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I'm really going to have to agree that there is absolutely no way we are alone in the universe. It's such a huge place and I can't see anything but sheer ego keeping people from believing that there are other intellegent (hopefully more so), sentient beings out there. But for the sake of not being redundant, I'll not argue why I belive we're not alone.
But I'd like to address the point that wrkime made about religious beliefs. Personally, I'm something like a Secular Humanist (though that's not exactly right. I believe in a God, but it certainly isn't the Judeo-Christian one.) but I understand what you are saying about being created in God's image. Who's to say that meant we were built in God's physical image? In fact, by virtue of our corporeal existance and especially our varied genetic features, how is it possible to have been created in God's physical image? I was under the impression most modern-day religions inherently believed that God was a non-corporeal entity. That being said, maybe humans were created in God's moral or mental image. If that was the case, meeting another sentient species might have no other effect on the religious stances of some other than to strengthen it. (Though I wouldn't believe this to be the case.)
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