Trek versus Evolution

[Riedquat]

no, it was a video unrelated to that guy.

and I've seen other videos on other topics that suggest aliens may have been involved with early life developing on Earth. like the Cambrian Life Explosion that, by geological standards, happened over night.

Videos from anyone reputable who knows what they're talking about? It sounds rather too like "this seems odd to me, must be aliens!" without firstly answering the question about whether it is actually odd, and secondly without any reason to think that aliens are the answer - the "god of the gaps" fallacy.

[Madner Kami]

no, it was a video unrelated to that guy.

and I've seen other videos on other topics that suggest aliens may have been involved with early life developing on Earth. like the Cambrian Life Explosion that, by geological standards, happened over night.

The Cambrian Explosion is a period of 20 to 25 million years. While yes, that is short on a geological scale, it is still a really long freaking time. We can observe speciation within the timeframe of a few houndred years already. For example, this:



is what the ancestor of a goldfish looked like. You know how long it took to get from a fairly generic carp to a goldfish? Between 500 and 1000 years and a carp is an extremely complex lifeform, compared to what was swimming around the oceans right before the Cambrian Explosion to boot. Speciation is something that can happen really fast, if the environment either puts enough pressure onto the lifeforms or if ecological niches aren't occupied at all yet, as was the case during Cambrian Explosion.

[Mindworm]

no, it was a video unrelated to that guy.

and I've seen other videos on other topics that suggest aliens may have been involved with early life developing on Earth. like the Cambrian Life Explosion that, by geological standards, happened over night.

von Daniken? You're even thicker than I thought.

[Robovski]

We have little evidence to support Panspermia. It's an interesting idea but there is a lot of work to be done to make it anything more than just an interesting idea.

[Riedquat]

We have little evidence to support Panspermia. It's an interesting idea but there is a lot of work to be done to make it anything more than just an interesting idea.

It just shifts the problem, to somewhere even harder to explain.