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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] I think the idea that we're probably not the first one is born out of the fact that there seams to be much older stars and galaxies out there than are own and by extension older planets that may or may not have gotten life started billions of years before our sun was even born. Sure someone had to be first, but odds are it probably wasn't us. Just take our own planet's history for example, if it weren't for the Chicxulub impact, it's [i]possible[/i] some Cretaceous species could have beaten us to the sapient punch by tens of millions of years...who knows, maybe some did and we just don't know it. Indeed (if memory serves) it's debatable whether the Neanderthal pre-date us or not, or even at which point dose a species become truly "intelligent" or sapient. My main problem with people trying to use the Bible as the basis for the origin of all creation is that it's not a book, it's a collection of disparate texts that have been edited, translated several time and even their inclusion voted on by politically motivated church members. Even then, most of those texts were written by people (ie humans, not God) who spent allot of time out in the desert eating mushrooms an cactus juice...not the most reliable combination. At best it's metaphor and allegory. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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