Also, I have to say I really admire people who can turn off their brains and enjoy anything based on the concept that its just entertainment. I like my entertainment to make sense, I don’t care what genre it is. I like to think that the artist cared enough to think something out and present it to me so that I can admire the ingenuity and thoughtfulness that went into the work.

I like BSG, I really do, but I don’t like it so much that I’m going to go through mental gymnastics to make all the the plot holes and bad story ideas make sense. The moral to the story is. Don’t write a television series without a plan! Outlines are good things, it doesn’t lead to bad televisions, it leads to logical, satisfying drama.

Actually, yeah, there is pretty clear evidence to support that humans almost certainly evolved on this planet, as did all other live we’ve examined so far.

This means, as far as BSG is concerned, that one of the following possibilities exists:

1. The BSG group was basically the “B Ark” and all other life on earth died out and quickly re-evolved from them in the blink of 150,000 years.

2. The BSG group all died out without making much of an impact at all.

3. There is no detectable difference, genetically, between the BSG group and the species on Earth suggesting that it’s more likely the BSG gang simply came, originally, from Earth, maybe a few hundred thousand years ago or so.

I liked how the writers ended the show. I believe the writers were merely presenting a possibility. History that far back is unclear, and it poses a question. Did modern humans originate on Earth? I’d like to think so, but there is no clear evidence to support an answer either way. The universe is billions of years old, and modern humans have been walking the earth for a few hundred thousand years. Why couldn’t there be another planet out there somewhere that was formed millions of years before this solar system, and had a planet form that had the same environment as this one, and humans evolve on it. Their technology would have grown on a similar timeline as ours but millions of years earlier. They became explorers, and somehow, some of them wound up here. I’m sure there are plenty of folks who will read this and think I’m nuts. I may be dead wrong, but before passing judgment, is there conclusive evidence out there to confirm this is indeed impossible? I’m quite certain it won’t be in my lifetime, but I’d like to think we humans will someday be able to colonize another planet. If we have the ambition to do so, what’s to say there wasn’t anyone before us? I think I can confidently say I don’t think there are any cylons out there, though

This topic (Mitochondrial Eve) is completely new to me and I’m interested in the science that Rob is referring too; and am completely intrigued with this. Any thoughts let me know.

As you forget that Eve must have had an Adam to produce the next generation.

I.e. all reproduced, for many, many generations but only those that mated with hera’s decendants eventually survived as they had a small genetic advanatge, that would have made itself felt at time of stress, i.e. an ice age which wipes out most of mankind leaving perhaps a few hundred alive, from which hera’s decedants continued etc… which is exactly how it happened in real life.

And yes the time frame for eve is 150,000 to 180,000 years ago , so the show is correct.

We may have created the cycle of human life and evolution millions upon millions of years ago. We may have had great societies for more advanced than what we see before us. The theory of spreading us out over the surface of the earth to increase the chances of survival is a valid theory. We just have not found more of the bodies.

The show “Life after Humans” is a shining example. In the show they will not talk about what took us out, only what happens to man’s footprints. Nature will reclaim everything. They show how buildings crumble into mounds and plant life takes over. Soil recreates over everything and eventually we end up with hills, valleys, rivers, streams and greenery. We focus on digging up the known world. Maybe we should look under our own carpets. My arguement validating this possiblity would be the face on Mars. Could that be a monument buried under millions of years of dirt and rubble? Could Mars have been another human colony that suffered a cataclismic event? Until we can get up there with heavy equipment and dig it out we will never know.

The lack of prehistoric advance technology could very well be attributed to the fact that the show basically took the “Cortez” path buy sending it all to be burned up by the Sun. Remember Cortez burned all of his ships upon reaching the new world.

Now, we all satand on the preciface of the cycle breaking through with the advent of space travel, artificial intelligence and so on.

Eve coaxed Adam into biting the apple.

History has a funny habit of repeating itself.