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The following story contains possible MODERATE SPOILERS for the final episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" in the second half of the fourth season. This story also contains RUMORS which have not been officially confirmed, and should be treated as rumor until confirmed by SciFi Channel.

Idle speculation, or is there something brewing here.

A lot of fans were puzzled by the fact that Chief Tyrol was made a Cylon -- a part of the Final Five -- despite the fact that he not only was married, but he had a kid.

"Battlestar Galactica" made a big deal about the hybrid child Hera and how she was the face of things to come. But the same amount of attention has been absent from Nicholas Tyrol, even after it was revealed he himself is a Cylon Hybrid.

So what does this mean? One source for the show says that the future story involving Nicholas and Hera will have its own Biblical proportions -- like Genesis.

"Think about what the two children represent," the source told Airlock Alpha. "Hera seemed like an impossible mission from God, a mission the Cylons focused a lot of time and energy on with the farms and trying to get Boomer and Helo together. What you're looking at here is the new human, the human that has a little bit of everything. They are like Adam and Eve."

The source wouldn't elaborate too much except to say there were a lot of clues in the names given the children. Hera was named for the wife of the god Zeus who watched Athena (a Lord of Kobol) commit suicide when the 13 tribes left Kobol, according to Battlestar Wiki. But other sources depict the actual Greek god of Hera as one who presided over marriage. The story of Hera is complex in Greek mythology, so if there are clues there, they are well hidden.

So are Nicholas and Hera Adam and Eve? And if so, what about the other Colonists ... won't they count?

Writers are trying to bring the two children in-line with history, even if it is Biblical history.

Some religions which have been able to merge the stories of evolution and creationism together have said that while Adam and Eve may not have represented the first two humans ever on the planet Earth, it's possible they represented the first two humans as people are today. Of course, their discussions is that they actually represent the first homo sapiens and not some of the other versions of human, but it's possible that Nicholas and Hera and their offspring could've been that "new" version of human that contained the biological components of the Colonials, the seven Cylon models, and the Final Five.

Genesis 4:1-26 tell the well-known story of Cain and Abel, and by Verse 16, Cain is banished to a land called Nod where he meets his wife. This, of course, suggests that while Adam and Eve were the first humans, it appears that other humans existed, and it's possible that the storyline could be tied in that way.

Of course, all of that would depend on whether the Colonials and Cylons stay on the planet they ended the mid-season on or if they would move on to somewhere else.

About that planet, the source says to keep an open mind and "don't make assumptions."

"Not everything is always as it seems," he said.

"Battlestar Galactica" will return with its final batch of episodes in early 2009 on SciFi Channel.

Please note that all of this has not been confirmed and should be treated as any rumor would.

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