Every cultural renaissance believes it possesses the highest level of scientific understanding. There are countless theories and seriously held beliefs that have been discredited in light of contemporary scientific discovery. After the fall of Rome‘s last capital, Constantinople in 1453 AD, Europe suffered a long period of ignorance and superstition in the chaos of a dark age. Several hundred years later, church led societies of medieval Europe felt justified in burning at the stake those who challenged the most sacred beliefs, the world was flat and the center of the universe. Just one hundred fifty years ago, established laws of physics expressed by the most prominent scientist of the time believed: Humans could not survive speeds greater than 60 miles per hour! Today, humans disprove this faulty theory every day on every highway in the world.
Today scientist have established a similar attitude from their laws of physics that they believe cannot be broken. Those who dare challenge those laws are ostresized and place their careers at great risk. Just over fifty years ago, it was believed no one could travel faster than sound until Chuck Yeager broke the barrier on October, 14, 1957, in the Bell X-1. Today, scientist believe you cannot exceed the speed of light or traverse vast distances between the stars in a single life time. If technology advances exponentially as it had in the past fifty years, what laws of scientific status quo will be broken in another 100 years from today? Keep in mind, how much more advanced today's fighter planes are to the Kitty Hawk, a primitive machine the Wright brother's built for one of the first flights at Kill Devil Hills in 1903, just 106 years ago. Taken farther, what advances will invalidate technological barriers of today as primitive folly, in a thousand years from now? What of ten thousand years beyond even that time, -- or a million years? If humans still exist ten million years from today, would their level of evolvement and technology be understood or even recognized by those who came before them? What unknown realms and concepts of mystery will become commonplace when the seed of humans have been spread among the stars.
Why not apply this paradigm to some other evolved planetary civilizations with similar histories somewhere in the cosmos, millions or billions of years ago. Considering there are countless planets in the present universe are far older than Earth, who is to say they did not evolve primordial sentient life forms? This may seem farfetched,-- but is it? There are billions of planets in the universe that accommodate life
in different forms. Many of these are not carbon based but have adapted to the environs from which they evolved. Some may argue such life forms cannot exist because only the Earth has environmental conditions that could support life. Suppose there are life forms that managed to adapt to those “adverse” conditions? The sheer number of diverse life forms on Earth is a sure indication life is not exclusive to Earth alone. The life force which animates matter in such ways as to proliferate, is as prominent as gravity, light and all natural forces of a planet. There are other forms of life here on Earth that may not be carbon based.
