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6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal
Mammals
Mammals (class Mammalia /məˈmeɪli.ə/) are a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from the reptiles and the birds by the possession of hair, three middle ear bones, mammary glands in females, and a neocortex (a region of the brain). The mammalian brain regulates body temperature and the circulatory system, including the four-chambered heart. The mammals include the largest animals on the planet, the rorquals and some other whales, as well as some of the most intelligent, such as elephants, some primates and some cetaceans.
Except for the five species of monotremes (egg-laying mammals), all modern mammals give birth to live young. Most mammals, including the six most species-rich orders, belong to the placental group. The three largest orders, in descending order, are Rodentia (mice, rats, porcupines, beavers, capybaras, and other gnawing mammals), Chiroptera (bats), and Soricomorpha (shrews, moles and solenodons). The next three largest orders, depending on the classification scheme used, are the primates, to which the human species belongs, the Cetartiodactyla (including the even-toed hoofed mammals and the whales), and the Carnivora (cats, dogs, weasels, bears, seals, and their relatives).[1]
While the classification of mammals at the family level has been relatively stable, different treatments at higher levels—subclass, infraclass, and order—appear in contemporaneous literature, especially for the marsupials. Much recent change has reflected the results of cladistic analysis and molecular genetics. Results from molecular genetics, for example, have led to the adoption of new groups such as the Afrotheria and the abandonment of traditional groups such as the Insectivora.
The early synapsid mammalian ancestors were sphenacodont pelycosaurs, a group that also included Dimetrodon. At the end of the Carboniferous period, this group diverged from the sauropsid line that led to today's reptiles and birds. Preceded by many diverse groups of non-mammalian synapsids (sometimes referred to as mammal-like reptiles), the first mammals appeared in the early Mesozoic era. The modern mammalian orders arose in the Paleogene and Neogene periods of the Cenozoic era, after the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Well this is complete bullshit for a start. As someone who was actually there, there was only one gender of Tuatara, and males are unnecessary. When my first egg was predated by another Tuatara, I was so angry that I swam the 26miles to an offshore island (Mayor Island- as Captain Cook named it). While none of this can be proven, except that Tuatara do exist on the island, and probably lived there for at least the last 66million years, and probably sam there in the first place because the island is an extinct volcano, it is probably at least partly true. I've written this complete story somewhere.
So this is what God revealed to me. My father offered up a prayer. He said God, if you are real, may I have my son again in another life time.
That introduces the work God, although Tuatara don't vocalise. Maybe they have a telepathy which would imply a medium such as God if they were smart enough to work that out. Then they have the words Sun and son. There is a link in my story. They had no fire, or electric light.
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That must have been before the extinction of the dinosaurs because after I got to the island, I did have a successful incubation, (in the sand) but I have never thought of myself as a female, and never needed to mate. Neither did my daughter, although I remember her well, (thank God) and she must have gone on to lay more eggs, even though there was no male on the island for her to mate with. Apparently now things are different in the Tuatara world, soo I must tell the zoo, and also tell them to stop exterminating the polynesian rat, because it is a fruit eating rat, and doesn't eat eggs when properly trained and inprinted.
It is a possibility that God started talking to (my father), so that he was aware of something. Maybe it was an inherited belief passed between generations of Tuatara. Anyway I was back on that island at the time of the great extinction event of the dinosaurs, even though I saw it from the other side, God's side, but more of that later also. It was just warm enough with our caves and out maritime environment to survive.
Again, how do I know any of this is true? Call it a work of fiction if you like, a work of imagination. I can't prove any of it, even that God exists.
I'll call my companion Eve, because that is the closest I can get to her, and it had nothing to do with original sin. At the end of 2005, just before Christmas I met her again, I'm relatively confident, although of course she isn't called Eve now, and Guardian Trust, my trust refused to let me have any of my money to let me go and visit her, so I'm fairly annoyed about that, but lets get on.