--- 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! > __
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.
