IT IS SHOCKING TO LEARN HOW MUCH WE HAVE TAKEN FOR GRANTED

I've never thought about oxygen not always having been around.  Yet, oxygen-utilizing genes appeared during the tail end of the Archean Expansion 2.8 billion years ago, which is more consistent with the date geochemists assign to the Great Oxidation Event.  Now I've heard many 'events' during our formative years of our world, but the Great Oxidation Event is a new one on me.  While I was busy remembering the names of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, the world was busy in late stages of evolution and a history that long preceded the poor humans who either made up God or couldn't tune in properly to God's bandwidth.

As you read this, three billion year old  fossils are being deciphered. Click here for the story.  It does rather shatter the fairy tale of the snake, apple, Adam and Eve, and all the sins that women have been forced to suffer payment for supposedly having been committed by Eve.  Men were not, and many are still not, willing to admit they may be stronger physically but not superior since superiority should not be based on physical strength as we are currently learning in our wars.   Thus, the Bible, written by men, is as objective as the Roberts guided Supreme Court seems to be.

"Eric Alm, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Biological Engineering, and Lawrence David, who recently received his Ph.D. from MIT and is now a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, have named this period the Archean Expansion....Oxygen did not exist in the Earth's atmosphere until about 2.5 billion years ago when it began to accumulate, likely killing off vast numbers of anerobic life forms in the Great Oxidation Event" (from the Science Daily article 12/20/2010).

Two thousand year ago people were being duped by those who sought to convince them they knew better because they were getting messages from God.  Today Fox News seems to be singing the same tune and people are still falling for it.  In the movie TRON, it was a good thing to be 'Clueless'.  However, in human life on the planet right now, to be clueless is you need your wits about you!  Read a related story about how human diseases can be related to ancient genes.