Where do we come from?

[mol]

Creation? Lets hear Community views about this ever-controversial topic.

[Broken_Faerie]

Like so many other things I just chose to not think about and say 'they just appeared there one day' this happens to be one of them :P

-Jessica

[richardcranium]

Long before man and animals there were just plants and ocean. A bolt of lightning struck the ocean and created the first forms of life. After that evolution took over.

[Rosabelle]

i think we came from sludge, then that evolved into tiny fish, which evolved into reptiles, which evolved into mammals which evolved into humans. have any of you seen the video to "Right here,Right now" by Fat Boy slim. it has the course of evolution on it and i think it is very good for explaining stuff.
Rosabelle

[Shatav]

The world was created so that the One would have an experiment to watch as it develops and grows. We ourselves have adapted over time to be what we are, however, though what we originally started out as, only Deity knows.

[mol]

Wow...what a diverse bunch of answers so far..

I prefer not to think about it. Because it isnt really important to me. Where I cam from.

I am concerned on where I am going. I think too many people look backwards instead of forwards.

Which is why they keep bumping into things! :)

[Shatav]

Originally posted by mol
I am concerned on where I am going. I think too many people look backwards instead of forwards.

Which is why they keep bumping into things! :)

Great outlook! But always remember balance, and never forget where we came from lest we repeat mistakes. Look towards the future, but remember the past.

[Semele]

Well, I know where I came from...my Mama!!!
Beyond that... I don't give a hoot!
More importantly I know where I am going...most of the time!
Semele

[Moondragon]

Evolution isn't it wonderful?<g>
Moondragon

[Mairwen]

Great outlook! But always remember balance, and never forget where we came from lest we repeat mistakes.Look towards the future, but remember the past.

Right, but don't hold yourself hostage to it. *wink*

[Sequoia]

I think that. . . it's all an infinity! A great big circle.

I figure eventually we'll get back to the 'beginning' again and start all over. . . it's happened a billion times before, prolly, and will again! no true beginning, and no end. Just. . . endless time *chuckles*

[Wind]

we came from the hairy, filthy, ignorant, ruthless apes.......... wow we havent come that far...... ~*sigh*~

[cherrywind]

I'm a hard core evolutionist. Of course I don't know the exact details of how humans came to be (;)), but I did take a physical anthropology class that went through all the earlier forms leading up to Homo sapiens sapiens (Australopithicus, Kenyanthropus, the early Homo species, etc). I found it rather interesting.

[Yvonne Belisle]

Well maybe considering the way we treat the earth we are a virus

[Silver_Alhena]

something interesting I learned in life sciences was of an experiment where the basic elements of humans (amino acids, the elements that make up DNA, carbon oxygen hydrogen and the like were put in this chamber and an electric current was passed through it. The 'ingrediants' formed cell-like forms.
Of course they weren't real actual cells...but very close to it.

Sorry I'm a bit sketchy on the detail, but this was 4 years ago.

The funniest theory of evolution came from this guy who put some food in a box, sealed it up and left it for a week, then came back to find a mouse in there. He thought the mouse evolved from this piece of food. Course, he didn't notice that it had gnawed it's way in through the back of the box!

[SimplyStrange]

I believe in evolution, but I've never really seen it as anything to worry about. As far as I'm concerned, I shouldn't spend my life trying to figure out where I came from, because I'd have wasted all that time I could have spent trying to figure out where I'm going (like what mol was saying). What's important to me is finding out what to do with my life NOW.... and living my life day by day. Whether or not I know the true answer of where I came from... eh, I think it's kind of cool for it to be a mystery... makes things more interesting. And it's another thing I get to learn eventually... I think?

Ooooh... I wonder where things are going to go from here? :2G: *shifty eyes and Twilight Zone music* Like in Planet of the Apres. :D

[Old Witch]

We are a failed experiment of the gods.......or we're from outer space........or a product of evolution........or toxic waste from that first lightning bolt..........

[Melysande]

In the beginning....

There was cheese. And it was good. The cheese was self-created out of the nothingness around it. And near the bottom of the cheese, which had been sitting in some leftover sludge and watery waste from that "other" evolutionary experiment, some mold was born. And slowly, through the aeons, this mold evolved.

And became......

Proto-Mel.

Proto-Mel was the first semi-recognizeable Mel species. It kind of oozed, but it had opposable thumbs (which came in handy when it wanted to scratch its amoeboid butt crack).

Over countless more ages, Proto-Mel evolved into Australopitha-Mel. Australopitha-Mel not only had opposable thumbs, but legs, and feet..... and hair. Australopitha-Mel was a stylin' chica now. **nods and acts "cool"**

Over many, many, many more millenia, Australopitha-Mel evolved into Melus Erectus. Yep. Mel was a boy in this life.

Ahem. But anyway, Melus Erectus was special in that s/he had the ability to walk upright.... which was probably because Melus Erectus' mother was always yelling at him to "Stand up straight! Don't Slouch!"

After a period of Ice Ages, the Mel paths divided in twain. Two strains of Mel lived, side by side: NeanderMel and CroMagnon Mel.

NeanderMel was normally too busy getting clubbed and dragged off by her mate, but CroMagnon Mel was smarter... She learned to club BACK.

After several more thousand years, NeanderMel had been clubbed into nonexistence, and CroMagnon Mel, had evolved into, Modern Mel.

The rest is history.

**grins**

[shnen]

I have no idea, cuz I wasn't there, then again, i haven't finished my life regression, so maybe I was... I'll let you know... :)

and yes, that is my serious answer.

[cherrywind]

:lol: at Melysande.

I think it's important to understand human past. We learn from the past, right? I guess maybe that's why I love archaeology/anthropology so much because it's interesting to learn of cultures from the past, what they did, what they achieved, how they (some of them) fell. I think learning about evolution is just a part of that. Although it may not be as rich in culture, as say, the Mayans, it still has it's own interesting distinct culture and that can be very important to understanding ourselves further :).

[flar7]

not big on evolution and darwinism, it leaves out some stuff.
also, stupidity and dumbness are non survival traits, they should
die out. But they dont, they multiply like wildfire.
Conclusion: God loves stupid people, or else he wouldnt make so
many of them!:p

[bluecat]

Well, the whole creationism thing is just a bunch of HOOEY, IMHO.

Do we really wanna know where we came from? I leave you all with the closing scene of Men In Black II ... for those who have not seen it ... check it out. For those who have, please do not spoil it for those who haven't.

Blue :cool:

[Armitage]

Well, the whole Big Bang thing...And evolution...But they didn't just come out of nowhere. I believe Someone had a great big celestial hand in it.

[Psyche Ague]

I honestly don't care where we came from; I'm more interested in where we're going. And you know what? I won't know how the universe was created in this lifetime and you know what else? That doesn't bother me. I would LOVE to know, but since I won't find out anytime soon, I choose to focus on the present and future. I wasn't present for the beginning of everything and in fact I don't remember my own beginning at all. The belief that it took place is good enough for me. But I don't believe in Creationism at all. Evolutionism is the best guess we have right now, but who knows if that's true either?

Oh - and Melysande's rendition of evolution is FABULOUS...