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Do I believe man was made by extraterrestrials? Not in the sense the question was asked, no. If you want to get technical, then, yes I do. The word itself means not of this earth. God is not of this earth. He does not live here. He lives in heaven and I do believe He created man.
In Genesis 1:26-28, we read about God making man and woman in his image, in his likeness, and giving him dominion over the fish, the birds and the cattle, and over all of the earth. He blessed them and told them to be fruitful and multiply.
I've always found it kind of insulting that scientists think we have descended from monkeys or crawled from some kind of primordial ooze, and haphazardly evolved into the people we are today. I would much rather believe that I was made in the image of the Supreme Being who made the entire universe, and has so much power that my puny little mind cannot even begin to fathom what he is and what he can do with a single thought. Descended from a God or primordial ooze? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to make that decision, or, my bad, I guess it does.
I spent most of my working career in the health field and was always amazed that anyone involved in that field could ever not believe in God. The intricate way in which the human body works and the slightest imbalance that can throw your entire system out of whack and do some serious harm. That just happened? The cellular structure that forms our bodies is amazing and even the reproductive process itself is a miracle in the making. From two cells an entire person is formed with all the working parts he or she needs for the next 70 plus years of their lives. Most of the time it works perfectly and that just evolved from ooze?
We are able to create life, to use the brains we were given to imagine wonderful things and bring those to life. We are also capable of the most hideous cruelties ever imagined. Our drama here on Earth is being played out before an entire universe to see. We were given free will. We can choose to love or to hate, to believe or not believe. I'm sure the other creations that dwell on other places in this vast universe have wondered why God has let us go on for so long. I wonder that myself and I hope someday to ask Him.
Created by an extraterrestrial? Yes, by the Ultimate ET. The First, the Last, the Alpha and the Omega. In His likeness we were created. When you really stop and think about it, it's really cool. We were created in GOD'S image. We just need to act like it.
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For over 3 years I have been doing research on human origins. This came about when I was in college studying the theories of Darwin, and I noticed that while some things fit in Darwin's theories, many things were not explainable. When my professor gave me a blank stare at the questions I brought to him, I decided to go off on my own to try and figure out the truth. I offer you now the culmination of my research to date. All of what I say is factual and I encourage you to research it yourself to solidify the facts.
1) Against Darwinism:
Darwin was the father of the ape to human evolution. There are many indisputable facts that show we share a great deal of genetic traits with apes and chimpanzees. With the similarities, science has turned away from the issue, assuming that they have the truth before them. But one only needs to study themselves to see there is far more to us than what we are told.
The first evidence of this is our mouth. Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and slide it back until you feel the soft part back near the entrance to your throat. This is the area in question. Now, hold your breath. Notice how it lifts and blocks off the nasal passage so you cannot breathe through your nose? Primates, such as apes and chimpanzees, do not have this. They cannot close off their nasal passage. In fact, pretty much all land animals cannot. There is no need to. However, aquatic and semi-aquatic mammals have this. Why? Because it keeps water from entering the nose and filling the lungs. A human that submerges him/herself can stay under water for several minutes. A primate that is under water for more than a few moments will die.
Primates also are not able to talk. We know this. They can make an enormous amount of different sounds, sounds that compose what we put together to make language. However, they cannot speak a sentence. The reason for this is because the primate brain regulates breathing entirely. Primates have no control over their breathing. They cannot hold their breath. And for what they are, there is no reason to do so. Humans, however, are obviously able to do this. Interestingly, the only mammals that are able to hold their breath are, again, aquatic and semi-aquatic ones.
Are you beginning to see the picture forming here?
Beyond these traits, human hair is much different than primate hair, not only in texture, but in body placement. Primates have a great deal of body hair, but very little on the chest. Humans have a great deal of hair on the chest, but not much on the back. What hair we do have is streamlined. That is, unlike apes with coarse hair that would weigh them down heavily and make swimming through the water nearly impossible, human hair is made to flow through the water...much like a car is aerodynamically made to push the air around it so it may move smoothly down the road.
There are other aspects, such as babies being born with a water-resistant, waxy coating at birth, our natural desire to mate belly to belly, rather than from behind as all land based animals, save the bonobo, do. There are many, many more aspects that show humans have an aquatic ancestor that I have yet to study in depth, but with just what I have presented, it is plainly obvious that while we DO have a genetic ancestor with primates, we also have a genetic ancestor that has nothing to do with them. This leads us to wonder, if humankind has an aquatic ancestor, what is it and why is there no evidence of it?
2) Human Genetics
To understand what we are, and how we became what we are, we must take a look within our genetic coding. And this is where the fun begins. All animals in the world differ from us in two distinct ways.
Chromosome 2 is a wonderfully controversial issue in the scientific community. In all other animals, chromosome 2 has 2 parts to it, giving the 48 chromosomal strands. Half of these are given from one parent to match with another half from the other parent to make a baby. Thus, all animals in nature, to make a baby, must give 24 of their chromosomes and match them up with 24 other chromosomes to make a healthy baby with 48 chromosomes. Humans do not have 48 chromosomes. We have 46. We are the only animal to have 46 chromosomes. The amazing reason for this is that somewhere in our history our chromosome 2 was fused together. Darwinist scientists say that a great chimpanzee and some unknown great ape mated and this coupling naturally fused the chromosome together. However, if this is naturally occurring, why is it that this has not happened in any other creature we have ever observed? If it cannot be witnessed in any other creature, then Darwinist scientists cannot imperialistically say that our fused chromosome is anything natural. But if it is not natural, that means that something manipulated our genetics thousands of years ago. And, of course, it would not have been humans that did it. Darwinist scientists scoff at this. They want proof that "aliens" genetically manipulated us, humorously stating there is none. But again, closed eyes and closed minds do not look to see the proof that is right in front of them. There is a great deal of proof that humans were genetically toyed with, and that some other being or beings were the cause.
In any animal in the animal kingdom there are genetic flaws. Albinism, club hands and feet, extra body parts...in the animal world, there are several dozen genetic mistakes that can happen to an animal. Again, however, humans are set apart from the animal kingdom. Humans have over 400,000 genetic flaws. If in nature genetic irregularities show up in the dozens, how is it we have them in the hundreds of thousands? Before I throw out a possible answer, let me again compare this to Darwinism. Genetic flaws appear and are passed on and into a species sexually. In other words, through the children of the ones that have the flaw. If you look at sickle cell anemia, the genetics of a blood cell changed to fight off a deadly disease. Now many Africans suffer from the genetic flaw of sickle cell anemia. It was passed on from parent to child, and everyone with sickle cell anemia can trace their lineage back to the area of Africa where the disease originated from. This is how Darwin states genetic flaws flow through a species. It's all nicely packaged and pretty. At least in the animal kingdom. Humans have, hard wired to their genetic line, genetic flaws that kill us BEFORE we reach breeding age. So, if genetic flaws are only naturally occurring if they can be passed on from parent to child, how do we have child killing genetic flaws that are in all of us? A dead child that is far from breeding age can't pass it on. So how has it happened? Common sense tells us the only way is if something put it in us around the time when we became homo sapiens. And it had to be done in a way that it did not have to be bred into us.
So, we now see that we have many aquatic traits to us, and that something messed with our genetics and not only fused 2 of our chromosomes, but left us a mess in doing so. This raises the questions of what aquatic creature we have links to, and who played with our genetics, as well as for what purpose were we singled out among all the other animals on our planet?
3) Extraterrestrial Connection
In nearly every civilization there are stories about how a lizard-like race came from the heavens to teach us things like agriculture, animal domestication, mathematics, social culture, metallurgy, astronomy, astrology and the like. The Mayan, Aztecs, American Indians, Babylonians, Egyptians...all have serpentine gods that bestowed great knowledge on a fledgling race. And all of them came from the stars. Is it possible that these ancient gods have a real connection to who and what we are? These gods are but mythology, aren't they? Nothing but stories to explain things that they could not at the time? That was the common belief until recently. But what changed the belief we held for so long?
Zecharia Sitchin is one of the few people in the world that can read Sumerian writing and over 30 years ago made a discovery that is only now coming to the light of the common people. Sumer was the first human civilization that came about strait from the Stone Age, some 6000 years ago. Considering all we know about human technological advancement and how slow it was until the late 1800's, it would be realistic to consider this first civilization to perhaps started agriculture or domesticating animals, but probably not much more. But this is not the case. The Sumerian, strait from the caveman era, not only had advanced agriculture and animal domestication, they also had advanced mathematics, astrology and astronomy, codes of law, schools, advanced medical knowledge, a calendar that we base our own on, courts, jails and, most surprisingly, a highly advanced written language. How did a group of former cave dwelling homo sapiens suddenly have this massive explosion of wisdom? Sitchen translated their stories and in them they tell us where their knowledge came from, as well as giving us an elaborate tale of how we came about, and a detailed account of our solar system. According to Sitchen, the Sumerian gained their wisdom from their gods - a race of beings that resembled humans but had distinct reptilian features. Sitchin writes that the Sumerian were told by their gods that when the Earth was young, it was much larger and in a different rotation around the sun. Their home world in the heavens, which they called Nibiru, was pulled into our solar system by Neptune's gravity and that one of Nibiru's moons struck the Earth, sending it into a new orbit as well as creating the moon and the asteroid belt from the collision. When Sitchen proposed this to the scientific community, he was mostly laughed at. That was until recently when scientists told the world that the moon was created when another celestial body, about the size of Mars, struck the Earth. This is what caused Pangaea to break apart into the continents we have now, the original land mass separating to fill in the hole the collision made in the Earth as it spun on its axis.
The Sumerian also spoke of how their gods, the Annunaki, spoke of our solar system. The Sumerian not only knew that all the planets circled the sun, a concept that was balked at until recent times, they also knew the sizes and colors of the planets, including Pluto which was not discovered intil the 1900's. The Sumerian state that there are 12 planets in our solar system. This includes the sun and the moon, as well as Nibiru. Earth, they claim, is the 9th planet in our solar system. Eyes were rolled when this was said, as we all know Earth is the "third rock from the sun." However, if you start from outside our solar system and head inward, Earth is the 9th planet. It would be hard to believe that a people that had just crawled out of the Stone Age could have this kind of detail when they did not so much as have a telescope! The 12th planet, Nibiru, the rogue planet, is said to have an orbit that is at an angle to ours. In other words, if our solar system revolves horizontally around the sun, Nibiru would rotate vertically and clockwise. Thus, as it would come into view with the Earth, we would first see it in the southern hemisphere, then later in the northern hemisphere. The Sumerian say Nibiru has a 3600 year cycle around our sun. But what proof is there that such a huge body resides in our solar system? The hunt for Planet X has not bore fruit of that nature. Starting with the outer planets, scientists and astronomers have noticed that the large outer planets are being disturbed by some great gravitational force, but as of yet, (at least publicly), the cause of this force has not been identified. It was the gravitational force that first led us to finding Pluto, which was too small a body to have such a powerful grip on our massive neighbors. Pluto has its own mystery. It's orbit weaves in and out of the orbit of Neptune, and we do not understand why. While the orbits of all the planets change and are not perfectly elliptical, they are nothing like that of Pluto. The Sumerian tell the tale of how Pluto was once a moon of Saturn, and was flung out of its orbit when Nibiru came close. If this is the case, it would make a very plausible reason for Pluto's strange orbit.
But where does all this come to play in human origins? The most obvious clue, also originating with the Sumerian, you can find at any hospital or doctors office. It is the symbol of medicine. You know, the two twining serpents over a staff? The original Sumerian symbol for medicine was just slightly different though. It was twining serpents over a ladder. If you change the serpents into regular lines and put the ladder in the center, what image appears? Give up? A DNA strand. But that, of course, could just be a coincidence, right?
Sumerian writings talk of how the Annunaki came here more than 300,000 years ago to mine gold which they would use to repair their atmosphere that was damaged much in the same way as we are now damaging our own with nuclear bombs and carbon footprints. Eventually there was a revolt with the Annunaki miners, and the ruling class decided to use their knowledge of genetics to make themselves new workers. Time was not on their side, however, and after taking homo erectus and trying to genetically alter him with other species, all of which were failures, they decided to add their genetic material to homo erectus. And the result was us. Homo sapiens. While we were flawed creations, we were able to get the job done. Eventually the Annunaki left Earth, but before doing so, they taught the Sumerian how to survive on this planet as advanced beings.
Now things are beginning to come together. Let us recap a bit.
Humans have obvious amphibian traits that we do not share with our primate cousins. We have genetic flaws, as well as a spliced chromosome 2, that could not be naturally occurring. A civilization 6000 years ago with advances they should not have had tells us that we were genetically created to help another species that hastily made us during a crisis using their own DNA. These aliens being reptile-like, amphibians being reptiles to put things in perspective for you, and they left us a solid clue to our origins in the symbol for medicine they gave us. The serpentine DNA.
So, if we take the facts and add the writings of the Sumerian to the facts, we can see they connect well to one another and can explain many mysteries that we have pondered for ages. Now the question is, if we were genetically created by an advanced race somewhere around 6000 years ago, (though it is very possible that the actual creation of modern humans could have been 10,000 or more years ago), where is this advanced race, and why have they not tried to contact us? The fact is, they have. Across the globe sitings of alien aircraft have been seen. The people who witness the spacecraft are not the strange people that sit in a diner late at night and scream at their dinner. We have police officers and astronauts, mayors and congressmen, presidents and business owners. In fact, so many people have seen and recorded these strange flying craft that now most of the world believes that intelligent life is visiting us. They leave us clues in crop circles and strange devices they leave behind, both inside of our bodies and in and on our land, (such references being the Dropa Stones, the Klerksdorp Spheres, and so on). As we rapidly advance to their level, it would appear that they are interested in how we are evolving. If abductions by aliens are true, perhaps they are seeing just how well their genetic creation is working out. Much like we would do if we made a race of Dolly the Sheep and set them out in a pasture. We would check up on them, test them medically, and set them back into the herd.
In conclusion, I offer you the words of wisdom I have grown up with: "The most simplest answer is usually the right one." Thus, if the question is "what are our origins?" then I would go with the general scientific answer of "a cross between a great chimpanzee and some other human ancestor" (quoted from the Wikipedia page on Chromosome 2), and say that if we have amphibian traits, and our ancestors say that we were made by reptilian "gods" using their DNA, that this is most likely the truth. One thing to keep in mind...the only difference between ancient man and us today is our level of technological advancement. If 10 thousand years from now humans find texts claiming that a man named Hitler started a war that brought the whole world into it, or that a man named Gandhi changed the world in his time because of his pacifist ways, should they consider us a people that made up fantastic stories that were most likely made from an overactive imagination? If you say no, then perhaps we should give our ancestors credit and believe that what they say is the truth to the best of their knowledge. And if there is truth to what they say, then we humans, as a species, have one amazingly interesting history. And if it is true, perhaps Nibiru and the Annunaki will come visit us soon. After all, geologist who have studied the Earth claim there have been both minor and great changes to the Earth every 3500-3700 years. And the last one was about 3600 years ago.
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