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Highly advanced humans

living thousands of years ago...

unidentified DNA in the human genome...

and ancient chronicles

describing heavenly interventions on Earth.

Did humans really evolve from apes?

Or is our intelligence the result of an otherworldly design?

What are humans made of?

Why do we evolve the way we do, grow the way we do,

think the way we do?

There's no explanation for human beings.

They shouldn't be here on this planet.

Science and the world of history,

even in archeology, is still scrambling around for answers.

We should finally come to grips with the

idea that extraterrestrials had

something to do with our development.

Millions of people around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might evidence of alien contact help to unlock the

mystery behind the creation of man?

sync and corrections by Bellows www.addic7ed.com

South Africa

25 miles northwest of Johannesburg lie the Malapa Caves.

Here, in August of 2008, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger

and his nine-year-old son Mathew discover several

fossilized skeletal remains of two-million-year-old early

humans, including a female adult and male child, perhaps a

mother and son.

The size and shape of the bones indicate that the individuals

walked upright and had modern hands.

Over the past several decades, scientists have unearthed the

remains of nearly two dozen different types of early human

ancestors, all known as hominids.

We have an extremely good fossil record

of ancient hominids.

and I think the picture emerging from it is

pretty clear that in earlier days, before Homo Sapiens came along

there were typically many different kinds

of hominids coexisting in the world.

We have a hard time giving

our minds around this now because of course

there is just one kind of human on earth today

and there are 7 billion of it

but at one time within the last few hundred thousand years,

you could find two or even three species of hominids

living the same area at the same time.

Most mainstream scholars tell us hominids

evolved from an ape ancestor nearly six million years ago

through what is referred to as natural selection.

This theory of evolution was first popularized by English

anthropologist Charles Darwin in

his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.

Darwin's mechanism of evolution was natural selection.

That is to say a long-term process whereby

better-adapted individuals reproduce more successfully.

Darwin's theory of evolution

by natural selection explained that organism with certain traits

such as mutation

turned out to be actually beneficial

turned out to be of advantage in the struggle for reproduction

So mutation allow organism to survive and

to pass on to the next generation this mutation.

Darwin speculated that over time, hominids walking

on two feet used their hands to make tools.

This, in turn, made them smarter.

Then, approximately 200,000 years ago, hominids evolved into

Homo sapiens... or modern man.

But many scholars dispute Darwin's findings.

We don't see dolphins building cars,

We don't see elephants building houses.

That might sound trite, but it's a fact that these animals just

simply haven't progressed and advanced in the way we have.

And the big question is, why is that?

Why should that happen?

Why should we be so unique?

Tool use doesn't really come into play for

several million years after the first earliest humans began to

walk upright.

And then brain size doesn't really begin to

expand and really mushroom in size until the last several

hundred thousand years.

So, actually six million years of human evolution, there are

millions of years separating each of those major features:

upright posture, tool use, brain expansion.

So Darwin was wrong because he couldn't possibly have known the

chronology in his day.

In 1967, British zoologist Desmond Morris argued

against Darwin's theories on evolution in his book

The Naked Ape.

In it, Morris wrote that there was no reason why man stood

alone from other species in terms of his nudity.

Well, of course, as Homo sapiens we still

continue to have a coating of hair, but that hair is very

much reduced over most of our bodies, and that reduction

probably goes back way beyond Homo sapiens in time.

It probably goes back to the time when the very first early

bipedal hominids came out of the forests in Africa into the

savannahs where they had more

sun and more thermal radiation to cope with.

In places like Europe, Northern Europe, why we

lost body hair is the chicken and egg question.

Did we lose our body hair because we began to wear

clothing to keep us warm or was there some other factor at work

that caused us to lose our body hair?

Perhaps women didn't find body hair on men attractive, and so

it was lost because they didn't choose those men as mates.

There's no way to ever answer that question.

If we were to subscribe

100% to the idea of the survival of the fittest

isn't it illogical to think that all of a sudden

we're completely naked and we're losing all of our fur?

I mean, that makes absolutely no sense because right after we

shed our fur, we had to wear furs to keep warm.

Had we not worn any furs, we would have frozen to death,

we would have died.

So the whole idea that we shed all of our hair in order to

survive because we were stronger, logically makes no sense.

But if Darwin's theory of natural selection

cannot account for the appearance of intelligent

hairless Homo sapiens, what can?

Might the transition of hominids to modern human beings have been

the result of an otherworldly design, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

Alfred Russel Wallace, a colleague of Darwin, called it

the intelligence evolution.

Darwin believed that the human brain had

been driven into existence by natural selection, but Wallace

couldn't quite see how this could be so.

What Wallace perceived was that the way that humans think,

their intellectual faculties are qualitatively different from

anything that had preceded them, and he couldn't quite see how

this enormous gap could be bridged by natural selection.

So he invoked another explanation for the evolution,

the arrival of modern human cognitive abilities.

His choice was a spiritual explanation.

Alfred believed there was an unseen

creative spirit that was behind all life on our planet.

And he believed that this unseen creative spirit

had interceded three times in this planet.

First was to create life from inorganic matter.

And then the second time was

when animals achieved some kind of consciousness.

And the third time was when humans suddenly were able to

have the mental abilities that we have today.

But he felt that it wasn't just

random selection like Charles Darwin thought.

He believed that all of these changes had a creative

intelligence behind it.

The view that I have is that because the rest of

nature hasn't changed that much, that arguably, we shouldn't.

So that suggests to me we're seeing something potentially

that has gone against nature, and if it's gone against nature,

maybe that means because somebody has been manipulating nature.

There's no explanation for human beings.

They shouldn't be here on this planet.

If we were evolved and changed by an extraterrestrial source

from our early primate ancestors

That's the only way, really, you could've come

from the human species.

Unless you, of course, put god into the equation.

Then, who knows who the gods may have been.

Charles Darwin may be crawling over in his grave right now

but it's very possible that mankind came about

because of extraterrestrial intervention.

Did the evolution of modern humans

really received a jump start by extraterrestrial beings,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe

and if so, might there be tangible evidence.

Some scientists believe proof can be found,

inside the human brain.

Chicago, Illinois.

December 2004.

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical lnstitute of the

University of Chicago publish the results of a study that

claims the sophistication of the human brain was the result of a

so-called special event.

They said mankind's intelligence was not only the result of

evolution, and that around 50,000 years ago, the genes of

ancient humans went through an intense amount of change in a

relatively short amount of time--

what some refer to as the big bang of the brain.

No one really knows how human beings developed so fast

in such a short period of time

They don't believe it was done naturally.

It's very clear the fully modern intellectual function

is a very recent acquisition in our lineage.

It's not an improvement of what was there before

it's a new kind of manipulation of information and the mind.

There is no other animal creature on the planet

that has such a comparative point and that is why they call it

the big brain event.

People talk about the missing link.

Where is between the link between going from apes

monkeys, gorillas, ectetera,

to being out to develop atomic weaponry and fly in space.

When we're looking at the origins of man,

we've realised that 50,000 years ago, we really went where

no creature has even gone before.

We have become human.

But what was the spark that spored human intelligence

Was it a genetic mutation brought about

by the natural selection process of evolution

as many mainstream scientists contend

or could've it been a genetic modification

produced by extraterrestrial beings

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

There's also the idea that there was a gene or genes

that popped up some time in our ancestors

randomly, that might have given the ability

to symbolically represent objects in our environment

or the abstract, those are things that for instance

chimpanzees have a great deal of trouble with

even with the talk language

Homo Sapiens emerging from Africa started to behave symbolically

They started to manipulate information in their mind

in a way their predecessors had never done before

They disassembled the world around them into a vocabulary

of discrete symbols and recombined them

so they could imagine new kinds of worlds

Long long time ago,

extraterrestrials arrived on this planet.

They realised that the planet was full of life

and one of them was the most advanced form

was one of our ancestors.

They took the DNA out

and they changed the basic information in the DNA.

This is what our genetics are doing every day.

Now, the cell was changed, the product you plant into womb

of a female of the same species

This female will give birth to a child approximately after 9 months

but because of this artificial mutation, and that is the difference,

because it was made artificially by the extraterrestrials.

What if as part of the genetics updates

human beings were getting from extraterrestrials

one of those genetic updates involved a software download

biological download to differentiate

the different hemispheres of the brain

to allow human society, tool making, fire, social organization

to be creative, and from that, that particular species

of hominid became the human being we are today.

If alien species out there could

fly across, interstellar space

then in all probability they would have similar DNA

in common and technology.

Of course it would depend on their own genetic composition

being similar to ours

but if they understood sufficient chemistry

and physical principles from their own experience

of their physical world model

then in all probability, manipulating our DNA would be simple.

But if alien beings created humans by genetically

altering our primitive ancestors,

might various versions of hominids have been

the result of experiments at creating intelligent life on Earth,

as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

This is one of the greatest unanswered questions.

The ancient records do not say

that we are part of a social experiment.

The ancient records say that we were bestowed upon this gift.

The gods gave us the gift of intellect.

And it is for us to use it.

So yes, we might actually be part of an experiment, but it

might be an experiment in intelligence.

It might actually be a game,

a kind of the greatest reality TV show, whereby the entire human

species is watched by ancient aliens who have been watching

the show for maybe 50,000 years.

FOXP2 is a gene that was found in our nuclear ***

and it is something that sets us completely apart

from any other animal

And scientists have suggested that that gene alone

is responsible for language

And there is absolutely no evidence of origin

where as this thing somehow mutated

from the animal kingdom towards us.

So this gene exists out of nowhere without any origin.

So my question is, is it possible that this gene was

given to us, or grafted into us,

by extraterrestrials in the remote past?

And the answer is yes.

Was it the same non human ancient aliens

so many ancient settlements on this planet

deciding that they wanted humans to be able

to communicate at a more sophisticated level

I think that's the fundamental angst today among people trying

to understand who are we in relationship to extraterrestrials

that may have been manipulating DNA

on this planet for thousands of years.

Might the evidence of our alien origins really have

been passed down to us implanted in our genetic code,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Perhaps further evidence can be found, not by scientists, but

by religious scholars, that claim Adam and Eve really did exist.

The Hebrew Bible.

In it, the Book of Genesis describes how God created the

first two humans, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and told

them to "go forth and multiply."

For centuries, scientists and theologians have debated whether

this story of the Creation of Man was mere myth or historical fact.

The Torah mentions that humanity is made

out of the dust of the Earth, and that God breathed life into

this to make us animated.

Here is the breath of soul, the breath of vitality,

the divine breath that suggests that with the spark

the life force that makes a human body tick

it's divine in its nature

In 1987, scholars disagreements

over the origin of man intensified

with the discovery that the genetic lineage of every living person

could be traced back to a single woman who once lived in Africa.

It's pretty well established by now

particularly from the molecular, the DNA record

that homo sapiens did originate at one place in Africa

and after having become fully modern in the sense of intellectually modern

spread out to occupy Europe, to occupy Eastern Asia

and the old world in general.

It is sometimes called the Eve model

not meaning that we all descended from the same woman

but it does mean that there was a woman

in that early population migrating out of Africa

who was the only female, who ultimately left her genes

in every modern person.

But is it possible that mainstream science

and the book of Genesis are both pointing to the same

moment in ancient time when modern man first appeared on Earth.

The myth of Adam and Eve, I think, it's not a myth

I think it's a true story

I think Adam and Eve were on this planet

they were the first human beings that we know of

and they helped populate this planet

What is the Garden of Eden?

I think it just happened to be the area

that the genetically manipulated human beings, Adam and Eve,

were placed.

That's where they lived that's where they started to breathe

and that's where the population's planet started to grow

If Adam and Eve actually had existed

as described in the Hebrew Bible,

might this also mean that a serpent really did

tempt them to eat from the tree of knowledge

and if so, might this account have been an effort to describe

the sudden awakening of the modern human mind,

when man first became an intelligent being.

In the Bible says that if you eat from this tree

you will be like god.

Satan in a form of a snake tempted Adam and Eve

and promises them that they will be like god

The knowledge that Adam and Eve acquire

as well as humanity in general

gives man the ability to eventually carry out genetic manipulations

So what was this tree of knowledge?

Is the tree of knowledge in fact a helical DNA sequencing

in our own bodies that was genetically engineered

by extraterrestrials 50,000 years ago?

So that we would have the abilities that we have today?

In my mind, it's our DNA itself that is the Tree of Knowledge.

But why was this suddenly a bad thing?

It would seem that the aliens... some of them wanted us to have

this knowledge, to be like the gods, but others said no, no.

Man is not to have all of this knowledge.

This is also the same story of the Greek god Prometheus, who,

against the orders of the other gods, comes down to Earth and

gives mankind the knowledge of fire.

But because of this gift to mankind, he himself, as a god,

is, like Satan, he's banished from the Earth.

And why?

Because he helped mankind to have greater knowledge.

The whole idea or concept of Satan

is based on a misunderstood visit by extraterrestrials

in the remote past.

According to the ancient astronaut theory,

the reason why we have the idea of a Satan today

is because there might have been some type of a mutiny

between good and bad

extraterrestrial factions in the remote past.

And so the mutineers were cast out by the commander and they

became known as the evil fallen angels,

which they never were.

If as astronaut theorists believe,

extraterrestrials were responsible for providing humans

with intelligence, might they

have also given man the ability to speak?

Our voice box, our larynx is so different than the apes

even the chimpanzee who's our closest cousin

that we are able to produce sounds and produce language.

To a scientist today, that's almost like it was genetically designed

so that we can say words and sing

There really isn't anything more advanced than the human language

So many different cultures, dialects, languages around the world

and the very fact we can communicate on such a *** extensive level

that really sets us apart from all other animals.

Who invented language? Where did that come from?

Was it something instilled in us?

I think there is a mystery to it, that to a large degree science

and the world of history, even archeology are still

scrambling around for answers

Maybe we shouldn't be looking down here for answers

maybe we should be looking up there.

We are told in the bible

that we are made into the image of God What does that mean?

Does it mean that we were made physically in somebody's image?

And so as for the question namely

whether we are descendants from apes

or some other creatures on this planet

or whether we have been truly engineered

can be answered by mythology.

Mythology is able to say that we are not descending from the ape,

but that something happened on this Earth and an alien

intervention came and we were the end result of this.

In my opinion

the extraterrestrials, by an artificial mutation

they created the intelligence of human

Then the extraterrestrial disappeared.

And some of our ancestors had again sex with their ancestors,

with ape-like beings.

And that was called into mythology, "original sin."

Then they return again, the gods, they realized what happened...

and they decided to destroy the whole race by a great flood,

and to restart the experiment

again with what we call in mythology, Noah.

That's all text.

That's the way it is.

It would appear that extraterrestrials came

here, used great apes, other early hominids, created what

would be Neanderthal man, or Homo erectus, somebody similar

to us, and then refined that hominid until they came up with

Homo sapiens... and then the other early

hominids were destroyed.

Might the biblical account of Adam and Eve and

Noah's Ark really be the retelling of extraterrestrial events,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Perhaps further evidence can be found in the archeological

remnants and eyewitness

accounts from man's earliest known civilization.

Northern Iraq

Along the east bank of the Tigris River, opposite the city

of Mosul, lie the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh,

a place originally inhabited by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

Here, in 1842, British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard

unearthed the ruins of the great library of

Assurbanipal, a royal archive containing thousands of clay

tablets with cuneiform inscriptions.

Dating to 3000 BC, the messages carved into stone are considered

to be the world's first written accounts.

Sumerian tablets are probably one of the oldest

form of written record that we have.

They've been translated and tell exciting stories about how

Gods intervene with human beings

and actually had a hand in the creation of human beings.

Whether or not it's just mythology, or if it's fact

no one really knows.

According to interpretations of the sumerian tablets,

the gods were called the Annunaki.

What we are looking at here,

is a sumerian tablet that actually shows the tree of life.

linked by divine beings, you can see here the Annunaki on each side

We also see the winged disc, a symbolic reference that the

Anunnaki had the power of flight.

They actually had necklaces with astronomical references--

a moon, a star, various symbols, which even could be symbolized

as a wristwatch-- technology being used 6,000 years ago.

The written accounts etched into stone

suggest the Annunaki were giant beings, standing eight

feet tall, who came to Earth in search of gold for

their home planet.

When the Sumerian gods, the Anunnaki, realized the

toll it was taking to mine the gold themselves, they decided

to fashion a worker being, a slave to mine the gold for them.

And they explain in the Sumerian creation tales that this was an

arduous process.

So it's very possible that our genetic evolution was a process

done by the Anunnaki to create us in their image and

after their likeness.

They created man according to the sumerian texts.

They created Adam and Eve.

How interesting that the Bible will echo the story

but talked about it in terms of God.

So much like these highly advanced creatures

we're acting as teachers.

And certainly sumerian culture and mythology is full of stories of,

you know, we're saving visitation from these mysterious higher entities

that you know bestowed wisdom and fantastic ideas and concepts.

And, you know, you have to wonder-- is this just down to

myth, or was somebody coming

down and really trying to give us a push, if you like?

Ancient chronicles of sky beings creating human

life are common in early cultures found all over the world.

But while mainstream scholars often dismiss this evidence,

might such tangible historical accounts provide proof of alien

intervention in man's evolution,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

The Sumerians are not the only culture

that talks about this.

Also in the Koran, it says that

language was given to us by Allah, or God.

The Maya Popol Vuh says that

language was given to us by the gods.

The ancient Egyptian texts are saying the exact same thing.

It doesn't matter what ancient culture we look at, they all say

the same, that language was a gift from the gods.

We should finally come to grips with the idea

that extraterrestrials had something to do with our development.

Prior to the use of early systems of writing,

ancient people carved symbolic communication into stone.

Called petroglyphs, the oldest

date to about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

According to ancient astronaut theorists, petroglyphs located

in the American Southwest link the prehistoric ancestors of the

Zuni and Hopi tribes with star beings.

The first graphic expressions by humans were petroglyphs.

That means symbols or figures scratched into stone.

The Hopi Indians, for example, scratched petroglyphs into their

rock faces that show people with radiating wreaths, gods that

descend from the sky.

The Hopi Indians say that these beings are Kachinas--

beings from space who came to Earth in aircraft, who were not

gods, but who brought them knowledge from another planet.

We have the same phenomenon in Europe, in Valcamonica.

We have it in Asia.

We have it in Brazil.

When we look at the fact that all around the world

we hear similar legends of people from the stars coming

down and having a profound impact on the people of this

country or that particular culture, all embroiled in

similar time frames, you know, we're seeing a pattern

developing, and it's difficult to dismiss that that pattern is suggestive.

In our ancient past, creatures came down, interacted with us,

and maybe manipulated us to become the people we are today.

Why are so many past civilizations all saying similar things?

I think the simple answer is, is that the same thing happened

and they know the story.

And the story is that extraterrestrials came to this

planet, genetically made and manipulated whatever creatures

were here at the time, and helped jump-start society.

The bottom line is every civilization talks about

the existence of man through the eyes of a god, and if you think

of the eyes of the god as ETs, it all makes sense.

Back then, this was the way they communicated events

that were significant to them.

And so when we have this imagery of the so-called star people on

petroglyphs and things like that,

they're clearly chronicling something real,

to my mind at least, that occurred in their history.

The big question is, what?

But while the evidence of contact between

alien beings and early humans is compelling, what if life did not

begin here on Earth, but arrived from somewhere else?

Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Here, in March of 2011, astrobiologist Richard Hoover

reports the extraordinary news that he found micro fossil

organisms-- or ancient bacteria-- inside rare

meteorites that are more than four billion years old, dating

back to the birth of our solar system.

Until recently, scientists did not believe life could survive

the rigors of space travel.

But Hoover's finding suggests that live bacteria made it to Earth

and may have even taken root here.

Microorganism trapped inside the comets

can survive the travel through interplanetary space

and interstellar space.

And the reason is that the

microorganism are trapped in the rocky core.

Around, you have a thick shield of icy material.

And on top, you have a stratification of dust.

Dust is highly effective in

shielding the microorganism from ultraviolet light.

So comet are an excellent vehicle to transport

microorganism, single-cell life,

amino acid in the vastness of space.

Instead of aliens coming to the earth in UFOs

in classic Hollywood terms

a microbial phase of life comes to the earth in a meteorite

survives entering our atmosphere

crashes on the planet and begins to thrive.

The theory that life on Earth began with alien

organisms landing here from

other parts of the universe is controversial.

Called panspermia, one of the most vocal proponents of this

theory was Sir Francis Crick, a British scientist who

co-discovered DNA in 1953.

Francis Crick co-discovered

of the double helix himself.

Said that all this can't happen by chance

that it has to have been engineered.

One of his arguments is that the rotation of the DNA is in the

same direction for all living things.

Had DNA developed on Earth, it would probably have had a 50-50

distribution, and that's exactly what we don't have.

One of the reasons why I think

the theory of panspermia is so incredible

is that it tells you that there is life throughout the universe.

If panspermia is correct, life came here on comets or meteorites,

and we're being seeded, not only on this planet,

but other planets as well.

And it could be part of the great design.

It is the intentional deliberate colonization

of other planets, other worlds by an intelligent race of beings

using not flying saucers landing in the desert somewhere

or in the middle of the sea

but the best way to colonize a planet

you colonize it with your own DNA and let the DNA sprout

into your own species

In terms of our science and technology today,

we have the ability to extract cells and DNA at a genetic level

and save them.

That's how we have so-called test tube babies for couples

who can't have babies.

We preserve the materials for when they need it.

And the day may well come when we send into outer space the

equivalent of, like, Noah's Ark, but instead of sending literal

animals, we send their essence-- their DNA, their genetic makeup.

I don't rule out the idea that we could seed a whole new world.

Today, scientists know that only about five

percent of the DNA contained in

our genes is used to reproduce human beings.

The remainder is an undecipherable code, once

referred to as junk DNA.

But is it really possible that so much of our DNA is unnecessary?

Or might the majority of our DNA

be decoded sometime in the future?

And when it is, what might our

DNA reveal about the origin of modern man?

Just because we cannot decipher

95% of our genetic material doesn't necessarily mean

that that 95% is in fact useless.

Nature is extremely efficient.

DNA is the most powerful storage device in the universe.

Not even with all the supercomputers combined in the

world could we store as much

information as we could store on DNA.

So I'm suggesting that the ultimate proof of

extraterrestrial life will not be found in a crashed spaceship

or in a text, but it will be found within our own genes.

We have so much to learn from studying our own DNA.

We are only just now beginning to decode the human DNA sequence

And as we do that, what we may discover is that

extraterrestrial DNA is built into our own genetics.

Whatever is out there created the universe, this

planet, and other planets and life.

And I strongly believe that this tie-in with whether gods and ETs

were one of the same might very well be the case.

It does not take away from the fact that there's a god, that

there's a higher power, that there's some creation out there

that made the ETs, but I think that layer between God and man

is right in the middle, and that's extraterrestrials

from other planets.

We have to learn that most of our *** religions

Rome, except one thing there is creation

there is what we call god in all respect

And we have to learn by religion we are very teeny, little beings

in this gigantic universe and

why God is absolutely inexpressible.

It's so gigantic.

It's so wonderful.

So we would never lose God when

we continue to think of extraterrestrials.

God becomes bigger.

Is it really possible that humans evolved

from bacteria growing in some sort of primordial ooze?

Or were we intelligently designed by a higher power--

of extraterrestrial origin--

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Perhaps the answer lies within

the very essence of what makes us, human.

And with this knowledge, we may

yet discover our rightful place in the universe.