Creation of Man (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, January 07, 2013, 23:59 (4339 days ago) @ BBella

I can't watch that particular video (because my boat bandwidth is terrible), but I am familiar with the series. They do make some good points, at times, but you are correct in pointing out that some of their stuff is a stretch. In the end, to me the problem I have with it boils down to one thing: the show presupposes that ancient civilizations could not have possessed high technology without alien intervention. I think a much more plausible explanation is simply that there have been highly advanced human civilizations in the past that achieved that level of tech on their own. After all, if humanity has been around for a few million years, and we have achieved our current level of tech in only a few thousand, who's to say it didn't happen before. It would only take a few centuries for all evidence of our existence except for special cases to be completely eradicated. -Put another way, according to science humanity had from 12:00:01am to 11:59:59pm to get to about the age where fully formed civilizations sprang up around the globe at roughly the same time between 6-8k years ago. The time since then, that 1 second, is how long it took us to get from there to where we are today. However, according to science, the first 23:59:59 hrs of humans were complete retards that didn't know their butt from a hole in the dirt.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.