

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”
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“The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.”
― The Lake of Dreams
― The Lake of Dreams
“However, there is a way to know for certain that Noah鈥檚 Flood and the Creation story never happened: by looking at our mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).聽 Mitochondria are the 鈥渃ellular power plants鈥 found in all of our cells and they have their own DNA which is separate from that found in the nucleus of the cell.聽 In humans, and most other species that mitochondria are found in, the father鈥檚 mtDNA normally does not contribute to the child鈥檚 mtDNA; the child normally inherits its mtDNA exclusively from its mother.聽 This means that if no one鈥檚 genes have mutated, then we all have the same mtDNA as our brothers and sisters and the same mtDNA as the children of our mother鈥檚 sisters, etc. This pattern of inheritance makes it possible to rule out 鈥減opulation bottlenecks鈥 in our species鈥 history.聽 A bottleneck is basically a time when the population of a species dwindled to low numbers.聽 For humans, this means that every person born after a bottleneck can only have the mtDNA or a mutation of the mtDNA of the women who survived the bottleneck. This doesn鈥檛 mean that mtDNA can tell us when a bottleneck happened, but it can tell us when one didn鈥檛 happen because we know that mtDNA has a rate of approximately one mutation every 3,500 years (Gibbons 1998; Soares et al 2009). So if the human race were actually less than 6,000 years old and/or 鈥渆verything on earth that breathed died鈥 (Genesis 7:22) less than 6,000 years ago, which would be the case if the story of Adam and the story of Noah鈥檚 flood were true respectively, then every person should have the exact same mtDNA except for one or two mutations.聽 This, however, is not the case as human mtDNA is much more diverse (Endicott et al 2009), so we can know for a fact that the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Noah are fictional. 聽 There”
― The Invention of Christianity
― The Invention of Christianity
“He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room

“I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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