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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2529585" data-attributes="member: 14159">I've suspected for some time that, that Earth is the original homeworld, they left for Kobol, then left Kobol for the 12 colonies (and maybe a return to Earth as well).  The idea that the flags of the 12 colonies were based on constellations visible from Earth as well as using the unaltered Earth names.  The colonies themselves only being 3,000 years since the evacuation of Kobol was a clue (humans from Kobol to Earth would have arrived well into recorded history, instead of founding human history), and that RDM has acknowledged that while trying to be true to modern science with New BSG, our evidence shows that humans evolved on Earth.The idea that BSG could somehow be a far-future of us is intriguing I think.  That the colonial "gods" were human leaders who were named after (or took the names of) the Greek gods (instead of the assumption in original BSG that space travellers of those names inspired the Greek/Egyptian/ect gods).  Not wanting to go too far afield into religion, that puts the Cylons monotheism into a different light, especially since C-Boomer did just they say they know human religion better than the humans do.  (One true god, Be fruitful, not worship false idols, they don't say it by name but the Cylon beliefs appear to be vaguely rooted in the Abrahamic tradition certainly)It's always seemed to me that the Cylons want the prophecy to come true.  It wouldn't have begun if they didn't bomb the colonies, they could have an entire fleet waiting at Kobol to ensure they couldn't reach the Tomb but they didn't.  They're chasing the colonists, herding them, they want to reach Earth too.  The idea in original BSG was that they wanted to wipe out Earth to kill all remaining humans, but I think these Cylons are just looking for humans who share their beliefs, and trying in some long-term fashion to put an end to their polytheistic beliefs and convert them.Oh, and as a side note, with this episode and Baltar's brain-scan, since Cylons have communications technology that apparently eludes normal Colonial technology (like how the humanoid Cylons download their minds at death), a "chip" in Baltars brain could easily be undetectable by anything Dr. Cottle has to search with if those scans can't tell the difference between a Humanoid Cylon and a Human.</blockquote>

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