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ASTROBIOLOGY
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, AND THE DEATH OF DARWINISM
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May 2001, ISBN: 0970073380, 200 Illustrations, 370 pages




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Chapter 1. The Origin of Life: Myth of the Organic Soup






Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D.
The Origin of Life
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The Origin of Life, Evolution, Metamorphosis.

For thousands of years humans have gazed into the heavens pondering the nature of existence, asking: "How did life begin?" "Are there people on other planets?" "Are we alone in the vastness of the cosmos?" Humans have long stared into the abyss and the abyss has stared back.

Answers and explanations have ranged from religious beliefs in a creator god, to the magical thinking of modern day scientists who embrace a theology of miracles: preaching that life came from non-life in a supernatural organic soup.

The likelihood that life and its DNA emerged from an organic soup, or undersea thermal vent -at least on Earth- is the equivalent of discovering a computer on Jupiter and then arguing that it was randomly assembled in the Methane Sea.

Only life can give rise to life. Only DNA can give rise to DNA--the machinery of life. Every attempt to prove otherwise has miserably failed.

If life were to suddenly appear on a lifeless, desert island, we would not pretend it was randomly assembled in an organic soup, or created by the hand of god, but that it washed to shore or fell from the sky.

The Earth too, is an island, orbiting in a sea of space, and living creatures, and their DNA, have been washing to shore and falling from the sky, since the Earth's creation.

The first creatures on earth, came from other planets.

For 800 million years after our planet's creation, the Earth was continually bombarded by gigantic meteors, asteroids, and mountains of frozen ice, with the first evidence of Earthly life, highly complex living creatures, appearing immediately thereafter. As only life can produce life, then the first creatures to appear on Earth must have been contained in that debris, and came from other planets.

The evidence supporting this rather astounding proposition is extensive, and includes fossils of past life found in 1) three meteors from Mars, 2) five meteors which originated outside the solar system, and 3) three soil samples from the moon. In 1969, when a camera from the Surveyor 3 was retrieved from the lunar surface and returned to Earth, it was found to be coated with "organic material of unknown origin" and a single dormant microbe was discovered inside.

Life can exist in almost any environment, from the freezing to boiling, flourishing at the bottom of the frigid Antarctic ocean, or in liquid fire under 9,0000 crushing pounds of ocean pressure. When threatened with death, life becomes dormant, and may awaken even after 250 million years have passed. Since life exists everywhere on Earth, it is reasonable to assume life can exist anywhere in the cosmos.

Life on Earth came from other planets.

Cosmic collisions are commonplace, not only between meteors and planets, but entire galaxies, and life has been repeatedly tossed into the abyss...only to land on other planets.

The genetic seeds of life swarm throughout the cosmos, and these genetic "seeds," these living creatures, fell to Earth, encased in stellar debris which pounded the planet for 700 millions years after the creation.

And just as DNA contains the genetic instructions for the creation of an embryo, neonate, child, and adult, and just as modern day microbes contain "human genes" which have contributed to the evolution of the human genome, these "seeds," these living creatures, contained the DNA-instructions for the metamorphosis of all life, including woman and man.

DNA acts to purposefully modify the environment, which acts on gene selection, so as to fulfill specific genetic goals: the dispersal and activation of silent DNA and the replication of life forms that long ago lived on other planets.

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Throughout the ages, and as is true today, some of what has passed for "scientific fact" has been based on faith and dogma; which is why the temple priests of science often protect the faith, and the status quo, by attacking and ridiculing those heretics who threaten to topple and shatter the altars of their idols. The dustbins of history are laden with discarded "scientific facts" and those who believed in them(Kuhn, 1970). Until the 16th century, it was a "fact" that the Earth was at the center of the solar system and the universe. Until the 19th century it was scientific "fact" that "rocks do not fall from the sky" and that meteors did not exist. Until the 20th century, it was scientific "fact" that interstellar space was permeated by a viscous "ether." In the 1920s, articles and editorials appeared in leading scientific journals ridiculing those rocketeers who dreamed of soaring through space, explaining that it was a scientific "fact " that rockets would be unable to propel themselves beyond the Earth because of the lack of atmosphere or air. Until the year 2000, it was a scientific fact that the speed of light was a constant and that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light.

And all these "scientific facts" have been proved false.

Now we are told that life emerged from an organic soup, and then evolved following the natural selection of "random mutations." And yet, the proverbial organic "alphabet" soup was missing all essential ingredients, including DNA. There was no organic soup, at least not on Earth.

The theory of the organic soup is a myth, based on a theology of miracles. There is absolutely no evidence in support of this theory. Rather, this myth has been repeatedly disproved. And yet, the Temple priests of science continue to bow down and worship at this altar, which is little more than a religion masquerading as science.

By contrast, there is evidence of past life on 3 meteors from Mars, 5 meteors which originated outside the solar system, and evidence of fossils and life recovered from the moon.

The Organic soup is a myth. Life on Earth originated on other planets.

Nor has life "evolved" randomly, but in a highly predictable, molecular-clock like fashion. There are in fact, genes (e.g., tim, mTim, hTIM) and proteins which perform specific "clock-like" timing functions and which interact to form regulatory feedback loops, and these are highly regulated (Clayton et al., 2001). There is nothing random about the organization or expression of DNA (Caron et al., 2001; Courseaux & Nahon, 2001), the source of all variation.

The history of science is a history of scientific revolutions, where established, authoritative scientific dogma finally crumbles from the weight of unwieldy, disconfirming evidence that can no longer be suppressed or ignored and which continues to grow until it completely undermines the beliefs and the authority of the ruling status quo. The history of scientific revolutions always entails a complete paradigm shift in scientific thought and belief; ushered in by those revolutionaries who dared to challenge the ruling authorities and the high priests of science.

The next revolution has begun...

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The central tenants of Dr Rhawn Joseph's DNA-based, astrobiological theory of the origin and metamorphosis of life can be summarized as follows:

1) The age and origin of the universe is unknown.

2) Life first originated on other planets, perhaps tens of billions or even trillions upon trillions of years ago.

3) DNA is capable of learning, remembering, and acting intelligently.

4) The "Seeds of Life" actual living creatures, and their DNA, swarm throughout the cosmos.

5) Cosmic collisions are commonplace, not only between meteors and planets, but between entire galaxies.

6) Living creatures contained in planetary debris have been repeatedly hurtled to other worlds.

7) Our sun and solar system are the remnants of a vast star system which exploded in a huge supernova at over 5 billion years ago. Debris from the shattered remains of this star system gave birth to many new stars including our sun, the Earth, and solar system. The Earth was bombarded with debris from the ancient star for 700 million years with the first evidence of life appearing on the Earth and on Mars immediately thereafter.

8) Some of the life from this ancient star system survived encased in mountainous meteors and ocean of ice, and were flung upon the surface of the new Earth.

9) The first creatures on Earth..(and their DNA), came from other planets.

10) DNA acts on itself and modifies and alters the environment.

11) The modified environment acts on gene selection to activate "silent" genes and "silent" genetic traits which exist a priori.

12) These first creatures on Earth, and their DNA then labored to alter the environment so as to engineer their own evolution.

13) Once the environment is sufficiently engineered, these silent genes and the traits they code for may be expressed in distinct and separate species.

14) As these "silent" genes/ traits are inherited and were passed down from ancestral species, then these genes and traits must have been inherited from creatures that "evolved" on other planets.

15) Genes can also be transferred laterally and horizontally between the same and different species, so that different species can come to possess the same gene and the same trait.

16) Genetic evidence indicates that evolution has progressed in a highly predictable "molecular clock-like" fashion.

17) The progressive "evolution" of increasingly complex and intelligent species in a step-wise progressive fashion, and genetic evidence as reported by the human genome project, indicates that "evolution" has unfolded in accordance with specific and highly regulated genetic instructions.

18) Conclusion: Life on Earth, and its DNA, originated on other planets. DNA acts to modify the environment to engineer its own evolution and the activation of traits and genes which exist a priori; i.e. "evolutionary metamorphosis."














Dr. Rhawn Joseph Challenges NASA and its Top Scientists to Debate

I do hereby challenge NASA, its top scientists, and all prominent opponents to a public debate, in a neutral public forum. I will debate you one-on-one, or I'll take you on in groups. My facts against your fantasies.

Failure to accept my challenge, a refusal to debate, should be viewed by all concerned as an admission by NASA, its top scientists, and all affiliated scientists and institutions, that my views, as presented in these films, are fundamentally correct and that my opponents have no factual alternative.

Given the incredible chemical complexity of a single-celled creature, and its DNA, the magical belief that life may have been randomly created in an "organic soup" is the equivalent of discovering a computer on Mars, and claiming it was randomly assembled in the Methane sea.

Only life can give rise to life. Only DNA can give rise to DNA--the machinery of life. Every attempt to prove otherwise has miserably failed. Even so called "synthetic DNA" utilizes the four bases of DNA: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thiamine (T); which are joined together, through an exact, highly controlled and laborious chemically complex process, to create "oligonucleotides." Thus, even "synthetic DNA" requires DNA, and begins with DNA, to produce DNA, and there is nothing random about the process.

If life were to suddenly appear on a lifeless, desert island, we would not pretend it was randomly assembled in an organic soup, or created by the hand of god, but that it washed to shore or fell from the sky.

The Earth too, is an island, orbiting in a sea of space, and living creatures, and their DNA, have been washing to shore and falling from the sky, since the Earth's creation.

The first creatures on earth, came from other planets.

For 800 million years after our planet's creation, the Earth was continually bombarded by gigantic meteors, asteroids, and mountains of frozen ice, with the first evidence of Earthly life, highly complex living creatures, appearing immediately thereafter. As only life can produce life, then the first creatures to appear on Earth must have been contained in that debris, and came from other planets.

The evidence supporting this rather astounding proposition is extensive, and includes fossils of past life found in 1) three meteors from Mars, 2) five meteors which originated outside the solar system, and 3) three soil samples from the moon. In 1969, when a camera from the Surveyor 3 was retrieved from the lunar surface and returned to Earth, it was found to be coated with "organic material of unknown origin" and a single dormant microbe was discovered inside.

Life can exist in almost any environment, from the freezing to boiling, flourishing at the bottom of the frigid Antarctic ocean, or in liquid fire under 9,0000 crushing pounds of ocean pressure. When threatened with death, life becomes dormant, and may awaken even after 250 million years have passed. Since life exists everywhere on Earth, it is reasonable to assume life can exist anywhere in the cosmos.

Life on Earth came from other planets.

And yet, despite the fact there is absolutely no evidence which supports the "organic soup" the scientific establishment clings to this view, claiming they "may soon cook it up in the lab."

May? Perhaps? Hopefully? Someday soon? This isn't science. Science is based on evidence, not faith in miracles. Every attempt to create life from non-life has failed.

The evidence for my proposition, and as presented in my film "God and the Origin of Life," may be challenged, but at least I have evidence. The scientific establishment has nothing but wishful thinking.

Characteristically, when confronted by those who challenge their beliefs, the "scientific establishment" come lurching out of their caves, torches and pitchforks in hand, grunting about religion, and employing Bush-Cheney style propaganda and fraudulent either/or dichotomies: science vs religion. The "religion" choice is a "straw dog" designed to deflect attention from the fact that theories such as the "organic soup" are without supporting evidence.

The "scientific establishment" are in fact condemning their own hated face, projecting their belief in magic onto others whom they attack. It is the "scientific establishment" which is embracing miracles and fantasy and then attacking what they hate most: themselves.

The "organic soup" is a fraud, championed by charlatans and "snake oil" salesmen, who use the language of science to fool the public into believing what is in fact utter nonsense without any scientific basis.

Likewise, whereas I have a history of making major scientific discoveries, published in prestigious scientific journals, my critics have no comparable record of scientific achievement and many are "scientists" in name only.

This is the history of science. Those who make major discoveries and who threaten the status quo are typically attacked by fools incapable of independent, creative thought.

And when challenged to debate the facts, these pretenders and frauds turn away, tail between their legs, muttering about their boogey man: religion.

I do hereby challenge NASA, its top scientists, and all prominent opponents to a public debate, in a neutral public forum. I will debate you one-on-one, or I'll take you on in groups. My facts against your fantasies.

Failure to accept my challenge, a refusal to debate, should be viewed by all concerned as an admission by NASA, its top scientists, and all affiliated scientists and institutions, that my views, as presented in these films, are fundamentally correct and that my opponents have no factual alternative.

There was no organic soup, at least not on Earth. Other than "the hand of god" there is only one factual, scientific explanation for life's Earthly origins: Life on Earth came from other planets. Our ancient ancestors journeyed here from the stars.














Evolutionary Metamorphosis

The potential to create all manner of life forms and variations thereof, including creatures that never evolved on Earth, are genetically precoded; their traits and these species exist apriori. However, as the environment acts on gene selection, it is the interaction of the environment with the genome which determines which of these precoded traits and silent genes comes to be expressed.

DNA also acts on the environment and thus engineers and alters the environment, which in turn creates a feedback mechanism, such that DNA seeks to engineer its own evolution.

The evidence clearly indicates that the evolution of life is not due to mutation or the natural selection of random variations, but is genetically precoded, and progresses according to precise genetic instructions in a highly predictable, genetically regulated, molecular clock-like fashion, and which involves the genetic engineering of the environment; a process I refer to as "evolutionary metamorphosis."

Consider: A caterpillar spins a cocoon and later emerges as a moth, thus undergoing a profound metamorphosis. This metamorphosis is under genetic (and environmental) control and is genetically preprogrammed. However, if that same metamorphosis took a million years, instead of a single season, the Darwinians would claim that the appearance of design is an "illusion," that the result is not due to purposeful genetic planning aimed at the realization of specific genetic goals (the butterfly), but is due to the natural selection of chance and minor variations, i.e., "random mutations" (e.g. Dawkins, 1987).

However, be it a butterfly or woman and man, evolution is genetically and environmentally controlled and genetically regulated and so too has been the metamorphosis of life on this planet.

However, since the environment acts on gene selection, then given different environmental conditions, then different genes might be activated thereby giving rise to wholly different species and associated traits. So long as the environment can be genetically modified, then that changing environment will act on gene selection thereby giving rise to a progression of increasingly complex and intelligent species, much as an embryo is genetically determined to become a neonate, infant, child, adult.

The scientific evidence indicates that the evolution of humanity and all variation and manner of species, has unfolded and is "ticking" away in a highly predictable molecular clock-like fashion. The progressive emergence of increasingly complex and intelligent species has unfolded in accordance with genetically induced environmental changes and the activation of silent genes, thus expressing precoded genetic traits inherited from ancestral species--which is why I refer to this process as Evolutionary Metamorphosis.

Evolutionary metamorphosis is a principle of life not only on Earth, but (given the right environmental conditions) throughout the Universe. The instructions for the metamorphosis of all life and for the emergence of all traits are precoded, and these "silent" genetic instructions were probably possessed by the first creatures to arrive on this planet.

These creatures and their DNA then labored to alter the environment of these worlds so as to engineer their own evolution. The modified environment acts on gene selection to activate "silent" genes and "silent" genetic traits which exist apriori. DNA acts to modify the environment to engineer its own evolution and the activation of traits and genes which exist apriori; i.e. "evolutionary metamorphosis."

According to the theory of evolutionary metamorphosis, DNA has the ability to genetically engineer the environment. DNA can create conditions favorable to the dispersal of DNA and the activation of silent genes. By genetically engineering the environment, the altered environment acts on gene selection so as to express those traits and those species that had been genetically preprogrammed into those silent genes. DNA contributes to those environmental conditions which act on gene selection and as such DNA is a major factor in natural selection.

I first published this theory in 1997. Further confirmation for was forthcoming in 1998, when Rutherford and Lindquist demonstrated that "populations contain a surprising amount of unexpressed genetic variation that is capable of affecting certain" supposedly "invariant traits" and that changes in environmental conditions "can uncover this previously silent variation" (Rutherford & Lindquist, 1998 p. 341). Indeed, much of the genome is silent, and these silent genes, and these silent traits can be expressed by varying the environment and through other stresses including fluctuations in temperature, oxygen levels, and diet (e.g., de Jong & Scharloo, 1976; Dykhuizen & Hart, 1980; Gibson & Hogness, 1996; Polaczyk et al., 1998; Rutherford & Lindquist, 1998; Wade et al., 1997).

For example, Dr. Martin Yanofsky, of the University of California, San Diego, has recently reported that he has activated silent genes to produce flower petals from leaves. Specifically, Yanofsky and colleagues demonstrated that when they deactivated the sepallata (SEP) genes, flowers that normally consist of sepals, petals, stamens and carpells, were reduced to consisting only of sepals. Thus, the SEP gene is necessary for petals, stamens and carpells formation. Yanofsky et al., report that although the SEP genes are active in flowering plants, and silent in leaves and nonflowering plants, that they were able to activate these silent SEP genes, and in result, leaves were converted into petals. Silent genes, therefore, can be activated to produce traits, including evolutionary advanced traits, that exist prior to their expression.

The findings of Yakofsky and Rutherford and Lindquist support the central tenants of the theory of evolutionary metamorphosis -as proposed in my 1997 text, traits exist prior to their expression as they are predetermined and precoded within "silent" genes and "silent" nucleotide sequences--the instructions for the creation and expression of which were likely maintained within the genomes of those creatures who were among the first to call Earth home. These traits and the genes which code for these traits, however, were inherited from those species who were among the first to arrive on this world.

The best predictor of the future is the past.

Life on Earth did not emerge from an organic soup or undersea thermal vent. It fell from the sky encased in all manner of stellar debris which pounded the planet for the first 700 millions years after the creation.

The genetic seeds of life swarm throughout the cosmos, and some of these genetic "seeds" fell to Earth, as well as on other planets. And these genetic "seeds" contained the instructions for the metamorphosis of all life, including woman and man.

DNA acts to purposefully modify the environment, which acts on gene selection, so as to fulfill specific genetic goals: the dispersal and activation of silent DNA and the replication of life forms that long ago lived on other planets.






And, these same "genetic seeds" have rained down on innumerable worlds since time immemorial.




The cosmos is awash with life, the vast majority of which are probably microbes. The universe is crawling with bacteria. Some of those bacteria, and their genes, have no doubt repeatedly fallen to Earth. In fact, not just the meteors from Mars, but meteors and fragments of comets that have fallen to Earth, including lunar soil samples, have been found to contain fossilized impressions of microorganisms.





The Orgeuil meteorite appears to contain cell structures that resemble fossilized algae, those others claim these are actually grains of pollen. How pollen grains somehow managed to get inside the meteor has not been explained.

The Murchison meteorite has been reported to contain fossilized impressions of nanobacteria and other microorganisms which resemble cynobacteria.

Likewise, the Allende and Efremovka meteorites have been reported to contain fossilized microorganisms that resemble cynobacteria.







Lunar soil samples that had been hermetically sealed while on the moon and were opened in a sterilized laboratory and immediately examined and photographed in Russia, were subsequently determined to contain the fossilized presence of microorganisms similar to Phormidium frigidum, which live not in Russia but in Shark's Bay, Australia.

The fossilized impression of a spiral organism was also discovered. Dr. Rhawn Joseph later determined this spiral fossil is very similar to a spiral animals that had become extinct over 600 million years ago. It is not likely that extinct microorganisms or those dwelling in Australia, contaminated lunar soil samples opened and examined in Russia.





The best predictor of the future is the past.

Life on Earth did not emerge from an organic soup or undersea thermal vent. It fell from the sky encased in all manner of stellar debris which pounded the planet for the first 700 millions years after the creation.

The genetic seeds of life swarm throughout the cosmos, and some of these genetic "seeds" fell to Earth, as well as on other planets. And these genetic "seeds" contained the instructions for the metamorphosis of all life, including woman and man.

DNA acts to purposefully modify the environment, which acts on gene selection, so as to fulfill specific genetic goals: the dispersal and activation of silent DNA and the replication of life forms that long ago lived on other planets.











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