Fact or fiction: Do aliens exist?
According Arizona State University physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies, the answer is undoubtedly… possible.
Although his hypothetical ‘aliens’ aren’t the gray almond-eyed creatures that have become popularly associated with extraterrestrials, he is posing another question. What if life sprang up across the earth not one time, but many times over? What if there is a life form already existing on earth that is so different to our definition of life that it would be, in fact, ‘alien’ to us?
Furthermore, what if there exists a “shadow biosphere”, an imperceptible niche where these ‘aliens’ exist and are waiting in the wings, as it were. Should we slit our own throats as a race or are otherwise rendered extinct by some external force, this “shadow biosphere” would be there to pick up the pieces and gain ascendancy over the earth. They’d be the progenitors of a new world totally unlike our own.
“Life as we know it appears to have had a single common ancestor, yet, could life on Earth have started many times? Might it exist on Earth today in extreme environments and remain undetected because our techniques are customized to the biochemistry of known life?” said Davies.
It’s a fascinating question. But it is also one burdened with unstated assumptions; the primary assumption being the unquestioned veracity of Darwinism, of which I have serious doubts. There are enormous, crater-sized holes in Darwin’s theory. For instance, there is the self-evident question of why there is not one single missing link found among the totality of the fossil records of ANY species whatever? We do not have a single fossil that points to a slowly evolving process where one species transforms into a new species.
To explain this apparent contradiction to their theory, evolutionists would speak of an evolutionary leap through mutation, such as the one they claim was made from ancient dinosaurs to birds. But this is about as plausible as Paul Bunyan creating the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe along on the desert floor. Both sound like a tall tales to me.
The evidence just does not fit the phenomenon.
But back to Davies’s theory.
I don’t discount his theory that there may be life on earth that appear ‘alien’ to our conception of life. That may very well be true. Very interesting questions would arise from it. It would, in the least, change our perception of the world if we knew that a separate other corporeal life form existed side by side with our own.
If true, this would be remarkable in of itself. Need we torture logic to force a cosmological explanation of how life became what it is?
