Post by ProVeritas on Jul 25, 2024 10:51:11 GMT
All this Ancient Alien bullshit, and it is UUTER BULLSHIT, is a new-age way of saying "God did it".
There's no real science behind it.
There's no tangible proof.
The odds of natural selection being the driving for4ce behind evolution is orders of magnitude higher than "Aliens did it".
If Aliens caused evolution to kick off on Earth who or what caused those Aliens to evolve?
Let's call the Aliens who, according to some nutjobs, created life on Earth the "Progenitor Alien - 0" or PA-0.
Who or what caused PA-0 to come into being?
Was it another precursor Alien, PA-1?
Then who caused PA-1?
Was it PA-2?
How far back does this go?
This is a REALLY IMPORTANT question.
Why?
Because there is not enough energy in the universe to traverse an infinity.
What that means is there can not be an infinite chain of cause and effect leading to now; because there would then not be enough energy in the universe to ever get to now.
To solve this paradox theologians came up with God as an "Uncaused Cause"
For curtain-clutching nutjobs it is Ancient Aliens.
But that is not a solution, because then we have to ask what caused God / Ancient Aliens?
Well, they are Uncaused Causes, they don't need a cause.
But in positing an Uncaused Cause you remove the need for either God or Ancient Aliens, because we've just accepted in principle the existence of an Uncaused Cause.
Why does it have to be God or Ancient Aliens?
Why can't it be Evolution.
I suspect that when we are advanced enough to really understand things it will become clear that Evolution is the primary driving force of the entire Universe.
Not just living organisms but matter, stars, planets etc.
Because ultimately Evolution is a complex interaction of Physics and Chemistry as affected by Environmental Factors.
Environmental Factors that are themselves complex interactions of Physics and Chemistry as affected by Environmental Factors.
The real issue here is that because the Theory Of Evolution is not perfect some people think is must therefore be wrong.
They then look for other driving forces.
Not one of which perfectly describes the universe we see either.
So it is really a matter of looking at each theory and seeing which is so flawed as to be discountable.
There is not one single shred of evidence for God.
Ancient Aliens is not a solution at all all, it just creates all the same problems of the Theory Of Evolution, but via a wholly unnecessary level of proxy.
All The Best
I think the eye is not the issue.
The issue for me has always been the Gill to Lung transition.
I have never been able to wrap my head around how that can possibly have happened gradually over many generations.
Don't get me wrong, there are IMO still huge problems with the Theory of Evolution.
None of which are even remotely solved by saying God / Aliens did it.
All The Best