? on Life and Death - angells-au

Researching family genealogy has had me thinking about life and death and has come with a number of unanswered questions. Questions that may never be answered by mere mortals such as ourselves.

We tend to think along the lines that when we die we will meet up with our ancestors and have all the questions we can ask, answered.

As time goes by I will be adding more and more questions to this list but for now I have just added a few to kick off with. You can add your own content to this page if you register.

Some immediate questions that come to mind are why people are born and die before their role in life is complete?

We seem to know from history and particularly from what we have learnt through religious paths, that we are all descendants of Adam and Eve and that our role in life is to procreate. This makes me ask that those that die at birth or in life before achieving this goal, were born for what purpose if they never achieved the purpose of procreation?

It also makes me ask, for what and why do we need to procreate?

It seems to me that the primary role in the era that we currently live in is to serve the rich and help them get richer. This appears to be the case throughout history and that can't be done without procreation so has mankind forgotten their primary role in life or has history wrongly defined the primary role?

Given the above scenario, it means our primary role in life is to serve the rich and our secondary role is that of procreation in order to keep the population going to carry out the primary role.

This of course makes a mockery of what we historically know as our Primary Role.

Another thing is that when we die, do we (our spirits) keep growing?

If so then it would be easy to get answers to all the unanswered questions when we die but if not, then how do we get answers from children who died at birth and children who were stillborn?

Without them growing, they cannot answer the questions!

An example of a question I would like to ask is why my brother Brian died as a teenager. We know how he died but we dont know the reason. Now Brian was almost 17 when he died so thoughts tell me that when I die, I will meet up with him and ask him for the answer which I feel he knows.

What about a child who died at birth though? The child has not yet learnt to speak so getting the answers as to "why" would be nigh on impossible to get but yet we, being the curious types that we are, really need to know the answer's.

Adam and Eve

History tells us that we are all descendants of Adam and Eve. At least religios history does and yet not many of us dispute the fact.

With the advent of DNA testing now available and the 99.9% certainty of it's accuracy, then the story that we are all descendants of Adam and Eve is dispelled on the basis that Adam and Eve have always been portrayed as white Europeans.

DNA testing has revealed that with millions of tests done worldwide, there is one strong genetic link in all of them that goes back to the Zulu tribe of Africa.

So if that is truly the case, then it is safe to suggest that Adam and Eve were not European but blacked skinned people of the Zulu tribe and given that they were so called "created" by God himself, then they would be the first Zulu's as well as the first "Humans" on this earth.

This brings into the topic another question ... we are (according to science) descendants of the Ape's so was Adam firstly an ape who God recreated to resemble a human or did God simply take the ape as his mould to create a human form?

DNA Facts

DNA Ancestry Leads To The Earliest Man
It's amazing to think that advances in science have led to DNA ancestry that can trace our heritage back thousands of years.
Genetics may be a relatively new scientific field, but it has made huge strides in its short life. Our DNA can tell the experts an astounding amount about who we are and where we come from and it’s the database that’s been drawn up after years of study and research that allows DNA ancestry testing to be so successful.

DNA Ancestry Around The World

Of course, in order to get an accurate picture of the way the world’s population has moved and changed over thousands of years, scientists need to capture DNA from people across the world, and then analyse all these samples to look for similarities and to trace how people have moved and even when they moved. The result of this research is that we are now much more confident about where man first originated and how he moved from one continent to another. Scientists involved in DNA ancestry know that:

•The first men lived in Africa
•People began leaving Africa around 60,000 years ago
•The first place man settled after leaving Africa was Australia
•Groups then settled in the Middle East, China and India
•Man moved further afield as land became available with the end of the Ice Age
•20,000 – 35,000 years ago, man moved into Europe and explored Siberia

The scientist responsible for much of this research, Spencer Wells, is the author of “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey” where he reveals how this migration occurred and what effect it has had on today’s populations. Other studies have looked at the role of conquerors on population – particularly those who slaughtered their opponents and then took wives and began new dynasties. Their descendants could run into the millions, simply because they fathered many children during their lifetimes.

Created on 26/10/2008 02:32 AM by Rod
Updated on 16/03/2010 12:30 AM by Rod

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