Could the Human Race really be the Aliens on this planet??

[Vyse_Blue_Rogue]

JWeinCom said:

Vyse_Blue_Rogue said:

Evolution isn't random, but the mutations are. I agree with the above. It all seems ridiculously unlikely. I just cannot believe that I, a slug, a wasp an octopus an elephant and a hawk had the same ancestor, however many million times removed. 

Right.  The process isn't random and the mutations are.

It doesn't seem unlikely at all, at least to me.  It's just a problem of scales.  Humans live about 100 years at best.  Our scale of time is years.  All of recorded history is a sliver of time on earth that is beyond insignificant. 

When you can thing of time on a grander scale, it's not really hard to believe that things could change that much.  Assuming you accept that genes change over time, and really try to imagine billions of years, it doesn't only seem likely but inevitable.

I just can't see how, under any period of time, and any circumstances, that bacteria could eventuallt transform into a human