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scientists say when the odds of something are occurring are one in 10 to the 400th power

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that is considered impossible so we if we go down to 711 and get a lottery ticket and they say one

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one in 10 to the 400 you might as well forget it the odds of our genome forming the way it has

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formed and i want to talk about how it formed but the odds of that happening are one in 10 to the

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600th so if one in 10 to the 400th is impossible one in 10 to the 600th means it's more than

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impossible that we are the product of random processes lucky biology that there is and as a

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scientist i have to say the evidence supports not just suggests it supports there's an intentionality

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underlying our existence that intentionality may be the link to the beings from other worlds

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higher a higher intelligence what and in our ancient texts there are different ways of looking

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at that are we talking about gods are we talking about angels are we talking about nephilim are we

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talking you know the wherever we that's a whole conversation the point higher intelligence

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intervened and we know this now i want to be really clear are you okay if we have this conversation this

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part do we have time yeah we get one of the time yeah so as a geologist i believe in evolution

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so i'm not anti-evolution i've seen it in the fossil record when i did my field work i saw it for

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plants insects animals darwin's theory of evolution breaks down when it comes to humans we showed up

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mysteriously 200 000 years ago and we don't know where we came from what we do know now that we have

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that we can do what's called forensic dna and this is only you know within the last few years we can we

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look at our genome and look backwards reverse engineer what had to happen to give us our our

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humanness for me the smoking gun there are a couple but i think the one that is the most outstanding and

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probably the most controversial is human chromosome number two and i write about this in the new book

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what we know so human chromosome two it's the second largest chromosome in our nucleus it's a big long

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chromosome um it has about 1200 genes and i won't go through all of them but but a cup i mean even one

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gene tbr number one tbr one is responsible for our uh the neocortex in the human brain i mean that is where

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our our humanness comes from empathy sympathy compassion um it is where our logic capabilities

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where the mirror neurons are that we use for learning they're all contained in that in the

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neocortex uh it is where i mean there's so much happening in um in the neocortex and that's just from

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tbr one so it's an important chroma we wouldn't be here if we didn't have it and so scientists say well

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where did it come from well now the proceedings from national academy of science this is a volume

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called genetics they they know the answer and they don't like the answer because it they say

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and this is important when a scientist makes a discovery they want credit for and they're proud

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of they will say look at what i discovered when they make a discovery that they may lose their tenure

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for or that little little you know controversy around it they'll say look at what we discovered

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all right so proceedings national academy of sciences the summary actually says we conclude

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the origin of human chromosome 2 is from the fusion of the telomere to telomere fusion of two ancient

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chromosomes all right telomeres i know our viewers know telomeres are on the ends of the chromosome

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to protect them when the cell divides it's a trauma for the cell and if you could imagine the

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chromosomes are pulled apart and there's a part of the chromosome every chromosome that is not going

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to make it in that pulling apart and that means there's a potential to lose important dna so the

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way nature the way we're engineered takes care of that is we have on the ends of the the chromosomes

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the telomeres that are repeating sequences that take the hit from pulling apart okay so if something is

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not going to make it it's not the important dna it's it's the stuff in the telomeres all right so

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they're only on the ends of the chromosome and that's the point chromosome number two and i've

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got pictures of it and steve can probably find a photograph chromosome number two is as big as it

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is because two chromosomes were fused telomere to telomere now you've got telomeres on this end on this

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end and right in the middle where they shouldn't be there should be no telomeres in the middle of the

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chromosome but not only that looks like my that's my slide which one that would does it say my name

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is it you know oh you won't oh no that's my slide right there on the left hand it's on the top left

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yeah huh from a recent program that i did where's that come from uh john hawks who's john hawks i don't

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know but he put my i that's my white circle that i put up there showing oh wow punch in on that and i

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enlarged it i enlarged it see that so what you're seeing okay so first of all these are chromosomes

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under a microscope and they've been dyed so we can see the chromosomes green the red or pink however

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it comes out on there i don't have my glasses on so that's red okay those are the telomeres and you

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can see on all the other ones telomeres are on the ends right there uh and then it's the inside the white

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circle is the same one that's been enlarged right i did that that's my slide oh wow that somebody's

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using in their their paper uh showing look at where you can see right in the middle the two red places

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are right in the middle but you can actually see the pinch point it looks unnatural because it's a

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little skinny place but here's the thing not only were were the pre-existing chromosomes fused telomere to

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telomere but after the fusion genes were taken away and genes were added and genes were silenced to stabilize

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the fusion and it didn't happen slowly gradually over a long period of time as evolution would suggest

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this happened quickly to 200 000 years ago it's when we showed up to it the chromosomes were fused when

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we showed up and what is the significance of those chromosomes being of that chromosome 2 being fused

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the significance is it gives us our humanness if we didn't have chromosome 2 you wouldn't have the

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neocortex you wouldn't have sympathy empathy compassion you wouldn't have the ability to

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self-regulate your own biology and if that was the only one you could say maybe it's weird but maybe

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it's a fluke but it wasn't the only one chromosome number seven so as a musician i'm a musician when i'm

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not doing this and i've always chimpanzees they share 98 of our dna i mean that's a mind-blower 98

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percent and so i've always wondered why can't the chimpanzee sing you know you're never you're

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never going to hear chimpanzee sing in led zeppelin stairway to heaven or if you ever do shoot me a text

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because i want to see that and the question is why and the answer is because chromosome 7

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was stable in all primates for about 175 million years stable all right all of a sudden two little

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genes there was this this little switch of these two genes that connected our tongue and our jaw

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and the part of our brain that allows us complex speech and the ability to sing

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and guess just take a wild just take a wild guess when do you think that happened

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no idea 200 000 years ago 200 000 years exactly the same time chromosome 2 was being fused exactly

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the time that we appeared on earth what are the odds of chromosome 2 being fused and chromosome 7

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happening all at the same time and the the odds are astronomically small because the odds of our

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genome forming the way it formed is one in 10 to the 600th what is the conventional explanation for

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this darwin's theory of evolution suggests that we are the product of a long slow gradual process

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over a long period of time through what is called random mutations uh colloquially we call it lucky

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biology okay it's it's kind of like you've referred to goldilocks conditions on earth

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it's the equivalent of goldilocks what are the chances that just the right genes just the right

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chromosomes came together in just the right time you know to give us our our humanness

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so you see these kinds of mutations and scientists say i mean this isn't my opinion this is in those

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technical bits it's in the there's a paper from uh proceedings national academy of sciences the volume is

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called genetics it says this cannot happen under natural circumstances something happened 200 000

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years ago to give us our humanness and we appeared and now here's the mind blower 200 000 years later now

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we can pull the dna out of the fossilized remains of ancient forms of life used to be science fiction

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jurassic park was based on the science fiction that they pulled the dna out of dinosaur bones and

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then they brought the dinosaurs to life they reconstitute them to the best of my knowledge

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we have not reconstituted any forms of life but you know in the basement of the pentagon

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somebody my chair speaks somebody somebody up there's doing it but but what we can do this is

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what we can do we can pull that dna and build a genome a printout of that genome and so now

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we can compare our genome today to the genome of the forms of life that darwin's theory of

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evolution says we descended from and the dna says we didn't descend from them we did not descend from

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australia pythicus we didn't lucy we didn't descend from neanderthal now if you do a dna test for your

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ancestry a lot of people will say well i've got neanderthal dna and more in northern europe you see

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that a lot in the uk and this is it even proves the point because we shared the earth with neanderthal

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neanderthal we actually interbred they say we probably had boyfriends and girlfriends neanderthal

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boyfriends and girlfriends we shared the earth with them we could not have descended from them

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so the point is we don't know where we came from the so you're saying because we interbred with them

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that's why it shows up theory of evolution says that we are the process of this long or the product

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of this long slow gradual process a lot of people don't know there was um there was a corollary to

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darwin's theory um put forth by another scientist at the time that the says that the corollary says

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nature never over endows so the problem is we are all over endowed and people love to hear that

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what it means is that an organism will only develop the characteristics it needs when nature puts the

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demand on the organism for it so for example uh adaptation the studies of moths in london during

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the industrial age uh the coal fire plants the moths had white feathers they'd be against white buildings

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and that would camouflage them from the birds and the birds couldn't get them once the coal

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fire plant started all the buildings were covered with soot and they turned black and the white moss

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stood out like a sore thumb and the birds were picking them off right and left and they quickly

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adapted to turn the color of their wings black so that they would blend in with the soot that's an

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example of of nature giving a capability because the demand is there for survival right the problem is

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that we showed up 200 000 years ago with a genome that is light years beyond what we needed for

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simple survival 200 000 years ago with capabilities that were owned some of them were only beginning to

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understand extended neural networks that allow us to create heart brain coherence for example that

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opened the door to so many so many human potentials the ability to self-regulate

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our own we're the only form of life that can at will on demand when we choose sit down in a moment

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in time and say in this moment i choose to strengthen my immune system i choose to create resilience to

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the changes of my life i choose to create stronger heart rate variability i choose to create super

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super memory super cognition uh i choose there over 1300 positive biological changes that we consciously

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have the ability no other form of life can do that and it's because what happened 200 000 years ago

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so as a scientist i have to be careful the evidence strongly suggests intervention of some kind doesn't say

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who or what but this did not happen naturally now my own personal feelings when i read the ancient texts

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and i visit all these ancient cultures it's so interesting not one of them not one of the ancient

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traditions i've ever been with the andes and southern peru and the the shamans in the yucatan and

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nepal and india and the monks and nuns in tibet i mean bedwin in africa none of them

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say that we're the product of a long slow gradual process of random mutations every single one

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bar none says that we're the product of an intentional act and that we are part of a greater

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community whatever we want to call that so now some people say now you're talking about aliens and

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other people say well you're talking about angels and demons and other people say well you're talking

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about uh time travelers and advanced civilization we have different ways of describing but the science

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is telling us we're not the product of random just lucky biology yeah