Did Extraterrestrials Bring Us to Intelligence on Our Planet?

The main inspiration for this book was the 40+ years of work by Zecharia Sitchin, a specialist in interpreting Sumerian clay tablets: our earliest written records. These accounts from Sumerian sources anticipate Biblical stories such as the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark, which they first described as actual events in early human history. Unlike most specialists on the translation of antique languages, Sitchin interpreted these inscriptions outside their strictly linguistic context, as describing actual events that were told them by representatives of a visiting extraterrestrial civilization, the Anunnaki. This preceded the rapid development of the ancient Sumerians to civilization, during which it was inevitable that their visitors were converted into a superior category and worshipped as gods. Of more practical significance, these records include Sumerian accounts of our genetic modification and tutoring by an extraterrestrial species, the Anunnaki.

A wide range of discoveries in human evolution and genetics suggests that the human genome underwent very rapid changes some 20,000 years ago. There was also a rapid expansion in the size of the human brain, justifying our current taxonomic name; Homo sapiens, sub-species sapiens. A phenomenal leap forward occurred then in our knowledge and technologies, but we are still a very new species! While I am not suggesting that our evolution to humanity was not achieved in part by natural selection, this speedy transition is not typical of the slow evolutionary process when acting alone.

A new force promoting our rapid social and scientific evolution has become evident over the last millenia, and is drawing us onwards with inexorable force and rapidity. One could categorize this force as ’Syntropy’: an impulse from the future acting in opposition to destructive entropy; an impulse from the past associated with the inevitable dissolution of material structures with the passage of time. This implies that our species is aiming, or being aimed at, a noteworthy end result; namely, to escape the dangers of life on a planetary surface by becoming a space-going species. The draft cover design shown above illustrates the role of directed panspermia (now effectively validated), which led to DNA being implanted on our early planetary surface by advanced extraterrestrials; possibly in an attempt to spread intelligent life through the galaxy. This seeding of life forms drastically shortened the time needed for their constituent DNA to evolve by random processes, which time span alone is predicted by experts to exceed the age of our planet. Removing this long interval allowed Darwinian evolution to lead more rapidly to our simian predecessors. A series of mechanisms are postulated to have then cut in during our later evolution, which in the long term could lead us to becoming a space-going species. The most recent of these being the reverse engineering of crashed extraterrestrial vehicles leading to micro-electronics and revolutionary discoveries in material science. Long before this however, there may have been more radical modifications to our primate genome.

Considering where we are now in this long evolutionary process, at this point in time we must avoid self-destruction through warfare, and not commit planetary suicide by further contaminating our atmosphere by the products of carbon combustion - a primitive process which is still the main source of energy on this planet! A rapid technological revolution would offer our best chance as a species of surviving the climatic catastrophe our planet is currently facing.

The key disaster that effectively wiped out most civilizations and their historical records 12-13,000 years ago before the last Ice Age was a global mega-flood, documented as history by the authors of Genesis. What the human species was doing previously, and how we survived this catastrophy, are still mysterious questions. Some scientists believe this crisis was related to a geological/cosmological trauma experienced by our planet, but ice cores taken in Antarctica suggest that global freezeups occur every hundred thousand years or so, and humans may only be the last intelligent native species evolved here to be subject to them.

Sitchin’s work, and others subsequently, inspired me to propose a tentative framework of new information that has since come to light, suggesting a possible schema for early human evolution. This could stimulate criticism by the experts who are invited to offer alternative suggestions for a pre-historical framework, if one is available. So be it; a debate between alternative explanations seems the only way we can make progress in understanding key events in our distant past.

This brings me to my personal background as an author. I am a fairly well-recognized marine scientist and in my retirement I opened a Cloud site documenting my past publications in science journals (see: https://sites.google.com/view/john-caddy-fisheries-science/). The ‘Other Matters’ section on this site gives my outputs on artistic and philosophical topics prior to attempting this work. I was encouraged in this process by observing that leading authors on pre-history such as Graham Hancock and Michael Tellinger, did not start out as experts on anthropology or historical research, but rather as ‘lay-experts’; opening up in a challenging way readable studies on our fragmentary pre-history: a subject inviting a broad multidisciplinary approach.

The following provides the sequence of topics ambitiously addressed in this short book:

Index

1. INTRODUCTION
2. Our planet as an incubator of life
3. Catastrophes and climate change in history
4. Ancient prehumans
5. Evolution of intelligent species on Earth before humans?
6. Mixing genotypes to produce Homo sapiens sapiens?
7. Highlights of my personal DNA
8. Random and directed panspermia
9. Is panspermia a normal means of spreading life forms (DNA) between planets?
10. Language, speech and writing
11. The Tower of Babel and human linguistic/cultural divergence
12. Mixing mythology and reality: confusion between spiritual beings and physical entities coming from the sky
13. Religious beliefs, mythologies or ancient events?
14. Sumerian sources, mythology, and Genesis
15. Nibiru: the Anunnaki planet
16. The Garden of Eden and the ‘upgrading’ of proto-humans for work duty
17. Construction of an Ark to escape from the post Ice Age flood
18. Mining gold: Sumerian colonization of southern Africa and migration north
19. Social conflicts among the Anunnaki
20. Wars between enthusiasts for humans and their opponents
21. Are extended lifetimes a function of planetary stability?
22. Other humanoids in our planet’s history: the Megalithic civilizations
23. Megalithic constructions
24. ‘Handbags’ of the Gods in early world cultures; a coincidence or a diagnosis?
25. Ancient astronomy
26. Evidence for spaceflight reported by the Sumerians
27. Space flight as a means of escaping catastrophes?
28. What do we know about cosmic archaeology?
29. Ancient nuclear incidents
30. A personal summary of human historical landmarks
31. The nuclear incident on Mars and its implications
32. Our future in the Cosmos
33. REFERENCES