Aliens Among Us

Would They Be In Our Image?

With very few exceptions, the aliens encountered on TV, in motion pictures and in publications, are remarkably similar to earthly humans. There are some differences in facial features and occasionally in plumbing, but they are in fact distinctly of the human species.

H.G.Wells displayed some imagination in depicting the alien invaders, in his book "The War Of The Worlds". They had great round bodies, about four feet in diameter, that were mostly heads. The eyes were very large; an ear was in back of the head, and the hands consisted of sixteen tentacles in two bunches of eight each. They did not sleep, were absolutely without sex, and budded off for reproduction. They were mere brains.

How reasonable is it to expect that space aliens, if such there be, would look anything like us? Humans, and all life forms, have evolved by natural selection; the survival of organisms that conform to new or changing environments. Consider that other planets would have differences in atmospheric gases, air pressure, climate, light, food and gravity. Life forms have on other planets would have adapted to those different conditions, and perforce be substantially different from ours. The likelihood that creatures from another world would look like us, reaches out far beyond the boundaries of probability.

(There are some New Yorker cartoons that would fit in nicely with items in this newsletter, but I have not been able to find them in the CartoonBank. One showed a family scene of aliens on another planet. An adult is reading a story to some youngsters who are terrified at the description of a horrible monster: whose physical characteristics are precisely ours).

"So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him…" Genesis 1:27

Does this suggest that if there is life on other planets, it would be in the image of God, and therefore be like us? Perhaps I should not have brought this matter up in the first place

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