文档介绍：Adam
Sensational Human Genome Discovery
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 edown from
the pinnacle of the genomic Tree of Life!
Moreover, there was hardly any uniqueness to the human genes. They parative 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