SipahSalar
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My question is this if the asteroid didnt hit earth and nothing else happened could reptiles/dinosaurs of developed into life comparable to the human?
No, humans are the exception and not the norm. How many mammals do you know that possess intelligence? Zero. Its just us humans. So its safe to assume that given time, life DOES NOT progress to intelligence. There are species of animals much older than humans (crocodiles, alot of reptiles) and none of them has shown signs of intelligence so far.
With evolution, technically anything is possible in time since evolution occurs mostly by chance (the chance being of extremely low odds, i.e. positive mutation). Based on this, there is no actual way of predicting what would or wouldn't have happened had the asteroid not struck.
The answer to your question is: YES
Again, that's a very big and blind assumption considering no other species has shown intelligence.