Well, I am just a monkey man
Im glad you are a monkey woman, too… Jaggers/Richards
The New York Times reported last week that researchers have discovered that “the split between the human and chimpanzee lineages, a pivotal event in human evolution, may have occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may not have been as clean as humans might like.” Through genetic analysis they believe that after the humans and the chimpanzees separated they continued to breed. Dr. Reich and his team believe, “the conflict can be resolved.”
We must assume the ‘conflict’ is the conflict between the dates, a difference of almost two and a half million years; even though the real ‘conflict’ for these people is the fact that our ancestors were breeding with chimps.
Apparently, the news has ‘startled paleoanthropologists’. “If the earliest hominids are bipedal, it’s hard to think of them interbreeding with the knuckle-walking chimps — it’s not what we had in mind,” said Daniel E. Lieberman, a biological anthropologist at Harvard. It’s not what we had in mind!
Which brings me to the question. How often are scientists trying to discover what they have in mind? I can see a cartoon that would look like this: a scientist, perhaps lieberman or reich, etc.., screwing a chimpanzee while saying, “this isn’t what I had in mind…” The first reason why this disturbs many people is they imagine themselves interbreeding with chimpanzees.
Later on in the article the scientists put it on Women: ‘So the females may have had to mate with males in the chimpanzee lineage in order to produce viable descendants. In principle, they could have mated with males of the human lineage, but genetic evidence rules out that possibility, Dr. Reich said.’
I wonder if the next step is to dig through the genomes of the inhabitants of earth, in an attempt to draw a line between the chimp fuckers or their offspring, and the purer humans who split a few million years earlier. What’s the difference!
There are differences, of course, but what are these differences and how do we approach them? Or, more importantly, how do we approach ourselves, how do we look at ourselves and understand our place in a creation we share with everything else? The Seventh Day Adventists and these ‘scientists’ are more alike than they know. Each side desires to raise themselves above the animal kingdom, each side forgets, whether created by God or the process of a Godless evolution, all life comes from the same stuff. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin calls this Unity and says, “..the more we split and pulverize matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundemental unity.” No matter how we try and divide we will always come back to the One. Cell division is understood in our time as the biological basis of life.
Rudolf Steiner said, “If today we contemplate these things and realize again that man is actually born out of the whole of nature, that he bears the whole of nature within him, as I have shown, that he bears the bird kingdom, the lion kingdom, the essential nature of the cow in him, then we have the individual aspects of what is expressed in the abstract sentence: Man is a microcosm. He is indeed a microcosm, and the macrocosm is in him;’ and all the creatures that live in the air, all the animals on the face of the earth whose special element is the air that circulates there, and the animals whose special element is below the surface of the earth, in the forces of gravity– all these work together in man as a harmonious whole.”
Thank God for Rock and Roll…
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