1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Highly advanced humans living thousands of years ago, 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:13,000 unidentified DNA in the human genome, 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000 and ancient chronicles describing heavenly interventions 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 on Earth. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Did humans really evolve from apes, 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,000 or is our intelligence the result of an otherworldly design? 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,000 What are humans made of? 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Why do we evolve the way we do, grow the way we do, 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000 think the way we do? 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 There's no explanation for human beings. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 They shouldn't be here on this planet. 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Science and the world of history, even in archaeology, 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 is still scrambling around for answers. 14 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,000 We should finally come to grips with the idea 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 that extraterrestrials had something to do with our development. 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 What if it were true? 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 20 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,000 And if so, might evidence of alien contact help to unlock 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 the mystery behind the creation of man? 22 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 South Africa 23 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:07,000 25 miles northwest of Johannesburg lie the Malapa Caves. 24 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Here, in August of 2008, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger 25 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 and his nine-year-old son Matthew discover several fossilized 26 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 skeletal remains of two million-year-old early humans, 27 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 including a female adult and male child, 28 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 perhaps a mother and son. 29 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 The size and shape of the bones indicate that the individuals 30 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,000 walked upright and had modern hands. 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Over the past several decades, scientists have unearthed 32 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,000 the remains of nearly two dozen different types of early human ancestors, 33 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:53,000 all known as hominids. 34 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 We have an extremely good fossil record of ancient hominids. 35 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,000 And I think the picture emerging from it is pretty clear that 36 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 in earlier days, before homo sapiens came along, 37 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,000 there were typically many different kinds of hominids coexisting in the world. 38 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 We have a hard time getting our minds around this now 39 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 because of course there's just one kind of human on Earth today 40 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 and there are seven billion of us, 41 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 but at one time, within the last few hundred thousand years, 42 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 you could find two or even three species of hominin 43 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,000 living in the same area at the same time. 44 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Most mainstream scholars tell us hominids evolved from an ape ancestor 45 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 nearly six million years ago 46 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,000 through what is referred to as natural selection. 47 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 This theory of evolution was first popularized 48 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,000 by English anthropologist Charles Darwin 49 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. 50 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Darwin's mechanism of evolution was natural selection. 51 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 That is to say a long-term process whereby better adapted individuals 52 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 reproduce more successfully. 53 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection 54 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 explains that organisms with certain traits such as mutation 55 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,000 turn out to be actually beneficial, 56 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000 turn out to be of advantage in the struggle for reproduction. 57 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 So mutation allows organisms to survive 58 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 and to pass on to the next generation this mutation. 59 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Darwin speculated that over time, 60 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 hominids walking on two feet used their hands to make tools. 61 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 This in turn made them smarter. 62 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Then, approximately 200,000 years ago, 63 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 hominids evolved into homo sapiens or modern man. 64 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 But many scholars dispute Darwin's findings. 65 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000 We don't see dolphins building cars. 66 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 We don't see elephants building houses. 67 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 That might sound trite, but it's a fact that these animals 68 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 just simply haven't progressed in the way we have. 69 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 And the big question is, why is that? 70 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Why should that happen? Why should we be so unique? 71 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Tool-ed use doesn't really come into play 72 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,000 for several million years after the first earliest humans 73 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,000 began to walk upright. 74 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 And then brain size doesn't really begin to expand 75 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 and really mushroom in size 76 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 until the last several hundred thousand years. 77 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 So actually, six million years of human evolution, 78 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 there are millions of years separating each of those major features, 79 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 upright posture, tool use, brain expansion. 80 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,000 So Darwin was wrong because he couldn't possibly 81 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 have known the chronology in his day. 82 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 In 1967, British zoologist Desmond Morris 83 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,000 argued against Darwin's theories on evolution. 84 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 In his book, The Naked Eight. 85 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 In it, Morris wrote that there was no reason 86 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 why man stood alone from other species in terms of his nudity. 87 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Well, of course, as homo sapiens, 88 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 we still continue to have a coating of hair, 89 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,000 but that hair is very much reduced over most of our bodies. 90 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 And that reduction probably goes back 91 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 way beyond homo sapiens in time. 92 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 It probably goes back to the time when the very first 93 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 early bipedal harmonies came out of the forests 94 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 in Africa, into the savannas, where they had more sun 95 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 and more thermal radiation to cope with. 96 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 In places like Europe, northern Europe, 97 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 why we lost body hair? 98 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,000 It's a chicken and egg question. 99 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Did we lose our body hair because we began to wear clothing 100 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 to keep us warm? 101 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Or was there some other factor at work that caused us 102 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 to lose our body hair? 103 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,000 And so it was lost because they didn't choose those men as mates. 104 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 There's no way to ever answer that question. 105 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:18,000 If we were to subscribe 100% to the idea of survival of the fittest, 106 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:23,000 isn't it illogical to think that all of a sudden 107 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 we're completely naked and we're losing all of our fur? 108 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 I mean, that makes absolutely no sense, 109 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 because right after we shed our fur, 110 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 we had to wear furs to keep warm. 111 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Had we not worn any furs, we would have frozen to death. 112 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 We would have died. 113 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 So the whole idea that we shed all of our hair 114 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 in order to survive because we were stronger, 115 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000 logically, makes no sense. 116 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 But if Darwin's theory of natural selection 117 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,000 cannot account for the appearance of intelligent, hairless homo sapiens, 118 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 what can? 119 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Might the transition of hominids to modern human beings 120 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 have been the result of an otherworldly design, 121 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 122 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Alfred Russell Wallace, a colleague of Darwin, 123 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 called it the Intelligence Evolution. 124 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Darwin believed that the human brain had been driven into existence 125 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 by natural selection, 126 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 but Wallace couldn't quite see how this could be so. 127 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:40,000 What Wallace perceived was that the way that humans think, 128 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 the intellectual faculties are qualitatively different 129 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 from anything that had preceded them, 130 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,000 and he couldn't quite see how this enormous gap 131 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,000 could be bridged by natural selection. 132 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000 So he invoked another explanation 133 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:03,000 for the evolution, the arrival of modern human cognitive abilities. 134 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:09,000 His choice was a spiritual explanation. 135 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Alfred believed there was an unseen creative spirit 136 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 that was behind all life on our planet, 137 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 and he believed that this unseen creative spirit 138 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 had interceded three times. 139 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 In this planet, 140 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:34,000 the first was to create life from inorganic matter. 141 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,000 And then the second time was when animals 142 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 achieved some kind of consciousness. 143 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 And the third time was when humans 144 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,000 suddenly were able to have the mental abilities that we have today. 145 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,000 But he felt that it wasn't just a random selection 146 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 like Charles Darwin thought. 147 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 He believed that all of these changes 148 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 had a creative intelligence behind it. 149 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 The view that I have is that 150 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,000 because the rest of nature hasn't changed that much, 151 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 that arguably we shouldn't. 152 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 So that suggests to me we're seeing something potentially 153 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 that has gone against nature. 154 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 And if it's gone against nature, 155 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 maybe that means because somebody has been manipulating nature. 156 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 There's no explanation for human beings. 157 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 They shouldn't be here on this planet. 158 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,000 If we were evolved and changed 159 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,000 by an extraterrestrial source from our early primate ancestors, 160 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,000 that's the only way really you can account for the human species, 161 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 unless you of course put God in the equation. 162 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 And who knows who the gods may have been. 163 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 Charles Darwin might be rolling over in his grave right now, 164 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 but it's very possible that mankind came about 165 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 because of extraterrestrial intervention. 166 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Did the evolution of modern humans 167 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,000 really receive a jumpstart by extraterrestrial beings 168 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 169 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,000 And if so, might there be tangible evidence? 170 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 Some scientists believe proof can be found 171 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 inside the human brain. 172 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Chicago, Illinois 173 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 December 2004 174 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute 175 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,000 of the University of Chicago 176 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 published the results of a study 177 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 that claims the sophistication of the human brain 178 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 was the result of a so-called special event. 179 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:04,000 They said mankind's intelligence was not only the result of evolution 180 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,000 and that around 50,000 years ago 181 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,000 the genes of ancient humans went through an intense amount of change 182 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 in a relatively short amount of time, 183 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,000 which some refer to as the big bang of the brain. 184 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,000 No one really knows how human beings develop so fast 185 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,000 in such a short period of time. 186 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,000 I don't believe it was done naturally. 187 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:36,000 It's very clear that fully modern intellectual function 188 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 is a very recent acquisition in our lineage. 189 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 It's not an improvement upon what was there before. 190 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,000 It's a new kind of manipulation of information in the mind. 191 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,000 There's no other animal creature on the planet 192 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 that has such a comparative point, 193 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 and that's why they call it the big brain event. 194 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 People talk about the missing link. 195 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Where is the link between going from apes, monkeys, gorillas, etc. 196 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 to being able to develop atomic weaponry and fly in space? 197 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 When we're looking at the origins of man, 198 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 we've realized that 50,000 years ago 199 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:22,000 we really went where no creature on Earth had ever gone before. 200 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 We have become human. 201 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 But what was the spark that spurred human intelligence? 202 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Was it a genetic mutation 203 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 brought about by the natural selection process of evolution 204 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 as many mainstream scientists contend? 205 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,000 Or could it have been a genetic modification 206 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 produced by extraterrestrial beings, 207 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 208 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:55,000 There is the idea that there was a gene or genes 209 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,000 that popped up sometime in our ancestors. 210 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 Or randomly, that may have given us the ability 211 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 to symbolically represent objects in our environment 212 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 or be abstract. 213 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Those are things that, for instance, chimpanzees 214 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,000 have a great deal of trouble with, even when they're taught language. 215 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Homo sapiens emerging from Africa 216 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 started to behave symbolically. 217 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 They started to manipulate information in their mind 218 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 in a way in which their predecessors had never done before. 219 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 They disassembled the world around them into a vocabulary 220 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,000 of discrete symbols and recombined them 221 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,000 so they could imagine new kinds of worlds. 222 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Long, long time ago, extraterrestrials arrived on this planet. 223 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 They realized that the planet was full of life 224 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 and one of them was the most advanced form, 225 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 was one of our ancestors. 226 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,000 They took the DNA out and they changed the basic information 227 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,000 in the DNA. 228 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,000 This is what our genetics are doing every day. 229 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Now the cell was changed, the product you plant into the womb 230 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 of a female of the same species. 231 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,000 This female will give birth to a child approximately after nine months. 232 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 But because of this artificial mutation, 233 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 and that's different because it was made artificially 234 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 by the extraterrestrials. 235 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,000 What if, as part of the genetic updates human beings were getting 236 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 from extraterrestrials, one of those genetic updates 237 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 involved a software download, a biological download 238 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 to differentiate the different hemispheres of the brain 239 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:53,000 to allow human society, tool making, fire, social organization 240 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,000 to be created and from that, that particular species of hominid 241 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 became the human being we are today. 242 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,000 If alien species out there could fly across interstellar space, 243 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,000 then in all probability they would have similar DNA recombinant technology. 244 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Of course it would depend on their own genetic composition 245 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000 being similar to ours, but if they understood sufficient chemistry 246 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 and physical principles from their own experience 247 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 of the physical world model, then in all probability 248 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 manipulating our DNA would be simple. 249 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:47,000 But if alien beings created humans by genetically altering our primitive ancestors, 250 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:52,000 might various versions of hominids have been the result 251 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,000 of experiments at creating intelligent life on Earth, 252 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 as ancient astronaut theorists contend. 253 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 This is one of the greatest unanswered questions. 254 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,000 The ancient records do not say that we are part of a social experiment. 255 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 The ancient records say that we were bestowed upon this gift. 256 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 The gods gave us the gift of intellect and it is for us to use it. 257 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,000 So yes, we might actually be part of an experiment, 258 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 but it might be an experiment in intelligence. 259 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:28,000 It might actually be a game of kind of the greatest reality TV show 260 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 whereby the entire human species is watched by ancient aliens 261 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,000 who have been watching this show for maybe 50,000 years. 262 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Fox P2 is a gene that was found in our nucleotides 263 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:51,000 and it is something that sets us completely apart from any other animal. 264 00:17:52,000 --> 00:18:00,000 And scientists have suggested that that gene alone is responsible for language. 265 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,000 And there is absolutely no evidence of origin 266 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 or that this thing somehow mutated from the animal kingdom towards us. 267 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:15,000 So this gene exists out of nowhere without any origin. 268 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:22,000 So my question is, is it possible that this gene was given to us 269 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:28,000 or grafted into us by extraterrestrials in the remote past? 270 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And the answer is yes. 271 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Was it the same non-human ancient aliens of so many ancient settlements on this planet 272 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,000 deciding that they wanted humans to be able to communicate at a more sophisticated level? 273 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:56,000 I think that's the fundamental angst today among people trying to understand 274 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,000 who are we in relationship to extraterrestrials 275 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,000 that may have been manipulating DNA on this planet for thousands of years. 276 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Might the evidence of our alien origins 277 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 really have been passed down to us implanted in our genetic code 278 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 279 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Perhaps further evidence can be found, 280 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,000 not by scientists but by religious scholars 281 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,000 that claim Adam and Eve really did exist. 282 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 The Hebrew Bible 283 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:45,000 In it, the Book of Genesis describes how God created the first two humans, 284 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, 285 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:54,000 and told them to go forth and multiply. 286 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,000 For centuries, scientists and theologians have debated 287 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:05,000 whether this story of the creation of man was mere myth or historical fact. 288 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 The Torah mentions that humanity is made out of the dust of the earth 289 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,000 and that God breathed life into this to make us animated. 290 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Here is the breath of soul, the breath of vitality, 291 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 the divine breath which suggests that we, the spark, 292 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,000 the life force that makes a human body tick is divine in its nature. 293 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:34,000 In 1987, scholarly disagreements over the origin of man intensified 294 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,000 with the discovery that the genetic lineage of every living person 295 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:43,000 could be traced back to a single woman who once lived in Africa. 296 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 It's pretty well established by now, 297 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,000 particularly from the molecular, the DNA record, 298 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 that homo sapiens did originate at one place in Africa 299 00:20:55,000 --> 00:21:01,000 and after having become fully modern in the sense of intellectually modern, 300 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:06,000 they were then spread out to occupy Europe, to occupy eastern Asia, 301 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 and the old world in general. 302 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 It's sometimes called the Eve model, 303 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 not meaning that we're all descended from the same woman, 304 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,000 but it does mean that there was a woman in that early human population 305 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 migrating out of Africa who was the only female 306 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,000 who ultimately left her genes in every modern person. 307 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,000 But is it possible that mainstream science and the book of Genesis 308 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 are both pointing to the same moment in ancient time 309 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,000 when modern man first appeared on Earth? 310 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 The myth of Adam and Eve, I think, is not a myth. 311 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 I think it's a true story. 312 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 I think Adam and Eve were on this planet. 313 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 They were the first human beings that we know of, 314 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 and they helped populate this planet. 315 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 What is the Garden of Eden? 316 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I think it just happened to be the area that the genetically manipulated human being, 317 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Adam and Eve, were placed. 318 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000 That's where they lived. 319 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 That's where they started to breed, 320 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,000 and that's where the populations of the planet started to grow. 321 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000 If Adam and Eve actually had existed, as described in the Hebrew Bible, 322 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:24,000 might this also mean that a serpent really did tempt them to eat from the tree of knowledge? 323 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,000 If so, might this account have been an effort to describe the sudden awakening 324 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:35,000 of the modern human mind when man first became an intelligent being? 325 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,000 In the Bible, it says that if you eat from this tree, you will be like God. 326 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Satan, in the form of a snake, tempts Adam and Eve 327 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 and promises them that they will be like God. 328 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,000 The knowledge that Adam and Eve acquire, as well as humanity in general, 329 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:02,000 gives man the ability to eventually carry out genetic manipulations. 330 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000 So what was this tree of knowledge? 331 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Is the tree of knowledge, in fact, the helical DNA sequencing in our own bodies 332 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,000 that was genetically engineered by extraterrestrials 50,000 years ago 333 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 so that we would have the abilities that we have today? 334 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,000 In my mind, it's our DNA itself that is the tree of knowledge. 335 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 But why was this suddenly a bad thing? 336 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:37,000 It would seem that the aliens, some of them wanted us to have this knowledge, 337 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000 to be like the gods, but others said, 338 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 no, no, man is not to have all of this knowledge. 339 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,000 This is also the same story of the Greek god Prometheus, 340 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,000 who, against the orders of the other gods, comes down to earth 341 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 and gives mankind the knowledge of fire. 342 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:04,000 But because of this gift of mankind, he himself, as a god, is like Satan. 343 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 He's banished from the earth. 344 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 And why? 345 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Because he helped mankind to have greater knowledge. 346 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:22,000 The whole idea or concept of Satan is based on a misunderstood visit 347 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 by extraterrestrials in the remote past. 348 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000 According to the ancient astronaut theory, 349 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,000 the reason why we have the idea of a Satan today 350 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 is because there might have been some type of a mutiny 351 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:45,000 between good and bad extraterrestrial factions in the remote past. 352 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,000 And so the mutineers were cast out by the commander, 353 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:00,000 and they became known as the evil, fallen angels, which they never were. 354 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000 If, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, 355 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:10,000 extraterrestrials were responsible for providing humans with intelligence, 356 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 might they have also given man the ability to speak? 357 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Our voice box, our larynx, is so different than the apes. 358 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Even the chimpanzee, who is our closest cousin, 359 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 that we're able to produce sounds and produce language. 360 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,000 To a scientist today, that's almost like it was genetically designed 361 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,000 so that we can say words and sing. 362 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 There really isn't anything more advanced than the human language. 363 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,000 So many different cultures, dialects, languages around the world. 364 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:48,000 And the very fact that we can communicate on such a deep, extensive level, 365 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000 that really sets us apart from all other animals. 366 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Who invented language? Where did that come from? 367 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,000 Was that something instilled in us? 368 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 I think these are mysteries that to a large degree, 369 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 science and the world of history, even in archaeology, 370 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 are still scrambling around for answers. 371 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 Maybe we shouldn't be looking down here for answers. 372 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Maybe we should be looking up there. 373 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,000 We are told in the Bible that we are made into the image of God. 374 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 What does that mean? 375 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Does it mean that we were made physically in somebody's image? 376 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,000 And so therefore the question, namely whether we are descendant from apes 377 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,000 and other creatures on this planet, or whether we truly have been engineered, 378 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 can be answered by mythology. 379 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Mythology is able to say that we are not descending from the ape, 380 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,000 but that something happened on this earth and an alien intervention came 381 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000 and we were the end result of this. 382 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,000 In my opinion, the extraterrestrials, by an artificial mutation, 383 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 they created the intelligence of human. 384 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Then the extraterrestrials disappeared. 385 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:04,000 And some of our ancestors had again sex with their ancestor, with ape-like beings. 386 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,000 And that was gone into mythology, original sin. 387 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Then they return again to God. 388 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 They realize what happened. 389 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000 And they decided to destroy the whole race by a great flood. 390 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000 And to restart the experiment again with what we call in mythology, Noah. 391 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 That's old text. That's the way it is. 392 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:35,000 It would appear that extraterrestrials came here, 393 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,000 used great apes, other early hominids, 394 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:45,000 created what would be Neanderthal man or homo erectus, somebody similar to us. 395 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:52,000 And then refined that hominid until they came up with homo sapien 396 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,000 and then the other early hominids were destroyed. 397 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Northern Iraq 398 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,000 Along the east bank of the Tigris River, opposite the city of Mosul, 399 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,000 lie the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, 400 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000 a place originally inhabited by the Samarians of Mesopotamia. 401 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Here, in 1842, British archaeologist Austin Henry Layard 402 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,000 unearthed the ruins of the great library of Azurbanipal, 403 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:01,000 a royal archive containing thousands of clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions. 404 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Dating to 3000 BC, the messages carved into stone 405 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,000 are considered to be the world's first written accounts. 406 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Samarian tablets are probably one of the oldest form of a written record that we have. 407 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,000 They've been translated and they tell exciting stories about how gods intermingled with human beings 408 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,000 and actually had a hand in the creation of human beings, 409 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,000 whether or not it's just mythology or if it's fact, no one really knows. 410 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:39,000 According to interpretations of the Samarian tablets, the gods were called the Anunnaki. 411 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:45,000 What we're looking at here is a Samarian tablet that actually shows the Tree of Life, 412 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000 flanked by divine beings. You can see here the Anunnaki on each side. 413 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:55,000 We also see the winged disc, a symbolic reference that the Anunnaki had the power of flight. 414 00:29:55,000 --> 00:30:02,000 They actually had necklaces with astronomical references, a moon, a star, various symbols, 415 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:08,000 which even could be symbolized as a wristwatch, technology being used 6000 years ago. 416 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:14,000 The written accounts etched into stone suggest the Anunnaki were giant beings, 417 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:20,000 standing 8 feet tall, who came to Earth in search of gold for their home planet. 418 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:28,000 When the Samarian gods, the Anunnaki, realized the toll it was taking to mine the gold themselves, 419 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,000 they decided to fashion a worker being, a slave to mine the gold for them. 420 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:39,000 And they explained in the Samarian creation tales that this was an arduous process. 421 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:45,000 So it's very possible that our genetic evolution was a process done by the Anunnaki 422 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 to create us in their image and after their likeness. 423 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:57,000 They created man according to the Samarian text. They created Adam and Eve. 424 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:04,000 How interesting that the Bible will echo the story, but talk about it in terms of God. 425 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:12,000 It's almost like these highly advanced creatures were acting as teachers. 426 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,000 And certainly Samarian culture and mythology is full of stories of, you know, 427 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:26,000 receiving visitations from these mysterious, higher entities that bestowed wisdom and fantastic ideas and concepts. 428 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,000 And you know, you have to wonder, is this just down to myth or was somebody coming down 429 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000 and really trying to give us a push if you like. 430 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Ancient chronicles of sky beings creating human life are common in early cultures found all over the world. 431 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:52,000 But while mainstream scholars often dismiss this evidence, might such tangible historical accounts 432 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:59,000 provide proof of alien intervention in man's evolution, as ancient astronaut theorists believe. 433 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,000 The Samarians are not the only culture that talks about this. 434 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:13,000 Also in the Quran it says that language was given to us by Allah or God. 435 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:19,000 The Maya Popul Vuh says that language was given to us by the gods. 436 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,000 The ancient Egyptian texts are saying the exact same thing. 437 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,000 It doesn't matter what ancient culture we look at. 438 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:37,000 They all say the same that language was a gift from the gods. 439 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:47,000 We should finally come to grips with the idea that extraterrestrials had something to do with our development. 440 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:59,000 Prior to the use of early systems of writing, ancient people carved symbolic communication into stone, called petroglyphs. 441 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000 The oldest date to about 10 to 12,000 years ago. 442 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:12,000 According to ancient astronaut theorists, petroglyphs located in the American Southwest 443 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:19,000 linked the prehistoric ancestors of the Zuni and Hopi tribes with star beings. 444 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000 The first graphic expressions by humans were petroglyphs. 445 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,000 That means symbols or figures scratched into stone. 446 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,000 The Hopi Indians, for example, scratched petroglyphs into their rock faces 447 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:41,000 that show people with radiating reeds, gods that descend from the sky. 448 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:54,000 The Hopi Indians say that these beings are Cachinas, beings from space who came to Earth in aircraft, who are not gods, but who brought them knowledge from another planet. 449 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000 We have the same phenomenon in Europe, in Valcomonica. 450 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 We have it in Asia, we have it in Brazil. 451 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:18,000 When we look at the fact that all around the world we hear similar legends of people from the stars coming down and having a profound impact on the people of this country or that particular culture. 452 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:26,000 All in broadly similar time frames, you know, we're seeing a pattern developing and it's difficult to dismiss that that pattern is suggestive. 453 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:33,000 In our ancient past, creatures came down, interacted with us and maybe manipulated us to become the people we are today. 454 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:43,000 Why are so many past civilizations all saying similar things? 455 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:51,000 I think the simple answer is, is that the same thing happened and they know the story. 456 00:34:51,000 --> 00:35:04,000 And the story is that extraterrestrials came to this planet, genetically made and manipulated whatever creatures were here at the time and helped jumpstart society. 457 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:22,000 The bottom line is, every civilization talks about the existence of man through the eyes of a god and if you think of the eyes of the god as ETs, it all makes sense. 458 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:27,000 Back then, this was the way they communicated, events that were significant to them. 459 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:39,000 And so when we have this imagery of the so-called star people and petroglyphs and things like that, they're clearly chronicling something real, to my mind at least, that occurred in their history. 460 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 The big question is what? 461 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:55,000 But while the evidence of contact between alien beings and early humans is compelling, what if life did not begin here on Earth but arrived from somewhere else? 462 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Huntsville, Alabama, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. 463 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:26,000 Here, in March of 2011, astrobiologist Richard Hoover reports the extraordinary news that he found microfossil organisms, or ancient bacteria, inside rare meteorites that are more than four billion years old, dating back to the birth of our solar system. 464 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:34,000 Until recently, scientists did not believe life could survive the rigors of space travel. 465 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:42,000 But Hoover's finding suggests that live bacteria made it to Earth and may have even taken root here. 466 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Microorganisms trapped inside comets can survive the travel through interplanetary space and intertellar space. 467 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:04,000 And the reason is that microorganisms are trapped in the rocky core. 468 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Around you have a thick shield of icy material. 469 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:15,000 And on top you have a stratification of dust. 470 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Dust is highly effective in shielding the microorganism from ultraviolet light. 471 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:36,000 So comets are an excellent vehicle to transport microorganisms, single cell life, amino acid in the vastness of space. 472 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:52,000 Instead of aliens coming to Earth in UFOs, in classic Hollywood terms, a microbial piece of life comes to Earth, say on a meteorite, survives entry into our atmosphere, crashes on the planet and begins to thrive. 473 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:05,000 The theory that life on Earth began with alien organisms landing here from other parts of the universe is controversial. 474 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:18,000 Called panspermia, one of the most vocal proponents of this theory was Sir Francis Crick, a British scientist who co-discovered DNA in 1953. 475 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double helix in cells, said that all this can't happen by chance, but has to have been engineered. 476 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:37,000 One of his arguments is that the rotation of the DNA is in the same direction for all living things. 477 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:47,000 Had DNA developed on Earth, it would probably have had a 50-50 distribution, and that's exactly what we don't have. 478 00:38:47,000 --> 00:39:02,000 One of the reasons why I think the theory of panspermia is so incredible is that it tells you that there's life throughout the universe. 479 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:12,000 If panspermia is correct, life came here on comets or meteorites, and we're being seeded not only on this planet, but other planets as well. 480 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000 And it could be part of the great design. 481 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:33,000 It is the intentional, the deliberate colonization of other planets, other worlds, by an intelligent race of beings, using not flying saucers landing in the desert somewhere or in the middle of a city, 482 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:42,000 but the best way to colonize a planet, you colonize it with your own DNA and let the DNA sprout into your own species. 483 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:53,000 In terms of our science and technology today, we have the ability to extract cells and DNA at a genetic level and save them. 484 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000 That's how we have so-called test tube babies. 485 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:07,000 For couples who can't have babies, we preserve the materials for when they're needed, and the day may well come when we send into outer space the equivalent of like Noah's Ark, 486 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:13,000 but instead of sending literal animals, we send their essence, their DNA, their genetic makeup. 487 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,000 I don't rule out the idea that we could seed a whole new world. 488 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:31,000 Today, scientists know that only about 5% of the DNA contained in our genes is used to reproduce human beings. 489 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:38,000 The remainder is an undiscifrable code, once referred to as junk DNA. 490 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:50,000 But is it really possible that so much of our DNA is unnecessary, or might the majority of our DNA be decoded sometime in the future? 491 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:56,000 And when it is, what might our DNA reveal about the origin of modern man? 492 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Just because we cannot decipher 95% of our genetic material doesn't necessarily mean that that 95% is in fact useless. 493 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000 Nature is extremely efficient. 494 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:21,000 DNA is the most powerful storage device in the universe. 495 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:32,000 Not even with all the supercomputers combined in the world could we store as much information as we could store on DNA. 496 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:43,000 So I'm suggesting that the ultimate proof of extraterrestrial life will not be found in a crashed spaceship or in a text, 497 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,000 but it will be found within our own genes. 498 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000 We have so much to learn from studying our own DNA. 499 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:59,000 We're only just now beginning to decode the human DNA sequence. 500 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:09,000 And as we do that, what we may discover is that extraterrestrial DNA is built into our own genetics. 501 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Whatever is out there created the universe, this planet, and other planets, and life. 502 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:27,000 And I strongly believe that this tie-in with whether gods and ETs were one of the same might very well be the case. 503 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:38,000 It does not take away from the fact that there's a god, that there's a higher power, that there's some creation out there that made the ETs. 504 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:47,000 But I think that layer between god and man is right in the middle, and that's extraterrestrials from other planets. 505 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:55,000 We have to learn that most of our knowledge in religion is wrong, except one thing. 506 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:59,000 There is creation, there is what we call god in all respect. 507 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:07,000 And we have to learn by religion, we are very teeny little beings in this gigantic universe, 508 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:12,000 and we have to learn why god is absolutely unexpressible. 509 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,000 It's so gigantic, it's so wonderful. 510 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,000 So we would never lose god when we continue to think of extraterrestrials. 511 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,000 God becomes bigger. 512 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:33,000 Is it really possible that humans evolved from bacteria growing in some sort of primordial ooze? 513 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:42,000 Or were we intelligently designed by a higher power of extraterrestrial origin, as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 514 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:48,000 Perhaps the answer lies within the very essence of what makes us human. 515 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:54,000 And with this knowledge, we may yet discover our rightful place in the universe.