The origins of men - is there evidence to suggest alien intervention affecting man's evolution?
As shown throughout this research thread, there are numerous things taken into consideration when looking at the Ancient Astronaut Theory, such as our
next topic; Did alien intervention affect man's evolution? This has been talked about throughout the Ancient Alien series and in numerous books,
websites and blogs. Furthermore, I’d like everyone to keep in mind what was stated in the opening post:
Originally posted by Rising Against
Now, AAT is a somewhat difficult topic to assess at times - difficult in the sense that absolute solid, hardcore facts can sometimes be hard to come
by. At times speculation and wild theories instead taking "center stage."
Here, I will briefly discuss human evolution, whether or not it could’ve been influenced by AA’s, and how it may have been done.
“Stretch your arms to their fullest extent and imagine that width as the entire history of Earth. All of complex life is in one
hand, and in a single stroke with a nail file you could eradicate human history.” - From “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill
Bryson
Our species is an amazing thing. Look around you and observe what we are capable of, whether it is good or bad. Additionally, in the grand scheme of
things we’ve done it in a tiny fraction of time as compared to the 4.5 billion year history of our planet.
- 4.5 billion year old Earth
- 2.5 million years since the appearance of the genus Homo
- 200,000 years since humans started looking like they do today
- 25,000 years since Neanderthals died out
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Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering,
“designer babies”, Gene Therapy,
DNA microarrays and cloning...Up until recent human history, this stuff was the work of science
fiction. The possibilities (along with debate as to its ethics) are endless.
We can, and
have cured diseases which can be fatal via
Gene Therapy. We can create organs ready for transplant from scratch, with no worries about
rejection. It is possible to even add
and remove DNA.
Imagine what we could do in the near future.
Or what could’ve happened in our past.
Tales from various sources suggest that the gods possessed an advanced knowledge of biology many millennia ago:
- The Egyptian god Thoth helped Isis, the wife of Osiris, to extract from the dismembered Osiris the semen with which Isis was impregnated to bear
Horus.
- “The Telleriano-Remensis and Florentine codices declare that Quetzalcoatl, as great artificer, ‘formed’ and ‘molded’ the first human
beings in his image, and that only he - and no other god - ‘had a human body’.” (Baldwin, 1998).
- “Before I (the Lord) formed you (Jeremiah) in the belly I knew you; and before you came out of the womb I set you apart…” (Green, Jay, 1986,
Jeremiah 1:5).
- “…‘though it is said that in truth Zeus, King of the Gods, whom you call Amen-Ra, was her father’. Seti nodded when he heard this and
murmured, ‘Even as Amen-Ra was the father of Hatshepsut. Yes, the gods can indeed be the fathers of the spirits that dwell in the bodies of kings
and queens’.” (Green, Roger, 1967).
- In the tale of the birth of Samson, Manoah’s wife, who was barren, was visited by “the Angel of Jehovah” who said,
“Behold now you are barren and have not borne. But you shall conceive and bear a son…(who shall be)…a Nazirite to God from the womb” (Green,
Jay, 1986, Judges 13:2-14) (Nazirite: Endowed with special psychic or physical qualities to be used in God’s service).
- “The god Citlaltonac sent an ambassador to see the virgin Chimalma…The god told her that she was to conceive a son, which she did soon
after…” (Fernandez, 1982).
- Concerning the birth of the Toltec god Huitzilopochtli: “…a woman called Coatlicue, who was charged with keeping clean a temple on the Cerro de
Coatepec, near Tula, was sweeping the building when she saw a beautiful ball of feathers drop from the sky, and put it away in her bosom. When she had
finished her work, and tried to find the feather ball, it was no longer there, it had disappeared. At that same moment she became pregnant, although
she had been a widow for many years.” (Demetrio, 1983).
- In his discussion of the Sumerian story of the creation of The Adam (" the earthling") from Mesopotamian texts (clay tablets), Zecharia Sitchin
(1985) writes,
“…to achieve the feat Enki suggested that a ‘being that already exists’, Ape woman, be used to create the Lulu Amelu (‘the mixed worker’)
by ‘binding’ upon the less evolved beings ‘the mold of the gods’. The goddess Sud purified the ‘essence’ of a young male Anunnaki; she
mixed it into the egg of an Ape woman. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the womb of a female Anunnaki, for the required period of pregnancy.
When the ‘mixed creature’ was born, Sud lifted him up and shouted: ‘I have created! My hands have made it!’”
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One must not discount such stories as fantasy or miracles any longer, as there are scientific techniques available to us today that can make the
aforementioned stories reality.
IVF: In-vitro fertilization. Sperm and egg of the same species is fused in-vitro. The embryo is implanted in the uterus. A common method of treating
infertility since the 1978 British ‘test tube baby’.
CSCT: Cross-species cell transfer (or nuclear transfer). An in-vitro fertilization in which a somatic (e.g. skin) ‘donor’ cell is fused in vitro
with the ‘host’ egg of a different but similar species (but of the same genus). The embryo is implanted in the uterus of the host.
CCSCT: Cloned cross-species cell transfer. Same as CSCT except the egg is de-nucleated, resulting in a clone of the donor animal (although a small
amount of DNA, in the mitochondria, always comes from the egg). This was the method employed by Advanced Cell Technology, Inc, to regenerate the
recently extinct Asian Gaur using an ordinary cow as host (which died shortly after - darn!).
RDNA: Recombinant DNA. Since, in most cases, DNA cannot be transferred directly from one organism to another, in this technique a desirable DNA
fragment, isolated from the animal ‘donor’ cell, is incorporated into the plasmid of a benign bacteria (the vector). The bacteria reproduces the
fragment as a part of it’s own DNA, and the hybrid bacteria cells are injected back into the animal. This is currently the method of human ‘gene
therapy’, but one would expect that the technique could also be used for cross-species cell transfer if the bacteria were benign to both species.
HESC: Human Embryonic Stem Cells. A human somatic cell is fused in vitro with a de-nucleated egg of a different species. “These differentiated cells
began to grow as an embryo and then reverted to become embryonic stem cells, which can grow into virtually any type of tissue for transplant use”
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“There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo
sapiens.” - Desmond Morris
Our evolution has been a fascinating thing. Over the last seven million years we have evolved from our common ancestor at such a slow rate, branching
off numerous times. Our most recent stage shows something astounding, an amazingly large increase in brain size.
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What happened to justify this dramatic increase?
Natural Evolution?
"The sixth day" when man was created in God’s image? If not God, who’s religion is correct?
Or did an outside source drop us off here? Perhaps mated with our ancestors? Or better yet, play with our genetics?
Human Accelerated Regions
At this point, I’d like us to take a look at something called Human accelerated regions, which were first described in 2006. This is a part of the
human genome consisting of 49 segments, and contains genes that have been consistent throughout vertebrate evolution yet have undergone remarkable
changes in humans. What’s more, this used to be located in what was considered “junk” DNA.
Found by scanning through genomic databases of multiple species, some of these highly mutated areas are thought to have contributed to the
development of human neuroanatomy, language, and complex thought.
Source. Bold and Underline added by me for emphasis.
As stated, there are 49 Human Accelerated Regions, but I would like to focus on just one of them; Human Accelerated Regions 1.
It turns out that until humans came along, HAR1 evolved extremely slowly.
The fact that HAR1 was essentially frozen in time through hundreds of millions of years indicates that it does something very important; that it then
underwent abrupt revision in humans suggests that this function was significantly modified in our lineage.
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Some more insight to HAR-1
Somehow, that little patch of DNA expresses an essential difference between humans and other mammals. We know two other significant facts about
HAR1. First, it does not code for a protein but codes for RNA. Second, the RNA for which it codes is active in the cortex of the human embryonic brain
during the second trimester of pregnancy. It is likely that the rapid evolution of HAR1 has something to do with the rapid evolution of the human
brain during the last six million years. I am optimistic because I see the discovery of HAR1 as a seminal event in the history of science, marking the
beginning of a new understanding of human evolution and human nature.
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Now, with the discoveries of these Human Accelerated Regions along with the aforementioned diagram showing the exponentially large jump in brain
size, it could be safe to assume that somehow, something got activated, played with, or altered within our genetic makeup, which in turn made us,
well…us. So again I must ask:
Natural Evolution?
"The sixth day" when man was created in God’s image? If not God, who’s religion is correct?
Or did an outside source drop us off here? Perhaps mated with our ancestors? Or better yet, play with our genetics?
Are all of these possible? Sure, I suppose that they are. Millions of people think it’s religion…Millions believe its evolution…and some
proponents of the AA theory believe it’s extraterrestrials. Is it or was it possible?
I’d like to think it is, or was.
Thank you for reading,
Juston
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