Does the past and future lead to the same outcome?

The Quora website estimates there are at least 7 million full-time, working scientists around the world today. Some of these scientists look into the past through archeology, the study of human activity in the past. Or through anthropology, the study of human biology and language in the past. There is also paleontology which is the study of the past through fossils. By looking back we can see where we came from and hopefully learn from that to improve where we are going.

The Bible has some forms of archeology and anthropology contained in its early pages. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, chapter 6 verse 4 says “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.” Here we see human activity in the form of relationships between women and the ‘sons of God’. We see some biology, some physical interaction between these women and the ‘sons of God’.

The book of Enoch, which is not part of the Bible, also talks to this subject. It supports or adds to what the Bible says about these ‘sons of God’ as being spiritual beings who have taken on physical form.

Immediately after this historical event we read that God decided to destroy the earth with a global flood due to the wickedness of this union of women and the ‘sons of God’ and the wickedness of mankind overall. Only 1 family, Noah’s family was saved.

Other scientists work in the fields of biology and genetics. Both of these look at living systems and how they work. Do you remember the sheep named Dolly? She was the first mammal cloned from a single cell. This was in 1996. Genetic engineering has come a long way since then. We alter chickens to grow more white meat, dairy cattle to produce more milk, wheat to resist drought and disease and many more things. Scientists continue to look for ways to enhance growth and hardiness in animals and plants.

Adam was genetically engineered in the year 2000. His genetic information modified, so that he could donate blood to his sister who had a blood disease, and save her life. The term ‘designer babies’ is growing in popularity. It allows parents to alter the genes of their yet to be conceived baby so that the child will have specific traits like blond hair, larger muscles, higher intelligence, and more. It all sounds good. There are many shows on TV today that are based on individuals with special abilities such as flying, super sensitive hearing and vision, super strength and healing abilities. These shows are not pure science fiction; they are becoming reality.

We see it in mythology in the form of the India god Ganesh who has an elephant head on a human body. Or Horus, the Egyptian god with a bird head on a human body. How about the Minotaur from Greek mythology which has a head and tail of a bull and a human body. These sounds like fantasy and they probably were, but they may not be too far from reality in the near future. It makes sense when you consider some scientists says human’s and apes share 98.5% of their DNA. More recent studies say 95%. Sounds like we are almost the same, except for the fact that the 5% difference means there are 150,000,000 actual differences. And that is based on what we know today. Every day scientists are finding more differences.

What happened back in biblical history when the non-human and human mixture happened? That mixture, those Nephilim and their offspring, were destroyed along with the rest of the world. One must wonder what will happen in the future when this mixture or a similar mixture again happens? There is a saying … “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” I wonder if the destruction part of history is also to be repeated.