If the theory of evolution is overturned, what other origins do humans have? Will creationism return?

Before the theory of evolution was introduced, the main theory about where humans came from was creationism. After Darwin's theory of evolution came out, creationism was challenged and gradually abandoned. Therefore, Darwin was the gravedigger of creationism. He and his theory of evolution have always been hated and suppressed by the religious theological community.

Will the theory of evolution be overturned and creationism make a comeback?

Will the theory of evolution be overturned? Let’s not discuss this for now. If we assume that the theory of evolution is false and has been overturned, then where did humans come from? Creationism, which has had an influence for thousands of years, will certainly revive. In fact, creationism has never disappeared, and anti-evolution activities have never stopped. This is because in many countries, there are many religious believers, especially Christians.

In the 1940s and 1950s, several states in the United States had bans on teaching evolution in public schools. It was not until 1968 that Susan Epperson, a high school teacher in Arkansas, sued the state government for this practice. The U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling and finally abolished this practice, no longer allowing states to ban the teaching of evolution.

The United States is such a wonderful society, where freedom permeates its bones and is sometimes used to oppose science, which is not surprising. For example, during the global outbreak of the new coronavirus, some states have banned the wearing of masks. But there are people like Susan who insist on the truth, which is admirable.

For example, in the United States, researchers at the University of Michigan collected and analyzed surveys on the American public's views on evolution conducted by the National Science Board and other institutions between 1985 and 2020. The proportion of people who accepted the theory of evolution remained below 40% in the last century, and it was not until 2016 that this figure exceeded 50%.

It can be seen from this that creationism still has a considerable market, but it is closely related to religious beliefs and education level. Surveys show that the lower the level of religious beliefs, the higher the proportion of recognition of evolution; and as the level of education increases, the proportion of recognition of evolution gradually increases.

But can creationism make a comeback and become dominant in the future? I think it is impossible. Because creationism is not only incompatible with evolution, but also against the entire science. Including cosmology, geoevolution, archaeology, biochemistry, genetics, modern medicine, physics and other disciplines, they are all incompatible.

Therefore, in the mainstream scientific community, evolution has become the only scientific theory to explain species phenomena. Surveys show that only less than 5% of all mainstream scientists, not just biologists, do not agree with evolution, because evolution is the only theory that can satisfy the logical explanation of biology, paleontology, molecular biology, genetics, anthropology, and all fields of observation.

Furthermore, to date, no paper opposing evolution has passed scientific review and has been listed in the search engines of scientific or medical journals. In other words, you cannot find a single scientific paper opposing evolution in the world, so many rumors that so-called scientists oppose evolution are false. Even if there are scientists who oppose it, they have not produced any real evidence.

So, what other routes are there to human origin?

If I say that humans fell from the sky, there will be many people who will follow suit. The so-called falling from the sky is of course related to aliens, and aliens are a story that many people like. Not only do they like to hear about them, but they also firmly believe in their existence. There are many such legends, and there are mainly two versions.

One is that in the dinosaur era, aliens came to Earth and destroyed the dinosaurs, but they ran out of energy and could not leave, so they stayed and became the humans we have today. The second theory is that humans are alien test subjects kept in captivity on Earth, the moon is a spaceship that monitors humans, and that the solar system is covered by a shell, and all the starry skies are virtual images that aliens show to humans.

Those who hold these views are very confident and even claim that they are conclusions from scientists' research. In fact, if you search carefully, you will find that these claims are completely groundless and fabricated, and no scientist has ever demonstrated this.

Most of the people who say these things are writers, folk alien associations, etc. These people have nothing to do with science. They are just gimmicks made up by some sensationalists, or they rely on these mysterious legends to defraud money.

But do aliens really exist?

Like many people, I also firmly believe in the existence of aliens, but I only believe in evidence. Believing that there are aliens in the universe (more precisely, extraterrestrial civilizations) is not the same as believing that aliens have come to Earth. The legends about aliens are mainly related to UFOs. The so-called UFO is just the abbreviation of Unidentified Flying Object in English, and this English translation is "unidentified flying objects".

From ancient times to the present, there have been countless UFO sightings. From the 1940s to 2008 alone, there were no less than 100,000 sightings. Are there really so many aliens? Why are they so sneaky and don't want to make direct contact? Does this make sense? In fact, since science has intervened in the investigation of such incidents, more than 99% of UFO incidents have been explained and have nothing to do with aliens.

The so-called UFO incidents are nothing more than various natural phenomena, or objects released intentionally or unintentionally by humans. There are five main categories, namely: human debris flying in the air (garbage or flying object wreckage), birds or weather balloons, natural atmospheric phenomena, certain flying objects developed by government agencies, espionage activities or others.

Only a few have not been explained so far, mainly because the witnesses cannot provide more detailed information and evidence. In fact, even if aliens really exist in the universe, it is difficult for them to come to Earth, let alone appear so frequently. The specific reasons have been mentioned many times in the past, so I will not explain them here.

Recently, many people have used the U.S. government's public announcement that there are indeed unexplained UFO incidents to make a fuss, believing that the military has indeed seen UFOs, which means that aliens have really come to Earth, and that Area 51 in the United States is really studying aliens, etc. In fact, this is completely far-fetched.

The US military does admit that there are some UFO incidents that have not been solved, but it did not say that they are alien aircraft. The explanations given are nothing more than the above-mentioned categories, and it cannot rule out interference due to factors such as sensor abnormalities, observer misperceptions, or false intelligence.

These reports are no different from the scientific community's previous judgments on UFO incidents, and there is still no evidence that they are related to aliens or extraterrestrial civilizations. Therefore, the so-called aliens or extraterrestrial civilizations may exist in the universe, but they may not have come to Earth.

Humans can only be a species native to the earth

The origin of human beings has nothing to do with creationism or aliens both in theory and in reality. Even from archaeological discoveries and all scientific research evidence chains, they have nothing to do with creationism or aliens.

Modern archaeology has a complete chain of archaeological evidence, from the discovery of the most primitive signs of life 3.7 billion years ago, to the unearthed fossils of the Cambrian explosion, to the extinction of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals, to the emergence of apes, the ancestors of humans, to the emergence of various human races, and to the emergence of our most recent ancestors, Homo sapiens. There is no evidence that aliens have ever been to Earth, nor is there any evidence that gods are involved.

Since the origin of human beings has nothing to do with creationism or aliens, what other explanation can be given for the origin? Of course, the only explanation is evolution, and all the evidence chains support evolution. The modern scientific community believes that it was the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" and the advent of evolution that truly put human research on biology on the track of science.

With the progress of modern cosmology, geophysics, molecular biology, genetics, and anthropology, the theory of evolution in Darwin's era has developed into the modern synthesis of evolution, becoming a scientific theory with increasingly sufficient and complete evidence. It has become an ironclad fact that species have gradually evolved in billions of years of competition for survival and cannot be overturned.

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