A Parade of Modern Science Reversals

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A Parade

of

Modern Science

Reversals

by

Stephen D Evans

A Parade of Modern Science Reversals

Copyright © 2010, by Stephen D Evans

All Rights Reserved

Published in the United States of America, Los Angeles

Cover Art by Stephen D Evans

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About-Face!


So how can anyone in his right mind seriously entertain alternative histories,

science or medicine? Remember the t-shirt from the 1960’s sporting the motto:

‘Challenge All Authority’. I want the other one that says: ‘Doubt All Scientific

Certainty’. Considering how much supposed scientific discovery and advancement

is actually outright reversal of previously authorized positions …there should be a

good market for that motto.

Richard Dawkins is proud to preach his message: ‘Trust Science.’ He also sounds

rather desperate in his hope that science will one day find all natural explanations

for the multiplying mysteries of cosmology. Despite the latest groundswell of

perplexities:

It’s just not worth it to trade faith in Science for ‘delusions’ of another kind.

But you see, the puzzles of existence and life and our place in the universe (or was

it plural universes?) —they are indeed adding up and threatening to escape

scientific controls. It has become not merely a matter of counting new discoveries;

while each rock overturned reveals ten new problems for every old question

resolved. No, our quest has become dogged by a worrisome trail of settled solutions

proven wrong. And many earlier ‘corrections’ of Classical certainties (meaning

pre-scientific) are sounding hastily spoken also.

So what should we say to the appeal for a post-modern ‘faith’ in human sciences?

The material scientist’s reply: It’s just what Science does. If the nature of our

universe is so complex as to present ever more questions than answers –well, that’s

just how it is. Don’t blame the scientist or scientific method; nor is it faulty

premises.

Or is it? Certainly one goal of good research must be to uncover the right questions

to follow in the first place. The first questions –perhaps those least scrutinized or

discussed—will be most fundamental of all. It is these starting presuppositions that

deserve review when logical corollaries –somewhere down the road— keep taking

us nowhere or in never-ending circles. A successful journey begins on the right

track. Else the fastest course to our destination may require quickly turning back to

meekly start completely over.

Premise One: The truths of existence, explaining how things started and how

things work and where things are likely going—all of that will surely be proven

knowable and predictable and worth our finding out. Modern successes of applied

sciences (technology) are certainly convincing proof of that.


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Quantum mechanics would disagree. Turns out the deck may be stacked against

direct predictability. Best we can do is offer a gambler’s chance at narrowing the

range of possible (correction: probable) outcomes:

Red Three in the corner pocket …

Premise Two: Possible outcomes and explanations are by definition self-limiting,

allowing only material causes and effects. Extra-material, metaphysical or

supernatural delusions—NOT allowed …from the outset.

Again, the astrophysicist must challenge this notion. At least ninety-five percent of

the observable universe is apparently …UNobservable. Nor has anyone actually

seen electrons orbiting their nuclei. The further we search that path, the more that

‘Matter’ disappears. We cannot go back in Time or Space to witness their

beginnings. And where we expected to find debris settling from that serendipitous

blast from the past …and find it slowing down—well, it seems rather to be

propelling ever faster and further outward. So the Big Bang may indeed be

described as a giant rocket blast; not an aimless explosion, as once assumed.

Premise Three: Our planet was never the center of it all; nothing happens for the

sake of a man or Mankind. We must view life and humanity and civilization as

lucky happenstance: Chance –wasn’t likely to happen and ain’t going to happen

again. Therefore Earth and Man and Life itself must be relatively unimportant;

cosmic rejects … Priceless … but pointless. The oyster never treasures its pearl.

Premise Four: Energy and the motions of particles decay. Life, however, has

obviously progressed from simple to most complex –much as components of the

simplest of atoms spontaneously recombined to form the whole chart of material

elements. We have never watched this happen, nor can any technician make it

happen. All we have managed so far is to accelerate decay. But obviously ‘the

good stuff’ happened, because … Well, there it is; and here we are, after all.

The third and fourth premises are evidently self-contradicting. Their prejudice is

established utterly by the latest findings of astronomers and mathematicians. It

appears now, post-Copernicus, that there could never have been enough time –even

given millions of times the estimated 13 billions of years—no time for undirected

Chance to have resulted in This:

Our tiny, life-infested, watery bubble appears balanced exactly where it must be

–where it could only be to exist safely—in its solar system; all placed most

fortuitously in just the right corner of the right kind of galaxy; itself ordered

perfectly in the wake of an Event so finely tuned as to produce just the right

combination of energies and elements for the birth and continuance of … what?

For planet Earth and emergence of Life culminating in Man’s curious

consciousness of Being. (Notice even this assumes such a progression was how it

happened in order of Fact— for some of the oldest accounts tell of human spiritual

operation long before physical earth and heavens appeared.)


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Yes, I know all about Cosmogony’s arguments against old and new geocentricities.

And I promise not to pretend any ‘god of the gaps’ (certainly, He will defend His

own Existence). Yet, there It is … and here We are. Deserves looking at

…intrinsically. So it simply will not do to wave off the paradox or confusion by

saying:

We are only a speck, after all, in the great Scheme of things.

What scheme? Whose scheme?

Well, no scheme … actually. And certainly Nobody’s plan.

And how did you determine that? You seem to know it positively.

But I won’t bother proving anything … because it’s so very obvious. Of course,

nobody can know yet for certain.

Yet you are confident.

Yes I am … that Science will prevail.

You maintain the utmost ‘faith’ in your science.

What else is there? I mean … Really, your implication is primitive and unfair!

What else? Precisely my point.

Excuse me? I think I missed something.

You did …took a wrong turn back up the road somewhere.

Apparently so.

Therefore, in celebration of our latest epistemological triumphs: I present the

following review; a sort of promenade or exhibition highlighting some of my

favorite reversals of Science. It isn’t my intent to discredit the disciplines of

inquiry into reality; nor to cause any celebrity of science to ‘lose face’ –though

many would consider some of these reversals to be quite as embarrassing as the

Piltdown scandal. I am not any kind of scientist (though an enthusiastic student of

all research). I won’t bother (yet) to reference sources; I do this from fuzzy memory

of past media releases. Previous scientific beliefs were common knowledge (and

some remain commonly held); reversals were major science headlines, so anyone

can Bling or Goggle a subject to authorize these findings. Yet I am humbly

suggesting that we allow this public parade of realizations to serve as signposts.

Such should signal, at least, our prompt collective ‘about-face’ from stubborn

academic certainty: the dogmatic credulity that a disappearing path will remain the

only proper road to understanding.


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To the Rear … Stand! Re-Inspecting Uniformity

Astro-Physics and Geology Atoms are elementary …Watsons and bosons spooking Einstein

I remember a teacher in my elementary school assuring us boys and girls that physicists

had identified the basic building blocks of reality: micro-particles called atoms. None

could really comprehend just how tiny were these specks; nor could any of us actually

look at one under a microscope (because they are moving about far too fast)…But they

were there. And like so many skadillions of grains of sand, their compressed mass

comprises the solidity of stone as well as softness of dandelion down.

Boy was that a bogus idea! Actually an imagination inherited from Newtonian physics;

the teacher should have known better about more recent discoveries. On the other hand,

even pioneers of quantum mechanics were reluctant to describe their findings. For the

closer one peers into the substrate of matter, the less of ‘particle’ one finds. It all appears

to be mostly vacant space with periodic intrusions of energy –more like studying the

surface of a pool with a magnifying glass. What’s more, these ‘atoms’ … or rather, parts

as quanta of atoms display disturbingly metaphysical behaviors.

So one cannot really blame Mister or Mizz Teach for failing to describe Thing-ness

correctly. For every such correction is awaiting an ‘observer’ in order to ‘collapse’ from

potentiality into a materially measurable state. Catch that?

The universe is infinite … I mean, a finite, um …multidimensional potential

This one I recall again from early grades. Most of us simply refused to accept it, when at

first we were told how our universe had no beginning and will never end. Turns out that

our childish instincts were correct, after all. For now they tell us that Astronomy deviants

were right: There was certainly this Event –like a single burst of fireworks — from which

every particle of our universe was blasted. What they neglected to admit, however, was

that Space and Time were part of the fallout of that singular explosion. And lately they

tell us, it was unlikely to be the only Bang nor the only possible kind of starburst in a far

larger pyrotechnic Show.

The universe is static … No, it’s shrinking … I mean, it’s definitely expanding

… in a roundabout way

Yes, we are talking double and triple reversals of scientific certainty here. It’s really no

wonder that mine would be a generation of science skeptics. Most readers will recognize

and appreciate the absurdity of this very recent and brief history of astronomy. Dare we

trust that they are finally describing it correctly?

Everything observed accounts for everything …The Wizard’s Apprentice and his

multiplying black boxes

Latest figure –given the astronomer’s recent admissions—puts it at twenty to one. Some

95 percent of material mass is immeasurable and unknowable in terms of modern

physical science. Only ten years ago, we all trusted that all was in balance and accounted

for. Now measures of gravity say far from it. Next we are told that an even larger portion


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of energetic space (radiant, electromagnetic, subatomic forces) is physically undetectable.

Therefore, rather than admit that not all may be ‘matter’, the materialist assures us that

the stuff is simply too ‘dark’ to see; nothing metaphysical about it.

Outer space is only an empty vacuum … the return of luminous ether

Just before my own lifetime, it was declared that outer space is not filled with any kind of

gaseous ‘ether’. It is simply nothing. Astrophysicists have since discovered conversely

that there is truly no such thing as a ‘vacuum’. Oh sure, objects behave differently in the

absence of an air or water-pressured environment. But the ‘nothing’ is definitely

occupied by something (or perhaps Someone) extremely potent. Some say that a

thimbleful of background energy would be sufficient to power all our world’s

technologies for years at a time … if only we knew how to access it. Perhaps it is truly

another dimension, however dependent our own reality on the cohesion of its energy

matrix. And the stuff of material ‘reality’ actually represents comparative vacancies of

energy rather than denser fields of ordered atoms. A solid brick hurtling through space is

more like an energy hole or shadow in cosmic terms; while the ‘empty’ space around it

continues to buzz with immeasurable intensity, like waves of a heavenly ocean. Other

physicists have suggested it is time to reconsider the classical notions of etheric space.

Then perhaps we could get a handle on some of the persistent mysteries, like the origins

of gravity and dark matter.

Absolute zero means absolutely no energy …another fantasy vacuum

Not true, after all—for not only has it proven impossible to create an ‘absolute zero’

state; the background energy of space is reluctant to rest; further, as particles of matter

approach total stasis, they begin to resonate more efficiently with each other’s internal

wavelike properties … a quantum level super-conductivity. Subspace communications,

anybody?

Stratified rock represents eons of Earth history …lone volcano breaks geologic records

Recent Mount St Helens eruptions produced unanticipated results: A scalding hot

cocktail of mud and lava plunged down a valley, rapidly carving a deep hard-rock canyon

and a new water course at bottom. If geologists hadn’t been there this time to witness the

infamous ‘before and after’, they might blame the poor river for slowly worrying

stratified walls to a depth equaling millions of years. They also found trees petrified to

fossil hardness by quick infusion of vaporized minerals, a process previously unobserved.

Whole forests were blasted out of the ground; glaciers melted into lakes. The sudden

deluge liquefied mountains and submerged the trees; currents resituated timber into

layered patterns –many floating upright to appear like new growth amidst the thousands

previously felled. As more mud and lava silt over, it is evident how that similar killing

fields exhumed became wholly misinterpreted …as a calendar of millennial cycles,

marked by periods of reforestation following catastrophic events. Suddenly geologic time

is compressed to mere months and years before our eyes.

Dare we suppose that Science may regroup and reconsider all previous ‘grand canyon’

scenarios? Remember those old stories about global eruptions triggering a

transcontinental flood —biblical and other versions— perhaps not so far-fetched after all.


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Micro-Biology and Genetics

Nobody else is forced to wear your genes …coordinating epigenetic ‘overwear’

That’s right—a basic precept of the maturing science of Genetics was that outer

vestments of behavior or diet or other lifestyle habiliments will not affect the DNA

underwear inherited by one’s offspring. Nature was supposed to have insulated the purity

of hidden genes from the ravaging matters of external survival—this despite Darwinian

Evolutionists insistence that adaptation to externals will transform a whole species

(another exquisite contradiction).

But the Genome Project presents a sobering challenge; results have proven ‘unexpected’,

to say it kindly (and public media tends to portray it so). But expectation (like

prediction) is fundamental to scientific method—every grade school student is supposed

to know that. The ‘human program’ is not an accumulation of ever-more-complex DNA

coding. The actively coding sequences are relatively tidy and efficient, while the greatest

bulk (first assumed to be ‘junk’ vestiges of evolutionary travail) is being revealed a

sophisticated library of switching combinations, corrective communication packets,

protective redundancies and functional subroutines. Any computer scientist must marvel

at Nature’s elegant ‘design’ –blind and dumb as She must be.

But it is the very latest science of Epigenetics that has the Darwinians reeling and

medical technologists most excited. For where revealed Genomics has let them down

(providing very few DNA indicators of disease), a secondary overlay –like printed micro-

transistor modules—is intercepting and changing the game from a lottery of select

mutations to one featuring free human decision and life skills. Yes indeed: It is the ways

one chooses to eat and behave and prepare for crises that decides his future health …and

the physical predispositions of offspring –that is the genetic expression of DNA coding

contained in a young father’s growing sperm or a mother’s lifetime clutch of egg cells.

In fact, my lifestyle choices and history affect my children and my grandchildren, even

great-grandchildren. The sins of the parent are likely to be paid for by progeny into the

third and fourth generations, just as Mosaic Law warned … Not an overblown threat of

cosmic retribution, after all; rather an inherent property of genetics understood intuitively

by that father of fathers.

Cells are simple …except when they are complex

I would hope (with little certainty) that school curriculums have abandoned the term

‘simple cell’. Yet the mantra of ‘simple to complex’ remains a basic tenet of the natural

scientist’s creed. More on the Darwinian implications of this later … I want to highlight

here the realization that the simplest of single-celled organisms is revealed to be quite as

complex in program execution as a modern major metropolis. What’s more, its

infrastructure is so dynamic and environmentally efficient; a San Francisco or Taipei is

truly barbaric by comparison. Add to that how cells (even primitive viruses) appear to be

consciously cooperating with their neighbors and mysteriously communicative with other

cellular systems, as well as the body as a whole. We should pray that human macro-

technologies catch up to ancient micro-biological standards.


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Embryonic stem cells rule …fat is no longer fatal

It was quite the political crisis for awhile, at least two U.S. election cycles. European

governments had already settled the question—could hardly understand why Americans

must create such a stir. Dead or dying babies were hardly in a position to complain, after

all. To conservative, life-sanctifying Yanks—this was precisely the point.

But the controversy has almost disappeared, and the good news is hardly noticed by

major media. A person’s own matured cells can be coaxed to relapse into a pre-selected

state: adult skin cells (thousands flushed down the shower drain or lost in the bedding

every day); and lately, adult fat cells are revealed the happiest volunteers. And we

thought these ubiquitous citizens were doomed to a third-class existence, having suffered

major valuation issues. A spare tire in the trunk may prove the best nest-egg investment

of a lifetime.

Macro-Biology and Evolution

Life protein magic –from soup to cell …or was it underwater volcanic vents?

Remember that first correction of early evolutionary theory: That life never generates

spontaneously? That is, except in primordial soup. Collegians never seemed to notice

that embarrassing inconsistency … not until apparently archaic organisms were lately

found lurking in most inhospitable environments. I guess it is always a question of where

one goes looking.

First it was hydrocarbon spills, whether natural or (Curses!) the man-mined abomination.

Mother Earth hadn’t time to evolve any biological remedy to human pollutants. Then

some upstart went snooping, after noticing how seasonal rainfall deteriorates asphalt

pavements. Probably acid rain …But no! Look at that—Poor squigglies! A variety of

bacteria evidently starving was found to be feeding (reluctantly) upon oil. But some

decades later, I hear that the bugs aren’t shy about their diet at all. They’ve been

gobbling oil and tar seeping from ocean floors for eons out of time. And they love it.

(More implications of this find later.)

Next news was the doctor down-under who dared report that stomach ulcers may be

caused by bacteria. It took the ‘scientific’ community ten more years to accomplish

requisite peer review, meantime defaming the guy’s professional name. Everybody

‘knew’ that living organisms cannot survive in such acidic environments, so why

investigate or bother trying to replicate the claims of a quack? I wonder how many

patients suffered and even died for lack of basic antibiotic therapy. My own father was

one of those.

Personally, I suspect it was that reversal which started a broader sea wave of suspicion.

If life scientists were wrong about oily or acid baths, where might further unsuspected

forms of life be hiding? They have since announced discovery of a whole new branch on

the primordial Tree of Life, affectionately called extremophiles. Boiling or freezing, even

oxygen-blighted and otherwise sterile or toxic extremes—life was ever poised to thrive.


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And Shizzam! The notion of life’s earliest appearance in an accidental protein gumbo is

declared oh-such-a-50’s problematic mess. Makes much more sense to suppose that

original spores ‘learned’ to grow where the sun don’t shine, where O2 or CO2 are scarce

…Heck, we always suspected that oldest atmospheres of Earth must have been toxic to

later forms of life. Perhaps oxygen itself was a onetime poison. Where else and in what

other unanticipated forms might explorers discover sentients?

SETI’s quest for Life-as-we-know-it on other planets …quantum physics and

extremophiles change the game

Another ‘science’ drifting out of media view is the project signaling our existence to

hoped-for civilizations in other locales of our universe. Based on human history, I could

never understand the presumption that such Others must be better than deadly rivals. The

whole venture is potentially a horrible gamble. Meanwhile, I marvel at summary

dismissal of religious traditions— namely that multiple classes of alien civilization had

long ago converged upon our planet.

Now, given the possibilities of quantum mechanics –such as alternate dimensions,

subatomic awarenesses, dark energies and other ‘spooky’ extra-physical events; also

discovery of life flourishing in wholly unexpected regions: When will they start looking

for evidence of entities and even intelligences swarming … in subspace, in antimatter or

parallel dimensions of reality? Of course, science fiction media have played with this

idea for almost half a century. But isn’t it time, finally, to consider the likelihood

seriously that mankind has never been alone? Priests and Seers and other metaphysical

‘sensitives’ have been reporting alien (call it angel or demon) encounters for millennia.

Meanwhile, more and more astronomers are sighing their admittance that the quest for

contact with off-world life-as-we-know-it is probably doomed to disappointment … or

else (another sigh) … relief. The more they search, the more evident that our cosmic

situation is truly unique. I am certainly happier resting with the improbability of

superhuman cyborgs or insectoids seeking to invade our solar system. At least we have a

historically documented legacy of successful resistance against ambitions of demon

hordes.

If you are human, thank Zabumafoo …or maybe it was Flipper

“If you can read this, thank a teacher.” Those bumper stickers quietly disappeared as

investigative press exposed how the most academic graduates were learning their skills in

spite of public education faux pas. (That should be noted in my Socio-Economics list of

reversals.) Similarly, once upon a time …No, not so long ago—Life Science texts were

printed with the now-classic illustration of Homo-Erectus (a mythical beast) crowning the

succession of Apes on the evolutionary climb to Modern Man. Yet while many of those

charts remain in use (in lower grades), universities now teach that humankind is derived

from a separate branch parallel to ape-kind. Both supposedly owe their lineage to an

undiscovered common link more lemur-like than monkey or chimp (see Figure A).

But why, I ask, do the theorists go there? Haven’t animal behaviorists better established

our kinship with crustaceans? By far, some of the most intelligent and socially adept of


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species are dolphins and killer whales. There is even evidence of their developing

abstract forms of language. And I am certain that Flipper was really laughing at his jokes.

Those monkey-types are obviously faking it.

Sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for the Age of Reptiles … Tweet

If Darwinian evolutionists ever entertained the idea of bird species emerging from

dinosaurs, they acted too smart to admit it. Then China finally opens its borders for

paleontologists to explore A-thru-L of Earth’s fossil index. Not only did they discover

strata laid upside down (so much for a coherent ‘record’); some fossils there appear to

reveal that certain reptilian species sported feathers. So then, are birds (especially the

flightless Big Bird) evolved from purple Barney? Whole universities have already

shifted that direction.

‘Not so fast!’ comes the latest pronouncement. Make room for a new and opposing

theory—because further evidence suggests that dinosaurs (at least most intelligent

varieties) evolved from birds. Talk about turning convention on its head!

Medicine and Psychology

Coffee won’t stunt your child’s growth … but it’s bad …no, it’s good

This one is a flip-flop issue— only one of a long list of double reversals: fructose from

corn syrup was supposed to replace sugar; margarine was promoted to supplant fatty

butter; there were all kinds of substitutes for heart-stopping eggs; healthy carob instead of

toxic chocolate; plastic cups and bottles would be friendlier than glass; we decaffeinated

coffee to death. Now corn syrup is bad and sugar is better (though they list it as

‘crystallized cane juice’ just to hide the flip back again). BPA plastics cause infertility for

generations following. Margarine is made of corn and plastic. Cholesterol in eggs is

good stuff, not bad after all. Chocolate and coffee …the stronger, the better.

Studies were faulting coffee for blood sugar and adrenal disorders, and even esophageal

cancer. Others have begun to praise anti-oxidant properties of the daily cup of Joe.

Lately, it appears that consensus is turning in favor of moderate coffee drinking; likewise

chocolate indulgences, wine and beer. (This is not the trend, by the way, of research

regarding use of marijuana or other ‘recreational’ drugs). Everything from overall

immuno-proficiency to hedging one’s bets against cancer: Java is proving to be the

legendary magic bean.

But moderation is key. And this warning was recently underlined by a study of pregnant

mother’s coffee habits. Conclusion: too much may indeed stunt Baby’s gestational

development.

Placebos certainly cannot work …except when they do

When I was growing up, one heard rumor that certain family doctors would slip sugar

pills to hypochondria-leaning clients. It wasn’t illegal (though some radicals were

declaring sugar a ‘dangerous substance’) and the tablets weren’t likely to violate the

Hippocratic oath, “First do no harm”. Yet the use of placebos was perceived as trick

medicine, both their reported effects as healing agents and their interference with


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healthcare research. Thus the standard use of double-blind trials where even the

prescription of placebo therapies is ‘hidden’ to ‘eliminate’ its effect.

What effect? Now really …But really, golly, truly now—doctors are forced to

acknowledge how that mental predisposition alters biochemical and neural-physiology.

Before this decade, the majority of physicians preached that ‘You aren’t what you eat’,

and ‘You certainly aren’t what you merely think about’. Enter the new biology of belief.

Yes, I said it: ‘Belief’. Attitude and expectation of a positive or negative outcome

produces measurable results. They suspect it is hormonal, probably dopamine or natural

cortisones in the vicinity of the brainstem. But the numbers are overwhelmingly

significant, proving that placebos and nocebos (their cursed opposites) truly affect one’s

health and healing. Scans show further localized neuro-chemical response …whether it

be the root cause or another physical symptom of more basic energetic processes.

Before I float the ‘energetic’ argument, consider some recent medical history, as follows.

Leeches and herbalists were quacks …vampires of today

Not only do modern doctors and hospitals deal in blood –far more than leechcraft of

old—but those medics specializing in drawing blood will affectionately refer to

themselves as ‘vampires’. They think it’s funny (while the subjects of their art nervously

laugh along); but the label has proven prophetic of another scientific reversal.

Some researchers are quite willing to mark it down as yet another placebo effect—that

the practice of bloodletting ever seemed to work. But others recognized that such an

ancient and persistent practice surely deserves more thorough investigation. I’m sure

they actually expected to discredit it to death; but results were undeniable. For certain

maladies, the therapy works wonders … and it is especially effective using river leeches

specially bred. Seems the worms know a trick of painless incision that knives or needles

(or human vampires) can never pretend.

As if leeches weren’t creepy enough …some wounds are benefiting dramatically from the

voracious attentions of maggots (also laboratory grown). The ‘yuck’ factor may ever

remain one facet of medicinal science.

Wonder drugs will save the world …until ‘antiseptic’ is proven toxic

One of the darkest seasons of our parenthood –for my wife and me—was the day we

rushed our boy from the doctor’s office to Emergency for a bone infection. It was the

scariest of reversals, with impending life or death consequences, when one doctor was

contradicted by a colleague upon our worried return; the first had mistakenly called it

merely a spider bite or bruising and sent us home. Fortunately, hospital doctors were able

to guess at a timely therapy, before blood tests and scans were indicative. Then we were

surprised again when the patient was released to our care to recover in a home

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No, they don’t like to keep an otherwise healthy child in hospital for longer than

necessary to stabilize and decide upon treatment. The familiar home environment is

healthiest, however unsanitary; because the ‘friendly’ bacteria help restore a natural

balance of resistance to further invasive bugs. Despite the incentive of additional hospital

revenue; it has proven persuasively hazardous (legally) to risk introduction of hospital-

borne superbugs resistant to antiseptics and our best antibacterial therapies.

Vaccination may be a gamble, but it’s our civic duty …except when the doctors pass

Yup … That’s what finally dissuaded us as parents from complying uncritically with the

standard schedule of vaccines for our children. Doctors were reported to have declined

the procedure for their own children and grandchildren. The jury remains out (though

hardly deliberating) over the issue of vaccination’s long-term and epigenetic effects. In

some cases, questions remain as to short-term efficacy as advertised …And then we were

required to sign the paper informing us of known ‘possible’ side effects, as scary or more

ominous than the childhood disease at issue.

I remember the doctor at the hospital where my young boy was treated. ‘Vaccines are

consistently proven safe in trials,’ was the statement he recited; and he emphasized the

word ‘safe’ like all of them do—as if it bore specialized meaning intended to transfer

culpability for risk right back to the subject or parents; meanwhile retaining our

cooperation just long enough to complete the operation. After that it’s too late for

challenges. It was like when the nurse told me as a kid that the injection wouldn’t really

hurt … and anyway, it’s over quickly. It did hurt, of course; she knew that I knew by the

way she said the word ‘hurt’ …that it would.

We bought the vaccines, for all of our children; except when the pertussis shot became

unavailable as a separate (more expensive) injection. At the time, the issue was a toxic

preservative used for combining vaccines—later discontinued. Even so, I find industry

arguments suspicious and unpersuasive. Can they blame me?

Just last night, I read of yet another study concluding that common viral infections (cold

and flu) appear essential as conditioning of a body for optimal immune response to life-

threatening pathogenic invasions. Flu vaccines may actually produce the opposite of that

classically intended—disabling the body’s most effective disposal of truly serious

biological dangers. Long ago, I read of similar studies regarding shots for measles and

chicken pox.

Energetic therapies deserve to be outlawed …new market for ‘alternative’ medics

Now, considering such history (recent medical science reversals) I am persuaded to re-

evaluate medicines outside the allopathic reserve. Yes, it’s a wild world of alternative

therapies; but the track record of ‘conventional’ drugs is daunting, to put it mildly.

Except in clear cases of emergency surgical intervention, I am finding myself open to

approaches that avoid the accepted chemical operations. Part of that is from having lived

long enough to observe results of drug therapy over lifetimes of older relatives. Add to

that the growing company of family doctors who seek alternatives for themselves and

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and joint disorders, as well as hormonal imbalances. My doctor always reminds me to

supplement my diet with vitamins and strenuous exercise. Ten years ago, a patient never

heard such a thing from AMA-approved physicians.

Yet today, one can even find insurance to cover application of far-out sciences; such as

acupuncture, aroma-therapy and bio-psychology programs. Chiropractors may have been

the first in western society basing their practice on a science of energetic body processes.

New studies every month are confirming the validity of ancient eastern medical models

that assume some kind of other-dimensional body of life underlying bio-chemical

systems. Such a view even begins to make sense of homeopathic remedies. It’s the sort of

development one might expect were biologists to begin looking for answers where

indicated by other physical science reversals. Biologists should allow their studies to be

informed by the findings of Physics, and vice versa.

Neurology is fixed and dead brain cells are irreplaceable …I will be what I will to be

This is a biggy! I remember noting it during public school health classes warning

students against use of drugs. Problem was that it also carried the fatalistic message that

one’s personality is determined before birth. So a person prone to addictive behavior and

substance dependence is predestined to a subhuman quality of life. Rehabilitation is

doomed to failure. Of course, nobody ever actually preached that equation.

This belief resulted primarily from the standard presupposition that a human brain works

like any other computational machine. To carry any volume of electromagnetic signals,

the neurons must basically die ahead of time (like so many copper wires); and they do so

very early in life. But every experiment aiming to demonstrate such a model has utterly

failed. Neurologists have since admitted that reality is proven much as our Sunday

School teachers taught: a person is designed to choose freely what quality of life he may

lead. Mental attitude is everything –gratitude, respect, obedience, etc; self-discipline and

healthy habits follow (despite contrary circumstances; i.e., poverty); then the needed

neurons and networked connections are dynamically reformed.

So what does this mean in the wild? Some good character may be inborn … but if it isn’t

practiced, the neural synapses go slack; and bad habits (including habits of thought)

rewire the brain. More importantly, even a genetic predisposition to destructive

behavior—it needn’t spell miserable demise. Add to that the dynamic of epigenetics: so

one’s good effort and practice during this lifetime –even when less than successful, and

especially during male adolescence—will positively impact future generations of genetic

predisposition. Those Boy Scout programs and their backward conservative values may

be key, in practice, to progressively civilizing future society. The cultural struggle for

our young men’s attitudes and minds is truly the war to end all wars.

Energy and Environment

Petroleum is a disappearing resource …bottomless wells

A century ago, automobile engineers had to decide which technology to invest in: electric

motors or gas engines. The choice was easy, as more and more oil resources were

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market. But environmental scientists wanted to spoil the party. Gasoline is a fossil fuel

exploiting eons to supply mere hours of polluting energy. The resource will soon be

depleted …So the world must either lower living standards or find alternative energy

sources.

By the time I graduated from college, the pressure was on big time, and the Mideast oil

cartel started playing power games. Meanwhile, my country was shutting down access to

domestic oil reserves, and cost of living began rising exponentially; because now most

every industry depended upon oil, including manufacture of all kinds of plastics.

Alternatives were not looking very helpful, short of a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. The

future of modern life-as-we-know-it looked grim.

Then a curious report surfaced: One oil well pumped dry had somehow replenished itself.

Where was the new oil coming from? Lab experiments have proven now that oil is not

exclusively, nor even primarily, the product of biomatter conversion. The term ‘fossil

fuel’ is a mistake. Now geologists have learned how to locate oil reserves far deeper and

more plentiful than ever suspected when searches were limited to shallow fossilized

fields. General media and politics haven’t yet seized upon the news—But it appears there

was never any crisis after all. There is no good reason that oil production shouldn’t

proceed more cheaply and safely than ever.

Petroleum is the least efficient energy source …dead birds and dirty glass

We have learned how to burn gasoline and coal more cleanly. Hybrid-electric cars –

because of battery weight and repair expense—are indeed least efficient while burning

gas; but their electric motors would be useless if power plants weren’t burning coal and

oil. Even fuel cell technology is said to work better using hydrocarbons. So why does

the mantra continue that petroleum energy is least efficient?

Wind and sunlight is free; doesn’t pollute like carbon fuels. I believed the claims and

wondered like everyone else why investment didn’t shift that direction. What about new

hydro-electric generation ideas? Ocean waves and tides are free also. There is even

technology now to deal with nuclear power waste. Cold fusion is a proven fact (though

hardly usable).

Turns out that environmental activists are now resisting development of most every

energy alternative. Solar energy farms are best located in wastelands and deserts. But

they require water –lots of it—to wash and cool the glass panels. So we burn oil to

transport the water, itself a precious commodity; then we boil off the water in hopes of

maximizing solar energy conversion. Windmill farms are expensive and unsightly. Even

environmentalist Senator Kennedy complained of installations decorating his commute.

All these technologies are said to disturb local wildlife, especially the flying and

swimming kind.

Suddenly we don’t hear so much about wind and sun; less about water sources. Even our

leftist president wants to build nuclear plants and reinstate domestic oil drilling, despite

protests of old-school tree huggers. This is a major ‘about-face’.


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Petroleum use is irredeemably polluting …tar baby bugs

When I was young, we had smog-alert days during every heat wave. I remember well the

aching lungs. Cars congesting the roads amounted to a pitiable fraction of the numbers

out there now. Yet today, I hardly ever hear of schools closing due to smog levels. L.A.

sunsets are no longer near as interesting. Obvious success of emissions controls

represents one example of government regulation actually helping. However, further

regulative goals threaten to bankrupt whole states to achieve a ‘zero’ emissions standard.

All CO2 emissions are declared poisonous …though everyone knows that plants cannot

grow without it.

None could ever have guessed that the lowest of life forms might rescue us from such

self-destructive nonsense. Remember the oil-gobbling microbes? They are being

genetically modified: Oil and tar goes in one end, and processed gasoline comes out the

other. Diesel-farting bugs may save our economy one day. Time to convert those giant

beer and wine tanks to magic petroleum digesters instead.

Landfills will consume our living spaces …garbage for sale

Even trash –especially paper and vegetable waste—is in demand as an ongoing energy

resource. No more landfills converted to stinky parks …They are valued methane plants

when properly engineered. The U.S. military is developing the technology now to make

their operations entirely energy-independent within a few years. Even the rawest sewage

is proven burnable for supplemental energy production.

Modern humanity makes forests and species vanish …ghosts of disappearances past

Popular science says: American forests are a tiny fraction of their ancestral grandeur and

can never recover naturally. The North American Bison was hunted to the brink of

extinction by invading Europeans. The Plains Indians and ancient Mayans lived in

harmony with the earth and brother species. Modern human populations and lifestyles

will accelerate the erasure of natural plant and animal forebears. Extinctions are adding

up faster than naturalists can discover and name those surviving.

Uncelebrated corrections tell: We now have far more acreage of North American

forests than Europeans first discovered. Indigenous tribes and climate change had

already shrunk ‘buffalo’ herds to a small remnant of primordial numbers. Mayans and

their forebears were stripping rainforests bare for centuries to make room for their farms

and city centers; in fact, the forests have grown back like weeds to hide ruins from all but

most advanced archeological scans. Most ancient American cultures were systematically

raping the land, persecuting their neighbors and basically destroying themselves.

Zoologists and botanists publish discovery of hundreds of ‘new’ species every year. And

curiously, many of those are proven to be living successors of fossilized finds presumed

extinct. Latest admission—the taxonomy of dinosaurs requires a thorough revision, as

many of those believed to have been separate species represent juvenile stages of

maturation (much as we see today with birds and fish).


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Anthropology and Civilization Early humans had no music, art or government; no soul …ol’ time Neanderthal religion

It has been assumed that prehistoric man was not capable of culture or mythological

imagination. Such attributes certainly require greater evolution of brain and community.

Meanwhile, more artifacts are surfacing that can only be explained as ritualistic in

purpose and design. What if the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons were actually relatively

sophisticated races, more advanced culturally than Homo Sapiens? Perhaps it was more

like the Roman conquest of the Greeks. Relative brain size –like other forms of bulk—

doesn’t necessarily indicate moral superiority.

Primitive man lacked abstract language and writing skill …universal cave doodles

Just yesterday I read about some rogue re-evaluation of human petroglyphs. Of course

prehistoric tribes had no inkling of grammar or penmanship. Squiggles and dots on the

oldest of cave drawings were always overlooked as random or childish scribbles. Why

then do such figures in Europe closely resemble those found on other continents? The

variety and consistency of drawings would suggest hieroglyphic significance. Seems

those old guys practiced some sort of global symbology …most likely for religion or

trade.

Archeology proves the Bible is a book of fables … Ramses was the delusional liar

I challenge any reader to investigate evidence for the standard belief. New proofs are

uncovered every month establishing that it was the pharaohs and emperors of powers

surrounding Israel who perpetuated revisionist histories. Successors of those cultures still

practice the ancient arts of propaganda …And they are proud of it. The biblical record is

uniquely candid and complete, never sparing leaders of the ‘chosen’ people the historical

judgment they deserved. That fact alone should predispose researchers to consider that

even miracle stories were probably founded in fact.

Population apocalypse …Mao, Hitler and Lenin follies

My grandparents’ educators believed their cultures and governments had evolved beyond

the practice of genocide or war. Later, title of a popular book may have blinded my

generation to painful truth. We were so mesmerized by looming threats of population

explosion, that whole history departments hardly noticed reports of atrocities perpetrated

by revered leaders of our humanist age. Multiple millions of those deliberately

slaughtered or negligently starved would dwarf any of the barbarous accomplishments of

humanity’s religious past. Yet, purely secular motivations sought ‘correction’ of natural

trends –genetic or economic. Latent evolutionary faults (unpurged) must culminate in

such cultural horrors as described by 20th

century doomsday prophets; their predictions

echoed as quasi-scientific warnings of Future Shock. Mankind and Earth can never adapt

to such ballooning numbers and changing modernist demands.

The warnings seemed thoroughly reasonable; I believed them. Many of our parents

believed it too. Most sobering realization must be that my fellows and my children are

no more purely evolved than their forebears: We are as capable as our great-grandsires of

perpetrating horrors. The really candid anthropologists and economists admit that

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challenge. Most recent decades prove it inarguably so. The warring and terror and

enslavement allowed to continue round the globe do not generate from regions where

cultural advancement has rooted and bloomed. No …it’s the ethnically pure despotic

governments and ideological terrorists that stubbornly refuse to peacefully adapt.


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Change step … March! of the Raphus Cucullatus

Finally, I am beginning another list—this one features current scientific certainties that I

suspect (propose) to be candidates for reversal. Think of it as a watch list of What-Ifs, a

registry of endangered beliefs … What if this also is mistaken? Perhaps the idea is

destined to ‘go the way of the Dodo’. In some cases my suspicions are shared by boldly

qualified researchers of opposing evidence; otherwise it may be intuition, or simply my

wish-filled fanciful thinking.

By ‘certainties’ I mean where science professors are likely to include accepted findings

in a text or lecture series; where politicians are persuaded to base policy and/or legislation

upon a perceived consensus of prevailing belief; also established theory and conclusion

so treated as ‘fact’ that any further research or theorizing will likely be premised upon it.

For instance, anthropologists believe that no civilization capable of building large city

structures existed prior to BC 4500. Therefore recent scans revealing evidence of giant

manmade structures seismically submerged under oceans and dredged-up artifacts dating

12000 BC— these are immediately dismissed as probable misrepresentations and

therefore hardly worth further investigation. Of course, the new findings may prove after

all to be misleading and so further corroborate established belief. But what if the

consensus is wrong? And shouldn’t every scientist want it verified?

No? …Why not? And what makes that question irritate you so?


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Figure A: Conventional Theories of Evolution


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Double time … Forward! My Watch List of Endangered Beliefs

Astro-Physics and Geology Metaphysical life on other planets: a question of angels on a pin

Astro-anthropologists (I made up the title) seem so sure that other-worldly entities must

be carbon-based, water-dependent, gravity-bound and temperate-zone forms of life. What

if SETI was conceived to search the wrong heavens, after all? What about inner space?

Let the most respected theories of quantum physics inform the project; look for

intelligence and design and ordered signals of entities ‘reaching out’ from super-material

dimensions.

I suspect that somebody somewhere has already conducted such a quest … only to be

scared back from the brink of madness. Nevertheless, we may not be so far from a

science able to close the gaps separating faith from fact; chemistry from alchemy;

astrology from astrophysics; religion or mythology from history.

Metaphysical life on our world: bees knees and their inexplicable sense of direction

There remains so much unaccounted and probably incomprehensible within restraints of

physical science: especially regarding the innate intelligence of insects and animals —

even the single-celled varieties; their awesome migratory smarts; metamorphosis magic

and intricate social organizations. Yet zoologists refuse to entertain stories regarding

parallel dimensions of earth environment. What of the legendary hidden realms—whole

kingdoms of faeries and gremlins? Animals appear to know when a disaster approaches,

before anything registers on the most sensitive of technological instruments. Tradition

explains that bees don’t find so much as ‘follow’ their way to flowers; similarly for

migrations of butterflies or bats. Natural conundrums –investigated metaphysically—

may offer clues to cross-dimensional symbioses between animals and other entities.

Micro-Biology and Genetics

Bodies as symphonies of Light: molecular messaging via subspace

I capitalize ‘Light’ to infer the widest range of electromagnetics, from subsonic to the

highest frequencies of the whole spectrum. I am watching daily for results of studies

verifying the metaphysics of energetic health technicians. It is claimed that a nano-

biological level of messaging best explains efficacies of chemical, hormonal and

pathogenic acts. How else can a cell –one among astronomical numbers—know

immediately what instruction is received by a fellow at the opposite end of the body?

Latest research suggests that stem cells are coordinated to transform and rebuild specific

organs by means of vibrational cues—flowing currents, pressures and tensions

surrounding. Biologists have yet to reconstruct how mutilated skin reforms its original

identifying finger print. Will they consider the possibility of a formative aural body or

energetic template? Experiments are demonstrating how light can be used to heal or

destroy within biological environs. Tuned to a specific wavelength, white light was

effective to purge live blood of a viral infestation. The membrane of a virus is

comparatively brittle, so the vibration shatters the buggers without harming surrounding

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Macro-Biology and Evolution Intelligent alien fellows: redefining ‘life as we know it’ and evolutionary process

Before we can ever consider other forms of ‘life’ elsewhere, zoologists must brave to

look again (and again) at our home world’s totality of environments. A big part of such a

turn-about means reconsidering when and where evolution might plausibly happen. Even

observing quickstep propagations of fruit flies, bacteria and viruses— there has never

been a recorded case of material evolution of species. Multiply the generations of

mutations and adaptations: and a fly remains a fly, a bacterium remains the same species

of bug; likewise every humanly-selected dog breed remains a dog. Let go of the bias

reserving the term ‘life’ for flesh-bound entities; then one may entertain the possibility

(not a new idea at all) that physical corporality is only one form; not the original form,

never the most populous form, nor the form of bodyhood most conducive to change. Of

course, then, Science must subsume the idea of uncarnate living soul or spirit—else some

other quantum definition.

New species result from coding ‘mistakes’…epigenetics and genomic hybrids

It has been exciting to follow the recent frenzy to reverse-engineer the epigentics of

DNA’s ninety-eight percent ‘junk’ or noncoding sectors between genes. But so far, that

effort is limited to medicine. I’m afraid that paleo-archaeologists will be less enthusiastic

about implications regarding zoology, past and present. It was hoped that the

unexplained sections of DNA might provide a means of reconstructing the evolutionary

Tree of Life –a sort of calendar or logbook of genetic history. The more of ‘junk’ DNA

that is recognized to have current or active significance, the less of supposed evolutionary

vestiges there remains to map as record of the origins of species.

Among those genomes ‘decoded’ thus far, a few have emerged to thoroughly confound

the geneticists’ expectations. Some species are comprised of extremely odd

combinations that defy natural theories of evolution. Imagine uniquely squirrelish or

birdish or treeish DNA inserted into chromosomes of a monkey; or a sea slug modified

by ocean algae to derive sustenance (like a plant) from the sun. Another ocean hybrid

has proven that two completely unrelated evolutionary lines –sea squirt and urchin—were

conjoined as something unique. It is every bit as mysterious and wonderful as the

metamorphosis of worm to butterfly— though we were somewhat acquainted with that

(while no more able to explain). Some argue away anomalies as a consequence of

surviving viral infections. Others regard it as evidence of deliberate (however

inscrutable) genetic engineering.

Neanderthals migrated out of this world …but they left behind heap ‘Big Foot’ prints

Genetic archeologists have already found DNA evidence to suggest that some of the big-

browed guys (or gals) interbred with those upstarts standing taller. They say now that

more genetic variability exists between clans of chimpanzees than between all current

races of men. We are perpetrating a very limited (select; remnant) range of human DNA

possibilities. Paleontologists claim to have isolated several extinct hominid lines; though

none dare refer to them any longer as ancestors of modern human evolution (more about

this problem later). Ancient accounts (some biblical) refer to rival humanoid lines.

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were reported to have departed from preferred adamic modes of development (the sons of

Seth); many represented abominations resulting from alien interferences—subhuman or

superhuman deformities. Rather than dismissing these records as mythological dreams:

What if anthropologists were to regard ancient myth as a distorted collective memory of

that which was? Think of such stories as giant ‘footprints’ shadowing History’s less

explored dominions.

If you are human, thank an ape …or was it a cuttlefish (human-spirited invertebrates)?

As noted, paleo-anthropologists are no longer so eager to point to a modern ape as

anything very close to the ancestor of man. Yet we continue to imagine a missing

evolutionary link more ape-like than lemur or rat. If present conditions are not, in fact,

key to the past; if an evolutionary process required a more malleable, pre-flesh and pre-

bone density of corporeality; if higher intangible attributes (such as intelligence and

emotion and consciousness) were also part of a long process culminating in ‘human’—

there demands nothing limiting pre-humanity to quadruped mammals.

Smarts were never the special domain of apes. Dolphins appear most verbally able

(brains proportionately larger than human); the octopus is most inventive and adept at use

of tools. No animal compares to the cuttlefish for depth and variety of expression of

feelings. Swarms of single-celled microbes are proving more self-aware and magically

community-minded.

I am quite willing to entertain a broader view: an inverted mode of evolution. What if

human volition and creativity pre-existed the advent of physical species? What if the

varieties of animal forms are rather vestiges of previous adamic adaptations? Maybe we

are more closely related to cephalopod nature than anthropoids, after all—at least

spiritually or mentally speaking. The fossil record may represent only the latest de-

volutions –merely those least malleable, hardened forms—bodies originally designed to

accommodate human evolvements. This could hardly be more out-of-step with the

current ‘scientific’ drill. However, I find it worth thinking about—And no, it wasn’t my

own idea or fanciful dream. As a model of human development, this set of ‘theories’

predates Darwin’s by several millennia (see Figures A and B).

Medicine and Psychology

Sometimes I think like a nut: evolution of consciousness and ancient adepts

So long as I am tripping out of ranks—may as well march to my own drum. I am starting

with an assumption completely opposite to that inferred by modern anthropologists.

What if ancient man was never ‘primitive’? Just because we find artifacts of subsistence

styles of living dating back to prehistoric ages—it doesn’t necessarily follow that Fred

Flintstone was simple-minded. As earlier reviewed, there is good evidence for the

reverse. Certainly, we can deduce from studying previous cultural writings that modern

consciousness is most rationalistic, most materially inventive and democratically minded

compared to previous races. But Socrates was by no means simple. Nor was Moses or

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I find myself playing a mind game, imagining what future archeologists might deduce

from diggings regarding our societal values and smarts … if all they found were remains

of summer encampment at a wilderness refuge or park. The American natives were

considered primitive, at first, by visiting Europeans. Then archeologists began studying

so-called Mound People sites. Turns out, the indigenous tribes that early immigrants

encountered were remnants; descendants of refugees who survived enigmatic

catastrophes (probably disease) having decimated the prior continental civilization.

So perhaps even Cro-Magnon man was far more sophisticated than artifacts can tell. And

if latest deep-sea finds prove to be ancient ruins, after all … maybe our self-aggrandizing

notion of civilization’s evolution is also inverted fact. Surely, ancient worldviews must

have been different; self-consciousness was probably alien to ours. The ‘normal’ mind of

long ago might well have been nocturnal, clairvoyant or atavistic. What we experience as

dreaming might have been their keenest awareness, and physical existence comparatively

crude. Inmate cultures found in modern mental institutions suggest such an alternative

life-style. When one’s mind is otherwise occupied, physical/material demands recede

into fuzzy background.

This also implies that ancient leaders and adepts must have practiced a completely

different method of science; different styles of medicine, societal values, government and

education. Like many animal species, self-hood had more to do with the Collective: a

family or tribal we-hood—or so one might imagine interpreting biblical record more

literally. And again, the alternate modes of thinking seen among mentally misfitting

citizens may present echoes of civilizations past. Many of them seem to know things and

understand minds of people inexplicably. Some are able to solve the insolvable and cure

the incurable as mere afterthought. Seemingly petty concerns occupy their whole

attention, while media-blitzing issues and events hardly matter. I’m not saying that the

psychotic represents a different kind of health. On the other hand … translocate a

modern academic into a pre-Flood community— then see who’s treated as idiot or savage

intruder.

Insurance won’t have to pay for that: prayer, light and other energetics go mainstream

Current marketed forms of energetic therapies may be scheduled for obsolescence. Once

the word gets out that healing energy –like sunlight—is generally free and accessible, it

doesn’t matter that ‘insurance won’t cover that’. Published studies establish that

energetics work; it is likely the ‘magic’ behind all kinds of placebo. The same research

further verifies what we should already know: Prayer works best in numbers. ‘Where

two or three agree …’ is the age-old accord; and conjoined good intentions of a whole

community of believers can move mountains. This is true using a fleet of hydro-

mechanics. It is likewise the key to overcoming all kinds of disease.

Battling a society-wide epidemic with allopathic injections is like fighting termites with a

sword. Just last night, I was reading how allergy science must finally acknowledge rival

homeopathics. The key is confronting the irritant in tiny doses instead of avoiding or

dodging it. Conquering threats to health and happiness requires that individuals engage in

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with a larger body of like-minded folk. Doctors … hospitals … expert pathologists—

these may be helpful; or they may be hurtful, initiating a nocebo effect, sowing distrust of

a body’s healing smarts.

Energy and Environment Global cooling … I mean warming —I meant to say, Change

Our internationally-ordained high priest of ‘climate change’ eschatology (Senator A.G.)

was very unhappy with his congregation this week: Too many ‘deniers’; even in the wake

of scandalous media exposés involving the fixing of data, miscopying, obscuring,

misrepresenting and carelessly ‘losing’ key data files. So much for peer review. One of

the most outspoken of deniers declared: “I always expected that the ‘global warming’

scam must eventually be exposed … But I never thought it would happen so quickly.”

It is proving to be a rather dizzying reversal. It was accompanied by tragedy this week as

the third major earthquake in a month rocked our earth (literally, shifting its axis).

Nobody dares try to blame increased seismic activity and resulting tsunamis upon climate

change –but hey! Give them time. Media moguls hardly blink when record blizzards get

credited to man-made warming. But a large enough contingent of doubting

meteorologists saw it coming and made their case clearly enough to infect whole nations

with their professional apostasy –Australia and New Zealand— such that their

governments were replaced with a mandate to reverse devastatingly oppressive regulatory

policies. Now, there’s a gloriously political about-face! (—notice, no blood.) Happily

those schisms are past and may prophesy reversal of looming U.S.A. entrapment by the

cult of ‘cap and trade’. Two of our states announced suits against the EPA for declaring

CO2 a toxin to earth life. May as well deprive farmers of necessary water because

pumping disadvantages bait fish …Oops! They already got us Californians there.

Well—what’s left? Perhaps taxing the air we breathe. That’s every good socialist’s

dream …Oops, again. Doesn’t ‘air’ require some carbon dioxide?

Besides admitted ‘transcription errors’, the science media is quietly leaking more about

glaring research and modeling omissions. Appears that planet Earth is quite adept at

restoring its carbon equilibrium (even erasing our messy footprints). The ‘faithful’

scientists neglected to account for major environmental processes. Perhaps they were too

busy measuring cattle emissions and ocean currents to observe how multiplied acreages

of microbes in ground are subsuming their share of CO2 tonnage. They counted the

‘disappearing’ rain forests and lower atmospheric systems, only to dismiss the whole

upper strata’s absorption of excess carbon. Naturally, it has been there all along to help

sweep up the spew of volcanoes. Likewise our ocean floors— another main player

chomping volumes of carbon detritus. Funny how very inconvenient truth can really be.

Future tribal ethic: live in harmony with the earth (man as savior, not monster …)

But I believe even the Republican Party is taking lessons from Earth Herself. For the

most deserved predictions of the doomsday environmentalists are unlikely to come to

pass. We have learned some important lessons as technological beasts. At least in the

U.S.A., vehicle emissions regulations are doing their job (quite effectively for


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government fiat). Certainly, we have a lot more to learn; but as certainly, our modern

swarm of human civilization is remaking itself to save more of Earth than destroy it.

Just look at the newest potential (already discussed) for turning our garbage into viable

energy. Why, it’s almost Nature-like in resourceful elegance. At least our zoologists are

trying to fulfill that ancient (biblical?) calling as caretakers of animal species. Heck …

we are even ‘rediscovering’ live surviving representatives of fossilized extinctions. It

would be spooky if it weren’t so wonderful. So, why can’t we celebrate? Media was

actually starting to hail how responsibly we closed the ozone hole; until global warmists

shook their shushing fingers. You see, the message was mixed: hoping to distract

politicians from the promising sign (like that very first rainbow) which some ozone

depletion represents …For Earth’s ozone layer actually serves to vent atmospheric over-

warming.

Anthropology and Civilization Early man lived like animals, because they were animals …GEICO ‘cave man’ revolts

Which came first: the monkey or the man? “Of course, man evolved from animals,”

most would affirm. But what replicable evidence actually supports that assumption?

“Why, it’s only logical … And even the Bible says that animals came before people.”

What does the biblical account actually say? Yes, physical plant and animal kindred

appeared before material man. But notice that God spoke, and his speaking ‘brought

forth’ from earth and water the subhuman life of our planet. When it came to man, it was

a different formula. God first made man ‘in our likeness’, not like animals. It doesn’t

say: ‘Let the earth (or the water or animal kind) bring forth people.’ Man was originally

like the gods—primarily an entity of spirit. Not until Genesis chapter 2, after conclusion

of the creation song, are we told how man’s physical body was formed from the stuff of

earth. And only then do we learn about a division of sex …starting with humankind.

All efforts so far –either via paleontology or genetics—to establish the evolutionary

lineage of humans …They have failed to maintain any consensus from theory.

Technically, by standards of scientific method, no hypothesis has actually graduated to

the level of proper Theory by way of physical evidence or demonstration. Nobody has

replicated how a ‘lower species’ is selectively advanced (naturally or otherwise) to a

‘higher’ adaptive form. In all their experiments, a dog remains a dog; a fruit fly or

bacteria or nematode worm never strays from reproducing ‘after its own kind’; else it

stops propagating altogether.

I think it is time we approach the subject of Origins from a whole new set of

suppositions. Suppose humankind really did start out differently, compared to lesser life

of Earth. Suppose that the fossil (and genetic) record indicates not a progressive

evolution, rather devolvement from a ‘higher’ softer-bodied set of forms to lower

hardened material representations. And being materialized, the physical generations

exhibit lessening variability; the DNA coding is comparatively fixed and more narrowly

selected; and thus ‘mutations’ are more prone to mistakes that are mis-adaptive (disease,

shortened life spans and deformation). I submit that the evidence is better explained as


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showing devolution and descent from metaphysical to physical, spiritual to material,

creative complexity to simpler rigidity and thus vulnerable to mass extinctions (see

Figure B).

Sure, we see (and demonstrate) some limited adaptation within this species or that. But

epigenetic principles of variable gene expression will dominate that physical science very

soon. How so? Because that’s where the evidence leads— and it’s our best hope for

correcting inherited disorders at root of all kinds of human suffering.

Modern man grew from primitive savagery …evidence for advanced ancient races

So what if apes (or apelike hominids) descended from a higher ideal of man? Likewise

consider the more savage races, both contemporary and prehistoric. If man was

originally made ‘godlike’ as the biblical account asserts, then we won’t be surprised to

find evidence of advanced civilization predating global geologic catastrophes. It makes as

much sense (maybe more) to presume that many primitive remains represent a refugee

state or standard of subsistence survived from exceedingly more civilized forebears.

Anthropologists needn’t even entertain fantasies of alien interferences to admit such a

plausibility—namely that ancient races of man were highly intelligent and

technologically inventive. Their primary mode of communication was likely very

different –as per a less rigid physiology—their science and technologies strange to us.

But persistent archaeological mysteries might look less puzzling than simply foreign,

indicating a prehistoric humanity more spiritually than physically oriented.

Wherefrom the Sphinx? It is probably far older than the pharaohs; ancient Egyptian art

was imitating something earlier. Which prehistoric farmers had the smarts to develop

edible corn? We know that all our commercial grains could never have evolved in the

wild. What botanical art derived seedless banana hybrids from less palatable varieties?

There is no historic record of such a science, exceeding the ambitions of the latest in

genetic engineering. What if other plant and animal species had intelligent ‘help’

developing along lines and intentions more serving of human masters? Consider the

domestic horse or milk cow: paleontological record of their origins and distributions is a

tangled mess (like dog breeds) compared to ‘naturally’ selective varieties of bird or

lizard.

Both arks were larks …Indy’s conquest of modern scientific arrogance

Despite cartoonish parodies of both ‘ark’ stories, it’s actually beginning to look

promising for another set of archeological reversals of belief. Latest news reports that

Coptic Christian churches may have the lost Jewish Ark of the Covenant preserved and

obscured among multiple replications. Naturally, they aren’t too eager to clarify the

matter, inviting massive pilgrimages of media and relic hunters. The government of Iran

may be similarly protecting their mountain border, being part of the ancient Ararat range.

For one very promising find is said to be located there, challenging the authoritative

assumption that Noah’s construction could only be legend. An alternate site was recently

identified as the probable Sinai mount. Ruins of King David’s palace were excavated;

most recently a large wall and foundation, likely Solomon’s temple. Again, these


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discoveries contradict all the most learned positions regarding biblical text as fabricated

history.

So how could any scientist acknowledge a migration of many thousands of refugee

families having crossed the Red Sea on foot? The sea floor cuts far too steep and deep,

even assuming it emptied of water. However, lately a natural ‘bridge’ was discovered

closer to sea level at the traditional site of crossing; and photos are circulated of coral

encrusted chariot wheels submerged under water in the sand. Are local Arab

governments interested in pursuing these clues? No way, Yoshe’.

Socio-Economics I know … it’s hardly ‘hard’ science. However, much of political back-and-forth is

supposedly premised upon scientific certainty. Even voter polling is higher mathematics

applied.

Government debt won’t matter …black legacy of deficit spending and recession

I have a dream: vanishing public debt. (I also heard tell of three Irishmen walking out of

a bar.) The national debt certainly matters to U.S. creditors, and especially increased

deficit spending. We must answer to our children and grandchildren for the resulting

impossible burden of taxation. They must answer to the Chinese and Japanese and other

national guarantors. I can only pray that falling dollar value won’t trigger a new century

of worldwide warring. For decades, my city has pretended similar airs over their public

arrears; my state has likewise proven foolish. Countries smaller than L.A. County are

suffering financial judgment. It may take a little longer …but surely as bigger, the harder

we fall —unless we can move a foot forward.

Bankruptcy Man will come to the rescue: a rationale for ID thieves

Why, I ask myself: Why would one seeking to burgle my good character and financial

reputation be persuaded that he is the ‘victim’, not me? For that is precisely how they

justify their art. Having once fallen snugly into the ‘safety net’ called Chapter 11 (likely

more times than one) it is no stretch for him to expect that nobody was actually harmed in

trying (via theft) to ‘even the score’. Family finances fall, business ventures fail,

politicians and governments default all the time. Yet the ‘system’ remains to reduce

liabilities and help debtors to regain their feet.

That is one reason why ID theft will be a growing problem: ‘false testimony’ was the

original legal term. When our highest officials and institutions display such lack of

conscience and foresight, what else can we expect of our citizens? Still I continue to

teach my kids good spending habits and wise financial planning …even when the only

reward is some aliased wise guy leeching my accounts. I continue to hope in the natural

cosmic law: that our sins will find us out.

U.S. Social Security ensures my future insecurity …ever diminishing returns of labor

Both conservative presidents Reagan and Bush attempted to salvage SSA reserves. Both

were persuaded to back off and let a future administration face the music. For fail it must

(as wise Yoda would say it). Perhaps it can help to secure the situations of my parents.


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But my children cannot hope the same for me. So, like my grandfather, I mustn’t count

upon an elective early retirement. This laborer won’t blink when the ‘safety net’ finally

collapses. Every year requires more and more workers to contribute a higher and higher

percentage of their wages to …What? —one single retiree’s security. My father and

uncles have graciously attempted to contradict my fears. Thanks guys …But if this latest

market meltdown (and consequential loss of my private retirement savings) teaches us

anything true, it is the basic unfaithfulness of mammon. I would rather live and work

resolutely than yield my ethic to growing cynicism.

No country can NOT afford universal health care …enter the Chilean HSA

Maybe it’s those ancient Incan genes; the people of Chile seem to understand better than

anyone (better than the U.S.) how to govern their flourishing economy. While other

countries were flinging their populace down the democratic socialist path, Chileans were

replacing their tax-and-spend public superfund with private health and retirement

savings. Their leaders foretold the ignoble fall of socialist mechanisms and the resulting

indignities of dependent peoples. If only …Perhaps U.S. leaders will also see the light.

Only a month ago, Chilean cities and villages were ravaged by monster earthquakes and

tsunami flooding. Though devastated, they were prepared for as much. The country

expects to see normal private commerce largely restored under momentum of its own

resilience within weeks of national recovery efforts. So far, it appears so. In contrast,

hurricane and ocean surge damage to one North American region has required years of

‘welfare’ assistance. Local economy and governments were paralyzed as they awaited

federal management. It was ultimately private aid organizations expediting recovery;

though the same region —and others like it— remain just as vulnerable, being more

dependent than ever upon state subsidies.

History of governments and economies has well established this pattern of societal

devolvement—Start by expanding state ‘help’ of the least advantaged in terms of

healthcare and food; add ‘free’ education and housing entitlements; then keep authorizing

more and more government oversight, government bailouts and insurance –regardless of

the cost or the growing indebtedness of future taxpayers. Eventually, we are faced with

the irresistible and inevitable ‘solution’ of government ownership and control of larger

economic sectors. And it isn’t merely a slippery slope, this separation of citizens from

inalienable rights and obligations; it’s a deliberate foot-in-door strategy (can you say

conspiracy?) by many very well-intentioned, self-appointed social engineers.

Guns cause crime … but MacGyver’s bombs are just ‘cool’

Did you hear the tale of two cities—U.S. of America cities? This same story has played

out similarly on an international scale; but it remains a debate of domestic policy as to the

future of 2nd

Amendment rights. One city council voted to effectively ban the private

ownership of firearms. Leaders of a neighboring city did the opposite: reinforcing the

legal ability of its people to arm against outlaw threats to life and property. Almost

immediately, the disarmed city began seeing their crime rates increase, while the armed

sister city saw the opposite. Would-be criminals –smartly following the path of least


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resistance—were migrating, shifting operations almost entirely from one sovereign

jurisdiction to the other less sovereign land of opportunity.

Oh! And I almost forgot to mention … that the criminals brought with them their

illegally-acquired weaponry. Gun ‘control’ inhibits only good citizens; it actually

encourages and enables the bad. Countries like Switzerland and Israel realized this fact

of life preservation long ago. Else whole governments find themselves in the paradoxical

role of MacGyver: improvising high explosives where a tidy handgun would have

sufficed. I guess many lawmakers lack some schooling in basic mechanics. Guns, like

engines and fire crackers, work on the principle of combustion; being merely better-

controlled smaller explosions.

War is never the answer …unless they threaten my brother’s house

Periodically I am confronted again with the mantra: ‘War is not the answer’. While I

want to agree that modern evolved society should have grown out of the need for war …

it remains obvious to me that criminals and rogue states have not. Those prone to

violence as a means to getting their way are persuaded –not by words or welfare

monies—by superior violence, sad as that may be; likewise the regrettable collateral

threat to innocent bystanders. That latter’s suffering is a result (arguably necessary) of

democratic standards, a system presuming the innocence of one accused until granted due

process of law. In other words, law enforcers must largely wait for criminal intent to

result in actual crime before attempting any arrest. Therefore, the first line of defense

against such threats remains with the private citizen; even while that same freedom-

loving father and property owner is further deprived of his ability to defend.

So I find myself rehearsing this simple set of scenarios:

If a stranger entered your home (armed or not) threatening your good health and

property—would you hesitate yielding to angry violence to protect yourself and your

precious household?

Answer: Of course not. Even if local laws declare that you shouldn’t attempt it; only

the least conscientious of adults would be so paralyzed, when it comes to preserving their

own. And any good political scientist must acknowledge that a modern law-based

society will otherwise collapse. Even a North Korean or Cuban totalitarian thug assumes

a citizen is best motivated by the self-interested urge to protect one’s own. Capisce?

If your neighbor’s home was similarly threatened, would you consider violent resistance

justified? What if it was the neighbor threatening you? How about your own brother’s

home in a different neighborhood; even a distant city or state? My brother lives on the

opposite side of the globe; and I would feel a threat to him quite the same as to myself or

immediate neighbor. If their local police failed to properly serve and protect, or if state

legalities outlawed effective self-protection—I would feel personally offended; my own

rights must appear equally at risk. After all, what entitles me (or another) to basic

freedoms and protections exceeding theirs?

For that matter, wouldn’t the same arguments apply to the neighbor of my brother, or that

of the brother of his wife? What about the brother of a neighbor that I do not know, on


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the other side of my block; or another opposite my brother’s block in a country far from

my own? Distance and unfamiliarity does not neutralize the legitimacy of basic rights to

self-preservation. It becomes impossible to contest any government’s obligation to

exercise sufficient force protecting its law-abiding citizenry, as well as due-process rights

of its accused. In such an instance, war is precisely the right answer, whether on a street

or over national boundaries. Where a neighbor is heard expressing repeated verbal

intention to harm my household; especially where I observe that same neighbor preparing

to carry out that threat (such as hoarding weapons or dangerous chemicals; training attack

dogs, etc.): I would consider myself negligent for failing to make preparation or

requesting pre-emptive action by local authorities.

A country’s foreign policy cannot be so very different from natural rules governing other

neighborly relations. War can and should usually be averted; but prohibited, even when

fighting back is the appropriate answer? Here is another belief rooted in a brand of

political science just begging to be ignobly reversed.

Politicking must be scripted, including supporter networks …SpaceBook for Congress

A social networking service that is candidly reporting of all constituents’ concerns: This

may restore a truly representative form of government where burgeoning populations

have so distanced homes and businesses from their elected public servants. The Home

School movement of the past three decades demonstrates a whole new model for

grassroots-driven politics. It is possible again, applying current information technology

and standards, for the Elect to answer directly to electors …ALL constituents; not merely

a chosen few supporters committed (for better or worse) to keep advancing their favorite

candidate.

Of course, the average voting public will be far savvier and less vulnerable to various

forms of graft when empowered in such a manner. The pol and staff must be more

careful what is said or written off the cuff —for every statement is rendered ‘on the

record’. Sure, I can email my representative in a trice as it is; but any response is

obviously scripted. I don’t expect that a MyFace page will enable politicians to answer

each message in person (though more of that is likely to happen). But when a networking

system is tailored specially for dynamic reporting of participants’ arguments and

positions: each voice will find itself immediately joined to a plurality of those believing

similar. Staffers and pundits can be equipped to better inform the boss, complete with

real-life (instead of photo-oped) examples.

What if a politician —for whom I did not vote—were to prove himself so responsive to

my issues nonetheless? I might be persuaded to re-elect the knave, regardless of party

affiliation; we might also see more changing theirs after actually ‘serving’ a term.


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Figure B: Alternative Theories of Origins


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The Parade Goes On and On …

Don’t mistake me …I value excitedly the pursuit of physical science, even while

maintaining this basic distrust of academic certainty.

But you can’t expect to have it both ways, say the Richards and Carls.

Oh, but I can … and I do. I spend money to apply what seems to work; then I maintain a

healthy skepticism about everything scientifically confirmed —old and new, oldest and

recently reversed. I would even question what has worked for me, because history is full

of ‘about-faces’ regarding apparently operable assumptions. This attitude used to be

accepted as the nature of human inquiry. At least I am trying to recognize and examine

my biases; it is modern science educators that appear to be hiding theirs.

So, why can’t a modern mind let go completely of fancy, of wives’ tales and wishful

thinking? Why not simply and humbly trust the consensuses of Science? It would

certainly be easier intellectually. It might even be simpler morally; less stressful socially

or professionally (at least, for many of the less-compliant collegiates).

My concise answer, of course, is that scientists and Modern Science keep getting it

blatantly wrong. It will never be human nature to invest so recklessly as that. Besides, if

the current experts are proven wrong about this world, or having mistakenly corrected

their elders … Perhaps it bears reconsideration, after all, of what Ancients said –long

before modern scientific certainty—what was known intuitively or atavistically about this

world and the next.

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