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The Mystery of Adam's Alien Genes
By Zecharia Sitchin
FATE :: July 2001

The mind-boggling advances in deciphering and decoding the human genome bring closer to realization the hope that the new knowledge will lead to the curing of man’s worst maladies, even a halt to aging and a blissful longer life. The process of unlocking the most basic secrets of life also holds out hope of settling, once and for all, the debate between evolution and creationism, providing the answer to the question: In whose image was the Adam-the first modern human-created?

The biological evidence abounding in nature points convincingly to evolution. The fossil evidence reveals a succession of primates and hominids evolving over millions of years. The archaeological evidence shows a progression from an Old Stone Age to a Middle Stone Age, from early hominids to more advanced ones. Were it not for an unexplained gap (the “Missing Link”) of a sudden progression not over millions of years but all at once that resulted in Homo sapiens, modern man, the tenacious opposing school-those who stand by the biblical tale of Creation-would have no leg to stand on. Man, they assert, was “made to order” by deliberate divine will. Man did not evolve-man was created.

The discovery that all life on Earth consists of the same genetic elements, DNA and its four nucleotide “letters” known by their initials A-C-G-T, and that genetically man differs from chimpanzee by just one percent of their genomes, seemed to counter the biblical tale of the Elohim that says: “Let us create the Adam in our image and after our likeness.”

But if one is to accept a tentative explanation for a group of enigmatic and extraordinary genes that humans possess, the feat of fashioning the Adam was achieved by a group of bacteria.

The sequencing of the human genome accomplished in June 2000, and the more recent identification of man’s 30,000-plus genes (the groups of “letters” that express proteins), appear to uphold the theory of evolution. Scientists have been able to trace the vertical genetic progression of life on Earth. The same DNA that formed the first single-celled organisms some four billion years ago raised a tree of life through bacteria, fungi, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates, all the way to the epitome-modern human beings. Indeed, the findings announced by the Public Consortium and the private Celera group in February 2001 were characterized as “humbling.” Our genes number little more than double those of the fruit fly (13,601), and barely 50 percent more than the roundworm (19,098).

But within the data there looms a mystery that goes to the heart of the evolution-versus-creation dispute-and, unintentionally, the discovery offers corroboration of ancient “myths” about the role of extraterrestrials in bringing us about.

While confirming the evolutionary process genetically, by tracing a vertical progression from the simplest to the more complex, the new findings came up with what Science (February 16, 2000) termed a “head-scratching discovery”-the human genome contains 223 genes that do not have the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree. How did man acquire this group of enigmatic genes? ...

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