RE: Ufo's and time travel
As I have opinionated in a previous post (‘An interesting theory on the greys’), I donot believe that we could naturally evolve INTO such a wierd creature, and I lightly touched the subject of natural selection.
A lot of people have been discussing this theory of the grey appearance and big eyes being some sort of bio-suit, this is perfectly possible.
Back to natural selection, think about it - Natural selection is practically non-existant in most human cultures today. Simply because we don’t live truly ‘natural’ lives! We have vaccines and hospitals, sheltered homes, we don’t have to hunt food we just need the money to buy it, so it is now a case more of survival of the financially fittest.
So this means evolution as we know it has grinded down to a almost complete halt becuase there is no longer natural selection in humanity - Nature is not ‘selecting’ the fittest, strongest, healthiest people. Even unfit, unhealthy or unattractive people may find partners and have offspring.
What does this also mean? Redundancy in the human gene pool. While technology may be increasing and medicine to combat illness, defective genes are carrying and not being selected out! At the same time, cancers and other illnesses are gradually on the increase, of course this is also part environmental and lifestyle influenced.
The DNA is a very effectient system. It has copied down FROM generation to generation for millions of years even with other species that breed more frequently, and life is still going strong! However, try copying a tape cassette FROM one tape to another and another and so forth… The quality quickly decreases, it loses clarity and becomes ‘noisy’.
Despite DNA’s ability to copy efficiently, far far more efficiently than a magnetic audio cassette, gradually over time, even with a strong natural selection, genetic clarity is bit by bit decreasing, genetic ‘noise’ is gradually building up, and the fact that even the unfit survive doesn’t help!
Now I’m not at all suggesting at all that mass genocides are a good thing they are terrible torturous things nobody deserves to be killed like that and for that cause.
But nevertheless there is a problem. Perhaps in the future the genetic code is in tatters, to the point where a normal, healthy fit baby becomes a rarity. Perhaps the people in the future have severely overhauled and re-engineered the human DNA code for this purpose, and if alien abductions are actually our future descendants, then this would EXPLAIN the cross-breeding and taking of DNA samples!
But does anyone know at all the health and fitness of the average abductee? This would be interesting to know. Do Unhealthy, unfit people ever get abducted and have their DNA taken?
The reason why there was evolution is because of natural mutation. There is no such thing as a 100% perfect copy of DNA, especially with as complex as human DNA. The odds are, say 0.00001% of genetic makeup at least will be copied incorrectly, sometimes this amount may be greater, leading to a slight mutation. If this mutation is a bad one like deformed limbs, in the wild this person would most likely not survive long or bear offspring so nature selects them out.
However if this is a beneficial mutation (like longer, more useable fingers, or difference in skeleton to improve walking on two legs etc etc) They may have an advantage and they will proliferate offspring. Of course this process occurs in tiny tiny steps over thousands upon thousands of years. An ape didn’t one day give birth to a human. The processwas many countless steps over countless generations. This is evolution!
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