Arthur C Clarke said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and magic is what Gods do. Our history is littered with reports of angels or spirits descending down to the Earth from the heavens. Why is it when we talk to God we look up? It's because that is where the God's came from. Zachariah Sitchin puts forward the theory that the bible speaks not about a loving creator God, but about a group of extraterrestrials discussing what seems to be nothing more than a science project. If this turns out to be true and there is a lot of evidence to suggest it is, what are the implications for humankind? The bible says God demands to be worshipped, he destroys cities and peoples and takes prophets up into heaven in fiery chariots. This is certainly NOT the behaviour or a benevolent creator.
The problem with being a creation is there is always a creator. And this usually means the creator is immensely more powerful than his creation. Let's say for the moment we WERE created by an advanced race of extraterrestrials as Sitchin suggests. This would imply that they had incredibly sophisticated technology before we even existed and would mean they're at least several thousand of years ahead of us. Just take a look at our own technological progress in the last 100 years. Now multiply that by even just ten and it's mind boggling to imagine were we'd be. The problem with this comparison of course is that it assumes our creators have the same intellects as we do, and the evidence points to them being far more intelligent than even our greatest minds.
Our species gets its power from its intellectual capability. We possess no physical weaponry or means of defence, so we rely on our technology for self-defence. So far on our own world, there aren't any competitors technologically hence we're on top of the food chain. But how would we fare against a species thousands of years ahead of us, how could ever hope to mount a challenge against them?
In the 1940's, pilots reported seeing strange orbs of light, both sides assuming it was the enemies new wonder-weapon. It seems someone out there began taking a greater interest in what we were doing. The explosion of the first Atom Bomb opened up a whole new can of worms for humankind. It meant we now had the power to destroy the entire planet, and I'm sure our creators never intended us to get that far. Their concern for what we were doing seemed to coincide with a new wave of U.F.O sightings until finally something went wrong and one of them came down at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. This incident has now become U.F.O lore and even people with no interest in this subject have at least a small idea of what supposedly happened.
From what little information we have from eye witnesses etc, we can postulate that a craft came down in Roswell and the U.S government recovered the vehicle itself (although damaged) and several small non-human entities all but one of them dead. This incident is incredibly significant because from this point on, the extraterrestrials had to "come clean" in the sense that we now had their technology and we knew they weren't omnipotent Gods. What is interesting about this moment in history is why we were left alone, why, if the scientific experiment had now been contaminated were we allowed to survive. I suppose it depends on their motivations for creating us in the first place but there's a chance they thought us worthy of survival.
It was at this time that a deal was made between the U.S government and them which meant we would have access to their technology in exchange for them having access to the U.S (and probably global) population. This deal should give us hope, because you only make deals with equals. They could have just done whatever they pleased regardless.
This could either be because the E.T's we met with were just a small group of observing scientists and had no military power so they had to negotiate, or maybe they genuinely respected us. I think the real reason is far more insidious however. The evidence from later on in the 20th century suggests it was a ploy, a trick to lull us into a false sense of security. They never intended for us to be partners.
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