Mans search for something more

I am currently watching a TV show about Ancient Aliens on the History channel. It portrays the pyramids of Egypt and the Mayans and others as being built by aliens. Even showing glyphs with a twist to show a man flying or rocketing into space.

There are mysteries in ancient history and I am very interested in them but I find theories of aliens to be flat and unimaginative, lacking the depth that a real history would have that would lend credulity to its fact. I find I must believe that there was something more to the pyramids being constructed and their layout/placement all over the world or why the Mayans felt they needed a calender more precise than the one we use today; and I find I understand the need to find any and all reasons to explain these things that we do not understand. Man needs to understand. We all have the desire to see things that puzzle us explained and shown to us in a manner we can understand.

Yet I also feel that this desire is a quest for us all. The equally ancient question calls to us all, 'Why are we here?' What is mans purpose and what happens when we die? If you have never asked yourself this question, you are not alive. Most find their answer in faith. Some find it in science. Others find theirs in the unknown and theories as to what could answer the unknown. In all ways, we search for something that is more powerful than ourselves and more knowing, even all-knowing and that this something will grace us with the knowledge they possess. For myself, I find that the question in more important to us than the means we use to search for them, although I do believe that searching for these answers through science or science fiction is the wrong direction. I find amazing things in science and in stories of aliens, space travel, and all the other theories that abound, yet it falls short in bringing meaning more than just knowledge of natural order and a way to expand my imagination or open my mind to different possibilities. The only place to ask what the meaning of life is, in my way of thinking/feeling, is through faith.

I hear these theories that some people use to say that aliens have been here on our planet and other planets in our solar system and I find it hard to believe, impossible for me to believe in fact. Many who know me personally might find it surprising to hear me say that I find all these impossibilities explainable only by the existence of God and his presence among us in those times. I find it much easier to believe that in a time that most religions say was a time of miracles, that God was able to show many people in many ways the intricate workings of his creations and that understanding of them was far greater then than now where we question everything put in front of us with unrelenting scepticism and have forgotten the easy faith a child has in a loving father and mother.

I believe firmly in a need for science and imagination to take us in new directions and discoveries... But we cannot forget the faith of youth. through out time we are asked by religious leaders to have faith, to keep faith, to believe that there is something more that, on our own, we cannot understand. With all these theories out there is it so hard that the answer could be something we are told every time we attend church? To have faith.