From "Close Encounters" to "Knowing" (Nicolas Cage, 2009), over and over in movies and TV shows, we see the fever dream of the left.
That somewhere out there, watching and helping us, are aliens, a race of beings who are better than us in every way. Smarter, more good, more capable; somehow they wait to redeem us and cleanse us of our weaknesses and failures and moral dilemmas.
If we can just hang on until they get here to save us, we will be okay.
This is the wishful thinking that modern science has bestowed on us. There is no god. He didn't make us. We don't need Jesus to save us from our sins.
All we need is that bunch of morally superior aliens to come and do whatever they will do to make it better. Take us away to some crystal paradise, as if going there won't also transport our flawed natures there.
It will.
Science gave us this mythology, but it isn't a step forward in understanding. It's like the pantheon of Greek gods, just paganism transferred to a newly conceived bunch of deities.
So tiresome. So useless. Such a farce. C. S. Lewis dealt with all that decades ago. On the possibility of sentient aliens, he said that we have no way of knowing whether there are others in the universe, and if they are sentient, whether they have the same moral problem we do, or a different one, or none at all. It is NOT our concern. Our problem is now, in the individual life of each one of us, for such time as we are given to deal with it. Wishful thinking about aliens coming to solve our problems is only that; like seeing God as a benevolent grandfather on a rocker on the porch, smiling and watching the children play, without demands on them or advice or orders for them. That is a god who loves you, certainly, but.. what does he do for you? This is the imagination driving "the Force" in the Star Wars movies. There is a force in the universe, but... when it's all said and done, there is still evil, and people still do bad things, and the Jedi force-masters are outnumbered by bad actors and cannot defeat them. They offer "a new hope", but not a SOLUTION.
Your core problem of having an imperfect nature, of being a mix of good and bad, is not dealt with by the Godlike aliens at all.
The human condition isn't that we have bad impulses or inclinations, or not completely. The REAL problem is that we WANT those, that we do NOT want to give them up, and that even when we recognize those impulses will take us straight to hell, we STILL hold onto them.
That's the real "sinful nature" of mankind, of each of us. We sin because we want to, and we fight with God in our hearts to hold onto the bad stuff we like. This is why so many don't turn to God until they "hit bottom", until the bad stuff they like does so much damage to their lives that they simply CANNOT continue. All of us, in fact, have to hit bottom in one way or another before we turn to God and cry for help. Because we have to fully know, FULLY understand, that we cannot fix it ourselves, and that it will destroy us. You. Me.
We would do the same to the aliens that we do to God. Stiff-arm them, hold them at bay, tell them "you can fix most of me but I don't want to give up this part, leave it alone, I'll be fine without fixing this".
This is why aliens won't save us.
Because wherever we go, there we are. And no matter where the aliens might take us, God is there too, waiting patiently for us to cry out to Him for help.
The alien paradise would not be a solution, any more than the garden of eden repelled sin from people or protected them from it.. It didn’t.
Going to the alien paradise would be only a change of venue, where we would find the exact same problem we already have.
Ourselves.
