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My Sunday sermons, like how lockdowns from this pandemic should be relaxed, are based on science. The Bible says that Adam was the first male. That's God creating Adam in a painting by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City.
So let me provide an alternative view on how we came to be. Many still have a hard time accepting that we descended from apes perhaps 7 million years ago. Which one? My guess is the bonobo from which came Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis). She was found in Ethiopia and lived 3.2 million years ago.
Homo sapiens (or us) fully evolved around 180,000 years ago. Homo neanderthalensis arrived earlier, around 500,000 years ago, but disappeared 40,000 years ago. As our earliest ancestors left Africa around 70,000 years ago, it is speculated that everyone has traces of neanderthal genes, except a few in Africa.
Why? That scientific name derives from the Adnyamanthanha aboriginal people, so beginning with the letter "A," Adam Goodes is Adnyamathanha, and an All-Australia AFL footballer.
Incidentally, all worms are hermaphrodites, that is, they are all male and female, at the same time. Now this is going to blow your mind, but bacteria have a kind of sex, called conjugation, between male and female microorganisms. The gender, if you can call it that, depends on the presence of something called an F factor. Males have them, females don't.
Okay, but, asexual or not, even that first worm had to have evolved from something, probably going back to the first microorganism as early as 4.5 billion years ago. These were archaea and bacteria. Eukaryotes (this is what we are) only came into existence around 2 billion years ago. The odds got to be terribly low that this third form of life just came from nothing.
So let's say that eukaryotes derived from one of those two types of earlier microorgisms. So which one? First of all, the older generation never heard of archaea, for Carl Woese only began to speculate about them in 1977 and finally offered a proposal in 1990, which now has been accepted by everyone, except maybe you.
So, the bottom line, how did we all originate? The latest science is that--I'm not making this up--a very long time ago an archaea cell ate a bacterium, and this combination found a way to become more complexed. However, some science hints that archaea split from bacteria, so this beginning of us is both complicated and controversial.
Anyway, this search seems today centered at a place called Loki's (who is a Norse God) Castle between Greenland and Norway at a depth of 7.546 feet where hot water spouts from the sea bed. There, Thijs Ettema of Uppsala University in Sweden, reported discovery of a new living cell, named Lokiarchaeota. Seems that this archaea has swallowed a bacterium and is beginning to show some complexity.
So the first male might not be Adam but Loki. This is Tom Hiddleston as Loki in The Avengers. Smart guy, for he graduated from the University of Cambridge, and I loved him in the Night Manager series, which is several years delayed, but set to return. He played Hank Williams in I Saw the Light. Hiddleston actually did the singing. I'm spending so much time on this subject because in my state of splendid isolation I'm watching a whole range these Netflix and Amazon Prime series, which I'll soon review, maybe tomorrow.
I always have something alarming to say about our PUS (President of the United States), while attempting to summarize the state of this COVID-19 Pandemic. Jimmy Kimmel does me one better, with a whole lot of humor. He does this every night he's on. As many of you can't stay up that late, here is one of his monologues from last week. Then here is another from this past week. You can avoid Trump's two-hour daily monologue and now instead just go to You Tube for Kimmel to save you 1 hour 50 minutes, daily.
By the way, Jimmy is back weekly every Wednesday night on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, started 21 years ago by Regis Philbin. This is a 2008 photo showing Kimmel as the contestant with Philbin. So only one of the 12 millionaires was a female. Soon I'll report on how more males are dying from COVID-19 than females, and why those countries with female leadership are better solving this pandemic.
The show itself is short of must watch TV. The fact that the contestants are all famous, and already millionaires, but playing for some charity (some not so justified, like runaway parrots, considering the current coronavirus) undercuts the fabric of what drew in the past: normal, sometimes frumpy, nobodies with whom you identified. Winning totally changed their lives. There is no audience, which makes me wonder how those non-spectator Major League Baseball games will do. Coming up is Jane Fonda this Wednesday, and if not this week, then certainly next. This episode has been reviewed to be somewhat compelling, with Louis Virtel serving as her brain.
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New deaths:
DAY China Italy USA Spain Germany S. Korea WORLD
Apr 1 7 727 589 463 83 3 3239
2 6 760 522 709 158 4 4183
2 6 760 522 709 158 4 4183
3 4 766 716 587 123 5 3822
4 4 681 769 546 55 3 4755
5 3 525 909 471 106 6 3595
6 2 636 874 528 78 3 4414
7 ? 604 1371 556 95 6 6291
8 2 542 1400 628 176 8 5431
9 2 610 1286 446 82 4 3779
10 1 570 1739 523 121 4 6506
5 3 525 909 471 106 6 3595
6 2 636 874 528 78 3 4414
7 ? 604 1371 556 95 6 6291
8 2 542 1400 628 176 8 5431
9 2 610 1286 446 82 4 3779
10 1 570 1739 523 121 4 6506
11 3 619 1476 399 ? 3 5358
12 ? 431 1090 366 74 3 4533
13 2 566 1147 280 21 3 4489
14 ? 602 1754 300 100 5 5726
15 1 578 1558 324 97 3 6351
16 ? 525 1796 318 139 4 6239
17 1290 575 1338 298 151 1 6857
12 ? 431 1090 366 74 3 4533
13 2 566 1147 280 21 3 4489
14 ? 602 1754 300 100 5 5726
15 1 578 1558 324 97 3 6351
16 ? 525 1796 318 139 4 6239
17 1290 575 1338 298 151 1 6857
18 ? 482 1090 41 74 2 4888
19 ? 433 1117 410 10 2 4344
Summary:
19 ? 433 1117 410 10 2 4344
Summary:
- The World new deaths rate is definitely declining.
- Not sure why China seems to be negligent on reporting.
- A bit worrisome about India and Indonesia, for their new deaths rate is picking up.
- Germany and South Korea are both doing well.
So let me provide an alternative view on how we came to be. Many still have a hard time accepting that we descended from apes perhaps 7 million years ago. Which one? My guess is the bonobo from which came Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis). She was found in Ethiopia and lived 3.2 million years ago.
If you can't accept the above, you'll have considerable difficulty believing that Lucy came from a worm, a creature that lived on the seafloor near Australia 555 million years ago. Ikaria wariootia does not yet have a cute name, but let me call him Adam.
Why? That scientific name derives from the Adnyamanthanha aboriginal people, so beginning with the letter "A," Adam Goodes is Adnyamathanha, and an All-Australia AFL footballer.Incidentally, all worms are hermaphrodites, that is, they are all male and female, at the same time. Now this is going to blow your mind, but bacteria have a kind of sex, called conjugation, between male and female microorganisms. The gender, if you can call it that, depends on the presence of something called an F factor. Males have them, females don't.
Okay, but, asexual or not, even that first worm had to have evolved from something, probably going back to the first microorganism as early as 4.5 billion years ago. These were archaea and bacteria. Eukaryotes (this is what we are) only came into existence around 2 billion years ago. The odds got to be terribly low that this third form of life just came from nothing.
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