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MASTER LI HONGZHI LECTURE IN SIDNEY
Some people think, "Our mankind is progressive, and it is already quite magnificent to have evolved to this day from apes!" However, let me tell you that historically, during prehistoric times, a hundred thousand years ago or even much, much earlier than that, up to over a hundred million years ago, highly advanced civilizations had always existed on this planet, only that they were destroyed in different time periods.
Why were they destroyed? It was because they developed very fast materially and technologically while their morality could not keep pace or was destroyed. They were then no longer allowed to continue to exist and were destroyed. To put it with the understanding of modern science, the motion of matter follows the law. When its motion reaches a certain form, it will inevitably take on another form. For instance, during its motion in this universe, the earth may have been impaired when being hit by some planets. Regardless of what reasons there may be, scientists have now indeed discovered that there have been numerous remains of ancient civilizations on our planet. In addition, such remains of civilizations are quite remote from the present time. Some are from several hundred thousand years ago, several million years ago, or even from tens of million years ago. The civilizations that existed and the remains left in each time period were all different, and they were not things from the same time period. Therefore, some scientists are pondering over this issue. Some scientists have already proposed such a theory and said, "There were prehistoric civilizations as well as prehistoric cultures." This is what scientists have said. Our community of cultivators can see it more clearly that prior to this human civilization of ours, there were indeed many human civilizations. Because their moral values became corrupted, later, such civilizations no longer existed. Of course, this is what we have seen. From the destroyed ancient Greek culture, we can see remains of the human corruption and degeneration of that time.
Some people claim, "Our human race evolved from apes." In fact, let me tell you that man did not evolve from apes at all. Darwin proposed a theory, which says, "Man has evolved from apes." When he made public this theory at that time, he brought it out with great trepidation. His theory is full of loopholes and is incomplete, and yet, it has been accepted by people to this day. Please think about it. The evolutionary process that he proposed of apes evolving to man, a process of tens of millions of years, cannot be found. There isn’t one. Why weren’t there such people between apes and human beings? Not just human beings, but other things as well. None of the evolved animals that he referred to had the transitional process. In addition, why are the species that exist on the continent of Australia different from the species that exist on other continents? He could explain none of these. Nevertheless this theory of evolution with all its loopholes has been accepted by human beings. This is indeed strange!
In fact, man did not evolve from apes at all in our view, only that there are different species existing in each time period. The continental plates on the earth planet inhabited by mankind are shifting and changing. Geologists call the continents of Asia, Europe, America, North America, and South America the continental plates. The continental plates changed from time to time, and the civilizations on them would sink to the bottom of the waters. Then, another continent would perhaps surface in another ocean, and such changes are continually taking place.
Now, people have also discovered huge ancient buildings and the existence of past civilizations under the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, as well as many other oceans. However, upon examination, they are all found to be things that existed several hundred thousand years or several million years ago, or even earlier than that. At least, our present mankind knows that the continental plates have not changed in the past several hundred thousand years. When did they sink to the bottom of the waters then? They definitely sunk very early, several hundred thousand years ago or even earlier than that. Therefore, when different continental plates changed, the species on them were also different. They did not come from evolution. There were similarities, but they were not of the same species. Absolutely not!
