- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Carnage Swat,
I actually have a theory that answers most of your questions, but it is very long and I don't feel like posting it yet. And its just a theory anyway: it makes sense to me but there is no way of knowing its accuracy.
Ad_hominum,
If I interpreted your reply correctly, you are arguing that humans have been evolving for over 100,000 years; you say the home-erectus has been around for over 100,000 years, specifically 2,000,000 years. This evidence that humans have been evolving for over 100,000 years supports the theory that humans were protected by the ark. If they were destroyed by the halos, the evolutionary process would have had to start all over, and we wouldn't be where we are now.
Here is a quote from wikipedia:
"The evolutionary process can be exceedingly slow. Fossil evidence indicates that the diversity and complexity of modern life has developed over much of the history of the earth. Geological evidence indicates that the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old."
The evolutionary process is very slow for animals as well as humans, and if animals on earth have been evolving over the history of the earth, then they have definitely have been evolving for over 100,000 years. Animals must have survived the halo activation or their evolutionary process would have been halted just like humans, and they wouldn't be where they are today. How would animals have survived the activation of the halos? By being protected by the ark. The ark is earth, and that is how earth's animals are still here. This is my theory.
If I interpretted your argument incorrectly, you can correct me.
Masterbawny121,
You're right, we don't know exactly what the halos do. We do know they kill sentient life (humans, animals, covenant etc.) in order to starve the flood. I believe that the artifact in the movie creates something that will protect earth from whatever the halos use to kill sentient life.