Maybe the way we look at time is shorter than we think.
We look at billions of year's as a long time but maybe in the grand scheme of things it's not at all.
For the record I don't believe we are 1st and there's obviously more out there.
1st out of 500millyImagine someone in Andromeda is watching "Gigapixels of Milkyway [4K]"I don't think it's possible honestly
Like look at that. It's mind boggling
Drake Equation.

Well heres my thing. If we accept that statically life has to be out there. Does that minimize or even negate religious texts and stories?No, but with the major caveat that we don't know how life on Earth began. Without knowing that, we have no idea how to even begin estimating life's occurrence in the universe.
Even if there is life in other galaxies, unless someone figures out wormholes or FTL travel, we'll likely never know they exist(ed).