08-12-2012, 04:51 PM
Now don't laugh...laughing?...Stop It :mad:... okay?
Well first off, I had no clue where to put this; Animals/Pets, Paranormal, Science, but I decided I'd put it here, just for simplicities sake :tongue: .
Anyway, last night, I was watching Mermaids: The Body Found on the Discovery Channel and my eyes have been opened.
Now all the fake little scenarios, such as the boy actually finding one on the beach, recorded on a friend's cell phone, I don't really believe, as it looked fake and too well orchestrated, but all the scientific stuff, has got me thinking.
It's like learning the Darwinian Theory all over again...
Like most animals, seperation caused them to change and adapt to their different environments, diverting from what they were to something new, which is basically the theory of evolution, and this could have happened to us at some point in history... who knows?
We do have webbings inbetween our fingers and toes, we cry/excrete salt when most animals try to conserve it, 70% of our body is water, we shed our hair[presumbably for less drag when in the water], baby's instinctually hold their breath under water when most other terrestrial species;s offspring would die, we can hold our breaths significantly longer than most other terrestrial species. Why can we do these things, when other terrestrial species can't/don't?
Why should we be so special to believe that we are the only humanoid species of significant intelligence[aside from primates, as some may consider them to be], when almost every other animal species has a cousin species, that may well have been at one point, one and the same.
The Galapagos Tortoises were believed to be one direct species, but after the Galapagos split up, the Tortoises trapped in different areas evolved or adapted, some now with long necks, some with short.
Why is it that we are the only intelligent creatures, that can adapt on a moments notice?
Not to say that Mermaids are like the mythical beautiful creatures like us, with cities and what not, but if they exist and are like us, would'nt that also make them intelligent? Wouldn't that explain why they've avoided discovery and danger? If we were being persued, our instinct is to hide, right?
Perhaps we are the lesser adaptation of what our former species was. *dun dun dunnn
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But seriously, what if? Could it be a possibility?:confused:
Well first off, I had no clue where to put this; Animals/Pets, Paranormal, Science, but I decided I'd put it here, just for simplicities sake :tongue: .
Anyway, last night, I was watching Mermaids: The Body Found on the Discovery Channel and my eyes have been opened.
Now all the fake little scenarios, such as the boy actually finding one on the beach, recorded on a friend's cell phone, I don't really believe, as it looked fake and too well orchestrated, but all the scientific stuff, has got me thinking.
It's like learning the Darwinian Theory all over again...
Like most animals, seperation caused them to change and adapt to their different environments, diverting from what they were to something new, which is basically the theory of evolution, and this could have happened to us at some point in history... who knows?
We do have webbings inbetween our fingers and toes, we cry/excrete salt when most animals try to conserve it, 70% of our body is water, we shed our hair[presumbably for less drag when in the water], baby's instinctually hold their breath under water when most other terrestrial species;s offspring would die, we can hold our breaths significantly longer than most other terrestrial species. Why can we do these things, when other terrestrial species can't/don't?
Why should we be so special to believe that we are the only humanoid species of significant intelligence[aside from primates, as some may consider them to be], when almost every other animal species has a cousin species, that may well have been at one point, one and the same.
The Galapagos Tortoises were believed to be one direct species, but after the Galapagos split up, the Tortoises trapped in different areas evolved or adapted, some now with long necks, some with short.
Why is it that we are the only intelligent creatures, that can adapt on a moments notice?
Not to say that Mermaids are like the mythical beautiful creatures like us, with cities and what not, but if they exist and are like us, would'nt that also make them intelligent? Wouldn't that explain why they've avoided discovery and danger? If we were being persued, our instinct is to hide, right?
Perhaps we are the lesser adaptation of what our former species was. *dun dun dunnn
*But seriously, what if? Could it be a possibility?:confused:
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