DobberYes because there would be no new factors influencing the cavemen or animals. The asteroids would still strike and the atmosphere would be the same.

How do you know that?

The evolution of life is a relatively narrow path. Consider that 99% of all species that have ever lived on earth are likely now extinct. The chance that humans, or even the entire current animal kingdom as it stands, could somehow be exactly replicated if their evolutionary timelines tried to repeat themselves is so absurdly low it's practically negligible. Think of all the billions and trillions of genetic mutations and variations, the extinction events, and animals just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time succumbing to predation, or disease, or starvation. If you wanted to perfectly replicate how we are today, you'd also need to replicate all of the above. Essentially, you'd need to rewind time, because there's no way that could all repeat itself by chance.

So no, we would not be the same.

las.How do you know that?

The evolution of life is a relatively narrow path. Consider that 99% of all species that have ever lived on earth are likely now extinct. The chance that humans, or even the entire current animal kingdom as it stands, could somehow be exactly replicated if their evolutionary timelines tried to repeat themselves is so absurdly low it's practically negligible. Think of all the billions and trillions of genetic mutations and variations, the extinction events, and animals just happening to be in the wrong place at the wrong time succumbing to predation, or disease, or starvation. If you wanted to perfectly replicate how we are today, you'd also need to replicate all of the above. Essentially, you'd need to rewind time, because there's no way that could all repeat itself by chance.

So no, we would not be the same.

This thread is too much for my brain to handle. You win.

What's your favorite song?

If you're deaf and mute, what language do you think in?

If animals could talk, and still looked exactly as they are now, would we continue to eat them?

DobberThis thread is too much for my brain to handle. You win.

So I think that means I win? Seeing as how my question started the discussion.

Not sure if this has been asked already.

How did we come to be? Were we created by a supernatural being? Did we just "poof" into existence? Was there something else that created what we know as the universe?

You are given a book by a stranger, and you start reading it. You realize it's a book about your life - everything that has ever happened, and will happen. Will you read to the end?

Does anybody really know what time it is?