The scientific consensus on human evolution, supported by extensive fossil and genetic evidence, traces modern humans (Homo sapiens) back hundreds of thousands of years, emerging from a population in Africa rather than a single pair. Fossils like those of Australopithecus (around 4-2 million years ago), Homo habilis (over 2 million years ago), and early Homo sapiens (about 300,000 years ago) illustrate a gradual process with branching lineages, including interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans. Genetic studies show that human diversity could not have arisen from just two individuals in the recent past; the effective population size never dropped below thousands, ruling out a literal genetic bottleneck from one couple as sole progenitors. No archaeological evidence directly supports the historical existence of Adam and Eve as the first humans. The biblical Garden of Eden may draw from ancient Mesopotamian myths about fertile regions where agriculture began, but no artifacts or sites confirm a literal paradise or original pair. Claims of "Mitochondrial Eve" and "Y-chromosomal Adam" refer to common ancestors for specific DNA markers (living 150,000-200,000 years ago), not a lone couple or biblical figures—they coexisted within larger populations.

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The Iranian people have drawn a line in the sand that the Islamic Republic cannot cross: on one side is the regime’s obsession with the "Palestinian cause," and on the other is the return of Prince Reza Pahlavi. This clarity was forged in the recent chants echoing across the nation. When the streets shouted against Gaza and called for the King, they made a strategic calculation to sever the regime's lifeline. The Islamic Republic does not exist for Iran; it exists to fuel a pan-Islamic empire, using Palestine as a weapon to drain our national wealth. The people have finally identified the only antidote to this poison. Prince Reza Pahlavi is the Great Filter. For decades, the regime has manufactured fake oppositions (reformists, leftists, and anti-Western intellectuals) to create the illusion of choice. These figures serve as a safety valve, sharing the regime's core DNA: they hate Israel, they despise the West, and they fear the monarchy. But the street has weaponized the Prince’s name to expose them. The logic is surgical. If you cannot accept the Pahlavi platform, you are functionally part of the Islamic Republic. For years they told us that the support for Prince Reza Pahlavi was fake. They dismissed the millions of voices as Israeli bots and cyber armies, claiming he had no footing inside Iran. Today, that lie is being trampled in the streets of Iran. The propaganda machine has collapsed under the weight of reality. The Iranian people have realized that any alternative not aligned with Pahlavi is merely the regime wearing a different mask. There is no middle ground left. The choice is binary: the total restoration of our sovereignty or the continued extinction of our nation. As an Iranian, I watched them dismiss our voices for years, calling us robots or traitors for loving and supporting Pahlavi. Seeing my people chant the same name in the streets that we shouted to the world vindicates us. It proves we were never fake. We were never alone. The Iranian people have already figured it out: they know that the alliance between leftism and Islam is what destroyed their nation. Now, our mission is to ensure the rest of the world wakes up to this reality before it is too late. This group is the headquarters where we are assembling the force multiplier to fight these ideologies head-on. Help us in building the weight we need to win.

I see some anti-religion sentiment here. Religion can be and has been many things. To say all religion is evil, to me, misses a central point: mankind needs a Transcendent ideal, something beyond ourselves to give us meaning and purpose. Excise that, we have a vacuum in our souls which will be filled, one way or another. The atheistic, materialist surrogates are, however, arguably far worse. Nietzsche was a good diagnostician, but the idea that we would reach Humanity 2.0 by filling that void with our own self-constructed values was dead wrong. In a way, we can't run away from religion, and these "religions" (like Marxism) have a dreadful track record. I don't think it's too far a reach to say that religion is inevitable. The West secularized itself, in part because of a kind of collective PTSD. In doing so, it created a nihilistic, materialistic, listless populace. Anxiety and depression are through the roof. But even more telling is a simple fact: it seems more and more clear that materialist, secularized society loses the will to replicate itself. Birthrates are below replacement, sometimes way below (witness South Korea). So, someone can rail against religion, but cut out religion, a society will craft surrogates and also drift towards self-oblivion. It will commit suicide, implode. In other words, you can't have the elements that make a culture vibrant, which make a culture flourish, without religion (broadly understood). It's like a lobotomy. The idea might be to excise antisocial behavior, but you also render the person a dull vegetable, a husk.