Eric von Dyke claims there were space travelers who helped the human race evolve. These travelers contributed not merely with their techniques and tools of architecture, but also with generous portions of semen to help this cause. Humankind reveres these travelers as Gods! I can not possibly refute the strength in supporting evidence to the hypothesis. The book sales bears testimony to the preference readers have taken towards this script. I am not in denial of the very potential and pertinent questions raised by the great author. Indeed they hit readers as "what about the truth" category questions that every literate person should be asking of their teachers of faith.
With every passing day, that I mull over the cogent text, I bend a little further towards this theory of space travelers, albeit without losing my religion.
So I continue with what I believe in and will allow readers to pursue their own, till we collectively reach higher grounds.
If we for the moment focus on this marvelous outcome of the space travelers' efforts or pure human genetic evolution, we behold species "homo-sapiens". Bestowed with amazing logical and reasoning abilities, this species has undoubtedly proved to be the crowning glory of all that lives and dies on planet earth. Its achievements far outrun all other fellow intelligence on our planet, and space is the new frontier of knowledge and ever unfolding truths for mankind. Possibly we in this beautiful planet are oblivious to higher intellect in our galaxy and those besides us, but there is no denying of the huge satisfaction I derive out of reveling the achievements of our race.
Although I have enunciated my affiliation, I also need to establish my distaste for everything that does not qualify as suitable behavior of our species. Humans are mentally biased, at least most of us are. Biases tend to skew our rational towards a particular side. Skewed rationales are wrong conceptually and can never lead to workable outcomes. Most biases are built over a period of time and take really long to shake off, for the countable few that realize in time. Biases are like fan-following that sees celebrities through their thick and thin highs and lows. Fans refuse to accept that their celeb has declined in form or performance and the pedestal has been taken by a new contestant worthy of the crown.In the same way.....biases prevent minds from taking a rational view and push decision towards an established ideal. Strange thing about biases is that they stem from common grounds. We are biased towards our gender, culture, caste, religion, region or even nation. We tend to give weight to this bias over all that come across as logical, which puts us in disarray with the very rationale of human evolution. Logic has been mankind's best friend since long. One of the very first being "survival of the fittest". Even if we analyse the concept behind survival of the fittest, its a given that only the strongest logic will stand the timeless tests of time. So a biased point of view will be an effort in vain to hold the inevitable in abeyance.
If we can, as a race overcome bias that manifests intelligence and obliterates logic, we'd treat ourselves to a better and more organized social order.
The day your favorite footballer is not one from your part of the world, the tennis player you so earnestly cheer for, as a face in the crowd, does not hail from your town, your favorite movie star is not your school alumni and your most revered business leader is not from your own Management school, the world will see a new order. An order of merit that comes with the epitaph, "survival of the fittest" or even "may the best man (or woman) win". We would then hopefully be able to avert social upheavals and political unrest that claim innocent lives. Religious frenzy that pushes us to go against religion and condone massacre of helpless masses, will no longer be the stepping stone to popularity for any hate monger.
It is high time for us to realize that God, or the space travelers deemed us equal, and created us so. Then why impediment the harmonious coexistence of the entire race in all its glory and all its diversity. Difference in shapes, sizes and color can not be possible determinants of differential lines of treatment, so why impose them on the society and make the innocent suffer.
Time for us to step aside, if not back and ponder.......as a species!
With every passing day, that I mull over the cogent text, I bend a little further towards this theory of space travelers, albeit without losing my religion.
So I continue with what I believe in and will allow readers to pursue their own, till we collectively reach higher grounds.
If we for the moment focus on this marvelous outcome of the space travelers' efforts or pure human genetic evolution, we behold species "homo-sapiens". Bestowed with amazing logical and reasoning abilities, this species has undoubtedly proved to be the crowning glory of all that lives and dies on planet earth. Its achievements far outrun all other fellow intelligence on our planet, and space is the new frontier of knowledge and ever unfolding truths for mankind. Possibly we in this beautiful planet are oblivious to higher intellect in our galaxy and those besides us, but there is no denying of the huge satisfaction I derive out of reveling the achievements of our race.
Although I have enunciated my affiliation, I also need to establish my distaste for everything that does not qualify as suitable behavior of our species. Humans are mentally biased, at least most of us are. Biases tend to skew our rational towards a particular side. Skewed rationales are wrong conceptually and can never lead to workable outcomes. Most biases are built over a period of time and take really long to shake off, for the countable few that realize in time. Biases are like fan-following that sees celebrities through their thick and thin highs and lows. Fans refuse to accept that their celeb has declined in form or performance and the pedestal has been taken by a new contestant worthy of the crown.In the same way.....biases prevent minds from taking a rational view and push decision towards an established ideal. Strange thing about biases is that they stem from common grounds. We are biased towards our gender, culture, caste, religion, region or even nation. We tend to give weight to this bias over all that come across as logical, which puts us in disarray with the very rationale of human evolution. Logic has been mankind's best friend since long. One of the very first being "survival of the fittest". Even if we analyse the concept behind survival of the fittest, its a given that only the strongest logic will stand the timeless tests of time. So a biased point of view will be an effort in vain to hold the inevitable in abeyance.
If we can, as a race overcome bias that manifests intelligence and obliterates logic, we'd treat ourselves to a better and more organized social order.
The day your favorite footballer is not one from your part of the world, the tennis player you so earnestly cheer for, as a face in the crowd, does not hail from your town, your favorite movie star is not your school alumni and your most revered business leader is not from your own Management school, the world will see a new order. An order of merit that comes with the epitaph, "survival of the fittest" or even "may the best man (or woman) win". We would then hopefully be able to avert social upheavals and political unrest that claim innocent lives. Religious frenzy that pushes us to go against religion and condone massacre of helpless masses, will no longer be the stepping stone to popularity for any hate monger.
It is high time for us to realize that God, or the space travelers deemed us equal, and created us so. Then why impediment the harmonious coexistence of the entire race in all its glory and all its diversity. Difference in shapes, sizes and color can not be possible determinants of differential lines of treatment, so why impose them on the society and make the innocent suffer.
Time for us to step aside, if not back and ponder.......as a species!
