Genome complexity: mechanism stopped evolving (Introduction)

by BBella , Thursday, May 12, 2016, 22:38 (3117 days ago) @ dhw
edited by BBella, Thursday, May 12, 2016, 22:45

Thank you, BBella. My alternative proposal is the reverse of David's: that the beginning was unconscious energy from which eventually, through matter, consciousness emerged, thus leaving a mixture of the conscious and unconscious. But I do not offer it as a belief. I am an agnostic, and have as much difficulty believing consciousness can appear de novo as I do believing that it can simply have always existed without a source.-Yes, dhw, I understand your take on it, it's Davids I am trying to understand.- 
> BBELLA: So if the first God, then his angels, then his son werent humans and doesnt sound like an all powerful creator God - what were they? The plot thickens: In walks the alien that fits neatly and perfectly into this scenario. What if I am right? Have you ever asked yourselves that?
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> Aliens as gods offer us an additional approach but not an alternative solution to the problem of origins. As we have said many times before, in the grand scheme of things the idea only take us one stage further back: how did these superpower aliens come into existence? -I agree. The acknowledgement of the possibility of Aliens (or a much, much older race than our own) does not solve our questions of origin or existence - this is humanities mystery - but may not be theirs. They may know exactly the origin of their and our existence entirely. But give us a few more thousand or hundred years, if not even sooner and we will very likely have the answers as well. ->But that does not mean the hypothesis should not be taken seriously. I think both you and Tony have offered us possible evidence of earlier civilisations, visits from outer space, strange experiences, and there are plenty more examples one can google.…We could even be the descendants of aliens who fled their own planet and settled here. The universe and Earth are so shrouded in mystery, and all proposed solutions are so riddled with uncertainties, that it takes a great deal of faith to choose one and dismiss the rest.-I completely agree! And admit, I do have favorites. But still remaining open for that perfect ONE that embraces all mysteries, leaving none out.