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

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Vyse_Blue_Rogue said:

JWeinCom said:

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

Why not? We transformed the Gray Wolf into a bunch of very different breeds ranging from a teacup-sized Chihuahua to the massive Great Dane in about 100,000 years. With over 3,000,000,000 years and a massive assortment of environments to adapt to, is it really that hard to believe?