A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God
There’s an emerging theory in human genome research postulating the existence of a memory retainer in the lower strands of our DNA. The tenant of this theory asserts that the entire history of someone’s ancestry is retained in strands going all the way back to the start of humanity. Some scientists go so far as to refer to this as a quantifiable form of immortality. The way the postulate supposedly works is your parents’ memories are stored in your DNA and your memories are stored in your children’s DNA. What I call the recursion paradox, would thereby assert that your children store not only your memories but also the memories of your parents since they are a part of your DNA. And so recursively it goes all the way back to the beginning.
The obvious limitation in the immortality aspect of this science is that your children only obtain your memories up to the moment of their conception, which means your youngest child contains more of you than your oldest, since you accumulated more history between when you’re oldest and youngest children are conceived. The problem is most adults live more than half their lives after their children are conceived. That means if the postulate’s valid, less than half of your history and half of your ancestor’s history is immortalized in DNA. What’s even more troublesome with the memory retainer postulate, is the part of your life passed through your DNA is probably not the overly interesting portion and may have little to do with who you eventually turn out to be. It also omits passing along any late-stage wisdom or knowledge you may have acquired unless you shared this wisdom and knowledge with your adult children, then it becomes part of their DNA but how much of that get passed along depends on when your children have children. By extension, sharing your wisdom and knowledge with your grandchildren ensures more of you is retained within the immortality DNA.
But what if there’s a lag effect? While your early life may not have been interesting, you witnessed your parent’s middle life, and your children witnessed your parent’s end era. That means it is possible to capture a person’s entire life in DNA even if some of the historians are children. The problem is that the potential for capture from the lag effect falls apart in modern society because the nuclear family has fallen apart. Children grow up and move away to start their independent lives and grandchildren rarely get to witness their grandparents’ last era.
On purely scientific terms, the premise of a DNA memory retainer postulate as well as the recursion paradox’s assertion of immortality seem plausible. However, an added caveat could affect, “what” and “how” memories are retained. Suppose, for example, good memories are not as powerful as painful or bad memories. This makes the dominate memories a person retains in their DNA, most likely the bad ones. What if these bad but dominate memories accumulate with each generation until eventually a cascading collision occurs. This is an expression I coined about two miles back along the frontage road to Santa Fe near Camel Rock on the Tesuque Pueblo as I ride my bike toward Opera Hill.
The principle of cascading collision is that bad things beget bad things in a cascading manner; each layer strengthened by the preceding. You see it all the time in people living out their lives; one bad thing happens that leads to another bad thing happening, which leads to another until a person’s life is spiraling out of control. Even when events seem unrelated, the cascading collision takes on a life of its own and the cycle of bad grows over time. It seems reasonable these same phenomena would occur in the memory retainer strands of our DNA. A first principles conclusion of the cascading collision corollary is that the bad things in your life are in part due to the bad things in your parent’s lives, which in turn were due to the bad things in their parent’s lives. And so-on cascading all the way back to when Eve convinced Adam to eat the apple. Unless that is, you believe Jesus was sent to break the chain. Then, the scientific outcome is either the memory retainer predating Jesus was erased from our DNA, or the gift Jesus gave us, was a way we can reset our personal memory strands, allowing us to delete bad memories and replace them with good ones. At least that’s the logic I’m working through as I turn my bike toward home after summiting Opera Hill, thereby swapping sunrise over the Sangre’s from my left to right shoulder.
If the “Jesus Overlay” is possible, and our immortality exists through the DNA Memory Retainer via the Recursion Paradox as scientist postulate, then perhaps the memories that are passed on to our children at the moment of conception can be over written by better memories we provide them as they grow? By extension, it would mean that the history captured in our children’s DNA is not limited to what we passed on during conception but is continually updated during the remainder of our life with them. By further extension, the Jesus overlay provides a path for having our history imprinted into the DNA of people we positively impact during our life while at the same time working to delete at least some of the bad memories retained in their DNA. In other words, the more good we do, the more immortalized we become in humanity’s gene pool of retained memories. If this hyberized blending of science with religion holds, eventually the best most deserving people exist in every human’s DNA. This canonical phenomenon, could be referred to as the “Jesus Legacy.”
“Might as well call that heaven,” I surmise as I turn my bike up the driveway. “Wow,” I say to myself with strained breath following my long bike ride as the implications of this plausible framework sink in “Science may have just proved the existence of God.”
Something to consider…
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