Who ever started the idea that we could turn fiction into fact? Must be witches, right? Incantations and spells are now called theories. Pay attention to what you are urged to believe. Some of it is just down right hilarious.
There has been a lot of "science" formed fact out of whole-cloth fiction. Time travel and Gray Aliens being the most obvious to me. Neither has been proven any more definitively than any story from the bible, Koran or (whatever tome the stories of the hindus are contained in etc) yet these two "sciences" exist in our modern day-to-day damn near as facts. We created both out of our imaginations, potentially not unlike religion, and either believed or wanted to believe in both so deeply they have become unto fact in our current lives.
Polar political and theological opposites Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan both believed in UFOs, our astronauts almost all believe in UFOs with the exception of very few, that's gotta give it some kind of credence, right? NASA, SETI, the USAF, RAF and the Soviet fly-people, whatever their air force is called, all have dedicated organizations with the simple goal to study UFOs and none, so far as we know, has found any.
Me personally, not unlike Fox Mulder, I still want to believe but Im a scientific agnostic on the point: I cant just believe it on base faith.
Time travel as well has become a scientifically plausible yet completely impossible staple in our science fiction. Even science fiction grounded mainly in factual possibility - Star Trek - has both time travel and little green aliens in abundance and its accepted as the most realistically plausible of all science fictions.
So ponder this:
If there ever were aliens someone would have more than a fuzzy photo by now and if time travel is
ever going to exist then it would have to exist right now because, after all, it IS time travel. If time travel will ever exist then it will have to have always existed and since it doesn't exist right now then it will never exist, get it?
And if time travel will ever exist then aliens
have to exist as well because at some point humans will have gone far enough out to the universe to become the aliens, interact with the (time travel device?) and then come back to where it all started as the "aliens".
And in the entire, entire, ENTIRE existence of time (to which a true time traveler would have access) someone somewhere will accidentally or on purpose slip up and divulge the secret- that HAS to happen unless the Bush family is running the program. Since that has not yet happened then it will never happen. It cant because if it does then it will always have and since it doesn't then it never will.
Whats this got to do with religion, you ask? Not a damn thing because I digressed so dramatically off my original line of thought I forgot where I was taking this.
I said good day, sir.