Intelligent Design and Extraterrestrials

    So yeah, me and my friends were sitting in lunch talkin about stuff. Well, the evolution vs. creationism came up and we eventually found ourselves talking about the possibility of an adavanced alien culture playing the part of "God".  So I was thinkin about it and it does make a lot of sense when you start to get into it.


      Imagine this: An advanced alien culture with technology beyond what we can think of now decides to embark on the grand experiment. They take some rock in a distant solar system and terraform it. After so long, when the planet becomes inhabitable they plant the seeds of life here. Really there are two possibilities here: 1) they waited a long time untill there was already life here and just engineered us and put us in here, maybe even just our ancestors the Cromagnams(this would explain the missing link) and grew us as a species and influenced our culture for a while untill we were smart enough to handle ourselves somewhat, and even after that from what I've concluded or 2) they threw that first single celled organism in that warm pool and started it all from there. We'll just go on the notion that number one is the case. They engineer us and put us here and influence us to form the great cultures of the world and discipline us by making religions so that we would live in a (somewhat)civilized way and they could set the ground rules, give us certain technologies, and help us along our way untill we get too smart for that and they have to back off.



      This theory makes sinse too if you look at all the major cultures and religions of the world. I mean, they are all obsessed with the sky. They all rely on the fact that an entity from the sky made us. They all have stories that can be interpreted into UFO encounters. The list goes on. Also, it would explain the fact that there are stange similarities in cultures from very different parts of the world. Think  about the fact that there are pyramids in all sections of the world,from mexico to egypt to china. And there are other things too. The bow, the wheel, ect. It just doesn't add up that different cultures from different continents would have these similarities without some sort of common link.



   Anyway, I just thought this was a cool theory, I know I didn't make it up but I've been thinking about it and thought I'd get you guy's opinions. Oh and btw, I'm not gonna get into religious bickering and opinion arguing like I did in that one thread. It gets boring after a while and it ends up becoming a flame fest most of the time. So please none of that. Anyway, cool theory in my opinion, whatchu think?(lol)

On the topic of the wheel, the most believably way they built the pyramids was they used a quarter of a wheel..yet we found no evidence of one.  If they can build pyramids (assuming they did) they would have enough common sense to put 2 and 2 together.

thats just our pop culture version of aliens......they could look like anything...they could look like us....crap they could look like little kittens...who knows?

^^^ not scary, im a video game junkie.

Wow.  You people are nerds...

wow....that picture really did freak me out.

well, first and formost, cromagnon man, is dated at 30,000 years old. however, "modern man" (homo sapiens sapiens) was around before then.

there is also not just 1 missing link, there are millions of them.

just to nit pick, it wouldn't be terraforming, as earth is terra and to terraform earth would be to leave it exactly as it was.

as for the similarities between cultures, i agree, i believe all cultures sprouted from a single culture on the pangea supercontinent. as for the sky, while many cultures to atribute those things to the sky, i wouldn't say all of them do.

Did you not read my thread?

one of the newest theorys on the first celled organisism acctually starts off with dna.. said that certain gases when heated form fats proteins ect... and has acctually been tested and proven. All those combined to create the four amino acids to create the first strand of dna that is the latest theory of how it all started.

^^^ Very true. The idea that our ancestors worshiped aliens instead of a god is not true, though. Because if you think about, God is an E.T.

Extra Terrestrial - Not of this earth. I'd say God fits that description pretty well - An all powerful being that is not from this planet.
Worship of the sky - I'd attribute that to the worship of celestial objects. Man saw things "looking down on them" that they couldn't understand, but that had major affects on thier daily lives (you know, like night & day, etc...). Also most "inexplicable" weather effects came from the sky. It would only be natural for them to think of this as being the supernatural as opposed to worshiping a rock or a tree or something they understood a little better.

Interesting theory, though.

Edit: P.s.

ENOS wrote:   God creates us, god screws around and jesus comes and all that stuff, then god leaves. What has god been up to? If we are truly made in his image, wouldnt he be bored? Or at least have the desire to go "try again" somewhere else? If he created us for whatever reasons, wouldnt it make sense that he would make some other people somewhere else?

"...God leaves"????  I don't think you're talking about Christianity.
"...What has God been up to?" Not to go all Ernest on you, but it's stated in the Bible that he's been preparing a place for us (John 14:2)
"...for whatever reasons" For his enjoyment - look in Ecclesiastes. Besides, you can't really equip God with human emotions and characteristics like boredom.
It is rather nieve to think that we were the only thing  that he created in the universe, though. Many Christians don't.

Edited by Slimz.357