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Look at the fossils—the so-called "pre- humans"—from the Pliocene epoch, starting 5.0 million years ago. Other than bipedal walking, all of their physical aspects shout out "ape roots". Look at today's tracks, sightings and encounters with living hominoids, Bigfoot and oth- ers. These all-too-real creatures will one day be proved to have a direct link back to the Miocene—which, at a stroke, will eliminate any possibility that humans and apes share any kind of common ancestor. We humans are not indigenous to plan- et Earth. We were either put here intact or we developed here, but we did not evolve here. Our genes make clear that we've been cut-and-pasted from other, non-primate, non-Earthly species. Personally, I believe that the work of Zecharia Sitchin (The Earth Chronicles) comes closest to a plausible explanation. But even if some aspects of what he says are wrong, or even if all of it someday is proved to be wrong, that won't change the basic facts that his work—and my own work—address. Humans are not primates. We do indeed stand apart as a "special" creation, long espoused by theologians and now by certain credentialled scientists. The only question left hanging is, of course: who or what was the creator? I don't think I'll be privileged to learn that in my lifetime. But I'm confident I'm within reach of the next best answer. I'm confident that we were created by invasive genetic manipulation. ro essays on origins—of life and of humans. They are two of the world's most sensi- tive areas of scholarship and debate, pro- ducing some of the most vitriolic exchanges in all of academia. But vitri- ol, like might, doesn't make right. I once knew a baseball player who'd pitched a no-hitter against a seriously inferior team. Upon being criticised for the obvious imbalance between his abili- ties and those of his opponents, the pitch- er shrugged and said, "A no-hitter is a no-hitter, even against Lighthouse for the Blind." And so it is with a mistaken belief. If millions believe a thing, that doesn't make it correct. I believe that the facts, if fairly evalu- ated, will over time prove that humans— and indeed, life itself{—did not originate on Earth, and that nothing has macroe- volved on Earth. It has all been brought here and left to fend for itself, then replaced when events required the intro- duction of new forms. No other theory suits the facts nearly as well. As for humans (the object of this essay), look back to the Miocene epoch, where the earliest traces of our ancestors supposedly originate. Apes dominate. About the Author: Lloyd Pye, born in 1946 in Louisiana, USA, is a researcher, author, novelist and scriptwriter. His independent stud- ies over more than three decades into all aspects of evolution have convinced him that humans did not evolve on Earth, or at least are the product of extraterrestrial intervention. His book, Everything You Know Is Wrong — Book One: Human Origins, can be ordered through the website http://www.iUniverse.com or via Barnes & Noble at http://www.bn. com. His article, "Evidence for Creation by Outside Intervention", which looks at the origin of early life on Earth, was published in NEXUS 9/04. Part One of his essay, "Darwinism: A Crumbling Theory", was published in NEXUS 10/01. Lloyd Pye is scheduled to speak at the 2003 NEXUS Conference in Amsterdam in March. Visit Lloyd's website at http://www.lloydpye.com. 76 = NEXUS Darwinism: A Crumbling Theory Continued from page 52 www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2003