Quest for Civilization in Space

Quest for Civilization in Space

1985 2 February 18 Quest for Civilization in Space (286) For the last twenty years the scientists in the West have been carrying out a strange kind of research – listening for life in space. It appears that the modern theory of evolution has given rise to this quest. The explanations furnished to prove the evolutionary concept of life presuppose the existence of life forms in some parts of outer space, resembling the life forms on earth. The space flights, therefore, also aim, among other things, at contacting those forms of life. Such an assumption has lead to the conviction that an extraterrestrial civilization exists. In addition to space flights, huge antennas have been set up in the U.S.A. and other developed countries. These antennae are called Radio ears. They serve to send signals to outer space. Very highly sensitive instruments have also been installed to be able to receive the expected signals. A commentator, reviewing these efforts, has summed it up in these words: If you are really there, please call your friends. (Time Magazine 21 March, 1983) The existence of life and consciousness is a unique and exceptional phenomenon in the whole universe. Since this consciousness could never have come into being by itself, it necessarily involves, therefore, the existence in space of life and consciousness on a greater plane – the source of life on earth. Modern man has admitted indirectly the possibility of a Creator. His existence, however, is being explained away in terms simply of there being some life forms in space – forms resembling ours, but not necessarily superior to them, just another form of civilization and not a Lord and a Creator. Whereas the truth of the matter is that the existence of a living man is evidence of a living God.