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quote: why the other primates apparently quit evolving. quote: but why haven’t monkeys evolved? I'm no expert in any of this, but if I had to guess I'd chalk it up to each genus evolving at different rates and adapting to different environments. At some point in time, I assume our species was forced to abandon their physical attributes and adapt to use our brains in order to survive, while other species didn't need to.

Conversely, if you subscribe to an evolution view, why is homo sapiens the only species to evolve such advanced intellectual, rational, creative and abstract thought capabilities, considering their relatively brief and insignificant existence on earth? On the grand time scale, homo sapiens has existed for only a flash of time, the equivalent of a spark of static electricity

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Posted by theunknownknight

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Posted on 10/10/20 at 9:01 am to bizeagle

Let’s assume the universe has a 14.6 billion year shelf life (debatable, but let’s assume it)

Let’s also assume that WE survive for 2 million more years and create advanced bio-tech, advanced interstellar propulsion, inter-dimensional tech etc.

Using this tech, we as a species survive all over the universe for 14.6 billion years.

Then at the end of the 14.6 billion years, we send ourselves back 7 billion years and live in the past for 7.6 billion years until the end - repeating the cycle over and over

This leads to two crazy conclusions
1. The age of humanity is actually infinite and we haven’t realized it yet as a seed planet
2. Every single alien civilization that exists in the universe is actually us - scattered throughout as a result of these loops

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Posted by aTmTexas Dillo

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Posted on 10/10/20 at 9:10 am to bizeagle

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Conversely, if you subscribe to an evolution view, why is homo sapiens the only species to evolve such advanced intellectual, rational, creative and abstract thought capabilities, considering their relatively brief and insignificant existence on earth? On the grand time scale, homo sapiens has existed for only a flash of time, the equivalent of a spark of static electricity

The problem with these types of discussions is the intermixing of or trying to resolve the differences in religious and scientific beliefs. I'm a geologist and I love thinking about how life evolved on earth. And it's a long spectacular history. Religions take a different view and I understand that. Indeed man and reasoning man has been in the mix for a very, very short time. Now if we then project this history to an advanced other planet intelligent life why could they exist at his advanced level for many, many millions of years? So the whole aspect of our knowledge of evolution superimposed on long lived alien civilizations is well, alien to what has happened on earth. There are so many occurrences out there that can destroy life. There have been so many mass extinctions on planet earth.

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