Wading through life

Just when scientists thought they had the history of man figured out…

Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree

Oh… the wrinkles are only going to get bigger, gentlemen. Better get used to it! Just wait until you discover that our family tree has one branch (homo sapiens) and one trunk (Jehovah).

People magazine names ‘Bachelor of the Year’

“Human Genome More Complicated Than Ever Realized, Scientists Say“

Well… duh.

When are we going to realize that the more we attempt to learn about this thing called Creation, the more we’ll realize we don’t know?

The collaboration of researchers… looked at roughly 1 percent of the entire human genome, concluding that the 95 percent of the genome previously believed to be superfluous actually plays a major role in regulating how DNA expresses itself.

God doesn’t do anything superfluous.

When researchers announced they had mapped the human genome in 2003, they knew it was made up of over 3 billion base pairs of DNA.

However, only between 1.5 and 5 percent of that — encompassing the areas known as “genes” — was involved in actually making proteins. The rest was termed “junk DNA.”

God doesn’t make junk.

In a paper released in the journal Nature, scientists say they have found that much of that so-called junk DNA is actually involved in regulating how genes build and maintain the body.

Now you’re catching on. Meaning lies behind the apparent madness.

Greally likens the genes to musical instruments, and the regulatory regions of the genome found in this study to an orchestral score — the instructions necessary to make the whole symphony come together.

This musical comparison is a revelation God gave to some of his people a while ago. (Check out the description for session #7 of the Quantum Physics, Music and the Prophetic conference. I’ve been thinking about purchasing the audio of it for a while because it really intrigues me.)

An important finding was how different human and animal DNA are.

Hmmm… Not surprising.

While the new advance adds to the understanding of the genome, researchers point out that completing the mapping will take time. The complexity of the genome, Collins said, is something he feels all the researchers are awe of.

“We are intended to be complicated,” he said, “and we obviously are.”

Yes. Yes we are. “Fearfully and wonderfully made,” is how He puts it. (Psalm 139:13-16)

I’m not one to get caught up in hype. Bird flu pandemic? Doesn’t worry me.

But I find this one is really, really disturbing. Please tell me we’re going to do something about greenhouse gases soon.

Arctic Summers Ice-Free by 2040, Study Predicts

From today’s Detroit News article: Play ball! An interesting look at the power of sports, especially the latter, “You get used to losing” part.

Classrooms at Hanley International Academy in Hamtramck are filled with the children of recent immigrants. Many don’t speak English. Yet in the past few weeks, baseball has unified them in a way arithmetic never did.

Students wrote “Bless You Boys” in Arabic, Bosnian and Polish on posters that adorn the school hallways. Classmates who seldom work together on school projects because of language differences discovered that when they cheered, they all sounded the same.

“The Tigers have become a universal language for them,” said Principal Carolyn Glover. “It’s brought them together like nothing we’d done before.”

Perhaps it’s too much to believe baseball can change the world. A Kenny Rogers shutout won’t stop looming layoffs at Ford. A Magglio Ordonez home run won’t turn the housing market around. When the World Series ends and the lights at Comerica Park are turned off for the season, fans will turn their attention back to their lives. They’ll worry about their jobs, try to balance their checkbooks and face the curveballs that life throws at them.

But Rigelhof thinks there may be a lesson he can take away from the fairy-tale season of a team no one believed in.

“You get used to losing,” he said. “Some days, you sort of wonder if it’s ever going to change.”

But if you believe long enough and hard enough, things will turn around.

“It’s been like a dream,” Rigelhof said. “I don’t want it to end.”