Thoughts on Extraterrestial life

 A very dear friend of me asked me to give my opinion on the existence of extraterrestrial  life in the universe. I'll attempt to do this while ATTEMPTING to refrain from delving too deep into personally metaphysical notions, although it's almost inevitable that someone will ask me a metaphysical or ontological question quite soon so I'm preparing for that.

 To me personally, not believing in any extraterrestrial life is quite silly. I mean it's understandable in the belief that there is no evidence extraterrestrial life exists or has attempted to contact our world, despite the numerous conspiracy theories circulating in the mainstream. While it's not necessarily unreasonable to believe that the American government lies to it's people (which it obviously does), I want to state this logically.

 While being unable to give any tangible evidence to support my claim I will refer to my close friend, Logic. This universe on a macroscopic level is enormous with numerous planets in just our galaxy. Logically it's quite possible at the very least few of these contain extraterrestrial existence. Science points out that for life to form the planet at the very least has to be chemically similar to ours. While I don't deny this, I question why? Does life to exist and be intelligent like us REQUIRE the same conditions we did/do in order to sustain life? I find that notion a tad absurd. I believe that, evolution withstanding, that adaptation might be a common factor in the formation of life. The universe itself is constantly evolving and changing shape and form, so why shouldn't it's subjects do the same? So if adaptation holds true, I believe that there may be life forms or extraterrestrials that are able to adapt to unbelievable and otherwise inhospitable conditions of their own planet.

 I believe that my position and belief, if you can call it that, on this matter is quite reasonable. I don't expect anyone to endorse it but I want to talk about the lack of evidence. I believe the nation's officials and various political leaders more than likely censor the distribution of information to the general public which I find quite possible given that the existence of extraterrestrial life could be quite detrimental to the religious foundation particularly of this country and the world. A staggering 76% of American citizens are at least some form of Christian. 55% of American Christians are Creationists. Creationism is the teleological belief that God created the Universe and Humans  in some form. 33% believe evolution happened, but God oversaw the process. These I suppose are valid points of view on the ontology of the Universe, however I do carry my reserves for this that I will discuss in another post.

My belief is that any existence of the extraterrestrial lifeforms threatens the biblical foundation of these beliefs. In the bible it explicitly states in various instances that God created man in his likeness and the animals to provide for him. The existence of life else where could prove very detrimental to the Creationist theory. Therefore it isn't unreasonable to suggest that, given the overwhelming Christian majority in this nation, particularly within it's leadership, that they could in someway inhibit information and evidence from leaking out. That's just my take on extraterrestrial existence without diving head first into Metaphysics.

P.S. Irrelevant point, but I'd like to create a distinction between Metaphysical philosophy and it's New Age counterpart. Metaphysics is the study of being and it's nature. Metaphysical New Age belief systems tend to be less secular and more into the realm of extra-dimensional existence, astral travel, crystal healing and so on. Ergo, when I say metaphysics at any point in time without addressing otherwise, I'm referring purely to the Philosophical portion of Metaphysics.