Self-Inflicted Extinction – Not necessarily a bad thing . . .

For quite some time now, I have had a theory about the origin of man that is somewhat unconventional to many people. And I now have a theory of the demise of man that goes hand-in-hand with it.

I recently traveled to DC and while there, visited the Museum of Natural History. The exhibit that stuck with me the most was the evolution exhibit. Sure the life-size, re-constructed dinosaur skeletons are grand, but the thing that interested me most was the timeline of Earth. I already knew that man has only inhabited Earth for a small fraction of it’s existence, but to see it portrayed visually is very effective – mankind is a blink of the eye to Mother Earth.

Several months ago I went to see the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” – put your political bias aside – this is not about politics, it’s about science and reality – it’s about a man-made condition that will cause the demise of mankind. No reputable scientist disputes that global warming is real (so don’t you – you’re not qualified). And most agree that it is happening at alarming rates that may already be out of our control.

So first, here is my somewhat unconventional theory as to the origin of man: I don’t think man is from here, not altogether at least. I consider the possibility that during the evolution of man that some entity from somewhere else bred with one of the early forms of man and from that the human species has evolved. The reason I think this is mostly because of how separated from the natural world humans are. We are the only species destroying the Earth – if we were indigenous to the planet, wouldn’t we have a survival instinct within us to protect the Earth instead of destroy it? Some would argue that it is our “superior intelligence” that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. But to that I say, why does man, this ONE species on the earth, have “superior intelligence"? Where did it come from? And why hasn’t it evolved parallel to us in other creatures?

And as for the demise of mankind – unlike the dinosaurs who never saw it coming and had nothing to do with it, we are going to cause our own extinction. It’s poetic justice if you ask me. We are so arrogant and so righteous that we thought we could trash this planet and it would adapt for us. We deserve every ounce of annihilation our “superior intelligence” is going to bring us. Earth will survive, it always has, it always will. The best thing that could happen to Earth is the extinction of man – and relatively speaking, she doesn’t have long to wait. In the timeline of Earth, man will forever be nothing more than a blink of Mother’s eye.