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lingered on Tait.
Tait leaned forward, closer to Marcus. “We can help you.”
Marcus placed his hand on Tait’s shoulder. “Thank you.”
My phone buzzed in my pocket. I dug it out. Damn . “Hi, Mom.”
“Hi, dear.” Her speech was clipped and rapid, once again. It was like she was running on rocket fuel. “We are going to visit grandma and Aunt Bethany tomorrow. They might have some history for us, maybe give us a lead.”
This was a crimp in the plan, but would be a better plan than heading off without making sure we’d covered every base here first.
“Okay,” I said.
“I’ll meet you at Grandma’s.” I hung up. Tait observed me with a steadfast gaze. “We have a delay in our plans.”
Old Earth Creationism: An interpretation of Genesis in which days are taken to be figurative lengths of time, and the time scales given by geologists are generally correct. However, the special creation of man precludes common descent.
-Talk Origins
CHAPTER FIVE
ADRIANA SINCLAIR
Ten more minutes before I had to leave for our visit with Grandma and Aunt Bethany. I quickly opened up my laptop and typed in the keywords, extra+ rib+ bloodline . Search results came up, all of the websites conspiracy theorists who referred to people in various different parts of the world, popping up randomly though the years. Some postulated the bloodline was possibly part of an alien race. Other websites spoke about the direct connection to Adam and Eve from a Creation standpoint, “The immaculate humans are living proof that God exists, and that Creation is, in fact, true.”
Other websites referred to the connection with the ancestral ‘Eve,’ an African ancestor all modern humans were supposedly descended from, some 200,000 years ago that scientists called the ‘Mitochondrial Eve.’ These websites appeared more scientific than the others, and somewhat matched what the geneticists had told me. Was the extra rib part of the Mitochondrial Eve mutation, or was it simply an unrelated recessive trait? I thought about the stiff debate that occurred between Dr. Bomer and Dr. Halan at the institute. Some sort of theory. An endo-symbiosis theory, or something that sounded like it.
I typed in mitochondrion+symbiosis+theory . Immediately a Wiki page popped up, “Endosymbiotic theory.” The thrust of the theory was based on the idea that mitochondria originated as symbioses between two independent, free-living, single-celled organisms that were taken inside another cell as an endosymbiont. I stared at the electron micrograph image at the right corner of the screen of a mitochondrion, showing the interlacing matrix within the membrane. Was it possible? Was the mitochondria the product of symbiosis? Did that mean the mitochondrial DNA was once a parasitic organism? I went on to read the rest of the article. “There is some biochemical and molecular proof to suggest the mitochondrion is the result of symbiosis of proteobacteria and the plastids from cyanobacteria.”
Not that I truly understood the meaning of it all, other than the basic biological concepts I’d learned last year in Bio and that it had something to do with me and Analiese, and the fact that we were different . Obviously we were far more different than I ever could have imagined.
Dr. Halan’s and Bomer’s arguments ran through my mind.
“We are considering the possibility that the mutation is an evolution into the original mitochondria,” Dr. Bomer had said.
“The likelihood of that is one in twenty billion,” Dr. Halan had responded.
Dr. Bomer: “There are seven billion people on the planet, Dr. Halan.”
Dr. Halan: “There is some debate within the scientific community, that the maximum energy potential was much
Tait leaned forward, closer to Marcus. “We can help you.”
Marcus placed his hand on Tait’s shoulder. “Thank you.”
My phone buzzed in my pocket. I dug it out. Damn . “Hi, Mom.”
“Hi, dear.” Her speech was clipped and rapid, once again. It was like she was running on rocket fuel. “We are going to visit grandma and Aunt Bethany tomorrow. They might have some history for us, maybe give us a lead.”
This was a crimp in the plan, but would be a better plan than heading off without making sure we’d covered every base here first.
“Okay,” I said.
“I’ll meet you at Grandma’s.” I hung up. Tait observed me with a steadfast gaze. “We have a delay in our plans.”
Old Earth Creationism: An interpretation of Genesis in which days are taken to be figurative lengths of time, and the time scales given by geologists are generally correct. However, the special creation of man precludes common descent.
-Talk Origins
CHAPTER FIVE
ADRIANA SINCLAIR
Ten more minutes before I had to leave for our visit with Grandma and Aunt Bethany. I quickly opened up my laptop and typed in the keywords, extra+ rib+ bloodline . Search results came up, all of the websites conspiracy theorists who referred to people in various different parts of the world, popping up randomly though the years. Some postulated the bloodline was possibly part of an alien race. Other websites spoke about the direct connection to Adam and Eve from a Creation standpoint, “The immaculate humans are living proof that God exists, and that Creation is, in fact, true.”
Other websites referred to the connection with the ancestral ‘Eve,’ an African ancestor all modern humans were supposedly descended from, some 200,000 years ago that scientists called the ‘Mitochondrial Eve.’ These websites appeared more scientific than the others, and somewhat matched what the geneticists had told me. Was the extra rib part of the Mitochondrial Eve mutation, or was it simply an unrelated recessive trait? I thought about the stiff debate that occurred between Dr. Bomer and Dr. Halan at the institute. Some sort of theory. An endo-symbiosis theory, or something that sounded like it.
I typed in mitochondrion+symbiosis+theory . Immediately a Wiki page popped up, “Endosymbiotic theory.” The thrust of the theory was based on the idea that mitochondria originated as symbioses between two independent, free-living, single-celled organisms that were taken inside another cell as an endosymbiont. I stared at the electron micrograph image at the right corner of the screen of a mitochondrion, showing the interlacing matrix within the membrane. Was it possible? Was the mitochondria the product of symbiosis? Did that mean the mitochondrial DNA was once a parasitic organism? I went on to read the rest of the article. “There is some biochemical and molecular proof to suggest the mitochondrion is the result of symbiosis of proteobacteria and the plastids from cyanobacteria.”
Not that I truly understood the meaning of it all, other than the basic biological concepts I’d learned last year in Bio and that it had something to do with me and Analiese, and the fact that we were different . Obviously we were far more different than I ever could have imagined.
Dr. Halan’s and Bomer’s arguments ran through my mind.
“We are considering the possibility that the mutation is an evolution into the original mitochondria,” Dr. Bomer had said.
“The likelihood of that is one in twenty billion,” Dr. Halan had responded.
Dr. Bomer: “There are seven billion people on the planet, Dr. Halan.”
Dr. Halan: “There is some debate within the scientific community, that the maximum energy potential was much
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