HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH [7d]
Tell al-Uhaimir, Iraq. Here, in what was once the ancient Sumerian city of Kish, archaeologists unearthed the world’s oldest written document. The Kish tablet dates to 3,500 BC, and is believed to pre-date both the Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphic writing by nearly a hundred years. Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man separated itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. In the 5,000 years since, humans have harnessed electricity, split the atom, developed computers, and placed a man on the Moon. No other species on Earth can claim such unique achievements in such a short span of time.
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“In comparison to other animals, our evolution is pretty brief. It’s been a fairly short time, only a couple of million years, probably, since the first hominids.” – Kirsten Fisher, Ph.D. |
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“One of the great scientific questions is why is it our species uniquely arose into this truly advanced technological intelligence that we have. Clearly, there’s nothing else on planet Earth that is like us. There are many intelligences, but nothing is wielding technology to the extent that we do.” – Peter Ward, Ph.D. (Astrobiologist / Paleontologist), |
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“If we just had to sort of go back to the jungle, the proverbial jungle, and just survive, most of us wouldn’t really live for very long. Human beings, apart from their intelligence, really are not very well-suited to occupying a wide range of environments.” – Paul Davies, Ph.D. (Theoretical Physicist / Astrobiologist, ASU) |
In addition to our incredible intelligence, biologists have also noted contrasts between human physiology and other animals.
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“Compared to other animals, I think we’re a little odd. A baby horse is born, for instance, it’s able to walk around and do its own thing, like, immediately. The same is certainly not true of a of a human infant. We are pretty helpless. We’re born before we’re quite neurologically cooked.” – Kirsten Fisher, Ph.D. |
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“There are many vulnerabilities which go alongside our much-vaunted intelligence. We became bipeds and that freed up our forelimbs to be able to manipulate objects, make tools and so on. But it comes at a price, because we’ve got these back problems.” – Paul Davies, Ph.D. (Theoretical Physicist / Astrobiologist, ASU) |
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“Lower back pain is something that is virtually unknown in other primate species, whereas it’s something that is very common in contemporary humans.” – William R. Leonard, Ph.D. |
In 2013, ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver set forth in his book Humans Are Not From Earth a possible theory to explain why humans seem so evolutionarily unsuited to the planet.
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“Dr. Ellis Silver developed an idea that perhaps the human race did not actually naturally evolve here on the Earth, but somewhere else.” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), |
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“Silver’s book raises a lot of very provocative and intriguing questions. For example, why is it that we get cataracts from the sun? Why is it that the sun seems to hurt us if we go out for too long? So Dr. Silver suggests that we might’ve come from a planet with different solar exposure. We also have 223 genes that appear in human DNA that do not appear in any other species on Earth, suggesting, again, that there’s something unusual about us.” – David Wilcock (Author/Filmmaker), |
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“They’ve discovered that astronauts, when they’re in space, their circadian rhythms actually change from 24 hours like we have when we’re here on Earth to 24.9 hours, which is the exact circadian rhythm or the exact length of a Martian day, not an Earth day.” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), |
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“The patterns of who we are as human beings doesn’t fit into some of the other creatures that are on this planet. Dr. Silver, his theory was that we were either brought here or seeded here, but clearly of an extraterrestrial origin.” – George Noory (Radio Host, Coast to Coast AM) |
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“We are, in a sense, transplanted here from some other solar system. And Neanderthals were already here and we are a cross-bred part-alien race that’s part Neanderthal and part extraterrestrial.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
Might Dr. Silver’s observations of human physiology be proof that we are a hybrid species, one whose origin comes from a celestial place? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes, and claim further evidence can be found in the narratives of numerous religions.
Brigham Young, one of the most important leaders of the Mormon religion, proposed that the biblical Adam was not created on Earth, but was born to parents on another world and then was brought to our planet. In the Zohar, the primary text of Jewish mysticism, a similar story is told.
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“Adam actually had parents. A mother and a father. And that God took Adam from whatever place that he came from we don’t understand what that is, another dimension, another world, we don’t know. We are half physical and we are half something much greater. Celestial, extraterrestrial, divine.” – Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok (Founder, KosherTorah School) |
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“According to the Ancient Astronaut Theory, we were created in the image of the gods and those stories are reflected in all of our ancient legends. For example, the Native American culture clearly states that our entire planet was seeded.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“In the ancient American world, part of their core belief system is that they may not have originated on Earth. We know that the Hopi, for example, believed that they were brought to the Earth by star people from the Orion system.” – Logan Hawkes (Publisher, The Mexico Less Traveled), |
Is it really possible that our origins are not entirely from this planet? And if so, does this explain why we are drawn to the search for an Other Earth? Perhaps the answers lie in ancient tales told across the world of a paradise lost forever.
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