My old (Presbyterian) pastor died in January 1992, although I left his church in September 1991 as I got married and moved away.
But we often talked in his office. At one point he said "I think God intends to drive us off the planet, and out into the universe". He added "I think we'll learn to teleport".
A few years after our discussion the first successful quantum teleportation experiments occurred.
The first successful quantum teleportation experiments occurred in 1997-1998, with groups led by Anton Zeilinger (Innsbruck, Austria) and Francesco De Martini (Rome, Italy) achieving the transmission of a photon's quantum state, demonstrating the principle using entangled particles, with Zeilinger's group publishing first in Nature in late 1997, followed closely by the Rome team in Physical Review Letters in 1998, paving the way for future quantum communication advancements.
I realise we're a long way from teleporting material objects, and the far more difficult issue of living beings with non-material souls, but I think we'll get there eventually.
Back in 1926 Dr. Robert Goddard's rockets flew about 41 feet (telegraph pole height). In 1941 they flew about 9000 feet. Three years later, using his research in part, German V2's flew about 330 to 350 kms to bombard London.
In 1957 Spunik circled the earth; in 1969 NASA landed men on the moon; and in 2012 and 2018 Voyagers 1 & 2 exited the solar system.
It took 86 years for rocketry to progress from telegraph pole height to the edge of the solar system.
Now we have AI, robotics, self driving cars, aircraft which largely fly themselves, limited quantum computation, and a global internet village.
We also have significant environmental stresses and global warming; nuclear weapons by the thousand; unsettled foreign affairs and a Russian leader who has (for political gain) threatened to use nuclear weaponry; North Korea is a rogue nuclear agent and increasing its missile base; China is challenging the US for economic and military supremacy; Israel is believed to have nuclear weaponry while surrounded by essentially hostile states; and India and Pakistan now have about 170 warheads each, with Pakistan becoming more fundamentalist with every passing year
It's obvious God is allowing us to develop the technology, despite our inherent political stupidity.
But why would anyone want to go on very dangerous journeys in an extremely hostile environment?
I think He will allow us to wreck the planet ourselves with environmental overload and possibly nuclear war. We may have to live underground to survive in a world where "the sun burnt men's skin with its rays". He may add to the mix by "doing something to the sun" which was another scenario posed by the pastor.
Revelation 16:8 "Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. 9And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues."
I hope I'm wrong of course, but the ways things are going I'm not hopeful.
To answer the OP's question, I think God intends to drive us off the planet.
As for not being in the Bible, neither are computers, heavier than air flight, most of the world's current nations, the UN, the internet, nuclear weapons. supersonic flight, MRI's, or quantum teleportation, but they all exist.
As for God being a softie and He wouldn't do such a thing, it doesn't matter if we're creationists or old earthers, He's already allowed either the "Flood" or successive waves of natural catastrophes to destroy 99% of all species that have been on earth at some time.
He allowed the Black Death to destory millions of lives and didn't seem to do anything to stop it.
I have a problem sometimes with our Christian mantra of "God is Love". Even the old pastor said to me once "Sometimes I wonder if it's true. He seems to write people off pretty easily".
So I'm a bit of a cynic. I also think God INTENDS to drive us off the planet.
