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Originally posted by mikeeegeee@Nov 10 2004, 02:36 AM
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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I like how you captitalized theory.. Yes.. its a theory.. like so many other things "theory of relitivity" "atomic Theory". In science, a theory is an idea that has been tested and has never been disproved. It is open to changed. But it seems to be mostly correct and is accepted as fact in most of science. Pick up a copy of November 2004's National Geographic. i don't usally read it. But its headline was "was darwin wrong" and so i picked it up. Worth a read.
the idea that the earth orbits the sun. Is "just" a theory.
The existance of atoms? a "theory"
Electricty: a theoretical construct involving electrons. Yup, "nothing but a theory"
All of these have been proved to at least some degree. And never disproved.
A theory isn't dreamy specualtion. Its an explanitory statement that fits the evidence.
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