Is Earth our point of origin? Do we come from apes or somewhere else?

Answer 1

I'm glad I wore my boots... it sure is deep in here.

If we came from apes there would be thousands, maybe millions, of skeletons from the in-between progressions. There is no such evidence though, you have ape skulls, human skulls, and a few far fetched skeletons that appear to be the "missing link" but considering how few of them have been found it's more likely that they were a genetic abnormality. Just like we have "little people" and all sorts of genetic variations and abnormality's in humans now... we had the same variations all through history.

Read Genesis, you WERE created by a super-intellegent being... GOD. And his design still baffles modern scientists with it's complexity.

EDIT:
"Groove" All the planets in the entire solar system are slowly getting pulled into the sun by the suns gravitational pull. Almost like how the moon is being pulled by the earth's.
Lets go back many many many moons ago when per say Venus was at the correct distance from the sun where the planet could have possibly supported life....
We could have realized this on Venus and started a very early civilization here on earth. From there we have had to adapt to our surroundings and such. Which is where we are in our current state."

First, let's think about a highly idealized situation: one planet circling a star. Basically the planet's orbit won't change at all (there will be an ever-so-slight loss of energy due to gravitational waves, but that is a very very small effect for an orbit like the earth's orbit.) A little more realistically, there is likely to be small amount of "friction" in such a system because the planet and the star are not perfect little 'point masses' but physical bodies that can flex and disipate energy internally. The first effect of this friction will be to make the planetary orbit become very close to a circle, since this minimizes the variation in tidal squashing of the planet and star across the period of the orbit. Secondly, if there is a suitable method for continued loss of energy (and angular momentum) the orbit may "decay", e.g. the average distance between the star and the planet will decrease.

However, we live in a much more complex solar system. In our solar system, virtually all the kinetic energy and momentum is in the giant planets, especially Jupiter. So it turns out that the interactions between our Earth and these giant planets will be the dominant factor in determining how our orbit will change in the future. These interactions can be VERY complex and are best handled by large computer simulations. Last I heard, we were in good shape for the next few hundred million years at the least. Also, the orbit of the earth has not changed very much over the last few billion years, which suggests it may not change much over the next few billion years either.

If we were so technologically advance in this "Earth Colonization Effort" that you talked about, wouldn't you think that we would have retained that technology and built from there instead of starting all over again with our society and technology?" That really doesn't make much sense, I would think that if we all had to move to mars today that we would take our technology and our history with us, and start building from there.

Answer 2

Intresting enough that you brought this up.....

My friends and I have had alot of talks about this.
One of the things we came up with was....

All the planets in the entire solar system are slowly getting pulled into the sun by the suns gravitational pull. Almost like how the moon is being pulled by the earth's.
Lets go back many many many moons ago when per say Venus was at the correct distance from the sun where the planet could have possibly supported life....
We could have realized this on Venus and started a very early civilization here on earth. From there we have had to adapt to our surroundings and such. Which is where we are in our current state.

Now lets look at mars,
What are we doing, we are planning to inhabit mars. Why? in the event something happens to our own planet we will still ensure our species survives!

Who's to say we havn't already done that!

Good Question!

Answer 3

It is a misconception that everybody has that we come from apes.

Evolution says we have a common ancestor. The primate branch from that common ancestor includes monkeys, apes and hominids (the latter includes all the species of hominids that never made it to the present).

There are so many structural similarities between all vertibrates (lizards have similar skeletal structure to us, and Dolphins have fingers in their lateral fins) that the only way homo sapiens could have come from space is for some super-alien to have used the genes that were already present on Earth.

But in reality the evolutionary progression is unmistakable, and perhaps the only mystery is the sudden jump in brain size to Sapiens (and Neanderthal), and perhaps the sudden explosion of civilisation just 5 or 6 thousand years ago.

However, that can be explained in the light of modern developments – for example, 30 years ago there were no microchips – now they are in everything. For thousands of years there was the wheel, but with the invention of the railway, suddenly there was motive power.

The explosion in civilisation could simply have been the sudden realisation that you didn’t have to go hunt and pick berries and dig roots – you could build fences and keep animals, and you could grow your own stuff.

Answer 4

Life on earth originated on earth.
We did not evolve from apes.
Apes and us branched off from a common ancestor,maybe a slug or something.
However you look at it it was a noble beginning.

Answer 5

We are from Earth. There has never been anywhere else that has had life anywhere near this planet. Im not sure if we come from apes or not but we resemble them.

Answer 6

somewhere else. if you travel at light speed in space one
day equals one earth year. about 5000 of your earth years
a space ship crashed on earth. it needed a lot of repairs
and thankfully materials were in abandance, but after the
repairs were completed there was a small problem.
the space ship could not take off because of to much
weight.so it was decided that two people had to stay
behind.Adam and Eve.

Answer 7

As far as we know, and can prove, all life on Earth originated on Earth, and has evolved to create the ecological jigsaw puzzle that is our planets biosphere.

Doug

Answer 8

JHVH created us.