USHER AND THE WORLD

We often laugh at the theory of Arch Bishop Usher that the world was created by God on 6004 BC in seven days. But really it is not much worse than our present belief that our civilization matured in just 10000 years of development. This can not happen. For the development that we are witnessing is the culmination of millions of years of progress. But where are our ancestors. Where are their remains, where are those records? The Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthals and the Peking man are not our direct ancestors. There have been many such mutations between us and them, or so is believed by biologists. But where are the records. I am not trying to prove that this did not happen and we were deposited by some alien race on the face of the earth to experiment on. But yet that might be the case. Macro evolution do not seem to be all that provable would like to see verifiable proof of the theory, that is what science is all about is it not? Collecting empirical evidence on the world and its phenomena and their transformation and transitions.
There are missing links in the theory of Evolution and this can not be denied. We can not claim to be the descendants of primates without producing supporting evidence for the same. The argument about alleles notwithstanding. But though the primates and man are somewhat similar they are not close kin’s. From our observations we have not been able to decide whether they have any decided intellectual growth as such. Certain apes show a definite bit of enthusiasm to investigate the world that they live in, but that is all they can do. Other species also have a fair bit of intelligence in this way. But to make the theory of mutation possible there must occur a drastic change in a biological system to enter a new phase of development and that mutation has to occur enmasse rather than to a single individual. There has to be the capability to adapt to the new type of genes and to reproduce those genes successfully to maintain the process. Most of the hybrids that we have produced up to now are unable to reproduce.
So how does this happen. The emergentist theories always argue that the world goes through transformations by a combination of forces of nature and this evolution is accidental rather than purposeful. Okay the biologists say that there is Chance and selection involved in the process. But it always rankles the mind. Let us even imagine that it is possible that such transformation occurs in matter over long periods of inter -action. But if that is true we cant claim that this is the only spot in the wide universe that has such a phenomenon in operation, or that it only happened in this globe alone. The difference between us and our nearest possible kin in this world is so vast that it can not be bridged in any way. The capacity oh human brain alone would defeated any such inquiries. There is no comparison between ours and the primate brain. Even the blood structure is different. We can’t copulate with the primates and produce children.
Well did we eliminate all our ancestors? Or did we evolve into a new species by some chance of nature? Even so it is a bit difficult to see all the different streams evolving at the same time- or do all the races have a common ancestry? May be that is the argument, that the Negrito, austrloid, Dravidian, Aryan, mangol races evolved out of the same ancestral stock which underwent evolutionary mutation. Yet there could be intermediary life forms. There has to be. They may have become extinct. But where are the remains?
Or let us say that we killed all our direct ancestors with the fear that if we allowed them to exist they would take us over and destroy us. But I do not see the possibility of that happening, for one thing we have many racial strains amongst us now and they co exist without much animosity. Yes there are wars and people who believe in racial superiority. But even in the back ground of this the different races existed and there has been no effort to extinguish the opponents on the whole sale. Are these different races a threat to each other? There has been cruel despots in the world who brutally assonated many in the world. But even they could not totally eliminate their enemies altogether. So if there were intermediary species they would probably have been allowed to exist with us. This does not seem to have happened.
The point is not that there was no evolution in the sense of neo Darwinian conception of the evolutionary theory, but is that we might be visitors on this globe rather than its own children. Could this be possible, that we evolved at some other world and was placed here by some intelligent beings? This might be the reason that we are so far removed from other species in this globe. There has to be some explanation some where.
The fact is, though we landed on the moon and have mapped the gene we still do not know much about any thing in our own little globe! Let us hope that it would not remain so.