The Egg or the Chicken?

As well you should, if only there were more like you then we could have our NWO and you could simply inherit the World when we are finished raping it.

Oh wait, the whole world is full of frightened lambs waiting for the slaughter, my bad!

You are all intellectual titans. Whatever you believe is fact, and everybody else is wrong. You make up the definitions of words, and everybody else helplessly follows because you, commenters, are always correct. You know the truth, but you don't need proof. Proof is something needed only by the weakminded. Whatever you say is just how it is. If others don't agree with you, than they are stupid. Your claims are facts, purely because they came out of your mouth. The world should revolve around each of your ideas, and Science should bend to your every whim. You, those above me, and below me, are masters of the unknown. I, like a scared child, tremble beneath the shadow of your vast knowlege.

i have just been browsing on the internet and i came across this, i found the alien picture amusing and appealing.. is it real!?:O

Rafken: In science, a theory is what you have when a hypothesis is verified by experiment and fact. It is a working model that explains an observed natural phenomenon. A theory never becomes a fact - facts are the bits of data that support a theory.

To use your examples of dark matter and dark energy, there have not yet been particles or forms of radiation found that can be definitively classified as dark matter or dark energy. These are placeholder names for effects that have been confirmed through observation. While nobody quite knows what they are, there is ample proof that they exist.

In the case of dark matter, the proof of the effect is in the rotation curves of distant galaxies: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103102

In the case of dark energy, the proof of the effect is in the acceleration of galaxies as measured by observation of the redshift of type 1a supernovae: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805201

It would not be correct to call either of these a theory, as there has been no dark matter particle or dark energy wavicle identified, and no testable working model produced that explains how they work. However, multiple observations confirm that the effects they refer to are real.

According to evolution we all started as single cell existing in the primordial soup and life started through some miraculous process that no scientist has ever explained. From that we are expected to believe Humans evolved, the first 'primates' looked more like a modern day squirrel, than an ape.

If evolution is a fact and a theory why does it not meet the criteria of either?

Monkeys and Apes are two entirely different species and we evolved from both, WOW the theory of evolution seems to keep evolving . . .

All I am going to say is that if you payed attention to the evolutionary chain, you would have figured out that we evolved from monkeys and apes. That means we did start out with fur. Our universe is a complex system, not magical. We all wish our lives are magical but then there is reality.

Possibilities must be grounded in some form of logic. The idea that aliens either created or engineered humans to work in their mines defies logic, in addition to being unsubstantiated by even a single piece of evidence.

Let's just look at this logically for a moment. If you were going to engineer a creature to work in an underground environment, why would you give it vision in the visible light spectrum? Surely infrared would be more useful for seeing in dark mine shafts. And our limbs are useless for digging without tools - not a very good genetic engineering job, is it?

To call an idea a theory means that there is evidence to support it. There is no evidence to support any of these ridiculous alien DNA tampering or manufactured moon or reptilian enslavement ideas. Just a self-reinforcing pseudoscience echo chamber. I find it pathetic that now, in an age when raw scientific data is widely available to the public, seemingly intelligent people are passing off this nonsense as fact.

If you don't like it, don't read my comments.

Scott,

What part of possibility do you not understand, and who said anything about Aliens being necessary. I doubt the human race petitioned their Gods to make them into slaves to improve their quality of life.

Do you just go from hub to hub and leave annoying self righteous comments or just the ones I follow, can't you get your own hub life?

It's not actually a theory, it's a tumor!

Only one of your "theories" is actually a theory - number two. The rest are just wild speculation. To be a theory, an idea must have some evidence supporting it.

The genus homo evolved over millions of years, branching into the now-extinct homo ergaster, homo erectus, homo neanderthalensis and others before branching off into homo sapiens.

We may not have had scales or claws, but we had big brains with abstract reasoning ability. This trait not only allowed us to avoid the rustle in the grass that was a hungry sabre-toothed tiger, but it also gave us the ability to turn sharp rocks into spears and knives. Then we learned to make fire, allowing us to cook meats, kill pathogens, and fortify our brains with better-quality nutrients. These advances were the key to our success. No aliens or deities necessary.

Interesting. I have a couple of observations: First, the chicken (and its egg) were preceeded by a wild Indian fowl which was gradually domesticated (one theory I heard)

Secondly: We were probably quite hirsute once, although as man's ancestory is traced to tropical Africa, we didn't need a lot of added warmth. Hair doesn't show up clearly in much of the fossil record perhaps.

WE seem to have charted our progression pretty well from the time of the planet's cooling, so I doubt the other scenarios of Aliens, etc.

But you're making us think from down in the jungle there!

Bob

Very interesting and well thought out! Had to go with the alien choice, if for no other reason than that sounds the most interesting to me! Very cool hub!