Ancient genetic engineering

Dogs

     The minions of materialistic orthodoxy have been busier than you can imagine running around the world, trying desperately to edit all the information that they can find about the ancient world so that it fits with their little materialistic, uniformitarian fairy tale. They do this by two methods. 

     First, they simply grab everything that is portable and is an embarrassment to them and hide it away in the back rooms of the world’s museums. For every item that you see on display, there are hundreds in store houses somewhere. 

     Secondly, they compartmentalize. All secret keepers know of this method – organizations like the CIA, the KGB, criminal mobs and terrorist groups. You make sure that no outsider understands what is going on by making sure that no one knows the big picture. Every person working on a project only knows about a part, or parts, of it. 

     If I want to build a bomb (for instance), plant it and detonate it, I will make sure that the people who build the parts of the bomb don’t know each other, or what the parts are for, or even who I am, if I can keep from it. Those who transport it and those who assemble it and those who plant it only know as much as they need to know to do their job and never the big picture.  That way, even if one of these people is captured and questioned, they can’t really do you any damage.

 

     The scientific community, unfortunately, doesn’t apparently know about this strategy and they are the greatest victims of it.  The trend is to become more and more narrowly specialized and your publications and conferences are only with those of your own specialty.  No scientist really seems to have a grasp of the larger picture.  We’ve seen that in our studies before and we will see it again today, I think.

 

     The materialistic minions’ biggest problem is that there are a great many things that they either are too late in getting hold of (so they are already public), or they are just too big and wide-spread to control or hide.
 

     Let’s talk about genetics.  I love genetics. 
 

     Evolutionists used to rant about genetics.  (I love it when they rant, because they nearly always say something to damage themselves.)  They used to hold forth that, when they finally starting cracking the genetic code, it would irrefutably prove evolution and shut up all those “alternative theories” forever.
 

     Now, we’ve begun understanding something of the genetic make-up of cells and guess what?  We’re not hearing a lot from the Darwinists and when we do, it’s usually in very sheepish, tentative tones.

     Now, we hear things like:

     “Well, it seems that the DNA in the cells (mitochondrial DNA) of every human being traces back to one individual woman.”  (Really!  What a surprise!  To you!)
 

     Or “Well, we can’t really identify a process that could lead a cell to evolve from one form to another, because they have a quality called “irreducible complexity.”  That is, if anything is missing or different in the cell, it stops functioning altogether, so gradual changes don’t seem possible.”

     Let’s talk about dogs.
 

     I got a text from my daughter, Erin, the other day and she said, “I think I have the topic for your next blog. Go find the Youtube file on a NOVA documentary called 'Dogs: Decoded.'” 

     I suggest, esteemed reader, that you also go and find it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1JsGr76Ro

      The video is quite interesting and informative despite the obvious choke-hold the materialists have on it.  I think that you will find it is self-explanatory, if you keep one question and one phrase in mind.
 

     The question?  “How would such a cluster of human-centered traits that don’t have any use among wild canines come to be hidden in the genomes of multiple canine species?”
 

     The phrase?  Genetic engineering.

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization. and regain those capabilities.  I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

     The truth is there. You just have to see it.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

 

Holey mystery, Batman! It's the Band of Holes!

    

     I love the highlands of Peru.  The weather and landscape conditions are such that anything that marks the surface stays there undisturbed for the last several thousand years, perhaps since the Flood.  For example, the tracks of the first people to travel to the plains in automobiles back in the 1930's are still easily visible from the air.

 

     The fabled Nazca Lines are here - mysterious lines on the surface of the plains that form shapes and laser straight lines going for miles that can only be seen from the air

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      In south-western Peru, on a plain called Cajamarquilla, near the upper end of the fertile Pisco Valley lies another feature, not nearly as well known, but equally as intriguing and relevant to our study.

   

      Near the town are holes in the ground.    When standing on the ground beside them, it is difficult to tell anything definite about them because the soil has crumbled, but they are all six feet in diameter and range from two to six feet deep. Shallow holes are surrounded by deeper holes, in no discernible pattern or purpose.

    

     The first fact that is of interest is that they are numerous - over 6,900 of them.  The theories that the materialistic uniformitarian experts have proposed have also been numerous. 
 

      One of the theories is that these are all burial sites that have been robbed.  The questions that this theory are uncountable?  Here's two:

     Why are ALL the holes empty? 

     Why have there never been found in any of the 6,900 "graves' any bones or grave clothes or broken pottery - not even so much as a tooth or a thread?
 

     Another theory is that these were storage pits that food or other supplies were kept in.  Questions? 

      Why would the ancients dig giant pits in the hard, rocky ground when they had pottery that would store things in a much more movable form? 

     Why has there never been any sort of cover found for any of these holes? 

     Why would they be dug into the sides of hills, so that things would roll or slide out of them? 

     Again, why has no remnant of any of these supplies (seeds, residue, etc.) been found within the holes (remember, the dessicated and thin air preserves ancient matter almost indefinitely).
 

     The native peoples (who have lived in the area for thousands of years) have no indication in any of their stories or legends or traditions about the origin of the holes.  As far as the locals are concerned, the holes have just always been there.

    

     As interesting as all of this is, like the Nazca lines, the most striking aspects are only seen from the air. 
 

     The holes are arranged in a band (oddly enough resulting in them being called "The Band of Holes", or "Banda de Agujeros .")  The band runs across valleys, up and down hills, in a very machine-like arrangement.

The reddish stripe on the left hand side is the Band of Holes

    

     The Band stretches for over a mile, with no discernible pattern or goal, other than that the holes are arranged about twelve across, sometimes rigidly organized, sometimes in a more erratic pattern.  The idea that this could be some form of naturally occurring feature, as some contend, is ludicrous on the face of it.
 

     To get the full effect of this feature, I suggest you go to Google Earth.  It is one of my very favorite programs.  If you search for and go to the Band of Holes, it will take you down and give you the illusion that you are flying over it.  This is very striking and gives you the full impact of the massive scale of the Band.

    

      One last note.  At the northernmost end of the band, the ground is very dark, as if it had been scorched, as you can see from the aerial photos.   Why?
 

      Again, we have massive evidence that seems to indicate the presence of ancient technology and skills that the materialistic uniformitarians cannot explain.  It is, however, easily explained by the idea that pre-Flood mankind was not only advanced, but more advanced than we are.   I think that the Biblical evidence and the archaeological evidence both support that idea.

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization and regain those capabilities. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.
 

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.
 

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.
 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

The truth is there. You just have to see it.
 

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

A'ali: Memories of Eden

A'ali

The Middle East

      In the heart of the region that we call the Middle East lies the Persian Gulf.

The Persian Gulf in the Middle East

     Within the Persian Gulf, on the western shore, tucked between the peninsula of Qatar and the shoreline of Saudi Arabia.....

The island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East

 ...lies the little island kingdom of Bahrain.

A closer view of the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East

      The kingdom of Bahrain is one of the first of the Arab oil producing nations.  It is, as it has been throughout historical times, also an excellent natural port.  It currently also dabbles in banking and tourism, but is known for little else beside a harshly repressive constitutional monarchy.

     This was not always so. 

     Interestingly, archaeology and legend complement each other here.  Bahrain has been known since ancient times as "the island of the dead."  The northern part of the island, around the town of A'ali, is covered with over 170,000 burial mounds. 

     This estimate is changing as more mounds are found and, confusingly, more are destroyed by the building plans of the current government.  In the words of their kind and sensitive officials, "They're not Muslim graves, so why should we care?"

Aerial view of the northern plain, near the town of A'ali, on the Island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf in the Middle East.  All of those dots that you see are burial mounds.

Mounds like this.....

 

...and this...

....and this.

      Sumerian records identify this island with the kingdom known as Dilmun, "country of the rising sun, center of earthly paradise and the only region to survive the Flood (sic)." Archaeology has found evidence (buildings, pottery, statues) of this kingdom.  On nearby islands and on the Arabian coast are many evidences of the same civilization, some even older than the ones on Bahrain.
     The kingdom of Dilmun was apparently trading with both the Indus River Valley civilization (Mohenjo-Daro, Harrapa, Kot Diji, Mehrgahr and Lothal, in modern day Pakistan, which we have discussed in my first blog entry) and the Mesopotamian culture (Sumerians, who lived in the region that we now call Iraq).  This makes them co-existent with the oldest civilizations known to us and no doubt conversant in all the science, knowledge and culture that these people had.

     That makes what is in the burial mounds more intriguing.  When the mounds were opened, beside the skeletal remains, there were the usual grave goods that people have included since time immemorial - pots and vessels that held food and drink, jewelry and other personal items.

     In large numbers of the graves, though, carefully arranged and preserved, are the skeletons of large venomous snakes.  Why would you put a venomous snake in the grave of someone that you were trying to help through the afterlife, someone that you loved and respected?

    

CEM Museum in Glen Rose, Texas, USA.

Dr. Carl Baugh, director of CEM, standing beside the small hyperbaric chamber, holding a small ecosystem, which includes....

     A clue may be found in the small Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX, USA.  There, Dr. Carl Baugh has been attempting to reproduce environmental conditions that his theoretical models say existed in a pre-Flood environment.

     We have discussed these conditions in my first blog, but let me summarize here.  His research, and the research of other scientists, many of whom are devout materialistic uniformitarians, indicate that, in the Pre-Flood environment,  the atmospheric pressure was twice what it is today, that the oxygen level was at 30% instead of today's 14% and that the magnetic field of the earth was very much stronger than it is today. 

     (I recommend checking out their website.  It's very professional and informative.  http://www.creationevidence.org/)

....a living Copperhead snake.

     To reproduce this pre-Flood environment, a hyperbaric chamber was filled with plants and animals, including a copperhead snake.  Then the chamber was pressurized to two atmospheres and the oxygen level was raised to 30%.  Magnetic coils were also wrapped around the chamber to intensify the magnetic field to a level approximating the magnetic field of the Pre-Flood world.  One of the areas of inquiry was to determine the effect, if any, this environment had on various functions of the snake, including the production of venom.

     When samples of the venom were taken and examined, even microscopic examination clearly showed that the venom had been dramatically altered.  The protein crystals in an unaltered snake's venom, when seen under a microscope, are haphazard, like a pile of jackstraws that have been thrown in a pile.  The venom of the snake in the hyperbaric chamber had crystals that were rigidly organized, like bricks, layer upon layer.

     Medical experts that were shown this venom were very excited about the medicinal possibilities and research is on-going.  The medical field already uses snake venom for a variety of useful medications and therapies, even though it is a poison. 

     The Bible, in Genesis, tells us that Adam and Eve were not afraid of a snake in a pre-Flood environment.  The Biblical book of Isaiah, chapter 11, verse 8, talks about what the earth will be like when God reconstructs it as He originally meant for it to be.  Part of that description says, "The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den."  Again, in the pre-Flood environment, snakes were nothing to be feared.

      The people of the Dilmun kingdom probably lived within a few years of the Flood.  We know from the Biblical record that it took some time for the gradually weakening atmosphere and magnetic field to change things.  We see this in the Biblical genealogies.  They show that the lifespans of people before the Flood (which nearly reached 1,000 years routinely), became shorter and shorter as the atmosphere became poorer in oxygen and the magnetic field grew weaker.

    In the time of Dilmun, perhaps those effects had only begun.  Perhaps, in that time, serpents were seen as helpful, perhaps even medicinal creatures.  Perhaps they were something that you would give to a loved one to supply them with medicine, as we would give someone on a journey a first-aid kit.

     I think that the evidence seems to point that way.  What do you think?

WARNING!!

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization and to re-gain those capabilities. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.
 

The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern.
 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (Past Remembering: Thoughts toward a coherent view of our ancient past, our present and our future) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

     The truth is there. You just have to see it.  

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.

Tiwanaku - Echoes of before

Western coast of South America

     In the South American country of Bolivia, at an elevation of 12,600 feet above sea level is the combined archaeological site of Tiwanaku (possibly derived from the local Aymara Indian word for “The Stone of the Center”)and the nearby site of Puma Punku (“Gate of the Mountain Lion”). Both lie about three miles (depending on the level of the water) from the highest navigable body of water in the world, Lake Titicaca.

The ruins here are ancient. When the Spanish arrived in the 1500’s, the sites had all suffered from centuries of erosion, pilfering and vandalism from various groups. Anything that could be ready moved and could be used for buildings, etc., was long ago carried away.

     The resulting jumble is difficult, at best, to interpret. The Bolivian authorities have tried to partially re-assemble many of the stone structures, but their interpretation is, with all due respect, questionable. If nothing else, so much has been removed that they don't even know what they are missing.
 
     The carvings that have been left are all arcane, highly-stylized figures that are eroded and difficult to decipher. There has been no evidence of writing discovered, so we have no real eyewitness record of who lived here, other than the irrefutable evidence of the structures left behind.

Those structures are fascinating enough!   Once again, we have monolithic stones up to 26 feet tall, weighing up to 100 tons, fit together with unbelievable precision, performed over and over again, with mass produced exactitude. 

Especially at Puma Punku, we find stones built to interconnect like Lego blocks and formed in ways that we CANNOT duplicate today, without a huge allocation of time and effort, with technology such as computers and lasers. We’ve discussed that enough in previous blog entries, so let’s go on, but I want to note one fact. It takes only a quick glance to realize that these hundreds of mega-ton, interlocked stones have been scattered across the plain in the same way that a child would scatter dominoes – or maybe a large influx of water would do this?

The theory exists that some form of explosion, like the impact of a meteor, caused this scattering.  This is unsupported by any signs of burning or cratering.

These huge megaliths have been shattered, ground together, scattered abroad and buried in mud.  Scientists think that a wall of mud 8 to 10 feet tall inundated Puma Punku.

Statue called "The Prior" at Tiwanaku.

There has also been found evidence of extensive use of the "flooded-raised field" agriculture (suka kollus) that we have discussed earlier. Also impressive and evidence that a large population was supported here at one time, in a place that is currently barren altiplano, but let’s go on.

Examples of the megaliths at Puma Punku

As you move toward the Lake (which, remember, is about three miles away), a large wharf area, just under the surface of the lake, a wharf or dock was found.  The crescent shaped stonework structure has very large and deep docks and piers stretching out from it, like the teeth on a comb. Ships that traveled a lake wouldn’t need such large and deep berths. Only ocean-going ships would use such berths - ships with deep keels. 

An example of the precision stone work at Puma Punku.  This line couldn't have been cut any straighter, or more uniformly with a laser

While we’re speaking of the ocean and Lake Titicaca, it is noteworthy that there are species of sea horses living in the Lake. Sea horses are, like their name says, salt water creatures. What are they doing in a fresh water lake?

Exploration of the bottom of Lake Titicaca has been very slow for two reasons. First, technically, it is very difficult and quite dangerous to scuba dive in such cold water at such high altitudes.  Remember, this is over 2.5 miles above sea level.  Only recently have a very few researchers had the skill, the courage and the technology to begin exploration.

Secondly, the materialistic uniformitarian academics have completely disregarded the local fishermen’s numerous and emphatically held testimonies about the walls and buildings that they could see underwater when drought lowered the water levels.

No great surprise, then, that even these tentative dives have found well-built walls and buildings. The carvings and statues found are identical to the ones in the nearby Tiwanaku complex.

A member of the Aymara Indian tribe

It is interesting, although not necessarily true, that the local Aymara Indians say that the ruins of Tiwanaku and Puma Punku were built long ago, by a “god” (Veracocha, who is described as being tall, bearded, fair-haired and light skinned– totally unlike the local natives). In order to build the buildings, giants were created and put to work on the city.  When the giants displeased the “god,” they were destroyed by a flood. Hmmm.

Another Aymara man, as is the one below

It may be worthy of note here that the ruins at Tiwanaku, though not at Puma Punku, still feature many carvings of faces, both in the walls and on some of the remaining free-standing statues.  Many people say that the faces depicted on these images are representative of all the types of people known in the world.  They are certainly widely varied in detail, but the interpretation of their racial characteristic may be open for discussion.  The variation in the faces alone is interesting. 

 The local peoples, the Aymara and Quechua Indians, show little variation in their features, as is true with most isolated peoples.  You can see this clearly from the photos.

 What is more clear is the evidence of one statue in particular.  This particular statue distinctly shows a man with bushy eyebrows, thick lips and a full beard.  This is drastically different from the local peoples, who have very thin lips, and, (like almost all Native American peoples) very little if any facial hair below the eyebrows.   The sculptor had obviously seen an individual who did not belong to any of the extant native people groups anywhere for thousands of miles.



The Fuente Magna bowl

In the 1950's a local farmer found what is called the Fuente Magna bowl buried nearby.  It is about two feet across.  It is heavily inscribed with the earliest forms of Sumerian cuneiform writing.  The Sumerians lived 8,000 miles away in Mesopotamia (the place that we call Iraq) and they existed around 3,000 B. C.



This is early Sumerian cuneiform script on the inner rim of the Fuente Magna bowl. 

Compare the writing on the Fuente Magna bowl to this example of ancient Sumerian cuneiform writing found in modern Iraq and dated at 3,000 B. C.

Finally, on the mountain sides surrounding the plains area are layers of deposits that are obviously traces of the minerals from a salt sea, filled with fossils of marine life. Most interesting of all is the fact that this layer is diagonal to the current level line – it is tilted. Water doesn’t tilt, not long enough to leave heavy marks on rocks.

So, what do all these facts tell us?

1. There was a complex civilization living in this area, with capabilities beyond our current western civilization - in stone working, in construction and in agriculture.

2. Even though the area is currently over two miles in elevation, it was once at, or below, sea level.

3. Not only the altitude, but the level of the terrain has been radically, dramatically, changed.

4.  The people currently living in this area do not appear to be the same people who built the stone structures at Tiawanaku and Puma Punku. The builders also appear to have had contact with other civilizations as far away as the Middle East.

For those of you who may not remember from the previous blog entries, I favor the theories of Dr. Walter Brown (http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/index.html), who holds that the continental plates were moved violently apart at great speed when the underlying layer of saline water was released in the area of the Atlantic Ocean floor that we now call the Atlantic Rift.

As the continent (in this case, South America) was pushed away, westward, gliding on the remaining saline layer, the western edge ran off its lubricating layer first, causing that edge to scrape and crash into the underlying stone layers, making it bunch up and wrinkle on that edge. This resulted in mountains like the Andes and the Rockies.

All of this evidence has been preserved in the oxygen poor, arid highlands of Peru for us. If we listen carefully, we can hear echoes of those who came before us.

WARNING!!


      The truth is there. You just have to see it.

This blog has been written with the sole purpose of using the ample evidence available to verify and support the biblical record, while refuting the copious propaganda that is shoved down our throats daily by materialistic uniformitarians.

     It is my contention that the Bible describes God's original creation of people with extraordinary capabilities who subsequently built an advanced civilization that exceeds our own. That civilization was destroyed in the Great Flood and we have spent the last 5,000 years trying to re-build that civilization and re-gain those capabilities. I contend that science supports all this in multiple disciplines, but this information is ignored or suppressed by various people who have an opposing agenda.

Nothing that you see on this blog is original. Any fact that you see here is obtainable on a dozen different websites and books. I use these facts and photos, without violating their copyrights, under the legal principle of fair use practice. That is, I use them one time, for educational purposes only.

     The point is, nothing here is made up. The only thing that I do (or need to do) is assemble this information in a discernible pattern. 

You might want to read through the first entry posted on this blog (http://betterthanufos.blogspot.com/2011/02/v-behaviorurldefaultvml-o.html) in order to understand my theoretical and theological underpinnings more clearly.

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 (NASB)

That which has been is that which will be,

And that which has been done is that which will be done.

So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,

“See this, it is new”?

Already it has existed for ages

Which were before us.