Intelligent life on other planets is a heavily debated topic in today’s world. Many people follow a religion such as Christianity or Buddhism, therefore if they don’t believe that their gods created any other life other than Earthlings, or every living thing on Earth. “If aliens exist, why haven’t they contacted us yet?” A common argument against the existence of extraterrestrial life, and a rather good one at that. We have reached space. Our own moon and within the next fifty years, Mars, one of our neighboring planets. Why haven’t extraterrestrial life contacted our advanced species? We aren’t advanced enough. If aliens could reach our planet, they would have to be extremely advanced and intelligent, more so than us. Therefore, they are probably …show more content…
One such reason can be seen in ancient ruins, such as the Egyptians or the Mayans. The great monuments and structures they built in thier time rival our own, which were built primarily with machinery. The Great Pyramid of Giza, or the Pyramid of Khufu, is made up of limestone blocks weighing an average of 2.5 tons and were transported about 300 meters from a limestone quarry. Although it is possible that they did this with the proposed 25,000 slaves, it is improbable that they did so in the theorized 20 year time it took to build the pyramid. The only logical way for them to have done this is if they had help. The theory that extraterrestrial lifeforms have visited our world in the past and helped shape it into the one we know today is known as the Ancient Astronaut Theory or the Ancient Aliens Theory. In many structures left by ancient civilizations, depictions of strange creatures looking similar to extraterrestrials that people who have claimed to be abducted have seen. Ancient astronaut theorists believe that many of the ancient gods from these civilizations were in fact visitors from other