Someone help me out here. Why did the abductions happen in the first place in 2014? Had the devolution of the species started? Presumably not, since the abductees including the Feds had no knowledge of it. I get the hibernation part. But how did any of this get started???

that nurse bitch would find a reason to kill you. not before taking your weed.

Someone help me out here. Why grab people in the year 2014 in the first place and put them into hibernation if in 2014 the devolution of the species has not yet occurred? Are the Wayward Pinesians somehow able to go back in time from 4000 whatever to 2014?