Neil DeGrasse Tyson put it this way: “saying there are no aliens because we have not encountered them is like scooping a glass of water from the beach and saying, ‘there are no whales here’”.
Perhaps there was a point to God creating the universe so vast that intelligent species could not devote themselves to butting heads with each other as we do on Earth?
so while it is an intersting theory - no we are not alone in the universe
The aliens are probably minding their own business, as we should. Why would they even want to visit us? The notion that extraterrestrials have visited our planet is a variation of the old theme that we humans are really special.
Jesus as the son of God was an extra-terrestrial whom many believe visited us.
In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin says that the surest sign of intelligent life out there is “that none if it has tries to contact us”.
That your professor gave you an A betrays the fact that he was wrong even to ask the question!
No, it is eternal life, which is why it is called eternal life. We get the Beatific Vision! Also, it isn’t really of much consequence. God will dwell with His people in perfect love. Does His people include aliens?
Yes, but we will already be fulfilled. Are we not to stay in union with God and with one another? (Not like an Eastern Indic concept where we become God, I meant the Beatific Vision.) I don’t know what “tending” is supposed to mean and what that entails. That was “back in the day” (Genesis) anyhow.
As civilizations progress, eventually distance and maybe even time becomes less of a problem.
Even should we be capable of faster-than-light (FTL) travel, even if we could zip from one end of the galaxy and back in simple years, the distance between single galaxies seems nigh on insurmountable. Galaxies themselves are grouped in clusters, with even greater distances between one cluster and another, and there are supergalactic clusters even beyond counting. Whether we could zip across the galaxy in days and pop across the great voids between them in the blink of an eye, visisiting a trillion trillion stars, it’ll still be as if we’ve inspected one grain of sand on a beach compared to the rest of the universe.
Well, even today, experts know that you do not always have to travel the entire distance to reach a destination when it comes to space travel, (folding space so to speak), wormholes, etc, Einstein proved it was possible, so whose to say some civilization that has been around much longer than we have, has not perfected this or some other form of long distance travel, by ‘getting around’ distance.