by Zecharia Sitchin
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The Case of Adam's Alien Genes
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).
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. 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.
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