I'm largely in the same boat. I doubt we've been visited by aliens, but I'm almost certain their is other life in the universe and almost AS certain that we'll never see a wink of it in our lifetimes.
Also, remember, there likely is no Before the Big Bang. The meaning and concept of time breaks down as much as that of space the closer you get to the Big Bang. At least, so far as our current understanding.
To echo cockandswan above (though I wrote it before reading responses) Regardless, every time someone replaces "I don't know" with "God Did It" is an act of intellectual cowardice and laziness. There is always more to learn and more to know. "God Did It" is a non-reason. It answers nothing. It is evidence of nothing. It offers no predictions, no explanations, and worse, no new questions.
I would much prefer someone who is aware of what they do not know than someone who offers unassailable divinity as reason for anything.
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Also, remember, there likely is no Before the Big Bang. The meaning and concept of time breaks down as much as that of space the closer you get to the Big Bang. At least, so far as our current understanding.
To echo cockandswan above (though I wrote it before reading responses)
Regardless, every time someone replaces "I don't know" with "God Did It" is an act of intellectual cowardice and laziness. There is always more to learn and more to know. "God Did It" is a non-reason. It answers nothing. It is evidence of nothing. It offers no predictions, no explanations, and worse, no new questions.
I would much prefer someone who is aware of what they do not know than someone who offers unassailable divinity as reason for anything.