Gene RoddenberryCan all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
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If everything can just be an accident and there is no alien intelligence behind it, then we would be the only intelligent life form ever to exist in the universe. If we were so special, why haven’t we been visited by aliens? The chances of just one planet having intelligent beings on it are so small that it seems impossible that we were meant to be here.
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