Would God create such a huge universe and not fill it with intelligent species? Actually, God has clearly revealed in His Word why not, and the purpose of the vastness of the cosmos.
According to history recorded in the Bible everyone who has ever lived comes from
Adam and Eve. At Babel, after Noah’s flood, God created several language groups
from a single language group, resulting in the dispersion of these groups all over
the world. This raises questions such as: how did different skin colours originate?
What about all the fossil evidence for ‘races’ coming from ‘ape-men’?