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You ask if we are from the stars, did our ape fathers travel in time machines from the stars, or don't I believe in evolution. I guess a bit of both. With the knowledge we are gaining in the sciences in the last few decades, the ground is begining to shift, and although evolution is pretty well a last bastion of 'hands off', the 'how' of evolution is not as clear as we once believed.


Evolution as a process certainly happens, and you could say if you wished, that it is survival of the fittest I suppose, although that is a very clumsy way of putting it. As a schoolboy I always imagined the fittest to be the stronger, more vigourous. But our world is sort of more unified, and it does not seem that an identity evolves for whatever reason, so much as the inner workings of nature evolves on behalf of the particular species that we may be talking about. Under threat species change, under changing conditions species change. But worlds can of course come into being that have no place for certain creatues, witness the shrinking environment for wild animals in Africa for example.

But that we are the people we are, because we evolved from something rudimentary to something not so rudimentary??? I think not. If there is a creative principle in the universe call it God or whatever you like, do you really think it needs to throw an amoeba like entity into a void and wait for millions of years for what (s)he really meant to make??? I believe that a human being is a part of an intelligent whole. Someone once said that to believe in evolution as Darwin proposed it is like imagining a hurricane blowinging through a scrap-yard and ending up with a world. It is a simplistic answer.

Quantum theory opens a whole new way of looking at life, but I am not about to post about that here now as that is a whole other post. I believe that we are pretty well eternal entities that come and go, dropping a body here and picking up another. That is one thing and there is a lot of posting in that statement. Conversely the concept of starseeding is not one to be necessarilly understood as a linear activity that takes place in our own space and time. If we drop a body and then pick up another we do by inference exist elsewhere. Where? We can't see this and yet on a dreamy night looking out under the stars, very still is the quality that we may experience related to otherness? This is not a complete answer. Just a direction of thought.