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Researchers say todays Lord Almighty shares many traits in common with the chimp deity, including color vision and omniscience.
BERKELEY, CAChallenging long-held views on the origins of divinity, biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, presented findings Thursday that confirm God, the Almighty Creator of the Universe, evolved from an ancient chimpanzee deity.
The recently discovered sacred ancestor, a divine chimp species scientists have named Pan sanctorum, reportedly gave rise over millions of years to the Lord Our God, Maker of Heaven and Earth.
Although perhaps not obvious at first glance, there are actually overwhelming similarities between the Supreme Being of today and this early primate deity who preceded Him, said Dr. Richard Kamen, a leading biologist who also heads Berkeleys paleotheology department. The holy chimp moved around on all fours, but its descendants eventually began walking upright to expend less energy while foraging across the infinite reaches of the universe. This of course led to the bipedalism of modern-day God.
In fact, you can see a distinct likeness to God in the chimpanzee deitys skeletal structures, not to mention its prototypical expressions of vengeance and wrath, Kamen continued. The great-ape god was, however, considerably smaller in stature, having not yet developed the capacity to occupy all space and time simultaneously.
According to experts, divine life began as a single-celled all-powerful organism roughly 3.6 billion years ago, eventually evolving into a multicelled, sponge-like deity that bobbed and floated across the chaos of the early universe. Kamen explained that over hundreds of millions of years, the godlike life form became more complex, with limbs that allowed for locomotion across the endless expanse of the heavens, and sophisticated photoreceptor cells capable of seeing all things.
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)The chimp god and the homo sapiens god share a common ancestor god.
GeorgeGist
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(6,604 posts)"Paleotheology."
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While complex speech would not emerge until the evolution of the Cro-Magnon god from Pan Sanctorum, the chimpanzee deity was capable of using grunts and hand gestures to convey basic emotions such as happiness, anger, or the forgiveness of sin, Kamen said. However, it appears that the chimp deity often exhibited extremely aggressive behavior, in some cases unleashing its divine wrath with little if any provocation toward the mortal chimps it created in its own image.
He added, It is our understanding that these creatures lived in a kind of jungle-like forerunner to the Garden of Eden, until a day came when their enraged creator cast them out, flinging feces at them as they fled.
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