It appears to be closer to billions of years.  See AtheistExtremist's post on the most recent find of truly ancient multicellular life.

 

 

Maybe, maybe not.  It depends on the evolutionary pressures in the environment.  When the environment changes, it may not change enough to push a particular species to change - or it may.  We don't know this in advance.

 

 

Purge from your mind the idea that evolution means "growing", "improving", "higher on the ladder".  The only thing that matters is whether you and your children survive to have grandchildren.  This may involve losing some of the so-called "higher" evolutionary traits.  A bacteria is evolved for the environment where it survives, no further evolution required.

 

 

Read Guns, Germs and Steel or watch the special.  It's available on DVD so you can rent it.  He thinks that civilized man is dumber than someone who is a hunter gatherer.  Why?  Because what we needed to survive in crowded communities is disease resistance, not intelligence.  I still don't know if I agree with him, but I know plenty of stupid people, so he may have a point.

 

 

There are plenty of people who think there is some directive force behind all this.  If so, s/he/it is a lousy engineer.  And the plan sucks.  9 billion people?  Inadequate food, water and medical care?  This is a plan?  A plan to increase misery, perhaps.  I prefer to believe it is random because I want nothing to do with a god/s/dess who might have created this mess.  Add that to the total lack of evidence for any such intervention, and there I am.

Try this web site: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

 

Yeah. Evolution is one of best proven theories in science.

 

Not necessarily. Natural selection doesn't work with us the same way it works with animals. Instead of changing ourselves by dying and letting the adaptable survive, we rather change the environment to our needs.
My information is, that in future human physiology will remain pretty much the same, except of the build of eye. There will be minor change in eye construction, that will enlarge visible spectrum somewhat into infrared and ultraviolet. This will literally change our view of the world, because some things unseen and considered supernatural and unreal will become visible. This change will not occur by natural selection, but by esoteric kind of cyclical cosmic influence.

 

Form changes only when it's necessary. For animals it's still necessary, but not for us, we can survive quite well by our technology. Instead, we are part of another evolution, which is evolution of consciousness. There are and will be great changes in consciousness. We and animals mastered a large scale of emotion. We also developed rational mind. But by further development we will be able to use our emotions instead of letting us to be used. Furthermore, rational reasoning will drop under conscious threshold and will become automatical. Intuition will become a conscious discipline, the art of instantaneous correct knowledge of what we don't even know.
I think it is beginning, because I'm tired of the wasted time people here spend to clarify semantics, language, philosophies and logics. Can't they just do it subconsciously and understand each other, like we esotericists do?

 

Yes, very much. But not only smarter, also more tolerant, cooperative and creative. But we will have to end competition of economy and wars. Competition is a primitive behavior that combined with advanced technology already brings catastrophe. Competition is bad, because it has only one winner and many losers. In competition, most of actual effort and benefit is wasted on defeating the competitors, not on productive activity. We really need only very little competition, in sports mainly.

 

One of esoteric implication is, that matter, energy are convertible, and that energy itself represents most basic, fundamental form of life and consciousness. It is also said, that focused thought controls energy. There can not be any reasonable idea of God without the most basic, natural properties and laws of the universe, which rules out antropomorphism. But the universe is more than that, and here esotericism takes care to give extremely elaborate description. The basic idea is, that natural force can be embodied, represented and performed for some place and time by a living being, and so there are hierarchies who work with these natural forces according to a certain plan, of which they know more, the higher they stand in the hierarchy. The planned evolution of form and consciousness is documented in esotericism, it's in best interest of every person to help it, as every creature of good will does, consciously or not, effectively or not.

We only grow for about last 150 years. If we don't destroy ourselves and estabilish a basic living standard and ceiling on Earth, population will be made stabilized and sustainable. According to esotericism, after some point in evolution of consciousness we won't care what oxygen and temperature Earth has. Hell, some governments and corporations already don't care about that now

  Except of that erasing and second Big bang, in esotericism it's something like that. But we must not forget of dimensions. There is currently 7 dimensions known to us, besides space and time. Consider what had to happen in these dimensions, so that in our own dimension there occured this explosive beginning. And consider what has to happen with nature of the matter itself, so that it gradually returns to it's original state and place through higher dimensions. The basic idea is, that matter is an anomaly, a precipitation from dark matter, like bubbles in jelly. Gradually, it will dissolve again into what we call dark matter and what esotericists call etheric part of physical world. Even this etheric world will sublime further.

One problem is to find a perfect society, and another problem is to carry it out through evolution of consciousness and cultural development. Yes, it would happen automatically, by itself, through natural forces who's origin we take as granted, but that would be terribly slow, beyond anyone's patience. This is why there is conscious and planned endeavour of individuals to speed up this development. Without them we'd be still like bushmen in Kalahari at best. It's the greatest minds of all nations who carry out certain visions into physical reality and therefore influence the world. This is why esotericism isn't fun, it's a work. The fundamental nature of life and goodwill is work and service, and those who do it well, will be rewarded with more work and bigger responsibility.

As for other civilizations and humanities, I don't know if you mean previous universes (of which I know nothing) or previous batches of humanity, of which I know too much to do anything else than point a finger to a book. In particular, dr. Ernst Muldashev's book Ot kogo my proizoshl? (who's descendats are we) That guy is no esotericist, but scientist, inventor and optical surgeon.

No problem. These are unusual thoughts, but many people berofe you were concerned with them and made a research about them. I am familiar with their results. What is way too deep for you, is a comfortable depth for me. From my point of view, the surface is mysterious