If human evolution is explained as the product of a monolith built by aliens, how did those aliens evolve?

If human evolution is explained as the product of a monolith built by aliens, how did those aliens evolve?

Considering that they appear to be multidimenional octahedrons made of light.... It would have been extremely bizarre.

>implying the aliens didn't build the monolyths to evolve themselves

Where they evolved by God?

>implying the aliens are not god

>Implying calling the aliens "God" makes the problem go away

The monolith didn't create evolution, just sped it up.

Unless you somehow believe the monolith visited every creature on earth, including millions of years beforehand when they were microscopic organisms and fish.

>The monolith didn't create evolution, just sped it up.

ok, but why was it necessary then if aliens much greater than man had evolved just fine without them? What was their point?

>people believe in evolution
>a fish crawled up on land and became every living land creature
>one of the mammals decided to go back to the sea (whale)
>the whale still breathes air
Yeah OK.

I don't think human minds can comprehend the universe, hence the mind-blowing lightshow. It's literally too deep for you.

>trying to sum up 4.5 billion years of events in four greentext lines
>surprised when it sounds ridiculous

It's monoliths all the way down.

>I don't think human minds can comprehend the universe

That's just a thought terminating cliche. If there's anything we don't currently comprehend, it'll be specific things for specific reasons. Saying we "can't" isn't very conducive to making progress.

Can you even comprehend why white women love BIG BLACK COCK?

Because the monolith is a big black phallus.

This, racemixing is just women trying to speed up evolution again.

by a monolith made by monkeys

Atheism takes just as much faith as religion.

For their explanation of macro-evolution to work, they have to believe in Abiogenesis.
Abiogenesis takes more faith to believe in than believing in God.

Let them have their religion.

Just so you know, mutations ocurr due to the radiation in the environment.

The monolith is part of a system of self replicating robots sent off from one originator species at some point in the past to sees life throughout the Galaxy. There are likely monoliths on millions of habitable worlds in this galaxy and others , doesn't even take FTL to be able co colonize a galaxy in less than a million years

>Atheism takes just as much faith as religion.

Do you realize you're trying to make atheism seem bad by likening it to the thing you believe in? It's like if you were a prostitute trying to make engineers sound bad by saying they were basically prostitutes themselves. It implies you have a poor opinion of yourself.

The monolith is a self-fulfilling entity. The aliens and, therefore, us, are a by product of the existence of the monolith. Not the other way around. Their previous existence was purely to create the monolith so that it could, in turn, stimulate our evolution. It gave the aliens the illusion of purpose, and us, the illusion of meaning in the universe. All hail the monolith. It exists before it existed. Its own existence and lack of existence is a paradox.

It only requires faith that things will work in the future the same way that they worked in the past, as pointed out in Hume's problem of induction.

underrated post

the human mind is literally designed for comprehending the universe

>many senses with which to interpret information externally
>an imagination which is not bound by the laws of the universe in order to facilitate navigation

>The extraterrestrial species that built the monoliths developed intergalactic travel millions or perhaps billions of years before the present time. In the novels, Clarke refers to them as the "Firstborn" (not to be confused with the identically-named race in Arthur C. Clarke's and Stephen Baxter's Time Odyssey Series) since they were quite possibly the first sentient species to possess a significant capability of interstellar travel. Members of this species explored the universe in the search of knowledge, and especially knowledge about other intelligent species.

>While these early explorers discovered that life was quite common, they observed that intelligent life was often stunted in its development, or else died out prematurely. Hence, they set about fostering it. The "Firstborn" were in many ways physically different from human beings, though from another point-of-view they were fundamentally the same: they were creatures made of "flesh and blood", and hence like human beings they were mortal.

>However, the evolutionary development projects they began would by their nature require very long time-spans to complete, far longer than the lifetimes of their creators. Therefore, the aliens created increasingly complex automated machines to oversee and carry out their projects over the eons. When they encountered a living world that had features in favour of the evolution of intelligent life, they left behind the monoliths as remote observers that were also capable of taking a variety of actions according to the wishes of their creators. One such planet, encountered when it was still quite young, was the Earth. They also observed Jupiter and its watery moon, Europa. The decaying ecology of Mars was also visited, but passed over in favour of more fruitful locations like Earth. The aliens left behind three monoliths to observe and enact their plan to foster humans to pursue technology and space travel.

abiogenesis occurring due to a minuscule chance does not take as much faith as believing in god