There are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in our universe, and we're adding new ones every year. If you passed your algebra courses, which I barely did, you gotta calculate there are a lot of E.T.s out there, even more remarkable than Steven Spielberg would have us imagine. However, what would their arrival do to the Bethlehem tale we are about to re-tell? Here are my 5 favorite guesses...!
1. Atheists will say something like, "We told you so! Bethlehem is a sweet story to comfort the ignorant. Your idea of one god coming down to one planet for one species has been egotistically absurd from the start." [My question would be, so what do you do this season of the year -- sit under those stars algebraically contemplating how your DNA evolved from and will return to them?]
2. Agnostics might not say anything, reflexively shrugging with, "Good sense, and now good numbers, just prove there is nothing you can prove!" [I used to be impressed by such stoic silence, but lately I'm guessing agnostics are really just afraid to guess anything!]
3. Theologians actually love, more than fear, such challenges as E.T.s. I mean without our recurring doubts about a God, they'd really have nothing to do. [Frankly, theologians speculating in their ivory towers have always impressed me more than technologists poring over new plans to digitalize those old towers!]
4. The Vatican messed up their encounters with science starting with Galileo and Copernicus. They don't want to repeat those mistakes. And so the Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences is convening this year to see if there is some Starship Enterprise which might help discover the answers. [The one thing we can be sure is the Vatican won't be coming to any conclusions in warp speed!]
5. The kids of Christmas can be expected to simply laugh and giggle at the prospect of E.T.s. Not because of their religious implications, but all the fun they can mean. [Really, now, isn't a spirit of holy fun the best way to meet and greet any E.T.?]
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I figure there might have been some ETs that night in Bethlehem. Just comparing our story with theirs
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