The thing about lucid dreams is that it’s not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics-you can do magic.
It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is “something behind it all” is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
Most life on Earth is microbes. we’ve only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified let alone cultured or had their genes sequenced, so really that microbial realm is a mystery.
Mathematics is universal. It’s discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
It’s only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn’t be any conflict.
To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.
When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it’s fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven’t really changed.
The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.