Introduction

"The Lord God"said, The man has become one of us, knowing good and evil; what if he now reaches out and takes fruit from the tree of life also, and eats it and lives forever?" Genesis 3:22-24.

What if man does reach out and take the fruit from the tree of life, will he live forever? If you take Genesis 3:22-24 literally it seems to mean just that, and to expound the significance of a possible double meaning of most interpretations. We have all been told it is a fable, meaning to reach out to God by picking that fruit of knowledge to find the ways of the Lord and we as Christians believe in this Holy Scripture. But could it mean more? That is the question and a part of what this story is all about.

We, believe that fruit from the tree of life may be the lemon. And that trees play a vital roll in human life. As you read this you may want to come and learn with us the blending of the old and the new, and the sharing of the ancient wonders of the tree of life, and of the lemon and lime. We will see how modern medical doctors and ancient medicine together can help us to be healthier and live longer, and how we can best benefit by taking the best from both worlds. We will predict the limitless future of science and technology and how it is, effecting us now and for the years beyond. In fact, many predictions of the future are often nothing more than the narrow viewpoint of the predictor. Predictions are very hard to make with any real accuracy in regards to not only the future, but, how the future will effect us and our way of life and life itself. Since before the agrarian society we as human beings knew very well about pain and suffering that was associated with horrible diseases and many of those diseases are still with us even after the profound transformation of the unleashing of the industrial revolution and still today in the 21st century we fear and suffer from Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other incurable known and unknown diseases. Not so very long ago people on earth lived to be only about thirty and even now our life expectancy is a mere 75 for males and 78 for females. The Bible says that at one time men lived for centuries and that they were vegetarians. Adam fathered a child at the age of 130 and lived a full life and died at the age of 930 years. Noah finished the building of the Ark at the age of 600 years . Much evidence suggests that Noah and his family practiced a vegetarian way of life. He walked with God. He and his family did not partake in the evil ways of the Nephelian Race mentioned in Genesis 6:3-4. This race was formed from the intercession of the fallen angels. Genesis 6:2 states that "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. This most likely was the period when the eating of animal flesh became a regular practice. After the flood waters receded and the Ark came to its resting point on Mount Ararat, Noah and his family had no choice but to eat the flesh of animals. Interestingly enough, the life span of human beings went from centuries to 120 years. Meat as a staple food came along some time later. With the advent of refrigeration the amount of meat consumed in industrialized societies increased dramatically as did many previously unknown diseases. By the end of the 20th century a period of intense scientific discoveries like unlocking the secrets of the atom and how to spit it creating the atom bomb, unraveling the molecules of life and building the computer. And remarkable advancements in medicine helped cure deadly and crippling diseases. The dynamic era of science marches on and as such we are on the brink of still another great revolution the hydrogen revolution, which will be, our next main source of energy. Everything from cars, trucks, buses, ships, airplanes, power generating plants and all industrial energy will come from efficient and water and steam producing hydrogen. Dirty fossil fuels will be a thing of the past. This revolution will change the entire economic structure of the world, as we now know it. As human knowledge doubles every ten years, computer power is doubling every eighteen months and the Internet is doubling every year. Perhaps the most important to human health and longevity is the doubling of DNA analyzing, and sequencing every two years. We have now mapped the human genome consisting of about 100,000 human genes that are hidden among 23 pairs of chromosomes in our cells. This was all accomplished years before researchers predicted they would and it was no doubt one of the most ambitious projects in medical history. Francis Collins who headed up that project for the U.S. National Center for Human Genome Research said, ì There is only one Human Genome Project. It will only happen once in human history, and this is that point in time. Without sounding corny, I do believe this is the most important scientific project mankind has ever mounted, this investigation into ourselves." The techniques of molecular biology will allow us to read the genetic code of life as we would read a book. Already, the complete DNA code of several living organisms, such as viruses, single-cell bacteria, and yeast, has been completely decoded, molecule-by-molecule. Already new advancements in DNA research are making possible a new type of computer, molecular computers, which perform calculations on the atoms themselves, which computes with organic molecules, as a tiny living chip, much smaller than anything today with much more information capability. In fact the size of microchips will be on the scale of a molecule and will end the so-called Age of Silicon. Remarkably, DNA computers have already been built which can solve problems in mathematics faster than supercomputers. Even some visionaries predict a optical computer which will compute on dancing beams of laser light. Already we have computers capable of 3 trillion calculations per second (3 terraFLOP per second, with 2.5 trillion bytes of memory). Its believed that the US governmentís computer secretly known as big Bertha may have been beefed up to calculate even more. In comparison it is understood that the human brain our in-house computer, that we all have, routinely calculates at 10 terraFLOP speeds per second or faster, which science believes will be surpassed any day now by supercomputers that the government may already process.

Robots will develop common sense and be able to converse with humans and will recognize and manipulate things in their environment as we do, only they'll be able to always learn from their mistakes. This will give them the ability to make independent decisions and perform other complicated duties such as shopping, housekeeping, cooking, provide secretarial services, and assist humans in many other untold ways.

Many advancements are expected in biotechnology, telecommunications and space travel. Without exception, every one of the technologies singled out to lead the twenty-first century are deeply rooted in the quantum, computer, and DNA revolutions. Quantum theory revolution discovered in 1925 in the twentieth-century by Werner Heisenbery, Erwin Schrodinger and others were able to reduce matter to some few postulates. So with this new knowledge they were able to mathematically predict properties of substances before they were created. These calculations is now the standard that predicts the properties of everything from microscopic subatomic quarks to the colossal supernovas in the known universe. That then makes it possible for the other two great scientific revolutions, the computer and the biomolecular revolutions.

Although the laws of computers are well known, only some of the basic laws of artificial intelligence and the human brain are known. At present, computers are our only way to determine if the buildup of carbon dioxide will starve us of oxygen in the atmosphere and will cause us to be bomb barded by the suns radiation. Which can endanger and change human life as we know it. At the very least the computers should tell us if our weather is being disrupted by the greenhouse effect, and if it is as many suspect it is, the economy of the entire planet will be adversely affected.

The quantum theory, too, will have a powerful influence in the next century in the area of badly needed energy production. And will create machines the size of molecules, these machines will become known as nanotechnology micromachines. Nanotechnology promises the very smallest of molecular machines because of the enormous advances in manipulating those atomic-size micromachines, they will be able to scavenge molecules from within our system by patrolling in our bloodstream and removing plaque from our arteries, and will be able to destroy infectious microbes of all kinds. They will be able to kill tumor cells, repair damaged cells and reverse the aging process altogether. They will be able to resolve engineering problems by cleaning up the environment by devouring hazardous wastes, eliminating world hunger by growing wondrously inexpensive but plentiful nutritious well balanced foods. Nanotechnology will enable us to build supercomputers the size of atoms, and build other types of machines, from booster rockets to microchips. These tiny machines will be able to multiply into trillions of molecular robots which will converge on site and destroy viruses and bacteria at will and will be able to solve other biological problems and reshape life as we know it. With the advent of new ways to power rockets through ionic engines we will see the beginnings of rockets that will reach nearby stars, and we will start developing colonies in deep space, and interplanetary travel will become commonplace.

All of this will have profound effects on biology and medicine. Most if not all genetic diseases like cancer will be eliminated. Chemotherapy, invasive surgery, and painful testing will all be things of the past. In fact life itself may well become perpetual by conquering death altogether.

What is helping to drive this quantum leap in biomolecular research is our remarkable ability to decode the secrets of life, using computers and robots to automate the sequencing of DNA. That means someday all organisms will have their complete DNA code unraveled. By then we will be reading the Encyclopedia of all life. It well soon be possible for anyone on earth to have their personal DNA code stored on a CD. Imagine going to your doctor for a routine checkup, he draws some blood without punching the skin, then places it into a computer, which instantly gives a personalized DNA read out including any of the then known genetic diseases. They well even be able to predict the mathematical chances of your getting a disease. Then preventive measures will be taken years before any symptoms appear. Gene and cloning therapy will then cure what ever ails you. Medicine is basically going to change from a treatment-based to a prevention-based discipline.

This shift to polygenic diseases will be the key for overcoming chronic diseases such as heart disease, strokes, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's, aids and other autoimmune diseases, as well as mental diseases like schizophrenia.

But the bottom line is we know that Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh, Scotland has already cloned Dolly the sheep. Monkeys, mice, pigs, cats and many other animals have also been cloned. That animal cloning will lead to human cloning, if it hasn't already and that alone will give control over the aging process and will extend our life time into the future where human cloning and cloning therapy will be commonplace. Some believe that human cloning has already taken place some where in the world. And that only high net worth individuals and highly placed government officials are privy to this secret science.

Cloning raises serious moral and ethical questions which we will leave to the clergy, politicians and humanity in general.

We will someday soon be able to grow entire organs in the laboratory such as hearts, livers, lungs, and kidneys for cloning therapies as replacement parts for our diseased or warn out vital organs. And through molecular DNA restructuring we will be able to grow new organs within our own bodies. But until than we must do all we can to stay healthy and try to stick around so we ourselves may one day be able to take full advantage of these wonderful new advancements in our lifetime. Of course if we fell, and if the world is allowed to go on long enough science someday in the distant future may be able to bring us all back from the dead. But I think Christ well most likely do that long before man develops that knowledge.

"I give YOU all the seed-bearing plants that are upon the earth, and all the trees with seed bearing fruit; this shall be your food" Genesis 1:29

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