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Logistics The logical argument for the possibility of an advanced civilization prior to our recorded history, is amazingly similar to the argument for the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial life. Just looking at the numbers, one really cannot deny that it's not only possible, but very likely. Homo Sapiens Sapiens... not just the general species but the exact form in which we modern humans exist now... reportedly first appeared between 100,000 to perhaps 150,000 years ago. This we have determined by the finding of skulls to match our own, and we've carbon-dated them to that time period. The same 'intellectual community' which staunchly defends this information, also claims that in that great expanse of time, it is only in the last few thousand years that we've made any significant progress beyond some form of animal-ape behavior. How can a thinking person accept this? From the evident appearance of the first physically modern humans: It took us about 70,000 years to start painting and scratching on rocks. It took us almost 90,000 years just to learn that we could save some seeds and plant them. Then after another 1000 years, we found we could make pottery out of dirt with the help of sun or fire. We took another 1000 years to learn to work fibers into clothing, yet another 1000 after that for working metals. A couple more millenia later, we finally got around to making boats, as if we'd never seen wood float before? Then sometime in there, we learned to actually talk to each other in words and even record some of what we said, albeit crudely. So, we were hunter/gatherers for about 90,000 years, then we spent the next several thousand years just learning a few tricks of extremely basic production, communication, and transportation.... But now, we can genetically modify food, we manufacture most of what we use, we have instantaneous and global forms of communication, as well as transportation which sometimes exceeds the speed of sound, lifting us off the Earth, maybe even to another planet.... all developed miraculously within the last 50-100 years! What is wrong with this picture? I know there's a factor of accumulated knowledge, each thing building on the last. I know it's likely a geometric progression, accelerating the rate as we went along. But really... 90,000 years of nothing more than eating stray leaves until we start planting crops, and THEN only 100 years from farming to a highly technological society exploring beyond the planet? What can explain this seeming gargantuan discrepancy? Here are some possibilities: ~ The intellectual community lacks common sense. ~ What remains does not necessarily indicate all that once was. ~ Carbon-dating is wrong, exponentially. ~ We have indeed had a lot of help from ETs or someone since the 1940's at least. ~ We have been here before and we just have a very slow memory, but once it kicks in, it zooms. Honestly, all of the above may be true, in some mixture. Evolutionists cannot explain why no other species has given signs of developing the way Homo Sapiens have. Funny that nearly all other species stopped evolving, for the most part, while we jumped to the head of the class, recently, for no particular reason or by any discernible impetus. What Creationists have not explained is too long to list, but includes any possible justification for an all-powerful, everpresent deity making a whole universe then setting aside only one small rock for cultivation. Oh, and where did all the bones come from which are physical evidence of living creatures which the Bible completely ignores? Not to mention the whole of the world the Bible ignores outside of the Middle East and part of the Mediterranean. Although in fairness, other ancient and religious writings are similarly narrow in scope, tied to specific geography and cultures. There must be more to this picture than most will admit. There are surely either serious mistakes in our timeline calculations, or naive assumptions and interpretations of what we find, OR, an even greater travesty, repeatedly allowing fear, arrogance, and narrowmindedness to blind us to our full history. Just what are we really afraid of? It is absolutely ludicrous to assume that we are the only sign of intelligent life in an infinite universe. It is equally ludicrous to assume that if we have been here for 100,000 or so years, we've only been remotely intelligent for the last 10,000 and only really more than shepherds and farmers for about 100 years. These numbers do not add up. They are crushed by statistical probability. It is extremely likely that "We are not alone." It is also likely that our civilization here and now, is only one loop in a much larger cycle of civilizations on this planet. That is, if we have truly been here in this form for over 100,000 years. So the question is, what happened before this current cycle? Next in Sequence Select From Menu |
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