--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hugh wrote:
If you are seriously interested in human origins a much better
place
to start research would be the books of Richard Dawkins, try
the Blind Watchmaker or River out of Eden A good understanding
of
evolution is an essential starting place before considering the
tripe
tossed out by uneducated new age gurus.
Bronte writes:
Hugh, have you ever READ Sitchen? I don't think so, because if
you had you would know what a scholar he is -- to the point of being
knitpicky boring as hell. He is esteemed in his field, archeology --
no New Ager. And he makes a very strong case, from archeological
evidence up the gazoo (it fills 12 or so books) that mankind's
origins are extraterrestrial. I get that you're a fact-loving guy,
and I like that. But I like Angela more. You go further than others
but drop the curtain at looking at certain possibilities (like alien
dna, like the dhali-lama radio connection) because -- ? They
challenge your assumptions? Angela doesn't stop at the assumptions,
she keeps going. I have a feeling nothing would stop her. Angela -
don't be Vaj's soulmate - be mine!
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The human genome has been mapped, it took ten years and revealed no
strange unexplainable manipulation, it is the same stuff as
everything else on earth is made from. Life started once on this
planet (and survived) all cells from all living things are
fundamentally identical. If Sitchen was right don't you think someone
else would have noticed?
I just googled Sitchen and found an extract from one of his
supposedly well researched books, he claims life couldn't have
started on earth as it is all the same. Surely, he reasons, if it
were a large chemical soup there would be many different kinds of
life? He's half right, when life arose there were more than one type
of DNA, ours won the battle but not without being invaded by another
type, we know this because they both replicate in our cells but only
one type passes on to the next generation. Life started once on this
planet and survived, it's the only explanation. And I got it from
high school it doesn't say much about his standards of evidence. I
have little doubt I could go through the entire book and correct
every mistake in minutes, I often get fringe science out of the
library and do just that. My best advice is to read the stuff that is
empirical, like Dawkins, Hawking, Deutsch, it hasn't become the
consensus reality for nothing but because Sitchen and co don't
survive scrutiny.
I don't drop the curtain at any possibilities, I will consider
anything but there has to be a bit of evidence, when all you find is
evidence to the contrary about something why persevere? I have read
Von Daniken, David Icke, in fact I am half way through the time
loop book, some of it is very interesting. I shall post a review
later today.
Hey here's an idea, I read the book you recommended why don't you
read Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker or River out of Eden
and tell me what you think, I predict you will be highly impressed.
