[JurijD]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I am sorry, I do not believe that we evolved from apes and monkies nor do I believe that we were "POOOOF" created.

You´re right... humans (Homo Sapiens) didn´t evolve from apes and monkeys but from lower primates. Apes and monkeys have a totally different evolutional branch than modern humans.

But since I get the distinct feeling that you really wanted to say that humans didn´t evolve from lower hominids in the way generally accepted by modern science:


Australopithecus Afarensis --> Australopithecus Africanus --> Homo Habilis --> Homo Ergaster --> (Homo Erectus) --> Homo Heidelbergensis --> Homo Sapiens


but rather came about by some other way... (not by a pooof as you say)... I have to urge you to reconsider because human origins are a most accurately researched field of peleoantrophology and a more recent proof of its correctness is that evolutionary trees drawn up by examining bone reamins and anatomical similarities are in complete agreement with the trees drawn by mDNA analysis and genome compression analysis. It is very very rare that two totally different methods give so very similar results; in affect confirming one another. So the human evolution tree is here to stay. We don´t need any aliens or gods to complete the picture, in reality there is no such thing as a "missing link" so often popularized by the media... we have all the important "links" already, now we just add a few "nodes" to the tree every now and then. but the general structure will only get more detailed and won´t change in any radical way.

P.S.: And for those who think humans are the pinnacle of evolution I have to add that about 1 million years ago there were about 3 different fully developoed humanoid races living on this planet. For the evolutionary line is not a linear thing as I drawn it up there but has many other branches and "tree tops" other than our own. More importantly not one of these other hominid species was better developed than the other, we just got lucky that our ancestors were able to drive the other two off their teritories and push them into extiction.


My Conclusion:
So if you consider our ancestors intelligent (some 1M year ago) than the other two races were also intelligent. So we don´t really have to look out there for signs of alien intelligence, we have a perfect example than it can (and did) happen more than once here on Earth and so I´m pretty sure it also happened somewhere else.


[ August 09, 2003, 13:46: Message edited by: JurijD ]