Has anyone read these two books from Greg Bear? I finished the
sequel Darwin's Children three weeks ago and while reading through
both of them I had to wonder what Creationists who don't accept the
fact of evolution would think if any ever read either.
The books aren't about evolution, exactly. They're about the slow
accumulation of viral segments within living thing's DNA and RNA,
and the slow accumulator of genetic and non-genetic instructions
that are not expressed going back through human evolution across some
four billion years.
The story line for both books is that over population and other
causes of stress among humans world wide suddenly trigger a series
of waves of children born with ancient, usually turned off genes
getting expressed, causing not mutations but humans that have had
ancient traits re-expressed. In the second book we find that the
alleles breed true. And the new traits are centered around better
communication among the "New Children," as they're called.
The old humans, of course, fear the new and the children -- some
hundred million of them world wide -- are rounded up and put into
concentration camps and a fascist element much like the current
"USA PATRIOT ACT" and "Homeland Security" fascism takes place. A
real problem arises -- rather than an imagined threat -- when
adults who have received transplanted organs from pigs start to
shed thousands of fatal viral threads and it's believed that the
new children are the cause.
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