I don't want this to turn into a religious debate, I'm just wondering because I heard a new theory today which made me vote other. I had kind of heard this before but not as defined as this: Maybe humanity is millions of years older than we give ourselves credit for. I forget the estimated age of human kind, but I do know that the earth is at least several billion years old. The theory I heard consists of humanity having lived on other habitable planets (perhaps even in our own solar system long long ago when they were habitable) for a very long time. There, civilization advanced to a degree we ourselves have not yet seen. It was at least advanced enough for space travel, which is why there are any people on Earth today. After a massive war of some sort, or a massive natural disaster (on a galactic level) that involved this super technologically advanced sort of humans, nearly all of humanity died. Some survivors were on earth but reduced to nearly nothing, beginning humanity as we know it. They probably didn't pass on the past too well through oral tradition because they would have been used to storing everything on computers or something. Also they wouldn't have built many complex things because machines probably did most of it for them.

I'm not saying I beleive that, I'm saying it's just as believable as any other idea.

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