If you could "disinvent" one thing...

Could I disinvent the discovery of China.
If not, Google would be my second choice.

 

I caused quite a stir at college during a debate about evolution.
My first question.
If monkeys evolved into humans, why did some of them scratch their heads and decide not to bother.
Second question.
How did evolving monkeys manage to produce black, white and Asian humans.
Third question.
Since the ancient Egyptians had elongated skulls with brain cavities twice the size of ours, why did evolution decide to shrink our brains.

 

Lots of misinformation there. I hope they set you straight. If that was an anthropology course, I hope it was the first day of anthro 101.

But here's a few facts for those who think that. Monkeys did not evolve into humans. They had a common ancestor millions of years ago. In those millions of years, several species evolved, then mated passing on traits. This was long after the monkey branch was left behind. So saying humans evolved from monkeys is so wrong.

If you understand evolution there are a myriad of factors that cause evolution. Look at how fast COVID has evolved into so many variants. They mutate and share DNA, just like humans did and are still doing.

 

Do you believe that human life may not have entirely evolved on this planet.
An increasing number of scientists today see this as a distinct possibility, but governments are going to extreme lengths to silence them.
Their is something very strange about the way that at least 3 American presidents have vowed to open the subject up during their manifesto period, then avoided it like the plague following their inauguration.
I think that the Roswell incident was the turning point. People vowed to secrecy are now starting to spill the beans on their deathbeds.
My view is, what difference does it make if intelligence exists outside this planet.

 

Some supposed truths / myths need to be kept quiet / suppressed for fear of scaring the morons.

Capitalism. I did OK by it, but obviously it will be the ruination of civilization.

 

Disinvent: Corporate Buzzwords, Shallow Perky People, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Hitler, . . . .

 

I would like to disinvent the current market economy, replacing it with something simpler to that which existed before marketing took hold. I've no difficulty with people making money but there's something wrong when people can indulge in space whenever there's people struggling to buy food.

 

All bombs

 

We should disinvent religion. Or, better, outlaw it.
Devised so long ago where knowlege was hugely lesser than today, I think it doesn't stack up.
However, moreso because those who practice their religion are critical of others and their religion, despite their own one teaching them 'do not judge, lest you be judged'. (Or words to that effect).

It's just another form of tribalism and division from what we see in politics today.


Another reason; there's many examples of non-religious people from the Christian background who demonstrate better than most Christians that 'you don't need to be Christian to do the Christian thing'.

 

AFAIK there is a minority hypothesis of the very early stages of evolution of life as such being influenced by or completely coming from outside Earth itself. But that would be the most simple of the simplest organisms on the bacterial level.
Even that is extremely fringe and not accepted by mainstream science, while there is nothing related to later evolution of complex organisms that would require such a hypothesis.

Because the very first "kickstarter" of life is still somewhat speculative, so there can be competing hypotheses there. But everything after that is way too well known and researched, specially once we become able to analyse DNA, there is no "empty unknowns" that could be filed with such a theory, not even et extreme fringes.

Whomever is disseminating this stories about "increasing numbers of scientists" and "government silencing them" is either a troll, a lier out of some personal interest or delusional.

Btw. regarding "government cover ups" in general - science is international, people from countries that are political enemies are equally contributing, and even the poorest country today has access to good enough research technology. Some specific engineering achievements, military technology, something very local etc might be covered up, but basic fundamental sciences like evolution are way beyond the capacity of any institution to cover up, governments included.

 

Dis-Invent the obviously misleading way that thousands of congresspersons over the years eventually created the most horrible dysfunctional USA tax system where it takes literally thousands of tax agents with thousands of computers and the system is still cheated out of billions or trillions each year.

A much simpler set of equations would work near automatically. Based on your age, local cost of living, dependents, etc. When the Gubment withholds funds from your paycheck for social security and Medicare, you don't have to spend any time filling out some papers from hell . . . . . .

 

In some more advanced, more civilized countries, the government just sends you a letter telling you how much you were paid and what the government took out. Just like a regular paystub. Nothing else to do or worry about. Of course in these countries just like here in the States now, the governments can see everything and take their cut off the top.

 

Have you noticed that when large corporations get caught cheating, defrauding, overcharging, scamming, and/or outright stealing from customers, the Gubment negotiates a deal with the corporation - no one goes to jail, and the Gubment keeps the settlement money. Case dismissed. The customers that were ripped off get (usually) nada. At that point, it's a 'stealth' tax on the American people.

 

From a quick look into it, DNA analyses include remains of C. himself and family members. Which might not necessarily be misleading, but might if presented unsincerely and with bias.

What is suspicious is that the findings were presented in a documentary without/before being presented in a published peer-reviewed article alongside raw data, so it is just a claim on the TV at this point, not science.

And even if/when it becomes published and scrutinized by the scientific community the best will probably still be "maybe", "possibly" and "consistent with". Ethnic identities and affiliations (in as much as we can even talk about that in those times, which is debatable in itself - for example, while there was the notion of being Italian as a geographic designation at least from Roman time, a national identity before Garibaldi is not, so his Italianess is probably a retrofit from a contemporary POV to begin with - like we always do with the past) are cultural more than genetic. Especially in Europe, or even the whole of Eurasia which has seen so much population movement and mixing. For example, there are parts of Slavic populations that have only 30% "Slavic DNA", and no one is anything 100% (to not even go into the limits of genetic analysis as such as they depend on previously established references which are not necessarily always bulletproof)

So at the moment that is just a hypothesis with no scientific backing at all, and if it gets published one day and survives the scrutiny it will still remain just a piece of the puzzle lacking too many pieces and giving just a little bit more support to one of the many options that we already have, not definitive proof.

At least based on what I could find online, which isn't much (also because there is nothing published to even check).