The Alien World

“God, I have a problem”

“What is the problem, Eve?”

“I know that you created me and provided this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful animals, as well as the hilarious comedic snake, but I’m just not happy”

“And why is that Eve?”

“God, I am lonely and bored, and I’m sick to death of apples!”

“Well, Eve, in that case I have solution. I shall create a man for you.”

“Man? What is that God?”

“A flawed, base creature, with many bad traits. He’ll lie, cheat, and be vain. He will be witless and will revel in childish things. He’ll be bigger than you and will like fighting hunting and killing things. He won’t be to smart, so he will need your advice to think properly. He will have a very limited emotional capacity and will need to be trained. He will look silly when he is aroused, but since you’ve been complaining, I’ll create him in such a way that he will satisfy your physical needs. And you most certainly will never be bored again!”

“Sounds great” says Eve, with ironically raised eyebrows, “but what’s the catch, God?”

“Well… you can have him on one condition.”

“And what’s that God?”

“As I said, he’ll be proud, arrogant and self-admiring… so you’ll have to let him believe I made him first. And it will have to be our little secret. You know, woman to woman.”

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Published in THE TIMES UK (under Global Village, A weekly posting from cyberspace – date unknown), but to me this has been passed by a good friend in office, she believes that this is true.

With the Origin of GOD (, which was purely a hypothesis on why humans need God), next logical step would have been developing faith and religion. It is hard to say which part of the world must have first seen a new species, i.e. man, walking on its face. So let us assume that this miracle of human evolution took place at one place, and later when the humans developed the nomadic attributes, they started to explore around more and thus settling in different parts of the world.

When man first discovered something Supernatural that must have been the starting point of some faith & creed. This would have taken shape of the initial religion much later. Which was the first religion that existed, who started it and when, these are difficult questions to answer.

Once the religion was established, it must have played an important role in building up societies which still hold true to this date. Every religion has been refined and re-refined from its original state. These refinements are based on the progress of the society.

Initial religion and faith would have been much simpler then there current form. With religion and society in place, man was left to explore more… this was the advent of science. Science would have been a major contributor in facing the initial religion, which I believe was lost somewhere down the line when the hostilities and conflicts between man increased. Religious motivations have sometimes influenced scientific development, while scientific knowledge has had effects on religious beliefs.

Hinduism is perhaps the oldest religion on this planet and also one which is mostly, if not entirely, based on scientific facts, in which behind the complex religious rituals lies the facts of science. Present Hinduism is not what it used to be originally. Original Hinduism was based on scientific studies and had guidelines on how nature and man can coexist. It taught to live in harmony with nature and recognize that divinity prevails in all elements, including plants and animals. It is also one of the most environment friendly religion, because of this Hindus worship rivers, mountains, animals, the mineral world, as well as the stars and planets.

I am not an atheist, but neither do I am a firm believer. I am somewhere in between the two. It is hard for me to believe there is God, because I have not seen him ever, but then there are things in this world which for long science has been unsuccessfully trying to explain.

The science era may have started somewhere around 17th century. Before that for hundreds of years, when science was not used as an explanation for everything, thing for which people did not found any explanation were left to the power of God. For example, just consider the evolution of universe. For centuries scientist have been try to solve the mystery of evolution of universe without any success. Most of the religions in this world, if not all, have a story of how universe was created. Apart from multiple theories in all religions, science has too many theories around creation of universe. Like the big-bang theory or a more recent mother-or-child-universe theory.

Now, this mother-or-child-universe theory is interesting. According to this theory a child universe is hatched from the mother universe. If this is true then there will be many universes around. I cannot think about just one, imagine having so many around.