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Even if there's real proof about that ("it's been said" is not proof or evidence), it's not unexpected, it's been know for a long time that some breeds (not just dogs) are not "favoured" by evolution, so, if they do not keep on forcing those breeds they will be extinct.
Originally posted by signalfire
My evidence: it's been said that if you leave any breed of dog to mate freely with any other breed of dog, even a Great Dane and a Chihuahua, within seven generations they will revert back to a dingo; a yellow-brown medium sized short haired dog with a curled up tail; the proof of this is seen in any poor country with a population of stray dogs, as well as in any large animal shelter in richer countries.
Because that only happens (as far as I know) with forced breeding to make some characteristic stand out, like sheep with more wool, cows that give more milk or dogs that are better as lap dogs or attack dogs.
If humans and other animals are subject to the forces of evolution, why do we not 'de-evolutionize' in this way? After all, AKC dog breeds are evolution in fast-forward for certain traits. Why do humans not quickly revert back to some standard mean? Or have we and it's now called a 'sheeple'?)
Would you care to go out on a limb and state your "beliefs" — your "Current Intellectual Understanding of Extraterrestrials" ?
So they want to eat something they can't digest and then suddenly transform.
Isn't that the same thing?
So how does this work, the bacteria are spending most of their time trying to eat things they can't digest hoping that one of their genes has been adapted to eat that specific material?
I think that's the best question about evolution.
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
Another way to look at de-evolution, Darwin's concept is chance mutation with the fittest to survive. But statistically it would require billions of mutations until there is one that improves the survivability, if it is completely by chance. It seems to me that there must be another, guiding, force at play that helps mutations to be more often then not beneficial ones.
No, they were selective.
I do no think we are able to do that today using genetic engineering. Yet they also did the same for crops, such as rice and wheat. Were they just lucky?
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
reply to post by spiritualarchitect
What makes you believe they left? Why would they leave after they built something here?
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
Another way to look at de-evolution, Darwin's concept is chance mutation with the fittest to survive. But statistically it would require billions of mutations until there is one that improves the survivability, if it is completely by chance. It seems to me that there must be another, guiding, force at play that helps mutations to be more often then not beneficial ones.
Aside from humans, does it make sense that people coming out of the ice age, with no technology such as wheels, or writing house building, decide to create new animals, to modify there traits for suitable for domestication such as pig and cattle, which can also be used to work in the field and to recycle sewage? I do no think we are able to do that today using genetic engineering. Yet they also did the same for crops, such as rice and wheat. Were they just lucky?
Originally posted by TrueBrit
2) However, there is no accessible proof that any species has visited our planet, in any of the ages of man. There is circumstantial evidence, but I personally believe that one cannot take any of that into account unless it is backed by scientifically valid, and globally recognised, physical evidence. There exists, of that last and most important type of proof, not one valid jot so far. Absence of evidence of course, can never be mistaken by logical and intelligent beings as evidence of absence.
Originally posted by FormerSkeptic
Exactly my challenge too (of evolution theory).
Indeed, a highly directional evolutionary path that results in an abstract-thinking brain can only be attributed to pure luck (absolute random chance) if we apply any of the evolution theories, and there are several, many of which are contradictory in critical detail. I hesitate to recite because most are religious.
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
Why are scientists stuck there? Perhaps because there is no good scientific explanation that does not involve outside, ET, guidance?
Originally posted by spiritualarchitect
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
reply to post by spiritualarchitect
What makes you believe they left? Why would they leave after they built something here?
Because they were physically walking around and doing things in plain sight of the people that wrote about them. Then, after a time, they were not.
I think the original man makers left and never came back, though others have since come to visit. I have seen no written knowledge of why they left, maybe because they did not tell us. Or maybe those ancient writtings have just not been found yet.
While I agree there is a spiritual world around us that human eyesight cannot see, I cannot place those makers into that same non-physical nature.
Originally posted by FormerSkeptic
5. Their purpose is simply that of "extending themselves" — or we might understand it as "planting seeds" or "expanding the common universal consciousness"
A team of daring Chinese researchers, digging into the ancient mysteries of the origin of their country, has come to the inescapable conclusion that an interstellar, supreme alien race used much of the northern and western Chinese regions as massive Earth bases. Hundreds of strange pyramids cover parts of China and former Tibet. The data has been kept secret mainly because the alien race...
Originally posted by ArMaP
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
Why are scientists stuck there? Perhaps because there is no good scientific explanation that does not involve outside, ET, guidance?
Involving "outside guidance", either from ETs or god(s) is no explanation, as neither have been scientifically proved to exist.