Why it's the "Force"!
Why didn't I think of that?
It's interesting to listen to you and Bowz pontificate on an intelligent universe.
From time immemorial, even primitive man had his gods.
And I like Dyson's theory of bottle-necking. Never heard of that one before.
Earth is a fertile spore among the universe, or at least this solar system.
If we are "created in His image", then perhaps we are nothing more than a genetically seeded homogenous culture in this petri dish called Earth?