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originally posted by: olbe66
a reply to: Telos
Your thesis is silly. The simple explanation is that humans had 4 billion years to evolve. "Seeding" is needlessly complex - aliens driving around the universe, using DNA to make it look like we evolved, etc. Use the principle of simplicity and see that it is easy to explain humans through natural selection.
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: nOraKat
How about if DNA is universal so all life shares a percentage of DNA.
Perhaps if alien DNA is tested it would be 99% the same as human DNA, the truth is that there is a lot of speculation about extraterrestrial ancestry even though no one on the site has any conclusive proof of DNA on a universal scale.
originally posted by: olbe66
a reply to: Telos
Your thesis is silly. The simple explanation is that humans had 4 billion years to evolve. "Seeding" is needlessly complex - aliens driving around the universe, using DNA to make it look like we evolved, etc. Use the principle of simplicity and see that it is easy to explain humans through natural selection.
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: tanka418
Ahhhhh...sorry, but complex life on Earth has only been evolving for about 500 million years. Modern Humans for 250,000 years.
Those early modern humans were the product of four and a half billion years of evolution.
originally posted by: yuppa
More valid than ken ham?
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: tanka418
Google may be your friend. Subject knowledge is mine. There was life on Earth when the planet still had a reducing atmosphere. Indeed, it was life that generated all the free oxygen. Life is at least 3.5 billion years old on this planet, and is likely to have begun emerging quite soon after the place cooled down a bit.
originally posted by: tanka418
But, fundamentally; all life on Earth has DNA, there is absolutely no reason to think that isn't universal.
Further, without DNA, you will need to have an entirely different system...one that there is no evidence for...
while there is evidence that ET has DNA, not unlike Terrestrial Humans.
And, yes there is actually evidence, though, most choose t ignore that reality. Or gloss it over by lumping all such things into an Earth/Human base.
The reality is that if you had Extraterrestrial DNA, you probably wouldn't be able to recognize the fact.
originally posted by: AdmireTheDistance
You have that backwards. Assuming life exists elsewhere in the universe, there is absolutely no reason to believe that DNA is universal.
There is no such thing, so please refrain from passing off your hopeful beliefs as if they were true.
Again, there is no such thing. Please prove me wrong by providing said evidence.
No, the reality is that you seem to have problems separating your own fanciful beliefs from reality.
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: nOraKat
How about if DNA is universal so all life shares a percentage of DNA.
Perhaps if alien DNA is tested it would be 99% the same as human DNA, the truth is that there is a lot of speculation about extraterrestrial ancestry even though no one on the site has any conclusive proof of DNA on a universal scale.
Sometimes "conclusive proof" simply isn't forthcoming. I really don't think this should stop anyone from learning the truth and reality...especially when there is plenty of science, other evidence, and of course good ole logic.
Have you ever heard of Hermes? if not perhaps you should go and find his "Emerald Tablet"...it will give you a "leg-up" on all this...
But, fundamentally; all life on Earth has DNA, there is absolutely no reason to think that isn't universal. Further, without DNA, you will need to have an entirely different system...one that there is no evidence for...while there is evidence that ET has DNA, not unlike Terrestrial Humans. And, yes there is actually evidence, though, most choose t ignore that reality.
Or gloss it over by lumping all such things into an Earth/Human base.
The reality is that if you had Extraterrestrial DNA, you probably wouldn't be able to recognize the fact.
originally posted by: Telos
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
It would make sense from an evolutionary development point of view, such that there is only humanity on Earth capable of thinking abstractly and with anywhere near the ability of mind, which is in itself statistically improbable given all the similarities between all the other life on Earth and their far more limited capabilities.
Millions of years of basic land living to the technology we have in a few thousands of years suggests some extrememly non average developmental evolution.
Which also explains our "imperfections" compare to other creatures on earth. Chronic illness, low tolerance to the sun, 223 extra genes etc.
originally posted by: draknoir2
originally posted by: tanka418
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: nOraKat
How about if DNA is universal so all life shares a percentage of DNA.
Perhaps if alien DNA is tested it would be 99% the same as human DNA, the truth is that there is a lot of speculation about extraterrestrial ancestry even though no one on the site has any conclusive proof of DNA on a universal scale.
Sometimes "conclusive proof" simply isn't forthcoming. I really don't think this should stop anyone from learning the truth and reality...especially when there is plenty of science, other evidence, and of course good ole logic.
Have you ever heard of Hermes? if not perhaps you should go and find his "Emerald Tablet"...it will give you a "leg-up" on all this...
But, fundamentally; all life on Earth has DNA, there is absolutely no reason to think that isn't universal. Further, without DNA, you will need to have an entirely different system...one that there is no evidence for...while there is evidence that ET has DNA, not unlike Terrestrial Humans. And, yes there is actually evidence, though, most choose t ignore that reality.
Or gloss it over by lumping all such things into an Earth/Human base.
The reality is that if you had Extraterrestrial DNA, you probably wouldn't be able to recognize the fact.
The reality is that you still do not have extraterrestrial DNA, as your own disappointing tests proved, and no amount of special pleading [or alchemy] will make it so.
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
a reply to: draknoir2
The reality is that neither you nor anyone else unless specifically involved with ET DNA would know either way so speculating on it as ''fact'' is ludicrous.
originally posted by: MysterX
IOW, isn't it equally possible that during the remote, unrecorded past we were using genetic engineering to tinker with our species for various reasons?