Ancient Aliens: Extraterrestrial Interference Alters Evolution

Knight

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I think this as a discussion/video is misleading.

https://news.yahoo.com/ancient-aliens-extraterrestrial-interference-alters-210205100.html

The video and discussion is about DNA & the POSSIBILITY of how mankind evolved. But given what is known about the variety of DNA & evolution of mankind it's something to ponder.


The 1st. of this same wording in 26 references

New International Version
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image.

at this web site.
https://biblehub.com/genesis/1-26.htm
 

While it is plausible that life's biological components came from space debris, I ain't buying Zorgoff 3, and Cruzniak 4A, from the planet Exmufanion, of the Degoba System had anything to do with it.
 

A lot of titles of many things from such videos to supposed 'news' articles are 'misleading' these days. With the word 'interference' being the most disputable one in this title. It implies conscious intervention. But then perhaps they feared too many of us would object to the word 'contamination' which is probably closer to accurate description of what they think happened.

And that 'Ancient Aliens' series? i was embarrassed for History Channel's shameless attempt to draw more viewers by giving proponents of the idea--especially the ones who want discredit and dismiss the ingenuity of various early hominids by crediting 'aliens' with every advancement made by humankind that much screen time. And i am someone who accepts the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations that may many times older than own.

Some scientists think Lifeforms first used RNA, which they've now been able to synthesize demonstrating that the RNA could have formed spontaneously from chemicals present on prelifeforms earth, to encode the 'building blocks' of life-forms, then DNA. So far they haven't proven that DNA may also have come into being similarly because RNA has been getting the attention (there are 'trends' in research science). For more detail on that see:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528795-500-dna-could-have-existed-long-before-life-itself/

What people who make much of the notion of 'alien interference' ignore is that if it occurred, whether purposely or accidentally, it clearly was not confined to hominid lifeforms as we share some DNA 'codes'? 'structures'? with virtually all other lifeforms on the planet. You might remember a few years back there were headlines making out that the Octopus Genome was 'alien'. It is not, tho it apparently has a number of unique genes that surprised those looking at their DNA. Just looked at an article i thought would give a quick overview of that. But apparently the author was more interested in saying 'gotcha' to evolutionary scientists than getting to the point.

While it is true when they say 'de novo' of a gene (i.e. it is new) they are saying they don't know the origin of gene (yet), that particular author worded it in such as way that clearly they wanted to make the scientists' willingness to acknowledge what they don't know into a 'bad' thing instead of an admission that they don't know yet. And i did find an article, for anyone interested that explains why the Octopus is apparently genetically the most unique lifeform on our planet.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/untangling-octopus-genome

Sorry fell down the research rabbit hole. The main things i wanted to say were:
1) While i dislike this trend to misleading titles, i'm not even surprised by it anymore and often take a quick look at a video or article just to see how much they strayed from verifiable facts.
2) The Bible reference seems out of place without a statement of why you think it relevant. (Tho it calls to mind several SciFi stories i read in my youth that played with such references, in some cases with terrestrial explorers becoming the 'Gods' in alien races' eyes, because as Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
 
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Earth is over 4 billion years old. There's no way of knowing everything that has happened over that length of time. They can make guesses by things that are dug up or written on a cave wall, but we don't know what hasn't been discovered yet.

There could have been many civilizations far more advanced then we are. There could have been long spaces of time where there was just nature. We can imagine and speculate. Just as the universe is never ending, and we have no idea what or who is out there beyond our reach, we have no idea what or who was in our past. 4 billion years can bury a lot of evidence so far down it will never be found.
 
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@feywon The bible reference was only to point out that the discussion was about several images of evolving mankind & the bible reference was about made in OUR image which means to me that as images go there could be more than one.

Great post by you I enjoyed your input.
 
And that 'Ancient Aliens' series? i was embarrassed for History Channel's shameless attempt to draw more viewers by giving proponents of the idea--especially the ones who want discredit and dismiss the ingenuity of various early hominids by crediting 'aliens' with every advancement made by humankind that much screen time. And i am someone who accepts the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations that may many times older than own.
I don't know how those so called " experts" on that inane "Ancient Alien" series , kept a straight face, when they dribbled on about space aliens building the Pyramids, etc.
The problem with space aliens instigating life on earth is how did life get started on their home planet, and if it arose on their home planet without space alien intervention, then why couldn't that also happen on earth?
 

Ancient Aliens: Extraterrestrial Interference Alters Evolution.


"You Earthlings make me laugh, us Venusians have been here on your planet for centuries, I've been living in this silly sod, Tim's, carcase for over 80 years. Human farting is the only thing that upsets us." :giggle:
 


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