The quest to find out how life originated on our planet rages on, with new findings surfacing every now and then that force us to rethink things. We don’t even have the full picture of our own species’ origins and developments.

There are many theories as to how life might have suddenly appeared and how non-living matter (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and other elements) decided to band together to form a ‘living’ organism.

There are theories which state that life might have been brought to Earth by asteroids, some other theory suggests that it happened due to the right substances coming together at the right time and place and it just happened and there are more technical ones that I won’t bore you with.

So, as I was thinking about all the possibilities, and as a result of all the alien movies I have been watching, an idea suddenly came to my mind in the shower. What if aliens started life on Earth as an experiment?

Is It Just Too Far-Fetched?

This idea is not a new one, so I cannot claim any credits there. Many people have been suggesting for decades that it might have been a highly intelligent alien civilisation that kick-started life on Earth.

My question to you is this. As crazy as this might sound, is the idea, that you might be a result of a science experiment of some ETs not even teeny, tiny bit possible? Is it just too far-fetched?

To answer that, we should see if we have even the remotest capability to achieve such a feat ourselves. And the answer to that is a yes. Sort of. Just recently scientists were able to create a synthetic life by creating a bacterium with 2 additional bases of DNA compared to the 4 base DNAs we are all made of.

If we humans can do that at our current level of technological prowess, imagine what we will be able to do in the future. So, an alien race that is hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us, could certainly have started life on Earth, just to see how things evolve from there on.

What Are The Implications?

This is where things get tricky (as if they weren’t already). If an alien race did indeed create us and every other living organism on the planet, what could their purpose be?

Forget the purpose (it might be beyond our understanding), think about the implications for us humans since we are the only intelligent life form. Was that by design? Are we here to serve as a central character in their experimental story?

Apart from having to rethink religion, I don’t think it would mean much for us, if we ever find out that we were created by them. Think about it, no matter if they have good or bad intentions towards us, is there anything we can really do to separate ourselves from them? In this scenario, they would essentially be like gods.

We would just have to continue to live our lives anyways, hoping for the best. Yes, a major riddle about the origin of life would have been solved but the rest would still remain like the origins of the universe itself. (if we still haven’t solved it by then), so, we would most probably keep pushing forward like we’re doing now.

Conclusion

So, what do you guys think about this? What would it mean to you personally and would it force you rethink your whole life? Or would you be chill about it and just go on without a second thought?

Also, do you think that there is even a one-in-a-billion chance that we can escape the clutches of our alien overlords, if they are there that is? What would we even do with the new found freedom? Will it even feel like a change at all, in that scenario?