Gregg Braden
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Darwin's theory of evolution suggests that we are the product of a long, slow, gradual process over a long period of time through what is called random mutations. Colloquially, we call it lucky biology. It's kind of like you've referred to Goldilocks conditions on Earth. It's the equivalent of Goldilocks.
What are the chances that just the right genes, just the right chromosomes came together in just the right time to give us our... So you see these kinds of mutations. And scientists say, I mean, this isn't my opinion. This is in those technical bits. There's a paper from Proceedings National Academy of Sciences. The volume is called Genetics. It says this cannot happen under natural circumstances.
What are the chances that just the right genes, just the right chromosomes came together in just the right time to give us our... So you see these kinds of mutations. And scientists say, I mean, this isn't my opinion. This is in those technical bits. There's a paper from Proceedings National Academy of Sciences. The volume is called Genetics. It says this cannot happen under natural circumstances.
What are the chances that just the right genes, just the right chromosomes came together in just the right time to give us our... So you see these kinds of mutations. And scientists say, I mean, this isn't my opinion. This is in those technical bits. There's a paper from Proceedings National Academy of Sciences. The volume is called Genetics. It says this cannot happen under natural circumstances.
Something happened 200,000 years ago to give us our humanness. And we appeared. And now here's the mind blower. 200,000 years later, now we can pull the DNA out of the fossilized remains of ancient forms of life. It used to be science fiction. Jurassic Park was based on the science fiction that they pulled the DNA out of dinosaur bones and then they brought the dinosaurs to life.
Something happened 200,000 years ago to give us our humanness. And we appeared. And now here's the mind blower. 200,000 years later, now we can pull the DNA out of the fossilized remains of ancient forms of life. It used to be science fiction. Jurassic Park was based on the science fiction that they pulled the DNA out of dinosaur bones and then they brought the dinosaurs to life.
Something happened 200,000 years ago to give us our humanness. And we appeared. And now here's the mind blower. 200,000 years later, now we can pull the DNA out of the fossilized remains of ancient forms of life. It used to be science fiction. Jurassic Park was based on the science fiction that they pulled the DNA out of dinosaur bones and then they brought the dinosaurs to life.
They reconstituted them. To the best of my knowledge, we have not reconstituted any forms of life. But you know, in the basement of the Pentagon, somebody up there is doing it. But what we can do, this is what we can do. We can pull that DNA and build a genome, a printout of that genome.
They reconstituted them. To the best of my knowledge, we have not reconstituted any forms of life. But you know, in the basement of the Pentagon, somebody up there is doing it. But what we can do, this is what we can do. We can pull that DNA and build a genome, a printout of that genome.
They reconstituted them. To the best of my knowledge, we have not reconstituted any forms of life. But you know, in the basement of the Pentagon, somebody up there is doing it. But what we can do, this is what we can do. We can pull that DNA and build a genome, a printout of that genome.
And so now we can compare our genome today to the genome of the forms of life that Darwin's theory of evolution says we descended from. And the DNA says we didn't descend from them. We did not descend from Australopithecus. We didn't, Lucy, we didn't descend from Neanderthal. Now, if you do a DNA test for your ancestry, a lot of people will say, well, I've got Neanderthal DNA.
And so now we can compare our genome today to the genome of the forms of life that Darwin's theory of evolution says we descended from. And the DNA says we didn't descend from them. We did not descend from Australopithecus. We didn't, Lucy, we didn't descend from Neanderthal. Now, if you do a DNA test for your ancestry, a lot of people will say, well, I've got Neanderthal DNA.
And so now we can compare our genome today to the genome of the forms of life that Darwin's theory of evolution says we descended from. And the DNA says we didn't descend from them. We did not descend from Australopithecus. We didn't, Lucy, we didn't descend from Neanderthal. Now, if you do a DNA test for your ancestry, a lot of people will say, well, I've got Neanderthal DNA.
And more in Northern Europe. You see that a lot in the UK. And it even proves the point. Because we shared the earth with Neanderthal. Mm-hmm. We actually interbred. They say we probably had boyfriends and girlfriends, Neanderthal boyfriends and girlfriends. We shared the earth with them. We could not have descended from them. So the point is, we don't know where we came from.
And more in Northern Europe. You see that a lot in the UK. And it even proves the point. Because we shared the earth with Neanderthal. Mm-hmm. We actually interbred. They say we probably had boyfriends and girlfriends, Neanderthal boyfriends and girlfriends. We shared the earth with them. We could not have descended from them. So the point is, we don't know where we came from.
And more in Northern Europe. You see that a lot in the UK. And it even proves the point. Because we shared the earth with Neanderthal. Mm-hmm. We actually interbred. They say we probably had boyfriends and girlfriends, Neanderthal boyfriends and girlfriends. We shared the earth with them. We could not have descended from them. So the point is, we don't know where we came from.
Theory of evolution says that we are the product of this long, slow, gradual process. A lot of people don't know there was... There was a corollary to Darwin's theory put forth by another scientist at the time that says that the corollary says nature never over endows. So the problem is we are all over endowed and people love to hear that.
Theory of evolution says that we are the product of this long, slow, gradual process. A lot of people don't know there was... There was a corollary to Darwin's theory put forth by another scientist at the time that says that the corollary says nature never over endows. So the problem is we are all over endowed and people love to hear that.
Theory of evolution says that we are the product of this long, slow, gradual process. A lot of people don't know there was... There was a corollary to Darwin's theory put forth by another scientist at the time that says that the corollary says nature never over endows. So the problem is we are all over endowed and people love to hear that.
What it means is that an organism will only develop the characteristics it needs when nature puts the demand on the organism for it. So for example, adaptation. The studies of moths in London during the industrial age, the coal-fired plants, the moths had white feathers They'd be against white buildings and that would camouflage them from the birds and the birds couldn't get them.