From: no.one@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this   
      
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   Lio Convoy wrote:   
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   >>Lio Convoy wrote:   
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   >>>No One wrote in   
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   >>>>Lio Convoy wrote:   
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   >>>>>"Imagescribe" wrote in   
   >>>>>news:83A3f.7563$vD4.399808@news20.bellglobal.com:   
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   >>>>>>>Why go in that direction? Maybe Earth was settled by these   
   >>>>>>>particular survivors thousands of years in our past.   
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   >>>>>> It is unlikely; given our genetic, physical form and chemistry,   
   >>>>>> that we   
   >>>>>>originated somewhere else and are alien to this biosphere. But   
   >>>>>>that's science and not fun.   
   >>>>>> It's unlikely we dragged all the creatures that share our DNA   
   >>>>>> along with   
   >>>>>>us to the new planet. (I think Joss has the patent on that with   
   >>>>>>TITAN AE). again not fun.   
   >>>>>> It is entirely likely that the writers can come up with something   
   >>>>>> that we   
   >>>>>>can all pick over endlessly and well, that's fun.   
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   >>>>>With 80 million stars with probably about a guess of 480 million   
   >>>>>planets, I'm sure there are a couple or three or four with the same   
   >>>>>or similar enough DNA.   
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   >>>>>For all we know, the colony from Kobol arrived at the time of the   
   >>>>>hypothetical missing link.   
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   >>>>There are numerous missing links, please specify.   
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   >>>There has been speculation of a 'missing link' in the evolution of   
   >>>man. This link was somewhere between Homo Erectus and Homo Sapien   
   >>>where there was a huge leap of differences, but nothing in-between   
   >>>has ever been found.   
   >>   
   >>Interesting use of the term speculation.   
   >>   
   >>There are many missing links along the whole mythological tree. It   
   >>has already been shown that all bones found so far are all either   
   >>fully ape or fully human. To continue to believe in such faery tales   
   >>takes deeper faith than the supposition that aliens planted us here   
   >>from out there. How knows, perhaps all our ancient legengs are parts   
   >>of a collective memory. The Hindu Vadas speak of wars between what   
   >>could be spaceships.   
   >> There are some ancient cargo-cults that seem to have attempted to   
   >>imitate flight. Tolkien's Simarilion has an air of ancient history   
   >>about it. Even the early books of the Talmud allude to "others".   
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   > You mean Faerie Tales like the Earth and the universe being created in 7   
   > days?   
   >   
   > But then again, you have always been an ignorant fool in this newsgroup.   
      
   I never ceased to be amazed that people still make the assummption that   
   if you aren't a worshipper in the religion of evolution, you must be   
   some creatist hack.   
      
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