Door Kili Manjaro: Door Briolet: Door Anoniem: Nee.
Het zou zomaar kunnen dat de oorsprong van de mens op een andere planeet ligt. En dat daar ooit een strenge selectie heeft plaatsgevonden: ieder mens met een mankement / afwijking werd naar deze aarde gezonden, om zo de perfecte mens over te houden…
Bijna goed. Lees het boek "beschermheer" van Larry Niven. Daar vind je de exacte herkomst van de mens. En veel realistischer dan het genesis verhaal uit de bijbel.
De exacte herkomst uit een Science
Fiction verhaal? En dat vind je echt realistischer dan het verhaal uit Genesis?
Geef eens een definitie van realistisch.
De bijbel is niet echt realistisch.
Pak-Protector (Niven):In Protector, we learn that humans are descended from the Pak. Pak Children and Breeders appear in Earth's fossil record as Homo habilis; the few Pak Protectors to make it to Earth apparently are not found in the fossil record.
The Pak species goes through three stages of development: Child, Breeder and Protector.
Pak Child is analogous to a human child: sexually immature and dependent upon adults for survival.
Pak Breeder is analogous to a human adult: sexually mature, self-sufficient (in later writings) and provides immediate care for the children. To the Pak, the Breeder stage, though capable of space travel, is not deemed fully sentient; Breeders, to a large extent, rely on Protectors for long-term survival. Earlier Niven stories describe the breeder as "just intelligent enough to swing a club or throw a stone."
Pak Protector is not analogous to any human form. It is described as a 'fighting machine,' with armor-like skin, super-human strength and super-human intelligence. Niven's stories that focus on the Pak mostly concentrate on the unique Protector-stage.
Niven explained the evolution of the Pak as resulting from high radiation levels on their home world near the core of the galaxy. The high radiation near the star-dense core caused severe mutations that can destabilize the evolutionary process. As a result, the Pak evolved a mechanism to eliminate dangerous mutations from the population. That mechanism is the protector stage.
Protectors are highly sensitive to the smell of their close relatives and "weed out" those that smell wrong, which may indicate a potentially dangerous mutation. This weeding also suppressed positive mutations, essentially halting Pak evolution. Protectors are fully sentient, and are far more intelligent than ordinary humans. This "superior" intelligence, however, serves only a Pak Protector's instincts to protect its bloodline at any costs. The Pak have no drive toward the collection of "abstract knowledge," have no concept of "art," and do not even possess enough of an "artistic impulse" to understand the purpose of making sketches and paintings for reasons not directly useful.
The change from Breeder to Protector is the result of a peramorphic transformation brought about by the plant known as Tree-of-Life. As humans (and all primates) are descended from the Pak, Tree-of-Life can create a Protector-stage human.
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De Bijbel (Oude testament):Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, with humankind as the last of his creatures: "Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam ..." (Genesis 5:2). God blesses mankind, commands them to "be fruitful and multiply", and gives them "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Genesis 1.26-27).
Bij de Bijbel is het al snel, je gezonde verstand op nul zetten en geloven. Dat werkte bij mij al niet meer toen ik 10 was.
Niven heeft een verhaal verzonnen. maar vervolgens wel de moeite genomen om de achtergrond ervan (Known Space) in detail uit te werken. En het daardoor realistisch te maken.