Nadene Goldfoot
This is the year of 5782, which means that we figure that mankind has been calculated to have begun 5 thousand, 7 hundred and 82 years ago with the first humans like us, named Adam and Eve, male and female, carrying hormones and most importantly, genes to carry on a special form of life and with a life force within us determined to be a soul. This is thought to separate us from the animals. We really didn't come from apes; they're not our original parents, but mankind has gone through cycles of development, and we came from one called Neanderthals of which some of us still carry a few of their genes. I do, They were close to being like us, so close. The Neanderthal has been found to have a hyoid bone. Its similarity to those of modern humans was seen as evidence by some scientists that Neanderthals possessed a modern vocal tract and were therefore capable of fully modern speech.
How our stories developed is too awesome, as it starts so cleverly with 2 people and carries on with their impulses and mistakes in life, leaving nothing out. The development is what's so awesome about this writing. Surely it came from a power beyond ours. Moses couldn't have done this alone from 1311 to 1271 BCE. The thinking to create it is overwhelming.
We've gone from eating each other to eating animals and finally to think that cannibalism is detestable. We've even gone from plant only eating to animal only eating and back again. We've eaten meat raw and then discovered cooking. All these additional ideas have expanded our brains, and the more that brain is used, the stronger it gets.
We have lived long enough to see a pig's heart, (and I remind you that we were told not to eat pigs), inserted in a man, and is working and keeping him alive, maybe for hours, weeks or days, undetermined as yet. The thought that it is still beating tells us something; pigs are a life form made of the same material as us; blood, flesh, bones, etc. They're supposed to be very intelligent animals. People have had small ones for pets. Life; animal and human, are made of nucleotide bases and 99.9% are exactly the same in all people, with 97% being the same as the chimpanzee's.
Animals such as wolves have intellect. They feel for their young, they fight for territory, they solve problems they are faced with. I feel they have an animal-type of soul; that spark of life force that leaves us all when
we die, that changes a human to something shocking, something very still. What is that force, that seemingly spark of electricity that keeps us going like a battery? Where does it go when it leaves us? Do we know where gravity goes? There are forces that keep planets going, too, and even stars die, things our intellect has played with from the time of the Egyptians who spent their energy and creativity in building pyramids to house their bodies during death.
Diseases that make us sick, even kill us, have gone through cycles. Measles, mumps, chicken pox, small pox, cholera, typhoid, flu epidemics with the 1917 turning into a pandemic, now Covid 19 that has become a pandemic and hasn't left but is continually mutating.
Deoxyribonucleic acid-- DNA-- Ribonucleic acid,-- RNA
Unlike cells (e.g. bacteria, plant and animal cells), viruses contain either DNA or RNA, never both; the viral nucleic acid is either single or double stranded. Viruses with a DNA core are capable of surviving in the nucleus of the cell they infect, using the host's biochemical machinery to replicate their DNA. In other words, they are living off of us as they kill us. How nice. Does Omicron have a DNA core? Evidently, it does. There are only 4 nucleotides present in our DNA: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
- Researchers sequence DNA to determine the order of the four chemical building blocks that make it up: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine.
- An early method scientists used was Sanger sequencing, which involves cutting up DNA into fragments and adding radioactive or fluorescent tags to identify each nucleotide.
- Ribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid present in all living cells. Its principal role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins, although in some viruses RNA rather than DNA carries the genetic information.
A building cycle has been going from caves to outdoor living in tent-style protection from the elements. This has led to using stones, wood, materials even from animals to create living space for family groups. This led to stronger and bigger homes, castles, apartment living. The need for warmth and privacy spurred the brain into creativity in these challenges. No telling where people will be living in the future.
Events come in cycles. Music goes through a creative period where men are popping up creating classical music all over the world, especially in a well-evolved Europe. We had: Bach, b: 1685, Mozart b: 1756, Beethoven b: 1770, Chopin b: 1810, Wagner b: 1813, Brahms b: 1833, Tchaikovsky b: 1840, and Debussy b: 1862. This has been the peak of musical genius, It comes from a timing of minds' developing along with the ability to communicate ideas with each other and the ability to catch on. Music continues. The Swing Era was great. Music comes with evolution of war, political situations, as that has affected everything. 
We've had transportation cycles, from walking to donkeys and horses, to wheels to wagons to various types, to chariots, covered wagons, bikes, trains, cars, airplanes, jets, and now space ships and complaints that there's others, UFO's watching us all during our 5,782 years of development. So be it, maybe we're not alone, after all.
You see so much of this right in the Torah, the explanation of life, written in simple terms that even children can understand, why man does the things he does, where our impulses all come from. Rabbis have spent their life-times learning more from these words. It's our time capsule. We can go back and see what life was like, how man thought and puzzled out problems, the development of our thinking processes.
We know that 98% of all people of Western Europe descend from only 7 women who lived in Europe within the last 50,000 years. They evolved way before Adam and Eve. That's what I'm saying-our ancestors were born in the time period of Homo Sapiens, people just like us but without all our experiences. Their minds were pretty much a clean slate.
Our 7 women were Clan mothers, themselves descended from a common ancestor we'll call "Mitochondrial Eve" who lived in Africa about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. The Torah is a pretty modern story about life and how to live it.
Resource;
Tanach/The Stone Edition, ArtScroll series of Mesorah Heritage Foundation
DNA & Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick & Andrew Yeiser
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/genome-sequencing-how-researchers-identify-omicron-and-other-cov-variants/
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