The fact that no other intelligent civilization has existed before humans supports the evolution having a direction theory

Think about it. Complex creatures and large creatures have existed for hundreds of millions of years easily, across all that time not once did a human like intelligence species emerge? Doesn't that sound preposterous?

Look at human species development, even for the scant 10,000 or so years of history that we can actually track, every 1,000 years you observe, there is more things getting done in every next 1,000 years that the one before, till the point we are growing exponentially.

Look at the modern era, ants have figured out how to perform surgery, multiple animal species, both land based and aquatic, have figured out tool use, all within the past few centuries to thousands of years? With no proof found of any non hominid tool using species before that?

There is only the exception of ants and agriculture where millions of years of agriculture occurred without any further developments that is true, but that again seems to be an exception in the general trend of animals getting smarter over time all around us. Raccoons and mice included.

There is no reason that multiple branches of the evolutionary tree would be getting smarter at the same time, except for the possibility that animals species respond to one another when it comes to adaptations, and all animal species adapt towards the most successful models of existence. Which is to say, if anything as smart as humans would have existed before humans, then all species would have become as smart as that species and multiple animal civilizations would have risen up in the past, instead the fact that only humans are the giant civilization species supports the idea that this is the first time in the history of Earth that all species have begun to reach this level of abstraction, and only eusocial species will be able to adapt and survive thousands of years down the line.

The fact that we haven't come across any signs of alien species out there also suggests that in the timeline of space we are one of the first intelligent ones to emerge, and the universe moves towards entropy, but life itself moves towards ever greater complexity within that entropy. Like two opposing forces trying to beat each other. When life wins it reverses entropy and goes back to the big bang, and when entropy wins the universe turns to nothingness until over an infinite amount of time something springs forth from the nothingness starting the next universe.

Additional fun fact:

The fact that when everything is silent in the forest, people get scared and look for safety by hiding proves that humans aren't an apex predator but just the largest population omnivorous species out there.

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