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I'm often asked if the ancient
astronaut theory discounts

the theory of evolution,
and the answer is of course not.

Science has proven
that everything--

including animals
and humans-- evolves.

But when it comes
to human evolution,

there is one thing that science
and Darwin's theory

can't account for,
and that is the missing link.

Most mainstream scientists agree

that some 200,000 years ago,

there was a sudden
and tremendous leap

in human evolution.

One that defies
simple explanation.

And it is this leap
that allows mankind

to create music, art,

literature, religion,
and sets it apart

from every other living being
on this planet.

But just as fascinating
is the fact

that in virtually every
ancient creation story,

our ancestors claim
that their origins

don't come from the Earth

but from beings who are said
to have come from the stars.

TSOUKALOS:
In April of 2015,

scientists at Sun Yat-sen
University in China

announced that they had created

the first genetically
modified human embryo.

The procedure involved
removing the gene HBB,

which causes
a deadly blood disorder.

In the near future,
it is possible that scientists

may soon be able to edit
every part of our DNA.

And this genetic engineering
will not only help

to prevent diseases,
it could also be used to alter

an unborn child's eye color,
height, gender,

athletic skill
and intelligence.

There are many who believe
that this incredible ability

raises serious ethical questions
about the dangers

of tinkering with
the blueprint for human life.

But there is also
a wealth of evidence

that genetic engineering
of humans has been done before,

thousands of years ago,

by extraterrestrial visitors.

NARRATOR:
South Africa.

25 miles northwest
of Johannesburg

lie the Malapa Caves.

Here, in August of 2008,

paleoanthropologist Lee Berger

and his
nine-year-old son Matthew

discover several fossilized
skeletal remains

of two-million-year-old
early humans,

including a female adult

and male child,
perhaps a mother and son.

The size and shape
of the bones indicate that

the individuals walked upright

and had modern hands.

Over the past
several decades, scientists

have unearthed the remains

of nearly two dozen different
types of early human ancestors,

all known as hominids.

IAN TATTERSALL: We have
an extremely good fossil record

of ancient hominids...

and I think the picture
emerging from it

is pretty clear

that, in earlier days,

before Homo sapienscame along,

there were typically many
different kinds of hominids

coexisting in the world.

CRAIG STANFORD: We have
a hard time getting our minds

around this now, because,
of course,

there's just one kind
of human on Earth today

and there's seven billion of us,
but at one time,

within the last
few hundred thousand years,

you could find two
or even three species

of hominid living in the same
area at the same time.

NARRATOR: Most mainstream
scholars tell us

hominids evolved
from an ape ancestor,

nearly six million years ago,

through what is referred to
as natural selection.

This theory of evolution
was first popularized

by English anthropologist
Charles Darwin

in his 1859 book

On the Origin of Species.

TATTERSALL:
Darwin's mechanism of evolution

was natural selection.

That is to say
a long-term process

whereby better-adapted
individuals

reproduce more successfully.

FIORELLA TERENZI:
Darwin's theory of evolution

by natural selection

explain that organism

with certain traits,

such as mutation,

turn out to be actually
beneficial.

Turn out to be of advantage

in the struggle
for reproduction.

So mutation allow organism

to survive and to pass on

to the next generation

these mutation.

NARRATOR: Darwin speculated
that, over time,

hominids walking on two feet

used their hands to make tools.

This, in turn,
made them smarter.

Then, approximately
200,000 years ago,

hominids evolved into
Homo sapiens,or modern man.

But many scholars dispute
Darwin's findings.

We don't see dolphins
building cars.

We don't see elephants
building houses.

That might sound trite,
but it's a fact

that these animals
just simply haven't progressed

and advanced in the way we have.

And the big question is:
why is that?

Why should that happen?
Why should we be so unique?

STANFORD: Tool use doesn't
really come into play

for several million years

after the first, earliest humans
began to walk upright.

And then brain size doesn't
really begin to expand,

and really mushroom in size,

until the last several
hundred thousand years.

So actually, six million years
of human evolution--

there are millions of years

separating each of
those major features:

upright posture, tool use,
brain expansion.

So Darwin was wrong
because he couldn't possibly

have known the chronology
in his day.

NARRATOR:
In 1967,

British zoologist Desmond Morris

argued against
Darwin's theories on evolution

in his book The Naked Ape.

In it, Morris wrote
that there was no reason

why man stood alone
from other species

in terms of his nudity.

If we were to subscribe 100%

to the idea of survival
of the fittest,

isn't it illogical to think

that, all of a sudden,

we're completely naked

and we're losing all of our fur?

I mean, that makes
absolutely no sense,

because right after
we shed our fur,

we had to wearfurs
to keep warm.

Had we not worn any furs,

we would've frozen to death.

We would've died.

So the whole idea
that we shed all of our hair

in order to survive,
because we were stronger,

logically, makes no sense.

NARRATOR: But if Darwin's
theory of natural selection

cannot account
for the appearance

of intelligent hairless
Homo sapiens,what can?

Might the transition of hominids

to modern human beings

have been the result
of an otherworldly design,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

Alfred Russel Wallace,
a colleague of Darwin,

called it
the intelligence evolution.

TATTERSALL: Darwin believed
that the human brain

had been driven into existence
by natural selection,

but Wallace couldn't quite
see how this could be so.

What Wallace perceived was that

the way that humans think,

their intellectual faculties
are qualitatively different

from anything
that had preceded them.

And he couldn't quite see
how this enormous gap

could be bridged
by natural selection.

So he invoked another
explanation

for the evolution,
the arrival of, uh,

modern human
cognitive abilities.

His... choice

was a spiritual explanation.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Alfred believed
there was an unseen

creative spirit that was behind

all life on our planet.

And he believed that this unseen

creative spirit had interceded

three times in this planet.

[rumbling]

First, was to create life

from inorganic matter.

And then, the second time was

when animals achieved
some kind of consciousness.

And the third time was when
humans, suddenly, were able

to have the mental abilities
that we have today.

But he felt that it wasn't
just a random selection

like Charles Darwin thought.

He believed
that all of these changes

had a creative intelligence
behind it.

The view that I have is that

because the rest of nature

hasn't changed that much,

that, arguably, we shouldn't.

So, that suggests to me we're
seeing something potentially

that has gone against nature,
and if it's gone against nature,

maybe that means

because somebody
has been manipulating nature.

PHIL IMBROGNO: There's no
explanation for human beings.

They shouldn't be here
on this planet.

If we were evolved and changed

by an extraterrestrial source

from our early
primate ancestors,

that's the only way, really,
you can account

for the human species,

unless you, of course,
put God in the equation.

And who knows
who the gods may have been.

GEORGE NOORY: Charles Darwin
might be rolling over

in his grave right now,

but it's very possible

that mankind came about

because of
extraterrestrial intervention.

NARRATOR: Did the evolution
of modern humans

really receive a jump-start
by extraterrestrial beings,

as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?

And, if so, might there be
tangible evidence?

Some scientists believe
proof can be found

inside the human brain.

One of the great mysteries
of man is

why our brains are
so much more sophisticated

than every other species
on Earth.

And studies are showing

that we are rapidly becoming
even smarter.

According to scientist
James Flynn,

in the last 100 years alone,

we've gained,
on average, 30 IQ points.

Simple evolution would take
millions of years

to achieve this incredible leap.

And recent evidence suggests

that this wasn't the only time
in our evolution

that humans made
an extraordinary jump

in their intelligence.

But what, or who, is causing it?

NARRATOR:
Chicago, Illinois.

December, 2004.

Researchers at the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute

of the University of Chicago

publish the results of a study
that claims

the sophistication
of the human brain

was the result of a so-called
"Special Event."

They said mankind's intelligence

was not only
the result of evolution,

and that around
50,000 years ago,

the genes of ancient humans

went through
an intense amount of change

in a relatively
short amount of time--

what some refer to as
the "Big Bang" of the brain.

IMBROGNO:
No one really knows how

human beings developed so fast
in such a short period of time.

I don't believe
it was done naturally.

TATTERSALL:
It's very clear

that fully modern
intellectual function

is a very recent acquisition
in our lineage.

It's not an improvement
upon what was there before.

It's a new kind of manipulation
of information in the mind.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
There's no other animal creature

on the planet that has such
a comparative point,

and that's why they call it
"The Big Brain Event."

REDFERN: People talk
about the missing link.

Where is the link
between going from apes,

monkeys, gorillas, etcetera,

to being able
to develop atomic weaponry

and fly in space?

PHILIP COPPENS:
When we're looking at

the origins of man,

we realize that,
50,000 years ago,

we really went where no creature
on Earth had ever gone before.

We have become human.

NARRATOR: But what was the spark
that spurred human intelligence?

Was it a genetic mutation
brought about

by the natural selection process
of evolution,

as many
mainstream scientists contend?

Or could it have been
a genetic modification,

produced
by extraterrestrial beings,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

STANFORD: There is the idea
that there was a gene or genes

that popped up sometime in
our ancestors... uh, randomly,

that may
have given us the ability

to symbolically represent
objects in our environment,

or be abstract.

Those are things
that-that, for instance,

chimpanzees have a great deal
of trouble with,

even when
they're taught language.

TATTERSALL:
Homo sapiens,

emerging from Africa, started
to behave symbolically.

They started to manipulate
information in their mind

in a way
in which their predecessors

had never done before.

They disassembled
the world around them

into a vocabulary of,
uh, discreet symbols,

and recombined them

so they could imagine
new kinds of worlds.

ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Long, long time ago,

extraterrestrials arrived
on this planet.

They realized that
the planet was full of life,

and one of them was
the most advanced form,

was one of our ancestor.

They took the DNA out,

and they changed
the basic information

in the DNA.

This is what our genetics
are doing every day.

Now the cell was changed.

The product you plant
into the womb

of a female of the same species.

This female will give birth

to a child approximately
after nine months.

But because
of this artificial mutation,

that's different,

because it was made artificially
by the extraterrestrials.

BILL BIRNES: What if,
as part of the genetic updates

human beings were getting
from extraterrestrials,

one of those genetic updates
involved

a software download,
a biological download,

to differentiate

the different hemispheres
of the brain,

to allow human society--

toolmaking, fire,

social organization--
to be created,

and from that, that particular
species of hominid,

became the human being
we are today?

DR. LYLE ARMSTRONG:
If alien species out there

could fly
across interstellar space,

then, in all probability,

they would have similar
DNA recombinant technology.

Of course, it would depend

on their own genetic composition
being similar to ours.

But if they understood
sufficient chemistry

and physical principles
from their own experience

of-of the physical world model,
then, in all probability,

manipulating our DNA
would be simple.

NARRATOR: But if alien beings
created humans

by genetically altering
our primitive ancestors,

might various versions
of hominids have been the result

of experiments at creating
intelligent life on Earth,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend?

COPPENS: This is one of the
greatest unanswered questions.

The ancient records do not say

that we are part
of a social experiment.

The ancient records say that
we were bestowed upon this gift.

The gods gave us
the gift of intellect,

and it is for us to use it.

So, yes, we might actually
be part of an experiment,

but it might be an experiment
in intelligence.

It might actually be a game,

a kind of the greatest
reality TV show,

whereby the entire human species
is watched by ancient aliens

who have been watching the show
for maybe 50,000 years.

TSOUKALOS: Fox P2 is
a gene that was found

in our nucleotides,
and it is something

that sets us completely apart
from any other animal.

And scientists have suggested

that that gene alone

is responsible for language.

And there is absolutely
no evidence of origin

or that this thing
somehow mutated

from the animal kingdom
towards us.

So this gene exists
out of nowhere,

without any origin.

So my question is:
is it possible

that this gene was given to us

or grafted into us

by extraterrestrials
in the remote past?

And the answer is yes.

Was it the same
non-human ancient aliens

of so many ancient settlements
on this planet deciding

that they wanted humans
to be able to communicate

at a more sophisticated level?

I think that's
the fundamental angst today

among people trying
to understand who are we

in relationship
to extraterrestrials

that may have been
manipulating DNA

on this planet
for thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Might the evidence
of our alien origins

really have been passed
down to us,

implanted in our genetic code,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found,

not by scientists,
but by religious scholars

that claim Adam and Eve
really did exist.

NARRATOR:
The Hebrew Bible.

In it, the Book
of Genesis describes

how God created
the first two humans,

Adam and Eve,
in the Garden of Eden,

and told them to
"go forth and multiply."

For centuries, scientists
and theologians have debated

whether this story
of the creation of man

was mere myth
or historical fact.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The Torah
mentions that humanity is made

out of the dust of the earth,

and that God breathed life
into this to make us animated.

Here is the breath of soul,
the breath of vitality,

the divine breath,
which suggests

that we, the spark,
the life force

that makes a human body tick,
is divine in its nature.

NARRATOR: In 1987,
scholarly disagreements

over the origin
of man intensified

with the discovery
that the genetic lineage

of every living person
could be traced back

to a single woman
who once lived in Africa.

TATTERSALL: It's pretty well
established by now,

particularly from the, uh,
molecular, the DNA record,

that Homo sapiensdid originate
at one place in Africa.

And after having become
fully modern--

in the sense
of intellectually modern--

spread out to occupy Europe,

to occupy eastern Asia,
and the Old World in general.

STANFORD: It's sometimes called
"the Eve model,"

not meaning that we're all
descended from the same woman,

but it does mean
that there was a woman

in that early human population
migrating out of Africa,

who was the only female
who ultimately left her genes

in every modern person.

NARRATOR: But is it possible
that mainstream science

and the Book of Genesis
are both pointing

to the same moment
in ancient time,

when modern man first
appeared on earth?

NOORY: The myth of Adam and Eve,
I think, is not a myth.

I think it's a true story.

I think Adam and Eve
were on this planet.

They were the first
human beings that we know of.

And they helped populate
this planet.

What is the Garden of Eden?

I think it just happened
to be the area

that the genetically manipulated
human being,

Adam and Eve, were placed.

That's where they lived.

That's where
they started to breed.

And that's where
the populations

of the planet started to grow.

NARRATOR: If Adam and Eve
actually had existed

as described
in the Hebrew Bible,

might this also mean that
a serpent really did tempt them

to eat from the tree
of knowledge?

And if so, might this account
have been an effort to describe

the sudden awakening
of the modern human mind,

when man first became
an intelligent being?

[translated]: In the Bible,
it says that if you eat

from this tree,
you will be like God.

[rattling]

Satan, in the form of a snake,
tempts Adam and Eve

and promises them
that they will be like God.

The knowledge
that Adam and Eve acquire,

as well as humanity in general,
gives man the ability

to eventually carry out
genetic manipulations.

So what was this
tree of knowledge?

Is the tree of knowledge,
in fact,

the helical DNA sequencing
in our own bodies,

that was genetically engineered

by extraterrestrials
50,000 years ago,

so that we would have the
abilities that we have today?

In my mind, it's our DNA itself
that is the tree of knowledge.

But why was this suddenly,
uh, a bad thing?

It would seem that the aliens,
some of them wanted us

to have this knowledge,
to be like the gods.

But others said, "No, no.

Man is not to have
all of this knowledge."

This is also the same story
of the Greek god Prometheus,

who, against the orders
of the other gods,

comes down to earth

and gives mankind
the knowledge of fire.

But because of
this gift to mankind,

he himself, as a god,
is, like Satan,

he's banished from the earth.

And why?

Because he helped mankind
to have greater knowledge.

TSOUKALOS: The whole idea
or concept of Satan

is based on
a misunderstood visit

by extraterrestrials
in the remote past.

According to the ancient
astronaut theory,

the reason why we have

the idea of a "Satan" today is

because there might have been
some type of a mutiny

between good and bad
extraterrestrial factions

in the remote past.

And so the mutineers were
cast out by the commander,

and they became known
as the evil fallen angels...

...which they never were.

NARRATOR: If, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

extraterrestrials
were responsible

for providing humans
with intelligence,

might they have also given man
the ability to speak?

Our voice box, our larynx,
is so different than the apes,

even the chimpanzee,
who's our closest cousin--

that we're able to produce
sounds and produce language--

to a scientist today,
that's almost like

it was genetically designed

so that we can
say words and sing.

REDFERN: There really isn't
anything more advanced

than the human language.

So many different
cultures, dialects,

languages around the world,
and the very fact

we can communicate
on such a deep, extensive level,

that really sets us apart
from all other animals.

Who invented language?

Where did that come from?

Was that something
instilled in us?

I think these are mysteries
that, to a large degree,

science and the world of
history, even in archaeology,

are still scrambling
around for answers.

Maybe we shouldn't be looking
down here for answers,

maybe we should be
looking up there.

VON DANIKEN: In my opinion,
the extraterrestrials,

by an artificial mutation,

they created
the intelligence of humans.

Then the extraterrestrial
disappeared.

And some of
our ancestors had, again, sex

with their ancestor,
with ape-like beings.

And that was called
into mythology "original sin,"

then they return again,
the gods.

They realized what happened.

And they decided to destroy

the whole race by a great flood

and to restart
the experiment again

with what we call,
in mythology, Noah.

That's all text.

That's the way it is.

TSOUKALOS: In 1997, American
explorer David Allen Deal

discovered a 538-foot-long
impression of a boat

in the ground on a hillside
outside Uzengili, Turkey,

just a few miles from
its legendary resting place

of Mount Ararat.

Deal also found that the area
contained over a million graves,

confirming legends
that people would flock

from all over the world
to bury their dead

in the presence of
this significant event.

So here we could have
physical evidence

that Noah was not a fictional
character, but a real person,

and, according to
the ancient texts,

quite possibly,
one of the first modern humans

created by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Northern Iraq.

Along the east bank
of the Tigris River,

opposite the city of Mosul,
lie the ruins

of the ancient city of Nineveh--

a place originally inhabited

by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

Here, in 1842,
British archaeologist

Austen Henry Layard
unearthed the ruins

of the great library
of Assurbanipal,

a royal archive containing
thousands of clay tablets

with cuneiform inscriptions.

Dating to 3000 BC,

the messages carved into stone

are considered to be the world's
first written accounts.

Sumerian tablets are probably

one of the oldest form of
a written record that we have.

They've been translated,

and they tell exciting stories

about how gods intermingled
with human beings,

and actually had a hand in
the creation of human beings.

Whether or not
it's just mythology

or if it's fact,
no one really knows.

NARRATOR:
According to interpretations

of the Sumerian tablets,

the gods were called
the Anunnaki.

What we're looking at here
is a Sumerian tablet

that actually shows
the tree of life,

flanked by divine beings.

You can see here
the Anunnaki on each side.

We also see the winged disc,
a symbolic reference

that the Anunnaki
had the power of flight.

They actually had necklaces

with astronomical references,

a moon, a star, various symbols,

which even could be symbolized
as a wristwatch--

technology being used
6,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: The written accounts
etched into stone

suggest the Anunnaki
were giant beings,

standing eight feet tall,

who came to Earth in search
of gold for their home planet.

MARTELL:
When the Sumerian gods,

the Anunnaki,
realized the toll it was taking

to mine the gold themselves,

they decided to fashion
a worker being,

a slave to mine
the gold for them.

And they explain,
in the Sumerian creation tales,

that this was
an arduous process.

So it's very possible
that our genetic evolution

was a process done
by the Anunnaki

to create us in their image,
and after their likeness.

They created man, according
to the Sumerian texts.

They created Adam and Eve.

How interesting that the Bible
will echo the story,

but talk about it
in terms of "God."

REDFERN: It's almost like
these highly advanced creatures

were acting as teachers.

And certainly,
Sumerian culture and mythology

is full of stories of, you know,

receiving visitations from these
mysterious higher entities

that, you know, bestowed wisdom

and fantastic ideas
and concepts.

And, you know,
you have to wonder:

is this just down to myth?

Or was somebody coming down,

and really trying to give us
a... a push, if you like?

NARRATOR: Ancient chronicles of
sky beings creating human life

are common in early cultures
found all over the world.

But while mainstream scholars
often dismiss this evidence,

might such tangible
historical accounts

provide proof of alien
intervention in man's evolution,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

The Sumerians are not
the only culture

that talks about this.

Also in the Koran it says

that language was given to us

by Allah or God.

The Maya Popol Vuh says

that language was given
to us by the gods.

The ancient Egyptian texts

are saying the exact same thing.

It doesn't matter what
ancient culture we look at,

they all say the same,

that language
was a gift from the gods.

We should finally
come to grips with the idea

that extraterrestrials
had something to do

with our development.

NARRATOR: Prior to the use
of early systems of writing,

ancient people carved symbolic
communication into stone,

called petroglyphs.

The oldest date to about
ten to 12,000 years ago.

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

petroglyphs located
in the American Southwest

link the prehistoric ancestors
of the Zuni and Hopi tribes

with star beings.

[speaking German]

[translated]: The first graphic
expressions by humans

were petroglyphs.

That means symbols or figures
scratched into stone.

The Hopi Indians, for example,

scratched petroglyphs
into their rock faces

that show people
with radiating wreaths,

gods that descend from the sky.

The Hopi Indians say that
these beings are Kachinas:

beings from space,
who came to Earth in aircraft,

who were not gods,

but who brought them knowledge
from another planet.

We have the same phenomenon
in Europe, in Val Camonica,

we have it in Asia,
we have it in Brazil.

When we look at the fact
that all around the world,

we hear similar legends
of people from the stars

coming down and
having a profound impact

on the people of this country
or that particular culture,

all embroiled
in similar time frames,

you know, we're seeing
a pattern developing,

and it's difficult to dismiss
that that pattern is suggestive.

In our ancient past,
creatures came down,

interacted with us,
and maybe manipulated us

to become the people
we are today.

NOORY: Why are so many
past civilizations

all saying similar things?

I think the simple answer is,

is that the same thing happened

and they know the story.

And the story is
that extraterrestrials

came to this planet,

genetically made and manipulated

whatever creatures
were here at the time,

and helped jump-start society.

The bottom line is:

every civilization

talks about the existence of man

through the eyes of a god,

and if you think of
the eyes of the god as ETs,

it all makes sense.

REDFERN:
Back then,

this was the way
they communicated events

that were significant to them...

and so,
when we have this imagery

of the so-called star people

on petroglyphs
and things like that,

they're clearly
chronicling something real,

to my mind at least,
that occurred in their history.

The big question is: what?

NARRATOR: But while the evidence
of contact between alien beings

and early humans is compelling,

what if life
did not begin here on Earth,

but arrived from somewhere else?

TSOUKALOS:
In February of 2015,

scientists at the
University of Buckingham

found a tiny metal globe
among matter

gathered by
a high-flying balloon

in Earth's stratosphere.

As described by the scientists,

this globe was made up of
"filamentous life on the outside

"and a gooey biological material

oozing from its center."

According to astrobiologist
Milton Wainwright,

this could be a sign
that life is being purposely

seeded on Earth by an alien
civilization, even to this day.

And the evidence is piling up
that this just may be the case.

NARRATOR: Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center.

Here, in March of 2011,

astrobiologist Richard Hoover

reports the extraordinary news
that he found

microfossil organisms--
or ancient bacteria--

inside rare meteorites that are
more than 4 billion years old,

dating back to the birth
of our solar system.

Until recently,
scientists did not believe

life could survive
the rigors of space travel.

But Hoover's finding suggests

that live bacteria
made it to Earth

and may have even
taken root here.

TERENZI: Microorganisms
trapped inside comets

can survive the travel

through interplanetary space,
and interstellar space.

And the reason is that

the microorganism are trapped
in the rocky core.

Around, you have a thick shield

of icy material.

And, on top, you have
a stratification of dust.

Dust is highly effective

in shielding the microorganism

from ultraviolet light.

So comets are an excellent
vehicle to transport

microorganism single cell life,

amino acid
in the vastness of space.

REDFERN: Instead of aliens
coming to the Earth in UFOs,

in classic Hollywood terms,

a microbial piece of life

comes to the Earth
on a meteorite,

survives entry
into our atmosphere,

crashes on the planet
and begins to thrive.

NARRATOR:
The theory that life on Earth

began with alien organisms
landing here

from other parts of the universe
is controversial.

Called "panspermia,"

one of the most vocal proponents
of this theory

was Sir Francis Crick,
a British scientist

who co-discovered DNA in 1953.

FIEBAG: Uh, Francis Crick...

[translated]:
Francis Crick, co-discoverer

of the double helix in cells,

said that all this
can't happen by chance,

but has to have been engineered.

One of his arguments

is that the rotation of the DNA
is in the same direction

for all living things.

Had DNA developed on Earth,

it would probably have had
a 50/50 distribution,

and that's exactly
what we don't have.

[speaking German]

NOORY:
One of the reasons why I think

the theory of panspermia
is so incredible

is that it tells you
that there's life

throughout the universe.

If panspermia is correct,

life came here on comets
or meteorites,

and we're being seeded,
not only on this planet,

but other planets as well.

And it could be part
of the great design.

REDFERN: In terms of our science
and technology today,

we have the ability
to extract cells

and DNA at a genetic level

and... save them.

That's how we have
so-called test tube babies

for couples
who can't have babies.

We preserve the materials
for when they're needed.

And the day may well come
when we send into outer space,

the equivalent
of like Noah's ark,

but instead of sending
literal animals,

we send their essence,

their DNA,
their genetic makeup.

I don't rule out the idea that
we could seed a whole new world.

NARRATOR:
Today, scientists know

that only about five percent
of the DNA contained

in our genes is used
to reproduce human beings.

The remainder is
an undecipherable code,

once referred to as "junk DNA."

But is it really possible
that so much of our DNA

is unnecessary?

Or might the majority
of our DNA be decoded

sometime in the future?

And when it is,
what might our DNA reveal

about the origin of modern man?

CHILDRESS: We have so much to
learn from studying our own DNA.

We're only just now beginning

to decode the human
DNA sequence.

And as we do that,
what we may discover

is that extraterrestrial DNA

is built into our own genetics.

NOORY: Whatever is out there
created the universe,

this planet
and other planets, and life.

And I strongly believe
that this tie-in

with whether gods and ETs
were one of the same

might very well be the case.

It does not take away
from the fact

that there's a God,

that there's a higher power,

that there's some creation
out there that made the ETs.

But I think that layer
between God and man

is right in the middle,

and that's extraterrestrials
from other planets.

VON DANIKEN: We have to learn
that most of our knowledge

in religion is wrong,
except one thing.

There is creation.

There is what we call
"God" in all respect,

and we have to learn
by religion

we are very teeny,
little beings

in this gigantic universe

and why God is
absolutely unexpressible.

It's so gigantic,
it's so wonderful.

So we would never lose God
when we continue

to think of extraterrestrials.

God becomes bigger.

How is it possible
that humans made

such a giant leap
in intelligence

in such a short period of time?

Evolution alone
doesn't explain it.

Is it possible we were designed
by an advanced race of beings?

Beings who tampered
with our DNA in an effort

to make us more like them?

Perhaps the answer lies deep
within our genetic code.

And only when we unlock
its secrets

will we reveal one
of the ultimate mysteries

of the universe--
the truth

of our own
extraterrestrial origins.

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