[Yash RS]

How did beings evolve? In Agganna Sutta, the beings reborn from the Abhassara realm till the human realm and with time apayas also were created, but why does our dna match with animals like apes to a great extent( science says humans and apes had a common ancestor).

There are similarities between the birds and extinct flying dinosaurs.

Is something like this mentioned in the Buddha Dhamma?

[Lal]

Things to think about:

1. Do all beings have DNA? Brahmas in 20 realms (and most likely Devas in 6 realms) don’t have DNA. Even human or animal gandhabbas don’t have DNA. So, trying to sort out things by looking at DNA is not a good idea.

2. All lifeforms ALWAYS have a manomaya kaya. That manomaya kaya defines/determines not only the realm of existence but even minor variations within a given realm. For example, no two humans are the same.

3. The total number of “beings” in our cakkavāla centered around the Earth remains constant, except when Arahants attain Parinibbana at their death and leave this world.

4. By the time this cakkavāla is destroyed, all beings in the realms below the pabhassara Brahma realms migrate to that pabhassara Brahma realm. But the realms above that are not destroyed.

5. When the Earth is re-formed, most of those Brahmas in the pabhassara realm migrate back to Earth. Then their “old gati” gradually come back and over billions of years they are reborn in various realms. Of course, those gati keep changing too. Nothing is fixed.

6. Births are always according to gati, not according to DNA. 

• You wrote: “There are similarities between the birds and extinct flying dinosaurs.”
• Birds and dinosaurs are two different species. Their manomaya kaya (or gandhabba kaya) are different. Birds did not “evolve” from dinosaurs. The fact that dinosaurs went extinct possibly due to a meteor impact which made conditions unsuitable for their survival. As the Earth recovered, conditions became suitable for “bird gandhabbas” to be born with physical bodies. Even now, there could be some “dinosaur gandhabbas.”  But conditions are not suitable for them to thrive.
• In the same way, humans and apes have different gati. Darwin’s “evolution theory” is already showing signs of weakness. Evidence is emerging that humans have lived much earlier than believed at the time of Darwin.

I suggest re-reading the post “Buddhism and Evolution – Aggañña Sutta (DN 27)” with those facts in mind.

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