Have you ever heard the expression, “Six degrees of separation?” It is the
societal theory that all of us are just six steps, six generations removed from being related to
everyone else. Six generations in the
Smithson family, takes us back to the
very early 1700’s, well before the
Revoluti0nary War, back to colonial days.
Whether this thesis of relational/societal dynamics is true
or not, it is safe to say that it does
bear out some truth.
Case in point: Kevin
Beacon and Kyra Sedgwick (star of The Closer) have been married for 23
years. They have two children, both
young collegiates, and, now, the family learns that they are all related. DNA analysis bears out the fact that the two stars are, in fact, distant cousins.
Personally, I believe
in the Adam and Eve story of the Bible, but with this
caveat: the two were the first persons created
in Jewish lineage. I believe a careful
reading of Genesis, chapters one, two and three,
makes it clear that there were many others created at or near the same period of time. Turns out, according the Gospel of John (Smithson), that the Bible is the story of Jesus as
traced back to the very beginning and his first physical ancestors, Adam and
Eve. Others reading this, believe in some version of the “big bang.” In the end,
we all believe that humanity has its origins in a very small population of individuals.
This story simply adds to the belief that we are all family members at some level.
Note: understand that while the unbeliever is laughing her
buns off at my claim, she is forced to
believe that her ancestors include the lung fish and the theory that matter (in
some form) and particulate motion are eternal.
I have my illogical explanation,
she has hers.
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