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FROM A SINGLE FERTILSED CELL - IN 9 MONTHS
THE MOTHER NOURISHES 2 TRILLION MORE CELLS.
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While Christmas, the birth of Christ,
the Messiah, The Saviour, The Anointed One, is the archetype for the beginning
of life for mankind - The Easter story as related by the the Gospels
(diaries) of the Apostles, who lived at the time of Jesus, is the cornerstone
of Christian Philosophy - being evidence of God's new testament (contract with
humans) offering us redemption of our "sins" (sins are willful acts
that cut us off from the congregation - "grace" joins us to
humanity), the fortitude to bear pain, suffering and death (The Crucifixion),
and the promise of Resurrection (eternal life with God in Heaven, after a time,
and after some complex journeys - such as Descending Into Hell. Nobody said it
would be easy).
Books from all the world's
religions and hundreds of historians argue about the facts, fiction, life,
death and meaning of Jesus Christ. One of the clearest histories I have read is by atheist A N Wilson. There are thousands of others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
The Old Testament - mankind's
history from God's Creation of the Universe up to the first Christmas,
prophesied the coming Messiah. Christians argue that Jesus fulfilled all the
prophecies - ancient Judaism, the desert race that wrote the history in the Old
Testament, disagrees. Their Messiah, rescuer, leader, hero is still to come.
Perhaps both are right. It is a very complex universe.
Is THE BIBLE a reliable history and moral guide? Only Hollywood
However, humanity's Christmas (BIRTH) and Easter (REBIRTH) myths and
celebrations, based on the movements of stars, planets, moons, asteroids and
seasons, predate all written history by hundreds of thousands of years. Birth,
Death and Resurrection are not entirely new topics for thought and discussion
in the hallowed places where humans congregate.
SCIENCE HAS GATHERED SOME DATA AND FORMED A
FEW THEORIES.
We adult humans are very, very, very complex; being an
organised organism of, it is rumoured, up to 100 trillion cells (brain, skin,
hair, teeth, blood, nerve etc) each cell containing 2 inch spiral ladders or
helices of DNA with 220 million spokes; all carefully placed; all magically
operating and co-operating. Let me do the maths for you – it calculates as
22,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or twenty-two thousand, billion, billion well
ordered molecules, all doing what they are supposed to do – integrated to keep
us alive and amused for seventy or more years – before we give up the ghost and
disintegrate.
Crick and Watson and colleagues have given us deep
insights into what babies are made of - DNA, genes, cells and so on. The
greatest and abiding scientific mystery is - what pattern, what template is the
embryo following as it converts its mother's energy into millions, billions and
trillions of stem-cells; unspecified cells that can become any type of cell,
anywhere in the human body, and slots them into its mind boggling jigsaw? How
is the template known to the baby? Where is the template stored or where does
it exist?
A human ovum or egg is the size of a full-stop in this
text. An enthusiastic tail wagging spermatozoa is about 100 times smaller. When
they combine, conception begins, the universe announces another miracle well
beyond our comprehension, the full stop divides into two full stops – or a
colon: and then into a cluster, in which a heartbeat, the pulse of the
universe, spontaneously begins – and a wilful child starts its determined
journey into a sensational period of “life” in this solar system, for three
score years and ten.
This wilful, intentional cluster embeds itself into the safe haven of its mother’s womb and grows from the nourishment, information and care she provides. She in turn is often protected by the father – who brings food, furs and digital TVs, and lights fires to keep her and her embryo warm and fed.
We, the clever human race, conjecture that all the
unique characteristics of this emerging new life form, a dissipative organism
that takes, shapes and discards energy, are dictated by the merest wisp of an
invisible string of chemicals called DNA.
This wilful, intentional cluster embeds itself into the safe haven of its mother’s womb and grows from the nourishment, information and care she provides. She in turn is often protected by the father – who brings food, furs and digital TVs, and lights fires to keep her and her embryo warm and fed.
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| YOUR BABY GROWN-UP AND CARRYING AN EGG TO VICTORY |
Over nine months the baby will be given the energy to
grow from the size of a full-stop, a single fertilised cell, to about seven
pounds, 3,175 grams, 3.2 kilograms, estimated to be at least 2 trillion cells.
So, while mum and dad jointly and almost equally (100 to 1) kick-start the
process – mum thereafter contributes about 2 trillion times more via her womb
and via the umbilical cord and placenta that she shares with the baby.
The baby grows by about 55 billion (55,000,000,000) new cells a week - for
36 weeks; and it organises them all to be in the right place at the right time
doing the right thing. Isn't that miraculous - the Easter miracle?
Contrary to most opinions to date, which deemed the
placenta and amniotic fluid inviolable; in this process, in this nutritious
stream, science has recently learned that the mother’s DNA, genes, memes
(cultural and traumatic experiences), immune responses – and harmful drugs,
alcohol, nicotine and other pollutants – are passed to the baby. Equally, the
baby passes DNA back to the mother.
During a pregnancy, cells
from mother and fetus can cross
the placenta and survive for decades in the skin, liver and spleen – a
phenomenon called fetal microchimerism.
MIXING IT WITH MOTHER
Natural
transformation between mothers and foetuses. As its name implies, it is a natural mechanism used by some
bacterial cells to take up DNA from the environment. This environmental DNA
was, at one point, located in other bacteria. For instance, when bacteria die
and disintegrate, their chromosomal DNA is released. Fragments of this DNA
remain in the environment and are freely available to other living cells,
including other bacteria. These naturally occurring DNA fragments can enter a
living bacterium through its cell membrane, after contact with that membrane.
If the DNA is double stranded, one of the strands will pass across the cell
membrane into the cell, and the other strand will be dissolved, or hydrolyzed. Parts of the newly
introduced single-stranded DNA molecule may then recombine with similar regions
on the bacterial chromosome and become incorporated into the bacterium's
genome.
Transcending the Placental
Barrier - "It shows just how ubiquitous the exchange of these
cells is," says Hilary
Gammill of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle
SCIENTIFIC SPECULATIONS
Humans have found that the templates for life-forms
are not fixed, but are dynamic and change moment by moment. One implication is
that species evolution happens far faster than Darwin Prof Rupert Sheldrake names
the template medium “Morphic Resonance” in his book The Science
Delusion. THE SCIENCE DELUSION
Most scientists look to DNA as the basic template of
organisms. However, recent biology, Epigenetics, medicine and
science has adjusted and updated the consensus about what DNA (deoxyribonucleic
acid) does and how it does it.
The discovery, announced on 25th April
1953, of the DNA
double-helix string in every living cell, by Crick, Watson and
molecular biologist Rosalind Franklin – who, without a Y chromosome and lacking
a penis, was barred from Nobel Prizes – revolutionised our understanding of the
templates of life, sentience, intelligence and consciousness.
From 1953 to 2011, the scientific convention had been
that the 4 DNA bases, adenine (abbreviated A),
cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T) – that make the millions of rungs of
the DNA spiral ladder - were created at conception and thereafter
“What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder” they remained in fixed
order – obligingly fixed so that we could study them. This is no longer the
consensus belief.
Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, so
fervently believed in this fixity that he built an entire upside down
philosophy, a new religion, stating that humans are complex robots propelled by
the anthropogenic, intelligent, godlike desires of DNA assembled into 46
packets of (selfish) genes – 23 from each parent; an erroneous if ingenious
concept that he zealously impressed on most of science for several decades.
Post Dawkins, recent discoveries show that DNA in
living cells changes continuously in response to internal and external forces -
while DNA in dead cells such as old teeth, hair and bones is indeed fixed and
legible for thousands of years. DNA analysis now tracks Homo-Sapiens
back 340,000 years. Last year Harvard University Medical School
THE TEMPLATES? Electro-magnetic broadcasts /radio
waves /Light is far more data-dense than DNA. Today – what does science know
about the templates of living organisms? Focusing on allegedly conscious
intelligent human life - we need a sense of order and scale:
Scale and Size:
An atom is
approximately 0.2 nanometers in diameter. A nanometer equals 0.0000000001
meters. The smallest molecule in nature is the diatomic hydrogen molecule (H2)
which is 0.74 angstrom in length. An angstrom is equal to 0.1 nanometers or 1.0
x 10-10 meters.
Read more:
WHICH CAME FIRST – LIGHT OR DNA? My theory is that the
templates for all phenomena exist in space-time, in the universe, formed of
light /electro-magnetic /radio waves, which in turn have been formed by the
events and movements of all phenomena (material things as contrasted with
no-things) and are dynamic signals or data that change constantly.
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| HUMANS ARE HALFWAY BETWEEN THE LARGEST & SMALLEST THINGS WE KNOW. |
Electro-magnetic broadcasts – weightless/massless but permanent universal
dense-date carriers (e.g. Videos from Mars – light from distant galaxies).
Epigenetic chemical switches – molecules or atomic elements known to activate
or deactivate sequences of DNA code, which may be set in the DNA but may not be
operative.
DNA strand, Nucleotides – Complex molecules – 220 million base pairs
about 2 inches long per cell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA
Proteins – Larger complex molecules such as sugars
Genes – Ordered packets of DNA and proteins
Chromosomes - collections of
genes
Cells – about 100 trillion per person - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)
In
conclusion, it seems that Rugby Forwards, with several hundred trillion cells,
start as a single fertilised cell the size of a full stop, designed by the
universe, with 23 genes from each parent – then spend nine months in their
mother’s womb, where she multiplies the cells by 2 trillion to make a
baby – before it fights its pugnacious way out into the world – to score
in the All Nations Rugby Union matches – sharing DNA with its
team-mates in the hot baths and having significant bits of his anatomy ripped
off, in the name of sport. That’s Life.
Happy Easter
DISSIPATIVE CREATURES:
http://noelhodson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/you-chose-to-be-born.html (*An
average person consumes and converts 30 tonnes of nourishment, which,
like us, is 70% water. We also convert a few tonnes of oxygen and other
fuels. Imagine the seventy year process speeded up on film as
we extract energy from these flows, convert the organisations we absorb
into our higher organisation - our template - renew most of our trillions of
cells every seven years - and yet stay recognisably in shape, remain
identifiable as our unique selves. We are constantly changing our building blocks,
but always stay the same; just a little worn at the edges and older.)
TEMPLATES:
http://noelhodson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/what-is-gravity.html My
guess is that the in-falling energy is balanced by the out-flowing energy – and
that the differential in the rate of in-flow and out-flow and the time
differences between integration and disintegration of mass enables the
existence, for a time, of the body or phenomena (phenomena or “things” include
pebbles, trees and thoughts – thoughts are tangible packets of energy).
Last Easter Sunday was 8 April 2012; it
moves around the calendar to coincide with the first Sunday after the full moon
of Spring, or Northward, or Vernal equinox - that this year was on the 20th
March.
An Easter Essay on the Aether for
Atheists, Humanists and Theists.
CREATURES OF LIGHT - TILL THE END OF DAYS
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