Quote from: Solar on August 26, 2014, 04:56:47 PM
Everything I read about this says it has human DNA, so what? Could aliens have seeded our planet, would that make make it's DNA match that of an alien?

I'll wait for the final outcome, but I'll bet you money, they'll wind up with more questions than answers and still not know anymore than they do now.

Of course I can't watch the video, dammit!

So I am not the only one who has "issues" when trying to watch You'llwanttotubeit!? Wow! Miserly here loves company.

That said, I don't buy the whole "aliens" seeded humanity. Too many things that had to be "just right" for life to be here at all.

But, could it be some sort of mutation, yep. Absolutely. Just like the "hobbit" found in Indonesia recently.

I personally discount the whole notion of finding one skeleton, or one skull and voila! An entirely new species is born! however.

As seems to be the "trend" more and more in anthropology lately. Sort of makes me wonder how much is really driven by science, and how much is being driven by "make the big discovery so I will be the next Dr. syndrome as I call it.

Quote from: daidalos on January 24, 2015, 06:35:21 AM
So I am not the only one who has "issues" when trying to watch You'llwanttotubeit!? Wow! Miserly here loves company.

That said, I don't buy the whole "aliens" seeded humanity. Too many things that had to be "just right" for life to be here at all.

But, could it be some sort of mutation, yep. Absolutely. Just like the "hobbit" found in Indonesia recently.

I personally discount the whole notion of finding one skeleton, or one skull and voila! An entirely new species is born! however.

As seems to be the "trend" more and more in anthropology lately. Sort of makes me wonder how much is really driven by science, and how much is being driven by "make the big discovery so I will be the next Dr. syndrome as I call it.

Yeah, it matters not the origins of man, be it alien, or amoeba, God did it his way.

Quote from: Solar on January 25, 2015, 06:42:44 PM
Yeah, it matters not the origins of man, be it alien, or amoeba, God did it his way.

Exactly.

Quote from: Solar on January 25, 2015, 06:42:44 PM
Yeah, it matters not the origins of man, be it alien, or amoeba, God did it his way.

Yep. The origins of all life, always go back to God.

But seriously, this trend of pointing to one skull or one skeleton and saying "voila" it's alien, or it's some new "form" of "human evolution" isn't good science.

Piltdown man anyone????

Quote from: daidalos on February 08, 2015, 11:42:41 AM
Yep. The origins of all life, always go back to God.

But seriously, this trend of pointing to one skull or one skeleton and saying "voila" it's alien, or it's some new "form" of "human evolution" isn't good science.

Piltdown man anyone????

I agree.  The science and data is what it's all about.  Claiming anyone concluded it as human (as Darth Fife incorrectly referred to) is misleading, and it requires people to keep an open mind.  Nobody, conversely, concluded it as an "alien".  It's under study and research.

I personally think the theory of evolution is ridiculous, because it involves factors way beyond our understanding.