I'm a Senior Information Systems Engineer and an ordained minister.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think we would be pretty arrogant to believe that God only created humanity as the sole intelligent lifeform in the universe. The bible says God created the world in seven days. Who says a day to God is the same as a day to us? A day to him could equal a billion years to us.
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