Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27082825-20150116155842/@comment-1458758-20150123180654

JitonRailgun wrote: @Hawkeye- I disagree with the idea that the theory with the fewest assumptions is necessarily the most likely. It's a work of fiction, after all, and its internal logic has never contained an example of creating something better by mixing the same thing over and over.

It has, however, included examples of combined pieces of DNA from Hagoromo's children adding up to equal Hagoromo's abilities. I don't think it requires many more assumptions to say that Mu's clan kidnapped some folks for their experiments, and there's evidence in the story that stuff like that works. I'm afraid I must disagree with you sir, and I will meet you on the field of battle to prove my hypothesis.

While yes, there is evidence that combining certain genetic traits add up to having power akin to the Sage, there's also evidence of abilities that have cropped up entirely independantly.

Given Hagoromo's Ninshu was dedicated to spreading peaceful ideas, the very creation of many techniques as tools of warfare are against his beliefs, even going by the fact that in order to fight Kaguya, he must've had combat techniques of his own, what about the myriad of stealth based techniques in the Naruto world that only have application with infiltration and espionage?

To assume that Dust Release is merely "A return towards the Sage's Power by combining powerful genetic traits" instead of being "Something new that happened over the god knows how long" is an equally radical assumption.

While yes, many bloodlines do seem to have their roots with either tailed beasts or Kaguya, there's no denying that there are some skils, abilities and the like in the ninja world completely removed from them and I think it's much more reasonable to assume that this ability could've come about by the intermingling of people within Iwa's sphere of influence without necessarily having to have grabbed a Magnet Style User. Why would it have even had to have been a Magnet style user, why not just someone with powerful wind chakra and a Lava style user?

I will admit at this point my theory was flawed in assuming Dust Release may be the result of attempting to enhance an existing trait, but that doesn't mean the genetic potential of Iwa was too limited on its own to produce it, in fact, again, the path with the least assumptions suggests it did have that capacity as it made two of them.