Originally Posted by Mbrock
Yes I believe that can happen, but they’re still primates, not humans. There’s no supporting evidence in the fossil record, to me, that indicates if humans died today, the primates left on earth would eventually replace us with intelligent, eternal, souls.


That’s actually the exact same scenario I was thinking about too…….If humans died off today could chimpanzees be building rockets a million years from now with the proper diet??.......To me it would take a miraculous event occurring somewhere in the process that would have a probability of one in a gazillion……There would have to be a special brain mutation that occurred that allowed knowledge to build on itself across generations and that accumulated knowledge building be a big part of what shaped that animal instead of just environmental conditions…..To me an improbable brain mutation of that nature is just as miraculous as the literal story…..I think the appreciation for that is being diminished because we want to cling to "the story"

Last edited by CNC; 07/03/26 12:09 PM.
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