The Case of Adam's Alien Genes
Sensational Human Genome Discovery
In whose image was The Adam � the prototype of modern
humans, Homo sapiens � created?
The Bible asserts that the Elohim said: �Let
us fashion the Adam in our image and after our likeness.� But if one is
to accept a tentative explanation for enigmatic genes that humans possess,
offered when the deciphering of the human genome was announced in mid-February,
the feat was decided upon by a group of bacteria!
�Humbling� was the prevalent adjective used by the
scientific teams and the media to describe the principal finding � that the
human genome contains not the anticipated 100,000 - 140,000 genes (the stretches
of DNA that direct the production of amino-acids and proteins) but only some
30,000+ -- little more than double the 13,601 genes of a fruit fly and barely
fifty percent more than the roundworm�s 19,098. What a comedown from the
pinnacle of the genomic Tree of Life!
Moreover, there was hardly any uniqueness to the human genes.
They are comparative to not the presumed 95 percent but to almost 99 percent of
the chimpanzees, and 70 percent of the mouse. Human genes, with the
same functions, were found to be identical to genes of other vertebrates, as
well as invertebrates, plants, fungi, even yeast. The findings not only
confirmed that there was one source of DNA for all life on Earth, but also
enabled the scientists to trace the evolutionary process � how more complex
organisms evolved, genetically, from simpler ones, adopting at each stage the
genes of a lower life form to create a more complex higher life form �
culminating with Homo sapiens.
The �Head-scratching� Discovery
It was here, in tracing the vertical evolutionary record
contained in the human and the other analyzed genomes, that the scientists ran
into an enigma. The �head-scratching discovery by the public consortium,� as
Science termed it, was that the human genome contains 223 genes that do not have
the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree.
How did Man acquire such a bunch of enigmatic genes?
In the evolutionary progression from bacteria to invertebrates
(such as the lineages of yeast, worms, flies or mustard weed � which have been
deciphered) to vertebrates (mice, chimpanzees) and finally modern humans, these
223 genes are completely missing in the invertebrate phase. Therefore, the
scientists can explain their presence in the human genome by a �rather
recent� (in evolutionary time scales) �probable horizontal transfer from
bacteria.�
In other words: At a relatively recent time as Evolution goes,
modern humans acquired an extra 223 genes not through gradual evolution, not
vertically on the Tree of Life, but horizontally, as a sideways insertion of
genetic material from bacteria�
An Immense Difference
Now, at first glance it would seem that 223 genes is no big
deal. In fact, while every single gene makes a great difference to every
individual, 223 genes make an immense difference to a species such as ours.
The human genome is made up of about three billion
neucleotides (the �letters� A-C-G-T which stand for the initials of the
four nucleic acids that spell out all life on Earth); of them, just a little
more than one percent are grouped into functioning genes (each gene consists of
thousands of "letters"). The difference between one individual person
and another amounts to about one �letter� in a thousand in the DNA
�alphabet.� The difference between Man and Chimpanzee is less than one
percent as genes go; and one percent of 30,000 genes is 300.
So, 223 genes is more than two thirds of the difference
between me, you and a chimpanzee!
An analysis of the functions of these genes through the
proteins that they spell out, conducted by the Public Consortium team and
published in the journal Nature, shows that they include not only proteins
involved in important physiological but also psychiatric functions.
Moreover, they are responsible for important neurological enzymes that stem only
from the mitochondrial portion of the DNA � the so-called �Eve� DNA that
humankind inherited only through the mother-line, all the way back to a single
�Eve.� That finding alone raises doubt regarding that the
"bacterial insertion" explanation.
A Shaky Theory
How sure are the scientists that such important and complex
genes, such an immense human advantage, was obtained by us --�rather
recently�-- through the courtesy of infecting bacteria?
�It is a jump that does not follow current evolutionary
theories,� said Steven Scherer, director of mapping of the Human Genome
Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
�We did not identify a strongly preferred bacterial source
for the putative horizontally transferred genes,� states the report in Nature.
The Public Consortium team, conducting a detailed search, found that some 113
genes (out of the 223) �are widespread among bacteria� � though they are
entirely absent even in invertebrates. An analysis of the proteins which
the enigmatic genes express showed that out of 35 identified, only ten had
counterparts in vertebrates (ranging from cows to rodents to fish); 25 of the 35
were unique to humans.
�It is not clear whether the transfer was from bacteria to
human or from human to bacteria,� Science quoted Robert Waterson, co-director
of Washington University�s Genome Sequencing Center, as saying.
But if Man gave those genes to bacteria, where did Man acquire
those genes to begin with?
The Role of the Anunnaki
Readers of my books must be smiling by now, for they know the
answer.
They know that the biblical verses dealing with the fashioning
of The Adam are condensed renderings of much much more detailed Sumerian and
Akkadian texts, found inscribed on clay tablets, in which the role of the Elohim
in Genesis is performed by the Anunnaki � �Those Who From Heaven to Earth
Came.�
As detailed in my books, beginning with The
12th Planet (1976) and even more so in Genesis
Revisited and The
Cosmic Code, the Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the
planet Nibiru � a member of our own solar system whose great orbit brings it
to our part of the heavens once every 3,600 years. They came here in need of
gold, with which to protect their dwindling atmosphere. Exhausted and in
need of help in mining the gold, their chief scientist Enki suggested that they
use their genetic knowledge to create the needed Primitive Workers. When
the other leaders of the Anunnaki asked: How can you create a new being? He
answered:
"The being that we need already exists;
all that we have to do is put our mark on it.�
The time was some 300,000 years ago.
What he had in mind was to upgrade genetically the existing
hominids, who were already on Earth through Evolution, by adding some of the
genes of the more advanced Anunnaki. That the Anunnaki, who could already
travel in space 450,000 years ago, possessed the genomic science (whose
threshold we have now reached) is clear not only from the actual texts but also
from numerous depictions in which the double-helix of the DNA is rendered as
Entwined Serpents (a symbol still used for medicine and healing) -- see
illustration �A� below.
When the leaders of the Anunnaki approved the project (as
echoed in the biblical �Let us fashion the Adam�), Enki with the help of
Ninharsag, the Chief Medical Officer of the Anunnaki, embarked on a process of
genetic engineering, by adding and combining genes of the Anunnaki with those of
the already-existing hominids.
When, after much trial and error breathtakingly described and
recorded in antiquity, a �perfect model� was attained, Ninharsag held him up
and shouted: �My hands have made it!� An ancient artist depicted the scene
on a cylinder seal (illustration �B�).
And that, I suggest, is how we had come to possess the unique
extra genes. It was in the image of the Anunnaki, not of bacteria, that
Adam and Eve were fashioned.
A Matter of Extreme Significance
Unless further scientific research can establish, beyond any
doubt, that the only possible source of the extra genes are indeed bacteria, and
unless it is then also determined that the infection (�horizontal transfer�)
went from bacteria to Man and not from Man to bacteria, the only other available
solution will be that offered by the Sumerian texts millennia ago.
Until then, the enigmatic 223 alien genes will remain as an
alternative � and as a corroboration by modern science of the Anunnaki and
their genetic feats on Earth.
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
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A: four
images of double-helix DNA |
B: cylinder seal |
� Z. Sitchin
Reprinted with permission.
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