Our Origin

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.

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.

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.

Haven't we, to a certain degree, seen atoms though? You sure it's a theory?

Originally posted by mikeeegeee@Nov 10 2004, 02:51 AM
Haven't we, to a certain degree, seen atoms though?

yes. We have also seen the earth rotate the sun.

Still is catogorized as a "theory"

A theory is a way to explain things. As long as its not disproved, it stands.

To be catogroized as a theory and not a hypothesis, it has to be proved by mulitle sources and not disproved. all these "theorys" stand and are accepted as fact.

Little bit of sidetracking here: The other day when Cow said he was in seventh grade and you said you were in 8th... I didn't and don't beleive you. You were probably joking and I completely missed it anyway

Originally posted by mikeeegeee@Nov 10 2004, 03:00 AM
Little bit of sidetracking here: The other day when Cow said he was in seventh grade and you said you were in 8th... I didn't and don't beleive you. You were probably joking and I completely missed it anyway

hmm? i never said anything of the sort. You misread it. I called BIOS an 8th grader lol.

But yes.. I am sure it is still catogorized as a theory.
another "theory"- Continental Drift and the existance of moving plates? yup.. "just a theory"

A scientific theory isn't like a normal theory in normal speech. A scientific theory is accepted as fact because it has been proved to an extent and has never been proved wrong.

(found teh 8th grade post, cow says hes in 7th grade.. BIOS says " pfffttt this is terrible......cow! get lost its past your bed time anyway... " and then I quote BIOS and say.. " Yeh Cow.. Bow down to the 8th grader. " by 8th grader I meant BIOS..I'm not aruging with cow.. BIOS is arguing with cow. BIOS trys to assert supremacy over cow.. I personally couldn't give a teahat, I decide to flame BIOS in taht little bit lol. )
sorry if that was a little unclear..I'm a decent bit past the 8th grade lol.