Designed But Not Maybe The Way They Think

The above letter appeared in the Augusta GA Chronicle on Feb. 20, 2009.

The following was my response, which I sent the next day as an e-mail to the Augusta Chronicle:


Winter Wren Cardinal Seed
Ben Stein Good History But Republican
Dragonfly Not Soup Bone

Spring From Outline Keen
They Breed Us For What Purpose
Added 223 Genes


My two Haiku were not published by the Augusta Chronicle newspaper.


The two sculls above illustrate the deepening mystery of Human Development.
The skull on the left is from a full-sized 'Hobbit', discovered a few years ago in Indonesia. The one on the right is a modern human skull.

The 'Hobbits' bones seem to be related to humanids that left fossilized remains in Africa, where there lived about 1.5 million years ago. But the 'Hobbits' lived on an Indonesian island as recently as 8,000 years ago. As pointed out by the recent 'NOVA' TV documentary, 'Alien On Earth', the discovery of the 'Hobbits' has completely blown up science's understanding of human evolution.

Scientists are back at square one. In their previously comfortable rigid orthodoxy.

By the way, Bigfoot exists. I saw one. Young guy ran right in front of my car, on a lonely South Carolina road, in 1983.


The following is based on an article which appeared in Filer's Files 2008 #28:

When scientists began deciphering the human genome, they anticipated to find some 100,000 - 140,000 genes. But they found only some 30,000. About double the 13,601 genes of a fruit fly and maybe fifty percent more than the roundworm's 19,098.

"There is hardly any uniqueness to the human genes. They are comparative to 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. Some organisms are more complex, genetically, than 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. A designer or creator appears to have taken the simple DNA, and added more complex DNA forming each life form. Each species, dog, cat, horse, monkey, can be developed by using these building blocks of life."

The "head-scratching discovery by the public {gene-mapping} consortium," as Science magazine put 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 to vertebrates and finally modern humans, these 223 genes are completely missing in the invertebrate phase.

Scientists explain the presence of these 223 genes in the human genome by a "rather recent 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 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 {223} genes through the proteins that they spell out, conducted by the Public {human genome} 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'."

"It is a very questionable theory, that complex genes, that gave 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."

"Francis Crick, the discoverer of DNA, although an atheist, published a book which subscribed to the theory of intelligent design, that our universe was not simply the result of a series of chemical accidents. He states, "A highly advanced civilization became threatened so they devised a way to pass on their existence. They genetically-modified their DNA and sent it out from their planet on bacteria or meteorites with the hope that it would collide with another planet. It did, and that's why we're here."

Or, they built the pyramids and own mankind. We may be the seventh or eighth go-round for them. Waiting for 'The Rapture'.

Thank you Filer's Files. The new fossil released this week may be a distant human uncle. But as Major Filer's work pointed out last summer:

We don't know one-millionth of 1% about anything.