Notes from Dr. Gabriel Morrison's Private Journals

“Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.  It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.”

 “No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.”

 “Whence did the principle of life proceed?  A bold question which has ever been considered a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries?  Ah, Modern Prometheus.“

 A  scribble in the margin, “I have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.  My pursuit?  To provide the ultimate proof.  To rebuild Jesus, the Son of God.“

August, 1988:  “I have begun to collect data regarding the DNA!”

October, 1999:  “Perhaps the man of the cloth had not been Jesus.  Why, it could just have easily been one of the thieves, say, who had been crucified similarly.  Perhaps it was, after all, the blood of Christ, but that Christ was not imbued with any wondrous powers beyond that of a regular man.  Or perhaps it was, in fact, Jesus and perhaps he had had God given powers, but that part of his makeup, the God gene, was not recorded in his DNA like mortals.  Or perhaps it was Jesus, and he had had God given powers and they were recorded in his DNA, the DNA I have spent the better part of my life searching.   But maybe that great blessing, my own DNA, my own, weak, sorry DNA, which I used for a base, has tainted the experiment; has caused, in the end, what all empirical knowledge had so far revealed: