New to this group but an ardent evolutionist I have a question.
I have noticed a similar thread but this is not quite the same.

Suppose a spaceship lands in central park and out pops the aliens - what
(logically) will they look like. For instance they are unlikely to look like
a green blob of jelly as they would have no mechanism for building tools and
steering a spaceship.Can we therefore assume that such creatures would have
hands similar to us, one head,two eyes and two ears and probably two legs.
Maybe the star-trek idea of alien life is not far from the truth. I am not
saying that green blobs will not exist but that space-travellers must
necessarily look similar (though not identical to us). A dolphin cannot
pilot a machine however smart it is unless there are 'speech' driven
controls and even then there would have to be an evolution in technology
from the primitive stage to get there in the first place.Or is this
arrogance?Can somebody invent a fictional character that could pilot a
spaceship that was radically different from the basic human form and that
makes sense in an evolutionary framework.

Tom
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