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evidence of a cataclysmic event.

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You can see it here that this event took place.

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Written accounts describing lost cities.

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Atlantis had a great advanced civilization.

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At mythic tales of gods punishing humanity.

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They decided that they would destroy all these civilizations.

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In ancient cultures throughout the world,

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there are numerous stories of mankind nearly being destroyed by a great flood.

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But could such an event have actually taken place?

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And might it have been caused by another worldly force?

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One has to ask the question,

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what if Noah was one of the extraterrestrials?

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Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past

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by extraterrestrial beings.

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What if it were true?

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Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

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And if so, might we find evidence in the stories of the great flood?

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It is one of the best known stories of the Bible.

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And variations of this ancient tale can be found in cultures throughout the world.

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From ancient Hindu teachings and Mesopotamian legends to Mesoamerican myths,

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it is written that the gods sent a powerful flood to wipe out all of humanity.

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God is angry at human beings because human beings have not been behaving properly.

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They have been violating God's laws.

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Certainly the most famous of these is the legend of Noah.

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In Genesis, God becomes so disgusted with the behavior of his creation

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that he says he repenteth of making them.

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And he brings forth the deluge.

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In stories much older than the story of Noah,

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in the story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend,

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the Council of Gods brought the flood.

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And in Plato's writing, Zeus brought the flood.

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In Hinduism, God had instructed that one day the whole earth would be flooded.

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When that happens, you build a boat and you gather the people, some animals,

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and I will save you.

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The story of the great flood is often considered to be mythological.

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But similar stories of a cataclysmic flood can be found in approximately

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And many anthropologists say that because these stories are so numerous

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and date back thousands of years, it is unlikely that they originated from a single source.

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When we find similar myths all over the world, like the myth of the flood,

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then we have to ask ourselves, are these things that human beings came up with independently?

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that has been memorialized in people's mythologies because it was such a cataclysmic event

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that people looked for a religious explanation for it.

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The fact that there are ancient stories that speak of the same flood,

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it almost leads into that direction that at some point,

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some cataclysm happened that not just affected one geographic area of the world,

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but the entire planet.

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If a cataclysmic flood really did occur, killing most life on the planet,

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what could have caused it?

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And is there any physical evidence to suggest that it actually happened?

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Scientists say answers to both questions may be buried deep beneath the sea.

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this area, 900 miles southeast of Madagascar,

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is wearing enormous asteroid-structing earth thousands of years ago.

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This impact may have been so large that it triggered enormous tsunamis

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that flooded inland areas across the region.

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An event the local inhabitants would have perceived as a great flood.

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this is probably based in some sort of real event.

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triggering a tsunami, would then lead to one of these major floods.

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The Holocene Group says evidence for a catastrophic asteroid strike

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lies in what they believe is an 18-mile-wide crater on the floor of the Indian Ocean,

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just west of the island of Madagascar.

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Holocene Group scientists believe further evidence supporting their theory

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also lies in what are called chevrons,

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ancient deposits of sediment and fossils in both Madagascar and Australia.

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What was so out of place and unusual about the chevrons was that

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but rather it was the kind of debris you get from an ocean, sea bottom.

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at the ancient temple complex of Puma Punku in modern-day Bolivia.

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they could be definitive evidence that a cosmic strike

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caused large-scale flooding thousands of years ago.

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which measured eight miles wide and struck the Earth with a force five billion times more powerful

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than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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There are many ancient texts that tell us that there wasn't just a flood,

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but there was also a conflagration, a period of fire when the Earth was bombarded

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with firestorms, the gods bringing them down, and that this period was then followed by a flood.

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that had been covering large parts of the northern hemisphere for tens of thousands of years,

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sending all of the water up into the atmosphere, which then rained down,

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the fires that might have occurred just before the flood would have left behind an ash layer in the Earth all over the world.

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This distinctive ash layer, which scientists call the Usela Horizon,

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could be the ultimate proof that the great flood really occurred,

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and researchers believe they may have discovered it.

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Just outside the small Belgian town of Lamo,

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author and researcher Andrew Collins follows local archaeologist Ferdy Geertz

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to the site of a mysterious black layer of soil excavated by a mining company.

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and are we looking here at the Usela Horizon? Is this it?

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Collins and Geertz get a closer look,

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which allows them to determine that this dark layer of soil seems to date to the end of the last ice age,

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about the same time the Usela Horizon is supposed to have formed.

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when a global flood may have devastated Earth.

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Collins and Geertz dig into the soil and discover that it is indeed charcoal.

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This is the Usela Horizon, and to Collins,

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it's confirmation that the catastrophe described in the Bible was real.

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This is physical evidence of that flood,

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of that conflagration.

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This is your absolute evidence that this event took place.

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This is the evidence of the cataclysm.

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Could the Usela Horizon, a possible impact crater in the Indian Ocean,

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and sea fossils at Pumapunku,

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all be proved that the ancient story of a great flood is not a myth,

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but that it is based on actual events.

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to annihilate the human race, be true as well?

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This suggests that a great flood did in fact happen, that it was real.

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But then it also presents us with an intriguing possibility.

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It is entirely possible that there is an extraterrestrial origin to this terrible flood.

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Could it be that the great flood, described in so many ancient texts,

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really did occur at the end of the last Ice Age?

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And if so, could it have been brought on by extraterrestrial beings?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

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and claim that evidence of this can be found at the top of one of the world's most sacred mountains.

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The Focus of this event is to demonstrate the latest technology designed

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for diverting the course of asteroids headed for a collision with Earth.

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The proposed method involves launching a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid

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at a velocity nine times faster than the speed of a bullet fired from an AK-47.

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they were wiped out due to the impact of a giant rock

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that wiped out everything on planet Earth at the time.

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to redirect asteroids from possible collisions with Earth.

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scientists have also looked into the possibility of creating a gravity tractor

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that could actually manipulate the trajectory of the object.

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if we are close to developing this kind of technology today,

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is it possible that extraterrestrials who visited Earth in the distant past

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already possessed the ability to redirect asteroids?

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or as some have said, that it actually surpasses whatever it is that we've achieved so far in our modern age.

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then it's certainly possible that highly advanced extraterrestrials

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could have had the technology to direct an asteroid towards Earth.

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and as such, ripped the oceans out of their bodies.

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The flood was clearly contrived.

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It was sent by higher powers to correct things here on Earth.

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They had an intent and a purpose for experiment Earth, which they believe had become corrupted,

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and therefore the flood was sent as an attack, an assault upon humanity.

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If the great flood was a real historical event,

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could it have been deliberately caused by otherworldly beings, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

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Exploring the top of this historic mountain range,

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British archaeologist, General Sir Charles Warren, discovers the sacred temple of Kosser-Antar,

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Sir Charles Warren hiked up to the top of Mount Hermon, the ruins of this temple are there,

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and there he found an ancient stelle, and he broke the stelle into two pieces

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and brought it back to the British Museum.

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When scholars translated the Greek text, it read,

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according to the command of the greatest and holy God, those who take an oath proceed from here.

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The inscription significance was lost on archaeologists for more than a century,

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until biblical scholar George Nicholsburg connected it to an oath mentioned in the ancient book of Enoch.

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According to Enoch, Mount Hermon is where a band of renegade angels known as the Watchers

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descended from the heavens in the distant past and took an oath before meeting with humans.

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In the time before time, the sons of God came down to earth.

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and they found the women very attractive, and they married the women or bonded with the women.

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The offspring of these unnatural unions between angels and humans were said to produce giant hybrid beings called the Nephilim.

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And God was so disgusted by their existence that he decided to send a great flood to cleanse the earth of them.

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But how is it that human women were able to be impregnated by angels?

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but rather a different kind of otherworldly being?

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Are extraterrestrials coming and now breeding with humans, which was somehow forbidden and wrong, but they did it anyway?

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So the other extraterrestrials decided this is a big mistake.

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Now we've got to destroy all these people.

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and interbreeding with human women to create a mutant race of giants?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and claim further evidence can be found by examining ruins that are believed to date back thousands of years before our earliest known civilizations.

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The Gulf of Kumbhant, India, 2001.

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Scientists working some 25 miles from shore and 125 feet below the surface stumble across something extraordinary.

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What appears to be the signs of an ancient civilization?

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Recently, the marine archaeologists of India have discovered two cities in the Bay of Kumbhant.

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They are still working on it, going down there and archiving it and taking photographs and videos.

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They think that these cities were destroyed in a geological change that happened many thousands of years ago.

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But you have to wonder yourself if there are not more sunken cities all around India.

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Their own legends and myths say exactly that.

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Ruins found beneath the ocean in the Gulf of Kumbhant are thought to date back at least 9,000 years to the time when some researchers believe a comet struck the earth and caused a global deluge.

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Could these submerged cities not only be evidence that the Great Flood really did occur,

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but also that it wiped out an advanced society that existed long before the earliest known human civilization?

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Scientists say further evidence can be found in archaeological sites around the world that date back to the end of the last Ice Age.

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In southeastern Turkey lies Gobekli Tepe, an extraordinary series of circular stone structures with intricately carved pillars weighing as much as 50 tons.

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Radiocarbon dating indicates parts of the complex were built about 10,000 BC,

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and at least one archaeologist believes there are signs it may have been destroyed by a flood.

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We have evidence there of catastrophic destruction, of pillars being knocked over at the end of the last Ice Age.

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That things were very severe, people were trying to rebuild it at the time.

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Eventually they effectively gave up and covered over the entire site,

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maybe to come back later to uncover it, maybe to simply bury it for posterity.

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In the rainforest of Indonesia, is a series of terraces, walls and steps on a hill that the locals call Ganang Padang.

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When scientists drilled into the earth to determine its age, they discovered the site dates back to at least 9,700 BC.

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Very interestingly, one of the layers of Ganang Padang that's been exposed seismically shows that there was an entrance to a cave at about 9,700 or so BC that was subsequently covered over.

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Again, I think this ties in with the events of the end of the last Ice Age.

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People were going into caves, they had to escape, and then things were covered over after that.

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Are these ruins that are found across the world evidence of an advanced civilization that existed before a global deluge?

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And if so, might we find mention of it in ancient myths?

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If we go back to ancient Greece, one of the myths, one of the sacred narratives that Plato preserves,

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is the narrative that there used to be a great continent which he calls Atlantis.

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And Atlantis had a great advanced civilization.

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Atlantis was one of the continents that was destroyed by the Great Flood.

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When does he date Atlantis to 9,600 BC, which is very close to the modern date of the end of the last Ice Age?

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So all this, I believe, ties together that we had an earlier cycle of civilization.

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It was devastated at the end of the last Ice Age by natural catastrophes.

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Humanity was driven into a dark age that lasted thousands and thousands of years until civilization re-emerged about 5,000 years ago.

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Is it possible that the story of Atlantis is really describing a civilization that existed before 10,000 BC,

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when the Great Flood and the end of the Ice Age are said to have happened?

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Did Atlantis suffer the same fate as Gobekli Tepe, Ganon Padam,

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and many other ancient structures that appeared to have been hit by some catastrophic event?

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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that the most compelling evidence can be found,

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not with what was destroyed, but with what survived.

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Qumran, Palestine, 1946.

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In the desert, 10 miles east of Jerusalem, a Bedouin shepherd leaves his flock of sheep and goats to look for a stray.

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Walking along the cliffs, the shepherd spots a cave in the distance.

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He threw a stone into a cave, and he heard the crack of breaking pottery.

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So he went in to investigate and found jars that contained ancient manuscripts.

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The Bedouin Shepherds find led to a discovery of 11 caves that contained the most extraordinary cache of literature,

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arguably in human history, the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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There are 800 pieces of literature found in these 11 caves, and it tells us so much about the ancient world.

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One of the amazing revelations is a story about Noah that we don't see in the Old Testament.

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And the story is that when Noah is born, he's an extraordinary baby with a strange complexion

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and the ability to light up the room with his eyes.

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What's interesting is that you actually have Noah's father, Lamek, questioning whether or not Noah is his son.

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And this is due to the fact that we have this story about these fallen angels that came down and had sex with women.

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Lamek confronts his wife, Bittinosh. Is it my son or is it one of theirs?

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Noah's exterior is described as very foreign. His eyes are described to be glowing like sunbeams.

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His skin is glowing as well.

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Now that's a very bizarre description, and so one has to ask the question,

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what if Noah was one of the extraterrestrials?

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Could it be, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that the biblical figure of Noah was, in fact, an alien being?

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Is this the reason he is described as having a strange complexion and glowing eyes?

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The key thing that's going on with Noah is that he is pure in God's sight, and so is his family.

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And this purity seems to be genetic as much as what you might call spiritual.

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And so when God makes plans to wipe out the rest of humanity, what he's wiping out is the extraterrestrial dimension of humanity

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that has come about through the pollution of human genetics.

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Could extraterrestrials have sent the great flood to cleanse the earth of genetic mistakes?

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And make Noah the father of a new version of humankind?

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According to ancient stories, the world that Noah's descendants were born into was very different from the one that existed in pre-flood times,

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when gods, giants, fairies, and other creatures were said to share the planet with humans.

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The flood does seem to serve as a demarcation point.

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In the Bible, we read about how before the flood, people had longer lives, but then after the flood, shorter lives.

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We see the same thing in Mesopotamian tradition with the Sumerian King List,

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where before the flood, we have kings that ruled in Mesopotamia with extraordinarily long lives.

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After the flood, the lengths of reigns of these kings becomes much shorter.

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The other thing that happened before this great demarcation is that the gods were present among us.

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There was a close interaction between the human and the sacred.

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The gods would guide us, and they would be tempted.

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There would be interaction that God might marry a mortal, and then there would be descendants of the gods.

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Now the gods seem so far away, so there are these theories that this was the big shifting point in human history.

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It is really interesting to note that the interaction with these higher beings seems to only be located in the past.

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All these depictions of there were giants upon the earth, or a time when man interacted with the gods.

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Where are the gods today? We only seem to have subtle interactions.

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It's curious to think why that might have been.

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What was it about this great flood, this dividing line in history,

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that caused the separation of God and man?

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It could be that our evolution depended upon a natural upbringing,

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an upbringing that was not contaminated by this notion that we're not alone in the universe.

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It could be a necessary part of the human development.

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The World of Tartar

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Uzengali, Turkey, 1997.

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More than 7,000 feet up, near the country's eastern border,

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an American explorer searching for Noah's Ark named David Alan Deal

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stumbles upon the ruins of an ancient settlement.

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There is an extraordinary archaeological site in the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey called Naxuan.

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Naxuan comes from an ancient word that means Noah's Zion, the city of God that Noah builds.

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Mount Erarap, which is the legendary resting place of Noah's Ark, is very close by.

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So it makes a lot of sense that this could have been the landing site of the Ark,

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and then this city would have been built by Noah.

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The ancient Armenian historian Moses of Corrin called Naxuan the place of first descent,

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where Noah and his family emerged from the Ark and built the first city or town after the flood.

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Could this be the first settlement in the post-flood world, the place where Noah lived and died?

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Today, this remote area is largely uninhabited, but according to explorer David Deal,

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a recent archaeological dig reportedly uncovered something remarkable.

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The region may contain as many as a million graves.

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There is evidence that people came from all over the world to bury their dead here for 10,000 years.

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The idea is that if you are brought here to be buried in the site of this extraordinary prophet,

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this man who was chosen by God to be the survivor of the deluge,

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that you too would be resurrected because you were in such holy company.

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According to some researchers, if this is indeed the place where Noah began the repopulation of the earth,

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then the Ark must be nearby as well.

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In the Book of Genesis, we read about how God commanded Noah to build an Ark.

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And the measurements of this Ark are quite large.

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The dimensions usually given are about 450 feet long, by 75 feet wide, by about 45 feet high.

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Such a boat of these dimensions was never seen in the ancient world.

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And in fact, not until the 19th century was there ever a boat of this size.

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In 2009, a Dutchman named Johann Hebers started building a full-size version of Noah's Ark

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using the instructions laid out in the Bible.

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It took him three years and more than a million dollars to complete the project.

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But while the ship seems perfectly designed to ride out a torrential storm,

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many say it's still far too small to literally hold two of every animal species on the planet.

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It would seem pretty clear that Noah did not scoop up every form of life on earth and put it in the Ark.

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And so as a means of saving all life forms on earth, this is not possible, not believable.

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But ancient astronaut theorists suggest there might be another way in which the Ark was able to preserve

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two of every creature on earth, as stated in the Bible.

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Let's look at it from a technological perspective.

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The only way that you can create an Ark like Noah created according to what we can read in the Old Testament

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is if you collect DNA samples.

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So what if the Ark was a metaphor or a symbol for some type of a DNA bank?

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Did the Ark described in the story of Noah really exist?

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And if so, might it have been not a vessel to carry two of every animal species, but a DNA bank

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built to hold the genetic information of all life on our planet?

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What one might read into this is that some kind of special DNA bank was to be created.

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That animal DNA, plant DNA, and human DNA for that matter were all to be preserved somehow

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in an Ark that was to flow through the flood and this catastrophe.

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Is it possible that all of humanity is descended from Noah's genetic lineage, a new species that replaced

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the indigenous people who once existed on earth?

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And all that remains of this once great society are the giant slabs of rock that were too big to be washed away by the flood.

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And if so, might we be destined to suffer the same fate?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by looking at our own modern day version of Noah's Ark.

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Spitzbergen, Norway.

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On this remote archipelago, not far from the Arctic Ocean, lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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Known as the Doomsday Vault, this repository for the DNA of plants, animals, and humans can withstand nearly any cataclysm,

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including a flood, an earthquake, or a nuclear blast.

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The Svalbard Seed Bank is a structure or a facility that's sunk into the permafrost.

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It's essentially an international effort to deposit as many seeds, particularly seeds of crop plant varieties,

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to help to preserve genetic diversity.

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With the Doomsday Vault, are we creating our own modern day ark?

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One that instead of housing two of every living creature on earth, will house the seeds of every kind of plant life.

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The Svalbard Seed Vault has been designed with some sort of cataclysm in mind.

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The idea is that in the event of some catastrophic event, it would still stain coal and preserve seeds for thousands of years.

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It's sort of this last hope for genetic diversity.

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The Svalbard is just one of several biological storehouses located around the world.

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England's Millennium Seed Bank is even larger, while the US federal government has built a similar network of stores

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and has built a similar facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Scientists say one reason for these repositories is that another large asteroid, similar to the one that is believed to have caused the great flood,

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will eventually strike earth. It's just a matter of time.

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You always have the risk, and of course we've seen it here on earth, of having large asteroids or comets hit the planet

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and cause tremendous ecological damage.

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Right now, all our genetic eggs are in one basket.

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Whether it's a comet or asteroid hitting us, we are a jeopardy.

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In February of 2013, an asteroid large enough to take out all of New York City came within 18,000 miles of earth.

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Another has been predicted to strike the earth sometime in the next 20 years.

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But if a great flood or some other global catastrophe were to occur today, are we prepared to survive it?

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And if there really are extraterrestrial beings watching over the earth, are they likely to be the cause of such a cataclysm?

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Or will they simply be observers, sitting quietly by and letting nature take its course?

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If extraterrestrial gods are there watching us and either aware of future catastrophes or are capable of making them themselves,

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then perhaps we need to be prepared for that.

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We live in a precarious point where at any time we could go through another catastrophe.

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And you have to ask yourself if the extraterrestrials themselves may not create that.

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One of the explanations for why extraterrestrials might seek to destroy humankind is because they treat us as their property.

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They treat us as their offspring and they're able to make decisions about humanity based on their needs.

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So perhaps their needs were satisfied and they decided they didn't want humankind around anymore,

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so it's just as easy to wipe them out as it is to continue to perpetuate their existence.

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The evolution of humans on this planet has been completely and totally an experiment on the part of extraterrestrials.

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If survival is the bottom line, they are trying to get us over some kind of a finish line when we're still alive.

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Our survival was ensured by extraterrestrials way back in the remote past because we are their direct offspring.

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We are their product. They in fact have a vested interest in our survival.

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Are we the descendants of an extraterrestrial ancestor named Noah, who is sent to repopulate the Earth after the Great Flood?

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And if so, are there extraterrestrials watching over us even to this day?

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Not to destroy us, but simply to see if we can prevail over the Earth's next great cataclysm?

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It is a question we may not have much time to think about, except to consider how much or how many will survive.