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Originally Posted by Aurel (Post 5744749)

...Another possible mechanism is the changes in radiations coming from space, especially from the sun. Since this is a process we have no control over, one could see this as the way our creator can control our evolution, by controlling solar activity for instance.

The beauty in all this is it suggests the interrelation of everything, and possibly the intelligence of the universe which can design the evolution of its inhabitants, through DNA changes induced by cosmic radiations.

Our lil girl has made the observation that perhaps God is the Sun (or that the Sun is God). I know that it is a very primal belief but it stands to reason and I can see where all things on Earth (including us) came from the Sun - save a few millions small asteroids.

So maybe the Sun is God and in its infinite wisdom it is manipulating us and other life forms by way of various forms of radiation?

What a very interesting premise for a story!

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Originally Posted by Racerbvd (Post 5750661)

OK, food for thought....

Researchers: Ancient human remains found in Israel - Yahoo! News

"said archaeologist Avi Gopher"

What a GREAT name for an archaeologist. :D

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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77 (Post 5750733)

So maybe the Sun is God and in its infinite wisdom it is manipulating us and other life forms by way of various forms of radiation?

What a very interesting premise for a story!

Many years ago I was channel surfing and I stopped on one of the Christian channels because there was a geeky looking guy in horn rims atanding in front of a blackboard filled with math equations.

Turns out the guy was a JPL physicist who had done a series wherein he tried to bring together Old Testamentl stories and science. In the episode I watched he proposed that the long lives (hundreds of years for some?) might, while exaggerated, be atributable to increased radiation from an exploding star (or something like that) that astronomers say occurred at a time when such effects could have effected humans living in those times.

He described that radiation, while thought by laymen to always be harmful to life, is actually necessary for there to be life.

I think he also made regerence to Goliath as possibly being one of many people of that size who may have lived then, their size being related to the high radiation.

He went on to relate the decline of the radiation over time with scientific statistics relating to humans over the years.

I found it really fascinating. The guy was obviously a prettty smart cookie and wasn't preaching at all. I tried to find the other programs in the series, but wasn't able to. I'd completely forgotten about it until now.

HA! Googled and found the guy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ross_(creationist)

He'a a creationist and I ain't - but he's a very interesting dude.

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Originally Posted by jyl (Post 5744574)

different races are mixing to an extent never before seen - 1000 years ago

If the Toba event happened 70,000 years ago the way they think and the Genetic bottleneck theory holds water, then we all came from the same 1,000 child bearing couples who survived.

It does not matter anyway, 2012 is right around the corner.
2012 phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Imaginative Road to Homo Sapiens

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Textbooks and journals often have family-tree diagrams of ape-men, which intend to show the evolution of Homo sapiens (human beings). The diagram below is an example of this type of artwork.

http://www.unmaskingevolution.com/im...maginative.gif