ft us a report on them.

The things that were science fiction twenty years ago are solid fact
now. We know that a landing on the Moon is only a question of time, a
few years at the most. The planets of our Solar System will follow, at
least some before the turn of the century, probably. As for the
planets of neighboring stars we cannot say. We have no way of
exploring them at present, but that is not the same as saying that we
never will. If the past performance of the human race is any measure,
they will likely fall to exploration within two hundred years.

If you concede that it is possible that we can visit other star
systems in a future not too distant, why then could we not have been
visited some time in the past? It may tend to deflate our ego to think
that there may be intelligent beings not too different from us who are
advanced beyond us. It need not. One of the most striking features of
Ezekiel's story, if it has been decoded correctly, is that these
beings are very much like we are, right at the present time. That puts
them three or four thousand years ahead of us, a very small amount
indeed when we consider the long sweep of human life and development
before the dawn of written history.

We are so used to stories of "Bug-eyed Monsters" coming to Earth, that
the idea of beings from other worlds looking and acting human seems
fantastic. It should not. There is good sound scientific reason to
believe that there is little chance of it being any other way. Life is
a delicate and fragile thing when compared to cosmic extremes of
temperature and environment in our universe. If life formed on earth
as science now believes that it did, we must have had just the right
size planet at just the right distance from a particular type of star.
While such extremely narrow limits are going to reduce the number of
places in the universe where life can develop, it is also going to
limit the _differences_. In our creation things operate by rule. The
rule is that in similar circumstance there are similar solutions to a
problem. Man is the solution of the problem of building the highest
form of life on Earth. On a similar planet we can expect to find a
similar solution. This is simply the extension of the theory of
_parallel evolution_ to a cosmic scale.

If then, we were visited by people from another world, what were they
doing here? Strangely enough, there is considerable evidence of what
they were up to from Ezekiel's own