There are currently 3 movements going on in what I
would call the scientific community, but let’s be honest –no one ever pays any
attention to that group and the work they do tends to be thankless and
under-appreciated. They analyze data and work formulas that would make your
head explode all because they thirst to know the truth that deeply and everyone
around just kind of goes, “Ehhh…”
#1
Environment:
I won’t go into this one that much because it’s the
one most people are overtly aware of. The movement to raise awareness of the
environmental state of the planet is essential. Period.
#2
Archeology:
This one is something most people wouldn’t notice or
pick up on because there’s this notion that, “Everything’s already been
discovered…” What people don’t realize is that there are STILL some discoveries
being made and there are things be re-discovered where previous work didn’t
reach fruition.
Back in the 1800s there were several different group
–like the Jesuits and Freemasons –that were running around hiding valuable
artifacts and leaving little clues around for people to later find. Thanks to
technology, greater funding, and internet access archeologists and explorers
are now better able to discern some of these clues and successfully track down
things that were previously hidden.
More people in general are also aware of relics and
hidden items existing than they would have been able to know of before, again
thanks in part to the internet. There is a movement within the archeologist
community to uncover things formerly hidden by the past because the time has
come for certain things to be brought to light.
#3
Dinosaurs:
This leads us to another thing being discovered and
that is a deeper understanding and a shift in theories regarding dinosaurs. Up
until now most people believed dinosaurs were purely reptiles –originally
deriving from fish/aquatic animals. NOW there have been recent discoveries that
lead to the possibility of many of these dinosaurs actually being a hybrid
between reptile and BIRD –if not bird entirely.
Several of these dinosaurs (mostly those that walk
on 2 legs) have had skin samples recovered that have included feathers or the
kind of skin affiliated with birds like ostriches. And if you compare the bone
structure of dinosaurs like the T-Rex to a chicken or an ostrich the bone
layout and gate/walk appears to be the same.
This is important to acknowledge if for no other
reason than to evade the ignorance of an age. Back in the late 1800s there was
a man that discovered a pterodactyl. He knew it wasn’t a dragon –which people
in prior centuries had believed things like that to be. Being a scientific man,
he knew dragon wasn’t possible. But he couldn’t comprehend the existence e of a
new species –it just didn’t register. So instead he depicted it as being a BAT.
He thought it was a bat. That was the only thing his mind would allow him to
conceive of.
Looking back on everything we’ve come to know
–especially given movies like Jurassic Park –we act like we have the luxury of
being above such mistakes. However, if people cling to falsehood where new
light is being shed of developing understandings, people will reiterate the
same mistake over again.
#4
Evolution
This isn’t a topic that’s been brought up in a while,
but I think it’s time to discuss.
Back in the 1960s the scientific community got
together to go over some problems they were discovering with Darwin’s Theory of
Evolution. Given how hard the scientific community fought (generally against
bigoted religious groups of people) to have the theory recognized as valid
–this was a pretty controversial meeting of necessity.
Basically what they found was a lack of
understanding of GENETICS –which Darwin alluded to and was on the right track
with, but couldn’t understand in full detail due to a lack of technological
advances.
Darwin’s Theory basically stated that given the
right external factors of influence over time, a mouse could evolve into an
elephant.
But what scientists found was that there are genetic
factors present in mice that are absent in elephants and vice versa. These
DNA/genetic codes prevent one animal from evolving into another since you can’t
just magically make them appear out of nowhere.
In fact, if you look at human beings in terms of
genetics, we actually have more in common with a giraffe (I think that’s what
it was…) than a monkey or ape. In terms of appearances and psychology
monkeys/gorillas SEEM very similar, but in terms of internals –aren’t that
close. There’s a “missing link” which is why some people hope that finding
Bigfoot would help prove there was an overlap and connection present that
allowed for the rise of one species form the other. I maintain that even if
Bigfoot was found and you looked at his genetics, there would STILL be
significant gaps.
So there are several puzzling issues that arise when
you really look into evolution and how things came about.
#1 Mammals.
Fish evolving into Reptiles makes sense. Both are
cold blooded and there are many fish-reptile animals like alligators that con
meander from land into sea. That evolution from scaled being to scaled being
makes sense.
Reptiles to Birds also makes sense. Especially with
recent discoveries, birds and reptiles actually have a lot in common and both
are cold blooded and have scales.
Something to Amphibians makes less sense. They are
scaled, but out of nowhere they break rank and go warm blooded. Technically
they’re still within something of the realm of possibility.
MAMMALS make NO sense. They aren’t scaled and they
are warm blooded. Finding any animal –besides the duck-billed platypus- that
crosses over or has anything in common with birds/fish/reptiles and even
amphibians just isn’t there. They stand in stark contrast and are far more
complex in terms of connection/inter-relations, psychology, and physiology.
They don’t fit the pattern at all and emerge out of nowhere.
#2 Giant Comet Theory
People theories some kind of comet hit the earth and
wiped everything out. Several issues.
First issue is that dinosaurs eventually gave way to
modern birds and reptiles like our buddy the alligator, so not all of them
could have been wiped out. Also towards the end of the reign of dinosaurs small
mammals were present, so how do you go from small mammals roaming to everything
being wiped out –except the small mammals and a few reptiles here and there?
Thirdly,
if a meteor hit this earth right now, or a series of meteors hit the planet
–PARTS of the planets inhabitants would get wiped out but not everything. Some
of the dinos would have made it. Yet all we’re left with is this notion that
only little things carried on and the bigger ones were wiped out and suddenly
you’ve got highly evolved Mammoths, saber tooth tigers, early humans, and other
mammals roaming the earth with no dinos in sight. It doesn’t really add up.
At the end of the day it seems almost deliberate
that dinos would be taken out and earth would give way to the rise of mammals.
#3 Humans
Let’s be honest, humans from the beginning weren’t
like animals. To suggest we derived from animals, kind of misses the point. We
build sky scrapers, put people on the moon, and blog about theories involving
our own existence. Even monkeys and gorillas in spite of showing some strong
similarities don’t ultimately come close to human beings in terms of
development and ways of expressing life.
We have always been set above and beyond animals in
that way. As someone recently put it, “Mankind is the only species capable of
killing off every other species including his own.” We are different and often
times not comparable to anything in terms of being top of the food chain.
Humans ride horses, swim with dolphins, and
occasionally tame lions. We’re different and in terms of evolution, we make no
sense and follow no previously established pattern. We’re an anomaly and kind
of a big one.
All I see are big gaps and huge questions not easily
answered in terms of where we come from. If there was a nice little theory that
could put everything in a box and tie it up with a bow that’d be great, but it
just doesn’t exist right now.
Science can
only do so much, especially when dealing with things from eons and eons ago.
It’s important to acknowledge these holes because
although they trouble the mind, they are also a truth that needs to be
acknowledged.