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Ancient Ideas on Extraterrestrials.

As far back as people who lived in ancient Egypt, Sumar, and Babylon they have believed that there was life on other planets. There are times it is hard to differentiate between the alien life in their writings and other entities that were Gods and demons. However, this thinking as lead through time with each new civilization wondering the same thing and even believing and seeing similar sightings.

Some of the first known writers who believe in extraterrestrial life were two Greek writers Thales and his student Anaximander during the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E. Many other citizens in Greece agreed with this idea that if the universe is infinite than there would have to also be infinite life too. However, thinkers like Aristotle and Ptolemy worked against this idea because they believe in a geocentric universe. Meaning humans were the only living being in the universe, we were the privileged few to be here, thus it is then impossible that there be life elsewhere in the universe.

This belief system prevailed for awhile, but later on the ancient Jewish peoples considered life elsewhere. The Talmud states there are eighteen thousand other worlds out there, however it does not clarify if these worlds are physical or spiritual. Once again when Christianity took over the West and the Ptolemaic system once again became the prevalent belief system. No church at that time ever had said that there were no aliens; however in 1277 the Bishop of Paris Etienne Tempier disagreed with one of Aristotle's major points. Specifically that God could have created other worlds because he was omnipotent, however we only right now know of the planet earth. It still became very dangerous to express the idea of other life out there and one of the few known believers from this time is Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake for having un-Christian ideas in 1600.

Unfortunately, the church could not contain the thought on alien life when the telescope was invented and then Copernican's beliefs on geocentric cosmology. His belief that since God is omnipotent he would allow for other life and it might even be a necessity. Comparisons to life on earth and possible life on other planets begin and there was also poetry written with these same beliefs, that other life may be more beautiful or even larger than we were.

The ideas about extraterrestrial life have been around since the beginning of time. Our need to believe in other life besides ourselves and to also explore other worlds is insatiable. As we discover other solar systems and planets, the idea of other life out there does not become so farfetched. The more we strive to learn and explore, the greater the possibility becomes.
 
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