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Originally posted by itsthetooth
reply to post by Varemia
If your asking for my input on that, I think it might not be creation or evolution. This episode I watched on tv said that planets were bing formed from gasses and there is life on the planets just like that. It's also possible a creator of sorts is causing all this. It's also possible the whole package is evolution. So I'm stuck believing in Trevor.
Well I think the planet is friendlier to most other life by comparison to humans. Next time you have a chance take a quick inventory of the medicine isle. Realize just how much we have had to adapt. By comparison primates and other life, have very limited selection of these in natural form. Why would we venture away from a more healthier lifestyle, healthier diet and living conditions.
Remember that 97% of all species that have existed are extinct. The planet is not friendly to the things living on it. We are no exception. The fact that we share traits with every single organism on the planet and have a small number of differences compared with many (I mean, we can even use mice to test medicine, because their organs are almost exactly the same as ours), it just doesn't suggest alien at all. It's completely natural to be rejected by your environment. Environments change over time. So far, humans have been by far the most successful species on the planet, because we have propagated all over the planet with numbers over 7 billion.
Well if aliens do exist at all, then we are also alien. If we were placed here, then we are alien to this planet as well. Every living creature has ties to this planet. We don't have any eco ties thats for sure.
Nothing about this says alien to me. Sure, we may have experienced alien contact at some point, but I don't feel that we are alien. Even being mixed with alien doesn't make sense. We have far too many similarities with this planet's organisms. If we were alien, everyone would have somewhere in the realm of 50% unidentifiable traits or DNA.
Take a look at how cars have evolved. We started with 4 tires and still to this day have 4 tires. Yet they have evolved over the course of years, from basic to luxery. Two doors, four doors, tinted windows, heated seats, sunroof. They have evolved, but they were actually a creation by us. Now would you say that a Malibu is related to an Impala? Yes, and no and yes. They are both cars, but they are different models, but they are both also made by chevy.
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by itsthetooth
Remember that 97% of all species that have existed are extinct. The planet is not friendly to the things living on it. We are no exception. The fact that we share traits with every single organism on the planet and have a small number of differences compared with many (I mean, we can even use mice to test medicine, because their organs are almost exactly the same as ours), it just doesn't suggest alien at all. It's completely natural to be rejected by your environment. Environments change over time. So far, humans have been by far the most successful species on the planet, because we have propagated all over the planet with numbers over 7 billion.
Nothing about this says alien to me. Sure, we may have experienced alien contact at some point, but I don't feel that we are alien. Even being mixed with alien doesn't make sense. We have far too many similarities with this planet's organisms. If we were alien, everyone would have somewhere in the realm of 50% unidentifiable traits or DNA.
Well I know cars don't evolve on there own, it was just an example.
Yes I can prove evolution wrong, and quite simply too,
Originally posted by Barcs
reply to post by DorkLard
Yes I can prove evolution wrong, and quite simply too,
Not a single thing you said proves evolution wrong or even comes close to it.
Well I think they are omitting the true age because they are scared at what they have found. You see the 200,000 claim is just a common ancestor and a missconfusion that they named her Eve. It gave people the false impression she was the first mother. When in fact she was just a common ancestor. Our lineage goes back further but they aren't letting us know how much.
Well said! We evolved to adapt to Earth's resources, just as other organisms did. If an alien came down to visit, we couldn't even buy him a drink--it would probably kill him, because he didn't evolve to tolerate Earth's minerals and compounds.
I'm not sure we're the most "successful" species, though. We've only been around in our current form for about 200,000 years. Bacteria, on the other hand, have been here since the beginning, and they'll be here when the sun dies. We probably won't be. I guess it depends on how you define "successful."
I used the argument because I thought it would make clear the difference in how we are both looking at this. I'm sorry but I will never be able to see eye to eye with the idea of us being one giant mistake. I think it goes back to a tornado piecing back together an airplane in a junkyard. It's just not possible.
Then why use the argument? It was a terrible example and not relevant to the argument in the least. Evolution is driven by genetic mutations, not a machine changing because of humans upgrading technology.
Originally posted by DorkLard
There is no monkey in my DNA, not one drop thats a fact, the theory of evolution is as it is a theory.
If it is a fact I clearly stated that, if it was what I believe then I think you will find I stated that too
History has taught us what I believe, both Hernando Cortez and Christopher Columbus were treated as Gods by a lesser advanced civilisation, as for a universal consciousness aka a Noosphere, then that is just simple Quantum Physics
edit on 29-11-2011 by DorkLard because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by itsthetooth
That's the fault of the article for sensationalizing a simple analyzation that the mitochondria last changed about 200,000 years ago. There is nothing more significant about it than that, and I don't see why you seem to think there's some kind of conspiracy about hiding the human genesis. We evolved over time. We have proof.