Garden of Eden shaped like a cell

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I think the garden of Eden was shaped like a primitive cell. The two trees in the center were grapevines representing either the two strands of DNA of 1 chromosome or two sister chromosomes. Image below only shows 1 chromosome in the exact center. The story alludes to how the evolution of sexual reproduction led to death (the flood). Before sexual reproduction all living things lived forever.

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From the inside out:

  • Green region (Nuclear region. cf #Proto-NPC below):

    • 1 perfectly straight vertical 33-nm fibre chromosome (purple) in the exact center. (This is the original self-reproducing tree from which all the others are derived. The “head” tree. This stage in its lifecycle actively swam and collected PM’s when they first hit the surface of the water.)

      • Later the chromosome would evolve to a spring-like spiral shape.

    • 8 spliceosomes surrounding the chromosome.

      • The spliceosome cuts out introns and turns them into loops (lariats) which resist degradation.

    • Encircling black line is a lipid membrane

      • In the RNA-world introns may have been ribozymes.

    • Most of what remains of the RNA world resides today in the nucleus

  • White region (Endoplasm):

    • 8 ribosomes creating unfolded proteins (straight red lines) which are reminiscent of radial centrosomal structures.

    • 8 T-complex protein Ring Complexes formed by two rings (containing 8 similar but non-identical subunits) stacked forming a barrel-like structure that encloses the unfolded protein and folds it so that its hydrophobic parts face outward.

    • Encircling black line is a lipid membrane

    • At the top of the multi-tree the white and green regions are empty and function as a stomach (see acrosome).

      • This is where the mRNA exits the polyribosome when it is no longer needed.

  • Orange region (Archaeal cell wall region, see S-layer):

    • 8 proto-microtubule triplets (blue)

      • These microtubule triplets will evolve into the centriole

    • The orange region is 365 nm in diameter. Centrioles are 250 nm in diameter.

  • Yellow region (Ectoplasm):

    • Trees lying on their sides (This stage crawled on their bellies like serpents and collected PM’s (“dust”) already lying on the seafloor):

      • 2 vesicles each carried by a myosin dimer “biped” (which is red),

      • 2 micronucleus chromosome pairs (gonads).

        • 1 chromosome divides forming a pair but only 1 of the 2 chromosomes is actually released. The remaining 1 then divides again

        • Without an outer cell wall the multi-tree would be vulnerable to brood parasitism. But with an outer cell wall animal (i.e. plastids) husbandry becomes possible.

      • 2 proto-Golgi bodies (kidneys)

      • 2 proto-mitochondria,

    • Vertical trees:

  • Cyan region (Eukaryotic cell wall region):

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Greetings! That’s pretty interesting, and detailed. I”m not sure what the impression would be from God’s point of view, or a reason for that? It’s fascinating as an idea, and a good lesson on the way the cell is.

Coming from more of an Eastern point of view, it also reminds me of a traditional compound, where the family and subunits live.

Thanks.

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it seemed like a good idea at the time (and indeed it was) but ultimately it led to death. Death and overcoming death is the central theme of the Bible.

what is the point? Well I guess the point is be careful what you wish for.

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I don’t see how God could intentionally have made it into a cell for a message to us, or for function; bit it’s a nice idea. It could equally have been a uterus. It sounds like a bit of eisegesis. However, it’s a nice puzzle!

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I think the main message was to people living in the garden. Unfortunately all that’s gone now. All thats left is scraps and ruins

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Grapevines reproduce sexually. The seeds in the grapes themselves are the product of sexual reproduction, and the whole point of the fruits is to have animals eat the fruit and spread the seeds. It would seem odd for trees to have fruits but not sexually reproduce since the whole point of fruits is to spread seeds from sexual reproduction. That’s the whole point of flowers. Even the single celled yeast that live on the grapes (e.g. brewer’s yeast) can reproduce sexually.

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Everyone knows how the clouds in the sky occasionally have the shape of various animals. So do those animals jump out of the sky to populate the earth?

…or are these animals in the clouds really only in our own minds with overactive pattern recognition? But that just means the animals are jumping out of our own minds to fill the earth.

LOL

… is this a version of “cogito ergo sum.” I see a pattern, therefore it is real?

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That’s a misconception of Descartes’ statement. His point was that if I see a pattern, there must be an I which is doing the seeing.

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I am aware of that.

I was suggesting a different version with a different conclusion – as a joke.

More seriously, I would suggest a different conclusion for both versions.

I think therefore there is thinking.

or…

I see a pattern, therefore there is pattern perception.

IOW I would suggest thinking this means the existence of some supposed “I” whatever that may even mean, is a both naïve and somewhat lacking in meaning. At the very least there should be a considerable discussion about what you think this “I” represents and why any of what you attribute to it is implied by the original statement.

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