FORWARD: LOOKING BACK
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.
The Origin of Life: If life were to appear on a desert island, we would assume it washed to
shore, or fell from the sky. The Earth too, is an island, swirling in an ocean of space, and debris and
living creatures, have been washing ashore since the creation.
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. *****
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 everything began with a big bang, and that at first there was nothing. Nothing! Not even space. And then, Kablooey!!! there was stuff. In my previous publications I have referred to this as the "nothing happened theory" of creation.
The temple priests of science also assure us that the Universe is but 12 billion years young. And how do we know this? Because the most distant (detectable) stars that twinkle in the darkness of night are 12 billion light years away. Away from what? Relative to what?
From where the Earth is now, they answer; a reply which has nothing to do with the supposed big bang as the Earth is not located at ground zero--the location of ground zero is in fact unknown. And what of those stars which are so distant and which died so long ago, that their light will never be detected?
Those who make claims as to the origin and age of the universe are promoting not just junk science, but anti-science. They have plucked out their eyes in order to blind us all to the truth. The age and origin of the universe is unknown.
And 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. 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 my 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) Cosmic collisions are commonplace, not only between meteors and planets, but between entire galaxies.
5) The seeds of life swarm throughout the cosmos and living creatures contained in planetary debris have been
repeatedly hurtled to other worlds.
6) These creatures and their DNA then labored to alter the environment of these worlds so as to engineer their own
evolution.
7) Creatures cast upon planets already swarming with life may have swapped DNA thus increasing their genetic
storehouse of genetic information.
8) The first creatures on Earth..(and their DNA), came from other planets.
9) DNA acts on and modifies the environment.
10) The modified environment acts on gene selection to activate "silent" genes and "silent" genetic traits which exist
a priori.
11) Silent genes can be passed down to subsequent generations and to diverging species.
12) Once the environment is sufficiently engineered, these silent genes and the traits they code for may be expressed
in distinct and separate species.
13) Genes can also be transferred laterally and horizontally between species, so that different species can come to
possess the same gene and the same trait.
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) Genetic evidence indicates that evolution has progressed in a highly predictable "molecular clock-like" fashion.
16) 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.
17) Conclusion: 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."
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.
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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 impressions of microbes similar to spiral filamentous microorganisms that had become extinct during the Proterozoic were also discovered. 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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