naturalplastic wrote:
Iamaparakeet wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
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Or it would indicate that they're not entirely a separate species.
How could aliens from another star system be the "same species" as any organism on earth? Us, or any other earth species?
We have 98.5 percent the same DNA as chimps. And about two thirds the same DNA as mushrooms. We are clearly related to and evolved from other earth organisms. Where in our genome is their room for this alien DNA? If it exists it would be some tiny proportion of that 1.5 percent that is not also chimp DNA. Like one part in a thousand of all our DNA. If these aliens shared only one one thousandth of our DNA they would still be farther removed from us than a mushroom. Wouldnt even be in our kingdom (as in "kingdom, phylum, class, order, etc)much less the same species as us.
I think I see what the problem is here.
I dismiss his notion of "hybrids" as being absurd from the get-go because the Universe cant work that way, and the reasons that it cant work that way all boil down to the fact that evolution wouldnt allow the same species of organism to evolve independently on two different planets light years apart.
The problem is that the OP has a different assumption- that being- that Evolution doesnt exist. I happened to know that he is a Evolution denying Young Earth Creationist (from seeing his post years ago). So the OP is not teethered to the Evolution rule book the way I am.
So I am guessing that he must be postulating that - in that same week in 4000 BC when God "created heaven and Earth" that he also created all of the exoplants, and he also would have created any exoplanets that have life, and thus would have created any intelligent alien beings on any exoplanets that have intelligent life. In contrast to my assumption that any intelligent aliens, if they exist, would be the product of a similar several billion year long process of evolution that produced us here on earth. And that because it was a seperate evolution said beings couldnt have genetic kinship to us.
So in his Creationist Cosmos if God did that then there would be no reason that God couldnt have used the same genetic blueprint for these space aliens as he did for creating us humans. So despite the fact that we and these aliens from hundreds of light years away would have no common ancestry they could still be the same species as us.
And yes... I suppose that that would be a possibility if you throw out the Evolution rule book. God could do any magical thing...like magically spawn the same species on seperate planets in seperate solar systems. But I would think that such a hypothesis would create more problems than it solves. Including theological problems. For one thing the Bible doesnt say anything about God creating beings on other planets. So why was that left out of the story?