--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "jmhcustomart2004" <a_change_of_plans@...> wrote:
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> No, they did. Wars were constantly being fought over religious beliefs, and after awhile the governing bodies had had enough. About 2,000 years ago, all religions were pretty much knocked down from their high horses. Over many, many years, technology and science grew stronger and made further advances, wars became very infrequent, and society as a whole began to grow.
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> There are still religious beliefs, mind you. The basic purpose of it is to try to explain the very beginning of their world. Why are their some species that exist as both 2-legged AND 4-legged, while others are only 4-legged? Because of various similarities, even across species lines, many folks wonder what sort of creature, or event, occurred which spurred on their evolution. Whatever sort of being (god, alien, or mutation) it was, it obviously walked upright on 2 legs, had 2 eyes, was capable of advanced reasoning and thought, and so on. But no one knows who, or what, such a creature may have been. And so they fall back upon their religions to explain the things their science cannot yet explain.
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It's your world but I love speculating out the possibilities. :) What if there was a galaxy-wide war and the populations of entire worlds were being exterminated? If you poison a world then the enemy can't use it. There would be a need to preserve the different intelligent species from extinction. A world would be used as a Noah's Ark for those species. Advanced technology would be detectable. It would bring the war right to earth. So hundreds of different intelligent species appeared on the earth at the same time and they had to start technology over again from scratch. They didn't dare use advanced technology. They probably didn't even talk about it for fear that their children might attempt to re-create it. If it was used before the war ended then everybody was toast. Their origin story from the stars would be lost over the course of thousands of years.
Option two is that the world was terraformed. Intelligent species were created and placed there to be watched as an on-going experiment to see what would happen.
Option three is that people seeking to escape the galaxy war sought out primitive, uninhabited worlds to escape the war. The current intelligent species are descended from refugees.
Option four is that the earth was once a pirate world. Arrr! :) The galaxy government collapsed. Space travel stopped between worlds. The pirates got stuck on a primitive world. They eventually lost their advanced technology because they used to steal it from other worlds when space travel was affordable. The past was forgotten but hundreds of intelligent species still remained on the earth.
Option five, the earth was a primitive planet that was used as a prison colony. The galaxy government collapsed. The current population is descended from criminals.
Option six. The gods created the earth as kind of a nature theme park with intelligent species in it. Then the gods lost interest in the park and they just abandoned it.
Evolution? Hundreds of intelligent species evolved together and their intelligence evolved at the same rate so they kept up with each other. Riiight. We're still waiting for intelligent life to evolve on OUR earth. :) It'll never happen. :)
Have fun everyone.
Edward Fox
Received on Tue Oct 05 2010 - 02:42:20 CDT