squish ants. We are failing miserably as a global society.
2006-10-05 15:56:18 · answer #8 · answered by Ivyvine 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
very possible. I have thought that myself a few times. Adam and Eve were dropped of here by the G.O.D institute for research and forgotten about after awhile.
2006-10-05 15:57:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That would be awsome. I've always felt there was a Peeking Tom when I was changing....
2006-10-05 15:56:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋