“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecc 1:9
You can’t follow current events these days without hearing of genetic engineering, cloning or the debate over embryonic stem cells.
DNA - the blueprint of life, is present in every living thing. Within the double helix of anything with life lies a remarkable data storage system which - for you Matrix fans - happens to store a digital message.
Every detail of a living organism is stored in the strands of DNA. Every nanosecond, this data is accessed like a hard drive on heat, copied and replicated countless times on this planet.
God, our ultimate “geek” (with all due respect of course) continues to trash evolutionary thinking with the existence of DNA. Newly established sciences such as Information Sciences are screaming proof that there is an extreme intelligence behind all of life.
And God set this all in place back in pre-historic times. Thousands of years before the flood as He was master engineering all of reality, scripture records…
“And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.” Gen 1:11-13
“And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.” Gen 1:20-25
Do you get the impression that God creates and then allows His creation to re-create according to the pattern He created? DNA is His tool for allowing this to happen.
Then after He set all this in place, He created His ultimate earthly creature - mankind. A being in His image to subdue and rule over everything God had created and declared good.
But the enemy of God is not blind to the workings of God. By commanding some of his angels to have sex with humans, Satan knew that mankind would not reproduce according to it’s own kind.
A new hybrid creature, a demigod - half physical and half spiritual, would result. The DNA of mankind forever and irrevocably changed. The “seed of the woman” destroyed forever - therefore thwarting the Messiah to enter into human history and redeem man back to God.
You got to admit, Satan’s plan was as genius as it was evil. And to think that he almost achieved his goal is a sobering reality as when God surveyed the land, He only chose to save Noah and his family from the flood. So let’s look at Noah’s story.
“These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” Gen 6:9-10
You get the impression that Noah was a good guy with words such as “righteous man” and “Noah walked with God”. But the term “blameless in his generation” refers to his physical purity. The word “blameless” is the Hebrew word “tamiym” and is most often translated “without defect” and is splashed all over the pages of Leviticus when it talks about the physical purity of animals chosen for sacrifice.
So to unpack all this, Noah was a good guy, a righteous and Godly man. Furthermore, his lineage was also unblemished from what was tormenting earth - that is the unholy reproduction of demigod like creatures known as the Nephilim.
His wife and the wives of his sons must have also come from “blameless generations” as they were also saved. Which indicates that not all human DNA was corrupted. But is must have been very close as scripture records…
“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” Gen 6:5-6
And…
“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.” Gen 6:11-12
In those days, the heart of God was grieved that He had made mankind. Why? Because it had stopped reproducing after it’s own kind. What God had once declared very good, was now engulfed in a murderous and evil reality where even the plan of God was threatened unless He took a drastic step.
The flood.
I hope you now have a greater appreciation of why God used the flood to wipe mankind off the face of the earth. It wasn’t simply because there was sin on earth. There was a very specific sin on earth. But this specific sin raised it’s ugly head after the flood also and I’ll get into this next time also.
Furthermore, it was this specific sin which drove Hitler mad and was the cause of WW2. For those of you who want to race ahead, join the dots between Nephilim, Atlantis, Demigods, the Aryan Race and the Swastika.
Ah yes, the mystery of lawlessness held back has been raging for millennia. It wasn’t time during WW2. But will it be soon?
Ok, good stuff! Well, first I want to say that (ahhhh, where to start) I do not believe that the Bible and evolution are mutually exclusive (God’s time vs. our limited perception). There’s so much to say here about that, but I’ll be as brief as possible with just one point: there is no mention of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or the Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) in this discussion, which I find fascinating. For a quick and not too scientific discussion, look those two topics up on Wikipedia.
Let me quote from the Mitochondrial Eve ‘Misconceptions’ content on stated site:
“Mitochondrial Eve is the most recent common matrilineal ancestor, not the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all humans. The MRCA’s offspring have led to all living humans via sons and daughters, but Mitochondrial Eve must be traced only through female lineages, so she is estimated to have lived much longer ago than the MRCA. According to probabilistic studies,[2] Mitochondrial Eve is thought to have lived around 140,000 years ago. On the arbitrary assumption that people mate with a random individual drawn from the whole of the global population, the “theoretical” MRCA could have lived as recently as 3,000 years ago.[3].
Allan Wilson’s naming Mitochondrial Eve[4] after Eve of the Genesis creation story has led to some misunderstandings among the general public. A common misconception is that Mitochondrial Eve was the only living human female of her time. Had this been the case, humanity would have long since become extinct due to an extreme example of a population bottleneck.
Indeed, not only were many women alive at the same time as Mitochondrial Eve but many of them have living descendants through their sons. While the mDNA of these women are not extant, their Nuclear genes are present in today’s population.[1]
What distinguishes Mitochondrial Eve (and her matrilineal ancestors) from all her female contemporaries is that she has a purely matrilineal line of descent to all humans alive today, whereas all her female contemporaries with descendants alive today have at least one male in every line of descent. Because mitochondrial DNA is only passed through matrilineal descent, all humans alive today have mitochondrial DNA that is traceable back to Mitochondrial Eve.
Furthermore, it can be shown that every female contemporary of Mitochondrial Eve either has no living descendant today or is an ancestor to all living people. Starting with ‘the’ MRCA at around 3,000 years ago, one can trace all ancestors of the MRCA backward in time. At every ancestral generation, more and more ancestors (via both paternal and maternal lines) of MRCA are found. These ancestors are by definition also common ancestors of all living people. Eventually, there will be a point in past where all humans can be divided into two groups: those who left no descendants today and those who are common ancestors of all living humans today. This point in time is termed the identical ancestors point and is estimated to be between 5,000 and 15,000 years ago. Since Mitochondrial Eve is estimated to have lived more than hundred thousand years before the identical ancestors point, every woman contemporary to her is either not an ancestor of any living people, or a common ancestor of all living people.”
Well, some of these derived/estimated time periods coincide nicely with the probable time period of the Biblical flood, purging the earth of most of the Nephlim (I do believe there was a union producing offspring of the Fallen Angels and humans). Note that mitochondrial DNA is inherited via a materlineal line–interesting!
Well, I’ve been reading up on these subjects, but it is like following a trail of clues with too many leads! My research is not based on reaching a definitive conclusion, but rather to research a book (fiction) concept I’ve been working on. One last note: some scientists have come up with a model that traces our mitochondrial DNA not back to a single female, but rather to a small related group of females. However, I must confess I am draw more toward the concept of an ancestrial Eve more than an ancestrial pool of female mitochondrial DNA donors.
Food for thought….