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"Origins of Human Races"
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"Evolution of the Races - Does Race Exist?"
Uploaded to YouTube by: 2012freedom Date of Upload: February 27, 2009 Description: History is repeating itself again. There was once a super race of aliens
known to the ancient people of the Earth as the Anunnaki. For many reasons, the
Anunnaki have been reduced in power today. This race of beings thrives on
conquest and enslavement of those who are under them. There are those who believe that the Anunnaki of Nibiru are coming back to
Earth soon. They believe that Planet X is going to pass by Earth. Planet Nibiru (Ne.Bi.Ru) is known by many names, such as: Planet X, The Twelfth
Planet, Marduk, Paradise, "Heaven" and the "Kingdom of the Heavens" and etc. in
various cultures.
Nibirians, the people of Nibiru, are often referred to as Anunnaki, Nephilim,
Elohim (plural for god), and Mardukians. I shall refer to them as Anunnaki as
this is what the general population was known as by the Sumerians and by those
at the present time. The word "Anunnaki" literally means "those who came from
heaven to earth". In the Old Testament these "heavenly" visitors are called
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"Does Race Exist [?]"
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"Cro Magnon and White Race Evolution"
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The first modern White racial type only emerged between approximately 40,000 BC
and 15,000 BC in differing parts of Europe and the Near East. This time period
is known as the Late Paleolithic period, also known generically as the Stone
Age. This first racial type is known as Cro-Magnon man - after a site in the
Dordogne region of France where the first skeletal remains were found. Cro-Magnon man is the first biped life form with whom modern Whites can clearly
claim a direct genetic affinity. White racial history therefore begins around
the year 35,000 BC - and so it is with the Late Paleolithic period that the
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(Wikipedia)Race and ethnicity
Humans often categorize themselves in terms of race or ethnicity, sometimes on
the basis of differences in appearance.
Human racial categories have been based on both ancestry and visible traits,
especially skin color, hair texture and facial features.
Most current genetic and archaeological evidence supports a recent single
origin of modern humans in East Africa. Current genetic studies have
demonstrated that humans on the African continent are most genetically diverse.
However, compared to many other animals, human gene sequences are remarkably
homogeneous.
The predominance of genetic variation occurs within racial groups, with only 5
to 15% of total variation occurring between groups.
Ethnic groups, on the other hand, are more often linked by linguistic,
cultural, ancestral, and national or regional ties. Self-identification with an
ethnic group is based on kinship and descent.
Race and ethnicity can lead to variant treatment and impact social identity,
giving rise to racism and the theory of identity politics.
There is no scientific consensus of a list of the human races, and some
anthropologists even question the notion of human "race". For example, a
color terminology for race includes the following in a classification of human
races: Black (e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa), Red (e.g. Native Americans), Yellow
(e.g. East Asians) and White (e.g. Europeans).
In June 2009 the United Nations changed their charter which was reflected in
their Durban Review Conference global summit on combating racism, which now
states:
"6. Reaffirms that all peoples and individuals constitute one human family,
rich in diversity, and that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity
and rights; and strongly rejects any doctrine of racial superiority along with
theories which attempt to determine the existence of so-called distinct human
races."
Thus the United Nations will no longer use the word "race" as a cultural
determinant; instead, we will all be considered a part of one race: humans.
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| | | | Origins-Human Races The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced From the Theory of
"Natural Selection" Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Wallace delivered this famous paper to a
meeting of the Anthropological Society of London on 1 March, 1864. It was
printed in Volume 2 of the Society's Journal later the same year. Original
pagination indicated within double brackets. ...
[[p. clviii]] Among the most advanced students of man, there exists a wide
difference of opinion on some of the most vital questions respecting his nature
and origin. Anthropologists are now, indeed, pretty well agreed that man is not
a recent introduction into the earth. All who have studied the question now
admit that his antiquity is very great; and that, though we have to some extent
ascertained the minimum of time during which he must have existed, we have made
no approximation towards determining that far greater period during which he
may have, and probably has, existed. We can with tolerable certainty affirm
that man must have inhabited the earth a thousand centuries ago, but we cannot
assert that he positively did not exist, or that there is any good evidence
against his having existed, for a period of a hundred thousand centuries. We
know positively that he was contemporaneous with many now extinct animals, and
has survived changes of the earth's surface fifty or a hundred times greater
than any that have occurred during the historical period; but we cannot place
any definite limit to the number of species he may have outlived, or to the
amount of terrestrial change he may have witnessed.
But while on this question of man's antiquity there is a very general
agreement,--and all are waiting eagerly for fresh evidence to clear up those
points which all admit to be full of doubt,--on other and not less obscure and
difficult questions a considerable amount of dogmatism is exhibited; doctrines
are put forward as established truth, no doubt or hesitation is admitted, and
it seems to be supposed that no further evidence is required, or that any new
facts can modify our convictions. This is especially the case when we inquire,
Are the various forms under which man now exists primitive, or derived from
preexisting forms; in other words, is man of one or many species? To this
question we immediately obtain distinct answers diametrically opposed to each
other: the one party positively maintaining that man is a species and is
essentially one--that all differences are but local and temporary variations,
produced by the different physical and moral conditions by which he is
surrounded; the other party maintaining with equal confidence that man is a
genus of many species, each of which is practically unchangeable, and has ever
been as distinct, or even more distinct, than we now behold them. This
difference of opinion is somewhat remarkable, when we consider that both
parties are well acquainted with the subject; both use the same vast
accumulation of facts; both reject those early traditions of mankind which
profess to give an account of his origin; and both declare that they are
seeking fearlessly after truth alone. I believe, however, it will be found to
be the old story over again of the shield--gold on one side and silver on the
other--about which the knights disputed; each party will persist in looking
only at the portion of truth on his own side of the question, and at the error
which is mingled with his opponent's doctrine. It is my wish to show how the
two opposing [[p. clix]] views can be combined so as to eliminate the error and
retain the truth in each, and it is by means of Mr. Darwin's celebrated theory
of "Natural Selection" that I hope to do this, and thus to harmonise the
conflicting theories of modern anthropologists.
Let us first see what each party has to say for itself. In favour of the unity
of mankind it is argued that there are no races without transitions to others;
that every race exhibits within itself variations of colour, of hair, of
feature, and of form, to such a degree as to bridge over to a large extent the
gap that separates it from other races. It is asserted that no race is
homogeneous; that there is a tendency to vary; that climate, food, and habits
produce and render permanent physical peculiarities, which, though slight in
the limited periods allowed to our observation, would, in the long ages during
which the human race has existed, have sufficed to produce all the differences
that now appear. It is further asserted that the advocates of the opposite
theory do not agree among themselves; that some would make three, some five,
some fifty or a hundred and fifty species of man; some would have had each
species created in pairs, while others require nations to have at once sprung
into existence, and that there is no stability or consistency in any doctrine
but that of one primitive stock.
The advocates of the original diversity of man, on the other hand, have much to
say for themselves. They argue that proofs of change in man have never been
brought forward except to the most trifling amount, while evidence of his
permanence meets us everywhere. The Portuguese and Spaniards, settled for two
or three centuries in South America, retain their chief physical, mental, and
moral characteristics; the Dutch boers at the Cape, and the descendants of the
early Dutch settlers in the Moluccas, have not lost the features or the colour
of the Germanic races; the Jews, scattered over the world in the most diverse
climates, retain the same characteristic lineaments everywhere; the Egyptian
sculptures and paintings show us that, for at least 4000 or 5000 years, the
strongly contrasted features of the Negro and the Semitic races have remained
altogether unchanged; while more recent discoveries prove that, in the case at
least of the American aborigines, the mound-builders of the Mississippi valley,
and the dwellers on Brazilian mountains, had still in the very infancy of the
human race the same characteristic type of cranial formation that now
distinguishes them.
If we endeavour to decide impartially on the merits of this difficult
controversy, judging solely by the evidence that each party has brought
forward, it certainly seems that the best of the argument is on the side of
those who maintain the primitive diversity of man. Their opponents have not
been able to refute the permanence of existing races as far back as we can
trace them, and have failed to show, in a single case, that at any former epoch
the well marked varieties of mankind approximated more closely than they do at
the present day. At the same time this is but negative evidence. A condition of
immobility for four or five thousand years, does not preclude an advance at an
earlier epoch, and--if we can show that there [[p. clx]] are causes in nature
which would check any further physical change when certain conditions were
fulfilled--does not even render such an advance improbable, if there are any
general arguments to be adduced in its favour. Such a cause, I believe, does
exist, and I shall now endeavour to point out its nature and its mode of
operation.
In order to make my argument intelligible, it is necessary for me to explain
very briefly the theory of "Natural Selection" promulgated by Mr. Darwin, and
the power which it possesses of modifying the forms of animals and plants. The
grand feature in the multiplication of organic life is that of close general
resemblance, combined with more or less individual variation. The child
resembles its parents or ancestors more or less closely in all its
peculiarities, deformities, or beauties; it resembles them in general more than
it does any other individuals; yet children of the same parents are not all
alike, and it often happens that they differ very considerably from their
parents and from each other. This is equally true of man, of all animals, and
of all plants. Moreover, it is found that individuals do not differ from their
parents in certain particulars only, while in all others they are exact
duplicates of them. They differ from them and from each other in every
particular: in form, in size, in colour, in the structure of internal as well
as of external organs; in those subtle peculiarities which produce differences
of constitution, as well as in those still more subtle ones which lead to
modifications of mind and character. In other words, in every possible way, in
every organ and in every function, individuals of the same stock vary.
Now, health, strength, and long life are the results of a harmony between the
individual and the universe that surrounds it. Let us suppose that at any given
moment this harmony is perfect. A certain animal is exactly fitted to secure
its prey, to escape from its enemies, to resist the inclemencies of the
seasons, and to rear a numerous and healthy offspring. But a change now takes
place. A series of cold winters, for instance, come on, making food scarce, and
bringing an immigration of some other animals to compete with the former
inhabitants of the district. The new immigrant is swift of foot, and surpasses
its rivals in the pursuit of game; the winter nights are colder, and require a
thicker fur as a protection, and more nourishing food to keep up the heat of
the system. Our supposed perfect animal is no longer in harmony with its
universe; it is in danger of dying of cold or of starvation. But the animal
varies in its offspring. Some of these are swifter than others--they still
manage to catch food enough; some are hardier and more thickly furred--they
manage in the cold nights to keep warm enough; the slow, the weak, and the
thinly clad soon die off. Again and again, in each succeeding generation, the
same thing takes place. By this natural process, which is so inevitable that it
cannot be conceived not to act, those best adapted to live, live; those least
adapted, die. It is sometimes said that we have no direct evidence of the
action of this selecting power in nature. But it seems to me we have better
evidence than even direct observation would be, because it is more universal,
viz., the evidence of necessity. It must be so; for, as all wild animals
increase [[p. clxi]] in a geometrical ratio, while their actual numbers remain
on the average stationary, it follows that as many die annually as are born. If
therefore, we deny natural selection, it can only be by asserting that in such
a case as I have supposed, the strong, the healthy, the swift, the well clad,
the well organised animals in every respect, have no advantage over,--do not on
the average live longer than the weak, the unhealthy, the slow, the ill-clad,
and the imperfectly organised individuals; and this no sane man has yet been
found hardy enough to assert. But this is not all; for the offspring on the
average resemble their parents, and the selected portion of each succeeding
generation will therefore be stronger, swifter, and more thickly furred than
the last; and if this process goes on for thousands of generations, our animal
will have again become thoroughly in harmony with the new conditions in which
he is placed. But he will now be a different creature. He will be not only
swifter and stronger, and more furry, he will also probably have changed in
colour, in form, perhaps have acquired a longer tail, or differently shaped
ears; for it is an ascertained fact, that when one part of an animal is
modified, some other parts almost always change as it were in sympathy with it.
Mr. Darwin calls this "correlation of growth," and gives as instances that
hairless dogs have imperfect teeth; blue eyed cats are deaf; small feet
accompany short beaks in pigeons; and other equally interesting cases.
Grant, therefore, the premises: 1st. That peculiarities of every kind are more
or less hereditary. 2nd. That the offspring of every animal vary more or less
in all parts of their organisation. 3rd. That the universe in which these
animals live, is not absolutely invariable;--none of which propositions can be
denied; and then consider that the animals in any country (those at least which
are not dying out) must at each successive period be brought into harmony with
the surrounding conditions; and we have all the elements for a change of form
and structure in the animals, keeping exact pace with changes of whatever
nature in the surrounding universe. Such changes must be slow, for the changes
in the universe are very slow; but just as these slow changes become important,
when we look at results after long periods of action, as we do when we perceive
the alterations of the earth's surface during geological epochs; so the
parallel changes in animal form become more and more striking according as the
time they have been going on is great, as we see when we compare our living
animals with those which we disentomb from each successively older geological
formation.
This is briefly the theory of "natural selection," which explains the changes
in the organic world as being parallel with, and in part dependent on those in
the inorganic. What we now have to inquire is,--Can this theory be applied in
any way to the question of the origin of the races of man? or is there anything
in human nature that takes him out of the category of those organic existences,
over whose successive mutations it has had such powerful sway?
In order to answer these questions, we must consider why it is that "natural
selection" acts so powerfully upon animals, and we shall, I [[p. clxii]]
believe, find that its effect depends mainly upon their self-dependence and
individual isolation. A slight injury, a temporary illness, will often end in
death, because it leaves the individual powerless against its enemies. If a
herbivorous animal is a little sick and has not fed well for a day or two, and
the herd is then pursued by a beast of prey, our poor invalid inevitably falls
a victim. So in a carnivorous animal the least deficiency of vigour prevents
its capturing food, and it soon dies of starvation. There is, as a general
rule, no mutual assistance between adults, which enables them to tide over a
period of sickness. Neither is there any division of labour; each must fulfil
all the conditions of its existence, and, therefore, "natural selection" keeps
all up to a pretty uniform standard.
But in man, as we now behold him, this is different. He is social and
sympathetic. In the rudest tribes the sick are assisted at least with food;
less robust health and vigour than the average does not entail death. Neither
does the want of perfect limbs or other organs produce the same effects as
among animals. Some division of labour takes place; the swiftest hunt, the less
active fish, or gather fruits; food is to some extent exchanged or divided. The
action of natural selection is therefore checked; the weaker, the dwarfish,
those of less active limbs, or less piercing eyesight, do not suffer the
extreme penalty which falls upon animals so defective.
In proportion as these physical characteristics become of less importance,
mental and moral qualities will have increasing influence on the well-being of
the race. Capacity for acting in concert, for protection and for the
acquisition of food and shelter; sympathy, which leads all in turn to assist
each other; the sense of right, which checks depredations upon our fellows; the
decrease of the combative and destructive propensities; self-restraint in
present appetites; and that intelligent foresight which prepares for the
future, are all qualities that from their earliest appearance must have been
for the benefit of each community, and would, therefore, have become the
subjects of "natural selection." For it is evident that such qualities would be
for the well-being of man; would guard him against external enemies, against
internal dissensions, and against the effects of inclement seasons and
impending famine, more surely than could any merely physical modification.
Tribes in which such mental and moral qualities were predominant, would
therefore have an advantage in the struggle for existence over other tribes in
which they were less developed, would live and maintain their numbers, while
the others would decrease and finally succumb.
Again, when any slow changes of physical geography, or of climate, make it
necessary for an animal to alter its food, its clothing, or its weapons, it can
only do so by a corresponding change in its own bodily structure and internal
organisation. If a larger or more powerful beast is to be captured and
devoured, as when a carnivorous animal which has hitherto preyed on sheep is
obliged from their decreasing numbers to attack buffaloes, it is only the
strongest who can hold,--those with most powerful claws, and formidable canine
teeth, that can struggle with and overcome such an animal. Natural [[p.
clxiii]] selection immediately comes into play, and by its action these organs
gradually become adapted to their new requirements. But man, under similar
circumstances, does not require longer nails or teeth, greater bodily strength
or swiftness. He makes sharper spears, or a better bow, or he constructs a
cunning pitfall, or combines in a hunting party to circumvent his new prey. The
capacities which enable him to do this are what he requires to be strengthened,
and these will, therefore, be gradually modified by "natural selection," while
the form and structure of his body will remain unchanged. So when a glacial
epoch comes on, some animals must acquire warmer fur, or a covering of fat, or
else die of cold. Those best clothed by nature are, therefore, preserved by
natural selection. Man, under the same circumstances, will make himself warmer
clothing, and build better houses; and the necessity of doing this will react
upon his mental organisation and social condition--will advance them while his
natural body remains naked as before.
When the accustomed food of some animal becomes scarce or totally fails, it can
only exist by becoming adapted to a new kind of food, a food perhaps less
nourishing and less digestible. "Natural selection" will now act upon the
stomach and intestines, and all their individual variations will be taken
advantage of to modify the race into harmony with its new food. In many cases,
however, it is probable that this cannot be done. The internal organs may not
vary quick enough, and then the animal will decrease in numbers, and finally
become extinct. But man guards himself from such accidents by superintending
and guiding the operations of nature. He plants the seed of his most agreeable
food, and thus procures a supply independent of the accidents of varying
seasons or natural extinction. He domesticates animals which serve him either
to capture food or for food itself, and thus changes of any great extent in his
teeth or digestive organs are rendered unnecessary. Man, too, has everywhere
the use of fire, and by its means can render palatable a variety of animal and
vegetable substances, which he could hardly otherwise make use of, and thus
obtains for himself a supply of food far more varied and abundant than that
which any animal can command.
Thus man, by the mere capacity of clothing himself, and making weapons and
tools, has taken away from nature that power of changing the external form and
structure which she exercises over all other animals. As the competing races by
which they are surrounded, the climate, the vegetation, or the animals which
serve them for food, are slowly changing, they must undergo a corresponding
change in their structure, habits, and constitution, to keep them in harmony
with the new conditions--to enable them to live and maintain their numbers. But
man does this by means of his intellect alone; which enables him with an
unchanged body still to keep in harmony with the changing universe.
From the time, therefore, when the social and sympathetic feelings came into
active operation, and the intellectual and moral faculties became fairly
developed, man would cease to be influenced by "natural selection" in his
physical form and structure; as an [[p. clxiv]] animal he would remain almost
stationary; the changes of the surrounding universe would cease to have upon
him that powerful modifying effect which it exercises over other parts of the
organic world. But from the moment that his body became stationary, his mind
would become subject to those very influences from which his body had escaped;
every slight variation in his mental and moral nature which should enable him
better to guard against adverse circumstances, and combine for mutual comfort
and protection, would be preserved and accumulated; the better and higher
specimens of our race would therefore increase and spread, the lower and more
brutal would give way and successively die out, and that rapid advancement of
mental organisation would occur, which has raised the very lowest races of man
so far above the brutes (although differing so little from some of them in
physical structure), and, in conjunction with scarcely perceptible
modifications of form, has developed the wonderful intellect of the Germanic
races.
But from the time when this mental and moral advance commenced, and man's
physical character became fixed and immutable, a new series of causes would
come into action, and take part in his mental growth. The diverse aspects of
nature would now make themselves felt, and profoundly influence the character
of the primitive man.1
When the power that had hitherto modified the body, transferred its action to
the mind, then races would advance and become improved merely by the harsh
discipline of a sterile soil and inclement seasons. Under their influence, a
hardier, a more provident, and a more social race would be developed, than in
those regions where the earth produces a perennial supply of vegetable food,
and where neither foresight nor ingenuity are required to prepare for the
rigours of winter. And is it not the fact that in all ages, and in every
quarter of the globe, the inhabitants of temperate have been superior to those
of tropical countries? All the great invasions and displacements of races have
been from North to South, rather than the reverse; and we have no record of
there ever having existed, any more than there exists to-day, a solitary
instance of an indigenous inter-tropical civilisation. The Mexican civilisation
and government came from the North, and, as well as the Peruvian, was
established, not in the rich tropical plains, but on the lofty and sterile
plateaux of the Andes. The religion and civilisation of Ceylon were introduced
from North India; the successive conquerors of the Indian peninsula came from
the North-west, and it was the bold and adventurous tribes of the North that
overran and infused new life into Southern Europe.
It is the same great law of "the preservation of favoured races in the struggle
for life," which leads to the inevitable extinction of all [[p. clxv]] those
low and mentally undeveloped populations with which Europeans come in contact.
The red Indian in North America, and in Brazil; the Tasmanian, Australian and
New Zealander in the southern hemisphere, die out, not from any one special
cause, but from the inevitable effects of an unequal mental and physical
struggle. The intellectual and moral, as well as the physical qualities of the
European are superior; the same powers and capacities which have made him rise
in a few centuries from the condition of the wandering savage2 with a scanty and stationary population to his present state of culture and
advancement, with a greater average longevity, a greater average strength, and
a capacity of more rapid increase,--enable him when in contact with the savage
man, to conquer in the struggle for existence, and to increase at his expense,
just as the more favourable increase at the expense of the less favourable
varieties in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, just as the weeds of Europe
overrun North America and Australia, extinguishing native productions by the
inherent vigour of their organisation, and by their greater capacity for
existence and multiplication.
If these views are correct; if in proportion as man's social, moral and
intellectual faculties became developed, his physical structure would cease to
be affected by the operation of "natural selection," we have a most important
clue to the origin of races. For it will follow, that those striking and
constant peculiarities which mark the great divisions of mankind, could not
have been produced and rendered permanent after the action of this power had
become transferred from physical to mental variations. They must, therefore,
have existed since the very infancy of the race; they must have originated at a
period when man was gregarious, but scarcely social, with a mind perceptive but
not reflective, ere any sense of right or feelings of sympathy had been
developed in him.
By a powerful effort of the imagination, it is just possible to perceive him at
that early epoch existing as a single homogeneous race without the faculty of
speech, and probably inhabiting some tropical region. He would be still
subject, like the rest of the organic world, to the action of "natural
selection," which would retain his physical form and constitution in harmony
with the surrounding universe. He must have been even then a dominant race,
spreading widely over the warmer regions of the earth as it then existed, and,
in agreement with what we see in the case of other dominant species, gradually
becoming modified in accordance with local conditions. As he ranged farther
from his original home, and became exposed to greater extremes of climate, to
greater changes of food, and had to contend with new enemies, organic and
inorganic, useful variations in his constitution would be selected and rendered
permanent, and would, on the principle of "correlation of growth," be
accompanied [[p. clxvi]] by corresponding external physical changes. Thus arose
those striking characteristics and special modifications which still
distinguish the chief races of mankind. The red, black, yellow, or blushing
white skin; the straight, the curly, the woolly hair; the scanty or abundant
beard; the straight or oblique eyes; the various forms of the pelvis, the
cranium, and other parts of the skeleton.
But while these changes had been going on, his mental development had
correspondingly advanced, and had now reached that condition in which it began
powerfully to influence his whole existence, and would therefore, become
subject to the irresistible action of "natural selection." This action would
rapidly give the ascendancy to mind: speech would probably now be first
developed, leading to a still further advance of the mental faculties, and from
that moment man as regards his physical form would remain almost stationary.
The art of making weapons, division of labour, anticipation of the future,
restraint of the appetites, moral, social and sympathetic feelings, would now
have a preponderating influence on his well being, and would therefore be that
part of his nature on which "natural selection" would most powerfully act; and
we should thus have explained that wonderful persistence of mere physical
characteristics, which is the stumbling-block of those who advocate the unity
of mankind.
We are now, therefore, enabled to harmonise the conflicting views of
anthropologists on this subject. Man may have been, indeed I believe must have
been, once a homogeneous race; but it was at a period of which we have as yet
discovered no remains, at a period so remote in his history, that he had not
yet acquired that wonderfully developed brain, the organ of the mind, which
now, even in his lowest examples, raises him far above the highest brutes;--at
a period when he had the form but hardly the nature of man, when he neither
possessed human speech, nor those sympathetic and moral feelings which in a
greater or less degree everywhere now distinguish the race. Just in proportion
as these truly human faculties became developed in him would his physical
features become fixed and permanent, because the latter would be of less
importance to his well being; he would be kept in harmony with the slowly
changing universe around him, by an advance in mind, rather than by a change in
body. If, therefore, we are of opinion that he was not really man till these
higher faculties were developed, we may fairly assert that there were many
originally distinct races of men; while, if we think that a being like us in
form and structure, but with mental faculties scarcely raised above the brute,
must still be considered to have been human, we are fully entitled to maintain
the common origin of all mankind.
These considerations, it will be seen, enable us to place the origin of man at
a much more remote geological epoch than has yet been thought possible. He may
even have lived in the Eocene or Miocene period, when not a single mammal
possessed the same form as any existing species. For, in the long series of
ages during which the forms of these primeval mammals were being slowly
specialised into those now inhabiting the earth, the power which acted to
modify them would [[p. clxvii]] only affect the mental organisation of man. His
brain alone would have increased in size and complexity and his cranium have
undergone corresponding changes of form, while the whole structure of lower
animals was being changed. This will enable us to understand how the fossil
crania of Denise and Engis agree so closely with existing forms, although they
undoubtedly existed in company with large mammalia now extinct. The Neanderthal
skull may be a specimen of one of the lowest races then existing, just as the
Australians are the lowest of our modern epoch. We have no reason to suppose
that mind and brain and skull-modification, could go on quicker than that of
the other parts of the organisation, and we must, therefore, look back very far
in the past to find man in that early condition in which his mind was not
sufficiently developed to remove his body from the modifying influence of
external conditions, and the cumulative action of "natural selection." I
believe, therefore, that there is no à priori reason against our finding the
remains of man or his works, in the middle or later tertiary deposits. The
absence of all such remains in the European beds of this age has little weight,
because as we go further back in time, it is natural to suppose that man's
distribution over the surface of the earth was less universal than at present.
Besides, Europe was in a great measure submerged during the tertiary epoch, and
though its scattered islands may have been uninhabited by man, it by no means
follows that he did not at the same time exist in warm or tropical continents.
If geologists can point out to us the most extensive land in the warmer regions
of the earth, which has not been submerged since eocene or miocene times, it is
there that we may expect to find some traces of the very early progenitors of
man. It is there that we may trace back the gradually decreasing brain of
former races, till we come to a time when the body also begins materially to
differ. Then we shall have reached the starting point of the human family.
Before that period, he had not mind enough to preserve his body from change,
and would, therefore, have been subject to the same comparatively rapid
modifications of form as the other mammals.
If the views I have here endeavoured to sustain have any foundation, they give
us a new argument for placing man apart, as not only the head and culminating
point of the grand series of organic nature, but as in some degree a new and
distinct order of being. From those infinitely remote ages, when the first
rudiments of organic life appeared upon the earth, every plant, and every
animal has been subject to one great law of physical change. As the earth has
gone through its grand cycles of geological, climatal and organic progress,
every form of life has been subject to its irresistible action, and has been
continually, but imperceptibly moulded into such new shapes as would preserve
their harmony with the ever changing universe. No living thing could escape
this law of its being; none could remain unchanged and live, amid the universal
change around it.
At length, however, there came into existence a being in whom that subtle force
we term mind, became of greater importance than his mere bodily structure.
Though with a naked and unprotected [[p. clxviii]] body, this gave him clothing
against the varying inclemencies of the seasons. Though unable to compete with
the deer in swiftness, or with the wild bull in strength, this gave him weapons
with which to capture or overcome both. Though less capable than most other
animals of living on the herbs and the fruits that unaided nature supplies,
this wonderful faculty taught him to govern and direct nature to his own
benefit, and make her produce food for him when and where he pleased. From the
moment when the first skin was used as a covering, when the first rude spear
was formed to assist in the chase, the first seed sown or shoot planted, a
grand revolution was effected in nature, a revolution which in all the previous
ages of the earth's history had had no parallel, for a being had arisen who was
no longer necessarily subject to change with the changing universe--a being who
was in some degree superior to nature, inasmuch, as he knew how to control and
regulate her action, and could keep himself in harmony with her, not by a
change in body, but by an advance of mind.
Here, then, we see the true grandeur and dignity of man. On this view of his
special attributes, we may admit that even those who claim for him a position
as an order, a class, or a sub-kingdom by himself, have some reason on their
side. He is, indeed, a being apart, since he is not influenced by the great
laws which irresistibly modify all other organic beings. Nay more; this victory
which he has gained for himself gives him a directing influence over other
existences. Man has not only escaped "natural selection" himself, but he
actually is able to take away some of that power from nature which, before his
appearance, she universally exercised. We can anticipate the time when the
earth will produce only cultivated plants and domestic animals; when man's
selection shall have supplanted "natural selection"; and when the ocean will be
the only domain in which that power can be exerted, which for countless cycles
of ages ruled supreme over all the earth.
Briefly to recapitulate the argument;--in two distinct ways has man escaped the
influence of those laws which have produced unceasing change in the animal
world. By his superior intellect he is enabled to provide himself with clothing
and weapons, and by cultivating the soil to obtain a constant supply of
congenial food. This renders it unnecessary for his body, like those of the
lower animals, to be modified in accordance with changing conditions--to gain a
warmer natural covering, to acquire more powerful teeth or claws, or to become
adapted to obtain and digest new kinds of food, as circumstances may require.
By his superior sympathetic and moral feelings, he becomes fitted for the
social state; he ceases to plunder the weak and helpless of his tribe; he
shares the game which he has caught with less active or less fortunate hunters,
or exchanges it for weapons which even the sick or the deformed can fashion; he
saves the sick and wounded from death; and thus the power which leads to the
rigid destruction of all animals who cannot in every respect help themselves,
is prevented from acting on him.
This power is "natural selection"; and, as by no other means can [[p. clxix]]
it be shewn that individual variations can ever become accumulated and rendered
permanent so as to form well-marked races, it follows that the differences we
now behold in mankind must have been produced before he became possessed of a
human intellect or human sympathies. This view also renders possible, or even
requires, the existence of man at a comparatively remote geological epoch. For,
during the long periods in which other animals have been undergoing
modification in their whole structure to such an amount as to constitute
distinct genera and families, man's body will have remained generically, or
even specifically, the same, while his head and brain alone will have undergone
modification equal to theirs. We can thus understand how it is that, judging
from the head and brain, Professor Owen places man in a distinct sub-class of
mammalia, while, as regards the rest of his body, there is the closest
anatomical resemblance to that of the anthropoid apes, "every tooth, every
bone, strictly homologous--which makes the determination of the difference
between Homo and Pithecus the anatomist's difficulty." The present theory fully
recognises and accounts for these facts; and we may perhaps claim as
corroborative of its truth, that it neither requires us to depreciate the
intellectual chasm which separates man from the apes, nor refuses full
recognition of the striking resemblances to them which exist in other parts of
its structure.
In concluding this brief sketch of a great subject, I would point out its
bearing upon the future of the human race. If my conclusions are just, it must
inevitably follow that the higher--the more intellectual and moral--must
displace the lower and more degraded races; and the power of "natural
selection", still acting on his mental organisation, must ever lead to the more
perfect adaptation of man's higher faculties to the conditions of surrounding
nature, and to the exigencies of the social state.3 While his external form will probably ever remain unchanged, except in the
development of that perfect beauty which results from a healthy and well
organised body, refined and ennobled by the highest intellectual faculties and
sympathetic emotions, his mental constitution may continue to advance and
improve till the world is again inhabited by a single homogeneous race, no
individual of which will be inferior to the noblest specimens of existing
humanity. Each one will then work out his own happiness in relation to that of
his fellows; perfect freedom of action will be maintained, since the well
balanced moral faculties will never permit any one to transgress on the equal
freedom of others; restrictive laws will not be wanted, for each man will be
guided by the best of laws; a thorough appreciation of the rights, and a
perfect sympathy with the feelings, of all about him; compulsory government
will have died away as unnecessary (for every man will know how to govern
himself), and will be replaced by voluntary associations for all beneficial
public purposes; the passions and animal propensities will be restrained within
those limits which most conduce to happiness; and mankind will have at length
discovered [[p. clxx]] that it was only required of them to develope the
capacities of their higher nature, in order to convert this earth, which had so
long been the theatre of their unbridled passions, and the scene of
unimaginable misery, into as bright a paradise as ever haunted the dreams of
seer or poet.4 Notes Appearing in the Original WorkM. Guizot says: "If we regard the immediate influence of climate upon men,
perhaps it is not so extensive as has been supposed. But the indirect influence
of climate, that which, for example, results from the fact that, in a warm
country, men live in the open air, while in a cold country they shut themselves
up in their houses; that in the one case they nourish themselves in one manner,
in the other in another;--these are facts of great importance, facts which, by
the simple difference of material life, act powerfully upon civilisation."
(Hist. of Civilisation in Europe.) [[originally placed at the bottom of page
clxiv]] "It is probable that the present state and condition of New Zealand exhibit
more nearly than any other the condition of Britain when the Romans entered
it." (Turner, Hist. of the Anglo-Saxons, I, p. 69.) "When the Romans first
became acquainted with Germany, the natives had advanced but a few steps beyond
the savage state." (Encyc. Brit., art. Germany.) [[originally placed at the
bottom of page clxv]] M. Guizot says: "For myself, I am convinced that there is a destiny of
humanity, a transmission of the aggregate of civilisation." (Civilisation in
Europe.) [[originally placed at the bottom of page clxix]] The general idea and argument of this paper I believe to be new. It was,
however, the perusal of Mr. Herbert Spencer's works, especially Social Statics,
that suggested it to me, and at the same time furnished me with some of the
applications. [[originally placed at the bottom of page clxx]]
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Origins-Human Races
(Biblical Viewpoint)
The origin of the human races
Answers Magazine
First published:
August 1980["Answers magazine is the Bible-affirming, creation-based magazine from Answers in Genesis. ..."] Adapted from: www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v3/i3/human_race.asp The Editor Dear Sir, Why are there different races? Is it because of the tower of Babel
when the different languages originated? Or is it as I am told in school text
books that man adapted to his environment by changing his skin color? Yours sincerely, Dale Higgins Mendooran, N.S.W. Dear Dale,Hope the following information helps you and all our readers. Thanks for the
suggestion. Editor The origin of the human races
... All men of whatever race are currently classified by the anthropologist or
biologist as belonging to the one species, Homo sapiens. This is another way of
saying that the differences between human races are not great, even though they
may appear so, i.e. black vs white skin. All races of mankind in the world can
interbreed because they have so much in common. Most anthropologists recognize 3 or 4 basic races of man in existence today.
These races can be further subdivided into as many as 30 subgroups. (The Australoid or Australian Aborigine, is sometimes regarded as a sub-group
of the Caucasoid as they have many features in common with this group despite
their dark skin. The American Indian is usually classed with the Mongoloid
division). [...] Concerning the origin of the races, the Bible records that: All men are descendants of the first created man Adam, and the line of all human ancestry passes through Noah. Only Noah, his sons, and their wives survived the flood which destroyed all
other men living at that time (Genesis 7:21), and radically altered the world environs.
All races therefore have developed from this one family since the end of the
flood in Noah's day. The Australian Aborigine, the Chinese, and the European
have come into existence only in recent times. The culture (technology and
religions, etc.) of each racial group in the world started at a common
point — Noah — with full knowledge of God and a
sophisticated ocean liner technology. The current states of culture of the
races, which varies from space age to stone age, from animal worship and spirit
worship to Christianity, is not a result of innocent, ignorant people searching
for improvement. It is a direct consequence of whether the ancestors of any
race worshipped the living God or deliberately rejected Him.
How did this all happen?
There are several significant factors which can be considered in attempting to
account for the origin of the physical difference between races. The first of
these is the origin of different languages; the second is the splitting into
groups which this produced; and the third is the environment into which each of
these groups moved. After the flood, the Bible records that God commanded Noah and his family to
multiply and cover the earth (Genesis 9:1, 18, 19). In Genesis 11:1 the Bible records the fact that man had decided to disobey God's command to
cover the earth. They had, instead, decided to establish a 'massive urban
complex' as a focal point. The Tower of Babel was built to ensure that worship and society were united around this common
goal of staying together. In Genesis 11:8 is recorded God's judgment on this disobedience by His imposition of different
languages on man. Previously, they had all spoken the one language. The purpose
of this is spelled out in Genesis 'so that man could not understand one another and therefore no longer be able
to work together against God'. (Gen.11:5-7) They would be forced to spread out over the surface of the earth as God had
commanded them. The efficiency of this judgment can be seen when you attempt to
get groups of people of different nationalities to work together. How God
imposed different languages is not stated, but since he had created Adam with
inbuilt speech, it would be no major problem to reset the physical and nervous
controls to produce another differing form of inbuilt speech. This new language
would also have its own repertoire of words and the capacity to coin new words
consistent with their language. With this enforced separation, it is not too difficult to imagine how other
minor physical differences such as skin variations already in existence, could
begin to show. [...]
Summary
The dispersion of people which would have followed the imposition of new
languages at Babel, would have produced situations of cultural and
environmental difference. These new conditions would have created a stress or
pressure which would have acted on characteristics already present. With time,
certain features, both physical and cultural, became associated with a
particular group, and a separate race was formed. The races, in most cases,
represent recombinations of pre-existent 'created' genes, with minor degenerate
mutation. The origin of human races does not conform to the popular concept of
evolution, i.e. from simple to complex. There has been no 'evolution' of genes
which did not previously exist, only the recombination and degeneration of
created genetic information. No race of the world today comes from a background
of zero technology or of innocent, ignorance of God. All cultures which do not
have a correct knowledge of God have got that way by deliberate rejection. They
are not primitives in need of education and technical aid so that they can
understand the Gospel, but spiritual degenerates in need of the Gospel so they
can appreciate education and relevance of technology. | | | | |
Cheers! Paul Quek
Webmeister
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Sciences ... Four Categories of Science By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)Some people have insisted that if I can't provide a piece of a [flying] saucer
or an alien body, there is nothing to support my claims. I was quite surprised
during my last visit with Carl Sagan in December 1992, when he claimed that the
essence of the scientific method was reproducibility. In actuality, as I wrote
Sagan later on, there are at least four different kinds of science: - [Category-1 Science] Yes, there is a lot of excellent science done by people who set up
an experiment in which they can control all the variables and equipment. They
make measurements and then publish their results, after peer review, and
describe their equipment, instruments, and activity in detail so that others
can duplicate the work and, presumably, come to the same conclusions. Such
science can be very satisfying, and certainly can contribute to the advancement
of knowledge. However, it is not the only kind of science.
- [Category-2 Science] A second kind of science involves situations in which one cannot
control all the variables, but can predict some. For example, I cannot prove
that on occasion the moon comes directly between the sun and the Earth and
casts a shadow of darkness on the Earth, because I cannot control the positions
of the Earth, moon, or sun. What can be done is predicting the times when such
eclipses will happen and being ready to make observations when they occur.
Hopefully the weather where I have my instruments will allow me to make lots of
measurements.
- [Category-3 Science] A third kind of science involves events that can neither be
predicted nor controlled, but one can be ready to make measurements if
something does happen. For example, an array of seismographs can be established
to allow measurements to be made at several locations in the event of an
earthquake. When I was at the University of Chicago, a block of nuclear
emulsion was attached to a large balloon that would be released when a
radiation detector indicated that a solar storm had occurred (something we
could neither produce nor predict). Somebody would rush to Stagg Field and
release the balloon. When the balloon was
retrieved, the emulsion would be carefully examined to measure the number,
direction, velocity, and mass characteristics of particles unleashed by the sun.
- [Category-4 Science] Finally, there is a fourth kind of science, still using the rules
to attack difficult problems. These are the events that involve intelligence,
such as airplane crashes, murders, rapes, and automobile accidents. We do not
know when or where they will occur, but we do know they will. In a typical year
more than 40,000 Americans will be killed in automobile accidents. We don't
know where or when, so rarely are TV cameras whirling when these events take
place. But we can, after the fact, collect and evaluate evidence. We can
determine if the driver had high levels of alcohol in his or her blood, whether
the brakes failed, whether the visibility was poor, where a skid started, and
so on. Observations of strange phenomena in the sky come under this last
category.
In all the category-4 events, we must obtain as much testimony from witnesses
as possible. Some testimony is worth more than other testimony, perhaps because
of the duration of observation, the nearness of the witnesses to the event, the
specialized training of the observer, the availability of corroborative
evidence such as videos and still photos, or the consistency of evidence when
there is testimony from more than one witness. Our entire legal system is based
on testimony — rarely is there conclusive proof such as DNA
matching. Judges and juries must decide, with appropriate cross-examination,
who is telling the truth. In some states, testimony from one witness can lead
to the death penalty
for the accused. We should take note of the fact that even instrument data is dependent on
testimony from the observer of the instruments, and on appropriate calibration
and validation under standardized circumstances. Also, our courts place limits
on requirements for testimony, such as that against one spouse by the other.
Furthermore, there are rules about hearsay testimony, and rules regarding legal
evidence are complex and detailed. When it comes to flying saucers, we must remember that the reason most
sightings can be determined to be relatively conventional phenomena, often seen
under unusual circumstances, is that most people are relatively good observers.
The problem comes with the interpretation of what was observed. People watching
the sky late at night may get excited about a very bright light that moved very
slowly. Checking on the position of the planets at that time may reveal that
that light was Venus, because we have good information as to the angle of
observation, the direction of the light from the observer, the relatively slow
rate of motion, the location of Venus at that time, and so on. On three
occasions, when living in Southern California, I was called by people who
described an unusual object moving rapidly. I tried to make sure that I
analyzed their observations, such as, what time was it? In what direction were
you looking? In what direction did it seem to be moving? Was there any sound?
What was its apparent size, say, as compared to the moon (just covered by an
aspirin held at arm's length)? Two of the people wanted to tell me that the object was just over the next
hill. I stressed that this was an interpretation, because even huge objects far
away can seem to be small objects nearby. In all three cases, I felt that what
was being described sounded similar to a rocket launched down the California
Coast when the sun had gone down, but while the object was high enough to still
be in sunlight. I had seen such a spectacular case once myself. I checked, in
all three cases, with Vandenberg Air Force Base, which launches many rockets
down the U.S. West Coast. Indeed, there had been a launch at the right time in
each case. One case was especially intriguing, because several witnesses were
looking out across the ocean from a beach area and described the thing they saw
as similar to a string of popcorn. It turned out to be the launch of a special
weather satellite with extra solid boosters being dropped off multiple times. The people were good observers. To say the least, it would be irrational to say
that people are good observers when their input allows us to identify the
object being observed, and yet poor observers if we can't identify the UFO as
something conventional. — Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist)
Flying Saucers and Science
Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes,
and Government Cover-Ups
(Chapter 1 - "The Case for the ET Origin of Flying Saucers")
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- Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness.
- Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to account for
the phenomenon?
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shall be ascendant at the centre of things?
- What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the obscure
prevalent?
- What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered effect is
really cause?
- What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates unperceived in all
other phases of science? What if there be only one natural law manifesting
itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of
which we have gained only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope
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the form of textual notes, pictures/stills, and audio and video
clips) — as well as many advertisements, some by me and some
automatically by Google Adsense and Amazon — on this website,
it does not
mean that I am in agreement with or that I believe in the views and/or ads
offered-proferred ... That would be displaying such a parochial and provincial
attitude, towards this website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course. Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe
in. In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak — we have to remove our humongous
ego! — else we will never ever really have gotten started in
our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World. Furthermore, similarly and additionally, as a "Charismatic Christian", there
are lots of stuff presented in this website that I do not believe in ... which
had even led some to label me as "Fundamentalist"! ... Whatever! Matthew 7 1Judge not, that ye be not judged.2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. — Jesus the Christ
(Yahoshua ha Mashiach;
Yeshua/Yesua; Ieosus; Joshua),
"Sermon on the Mount"
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In short, in this website, I present many things that, I am hopeful, would be
of interest to a student, explorer and investigator of the Mysteries of the World ... but this doesn't mean that I believe in any of the stuff presented. ... Got it? ... Right! - Here is a purpose that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
[Mysteries, Monsters, Mutants, Myths, Miracles & Much More ...]Our purpose ... is to describe the rich variety of anomalous, unexplained,
sometimes totally bizarre phenomena that people have experienced in all times
and places and that are still occurring today. ... the nature of the world and
of our existence are quite different from that which we were taught at school.
The reality is far more interesting, humorous and expansive than any religious
or rational, scientific world-view can possibly accommodate. It is not our intention here to dispute anyone's beliefs or
theories — but we should like to point out their limitations.
There are things that happen in this world - and have occurred throughout the
whole of human experience - for which there has never been a lasting
explanation. Explanations are temporary products, coming and going in response
to fashions. Meanwhile, the happenings they are supposed to explain carry on as
mysteriously as ever. — John Michell and Bob Rickard
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena (Rough Guide Reference)
(New York, NY: Rough Guides Ltd, 2007) - Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden." Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe. So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond. [...] — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
Sub-title: Merging East and West
(1994, 1996) - Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge. The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms. This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". [...] — Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
(2005) - Here is an observation about UFO-Aliens cover-up or conspiracy that may be of
general interest, although some readers would not agree with the observation
(e.g., they may say that some whistleblowers, such as Bob Lazar on the
Roswell-type flying saucers in secret Area-51 labs, have already come forward)
...
If any long-term coherent cover up of UFO information does exist, however, then
it must operate at all levels of government and the media. It must encompass
all the relevant written materials, from the briefest handwritten note in
government files to entries in squadron log books to letters in the personal
papers of members of the Establishment. Hundreds of politicians, service
personnel, police officers, clerks and officials, over half a century, would be
required to excise any reference to the reality of UFOs from official documents
and the media. The number of people who would have taken part in this cover up
would be vast, yet not one person has broken ranks to 'blow the whistle' on the
greatest story ever told. Meantime, millions of dollars are being spent every
day on space probes and radio telescopes that are searching for evidence of
alien life. Would there be any reason for a conspiracy of silence if that
evidence already existed? — Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows
(2002) - Even though I am a "Charismatic Christian", the views presented herewith, in
this Mysteries of the World Website, will NOT be colored by this fact of being a Charismatic Christian. Rather, where and
when I find it necessary (and usually, I would NOT find it necessary, since I find it tiresome to repeat myself, again and again
and again ..., ad infinitum ..., but if I should find it necessary to repeat myself), I will then state
what my Charismatic Christian beliefs lead me to believe
in — even though I am aware that my own Charismatic Christian
beliefs may or may not be the same as, or in accord with, those beliefs of
others who also may want to regard themselves as Charismatic Christians
(nb/note well: there appears to be so many varieties of Charismatic Christian
beliefs, including from those who are simultaneously of the
traditional-historical denominations — such as the Roman
Catholics, with their purgatories, mortal and venial sins, and their Mother
this and Mother that. Shudder! Shudder! Shudder!).
Thus, for example, I do not necessarily "believe" in "ghosts", even as I (will
later) examine the entire gamut of so-called "paranormal events or phenomena",
especially of those with a psychic bent (truly, these are bent!, as in
less-than-straight, aka "crooked", thinking variety). Many so-called "ghosts"
are probably some form of "fallen angels" or "demons" of the Biblical kind,
masquerading as either gods, demons, spirits, ghosts, or even "angels of light"
(when they are obviously "fallen" and are "angels of darkness", or "sons of
darkness" as used in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness). Anyway, the author of 1 John, gave us a simple test against any "spirit" to see
whether that spirit is of light (God; Christ/Son of God; Holy Spirit of
God/Comforter/Advocate/Paraclete/The One; Jehovah/Yahveh/Yahweh/God the Father)
or of darkness (Satan, Lucifer, the Devil; the Anti-Christ; the False Prophet;
the Beast): 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world. — First Epistle of John
(1 John 4:2-3; New
International Version/NIV)
(Note: many Catholics like NIV
and dislike KJV! Tough!) Whatever the case may be about "ghosts" and other "apparitions", in this
website, I have stated that we will be truth-based and science-based. Despite
this, definitely, I will not be ashamed of being a Charismatic Christian or of
God's Word:If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him
when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy
angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Luke 9:26; NIV)If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's
glory with the holy angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Mark 8:38; NIV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the
salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. (Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans; Romans 1:16; NIV)
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