re: Humans may not be from earth- an ecologist defends his controversial claim

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Our earth changing is more believable than us coming from another planet.

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The current scientific hypotheses and theories are much more believable than us coming from another planet or fantasy bible stories.

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One theory i've heard is before Noah's flood in the Bible (ive read most major ancient civilizations have a similar story of a great flood) the earth could have been surrounded by a a thick watery layer in the sky. The earth was like a planetarium that was fed with a a mist, instead of rains. When the Earth flooded, the water came down, flooded the earth and then became the frozen poles leaving us without the protective layer. Much less protection from the sun decreased life expectancy.

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Every culture does have a flood story, but that doesn't mean that the flood event needs to have been literally a worldwide flooding of all the land's surfaces. Most likely, because all settled human cultures developed around fertile river valley and because most humans did and still do live near the coast, the melting of the polar ice caps (down to where they are today), which occurred at the end of the last polar maximum, inundated coastal river valleys destroying the cities there. Since this would have occurred everywhere there was a low-lying coastal city, everyone has a flood myth. Importantly for OUR culture's flood myth, (the one in the Bible, which comes from Sumerian stories) there was most likely a prot-Sumerian civilization based in the bottom of what is now the Persian Gulf around what would have been in that climate a fertile river valley, which was drowned when the Arabian Sea/Gulf of Oman came up and over the Straight of Hormuz and flooded the valley. The survivors, bound by mountains to the north in what is now Iran, made it out onto the plains of what is now Iraq (soon to be Babylon) and with what the could remember and what they could salvage, established the ancient cultures and traditions that lead to our modern day western religions.

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Historical sea level data show that, prior to the flood, the Gulf basin would have been above water beginning about 75,000 years ago. And it would have been an ideal refuge from the harsh deserts surrounding it, with fresh water supplied by the Tigris, Euphrates, Karun, and Wadi Baton Rivers, as well as by underground springs. When conditions were at their driest in the surrounding hinterlands, the Gulf Oasis would have been at its largest in terms of exposed land area. At its peak, the exposed basin would have been about the size of Great Britain

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The flood of the Persian Gulf occured 8,000 years ago.

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archaeologists have turned up evidence of a wave of human settlements along the shores of the Gulf dating to about 7,500 years ago. "Where before there had been but a handful of scattered hunting camps, suddenly, over 60 new archaeological sites appear virtually overnight

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Perhaps it is no coincidence that the founding of such remarkably well developed communities along the shoreline corresponds with the flooding of the Persian Gulf basin around 8,000 years ago

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