Posted on 05/16/2018 11:08:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Another scientific study has been released offering the controversial claim that there’s a decent chance the octopus (and the rest of the cephalopods) arrived on Earth in the form of frozen eggs 250 million years ago and actually evolved on another world.
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This wasn’t the first group to suggest it. In 2015 another research group reached a similar conclusion. The more you read into it, the less crazy it sounds. As we’ve studied the various animals on the planet in ever deeper detail, the octopus really doesn’t seem to fit in with everything else.
They’re an invertebrate, but they have 10,000 more protein-coding genes than a human being. They have problem-solving skills, they use tools and have been observed constructing a shelter out of things like broken coconut shells. (Not just using a shelter they find, the way crabs do, but actually building something.) And where did that instant camouflage ability come from? Their nervous system is almost entirely unique among animals.
And they just don’t look right. Most of the animals you see on the land, in the water or in the air follow a basic pattern. There’s a central body with four protruding limbs and a head of some sort. Even the animals like snakes that don’t appear to have legs have vestigial limbs inside. The insects made the switch to six legs but the basic layout is still the same. (Don’t get me started on the centipedes. They’re probably from another world also.) And then there are the cephalopods. Eight to ten limbs sticking out of a central mass with a huge brain, eyes with structures resembling a camera (like ours, actually) and a host of other differences.
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This is an interesting take on panspermia, one I'd never read before. Take about the low cost of free delivery, too, delicious. Thanks BenLurkin.
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Thanks BenLurkin.
Isn’t that Dean Stockwell?
Yes.
He played Wilbur Whateley in ‘The Dunwich Horror’.
Cactus’s are from another planet too
it wanted another ride out to sea
The denial of the Agent Cause leads to all kinds of unsuitable substitutes to explain the origins of Creation.
If He had made us and left us orphans, we might have an excuse for our ignorance. But He left us a User’s Manual along with a Warranty. Genesis. And He gave us the Gift of Reason to figure out the rest.
He is the unutterable Word made flesh and forever now spoken.
It’s the leap of putting two and two together. Even a first grader can do it.
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