Are we alone?

I think we are alone. There is something weird about the Universe, we search for habitable planets, some many light-years away, but in some ways it is a kind of illusion. Maybe everything we see is a kind of illusion. Our brains simply are not big enough to comprehend what is happening. We know a great deal, that is true. Thanks to the James Webb telescope, we can look back further in time than ever before. But, somehow, I think we are missing something!

Yesterday, I was watching minuscule black crabs on the seafront in Arrecife, where I live (black because their environment is volcanic). The complexity of their movements, like a dance, left me spellbound. Their brains are minute. And yet the fact that they can coordinate such moves left me thinking that there has to be more than this. There has to be some Designer who has put this all in place. I understand what Darwin said – these crabs demonstrate evolution by being black. But to say that this has all happened by chance? I can’t believe that, may millions of light years away, something similar is happening (or maybe they are building a time machine to come and tell me I am wrong!)

I rather like the idea that we are all connected via a medium which we can’t see or understand. That the movements of the crabs are not simply a mechanical process between a brain and legs and claws. They are part of the miracle around us that we all too easily forget.