A NEW AGE LOOK AT INTELLIGENT DESIGN
By Robert Berringer
It is hard to outgrow our many prejudices. My parents had a strong Christian
view of creation which I replaced with a science based view of evolution. On
complicated subjects like evolution and cosmology, scientific theories are finely tuned to
explain current facts, but they frequently change in order to explain new discoveries. We
live in a dynamic information age when genetics and space exploration have exploded the
knowledge of life and the solar system, two vital areas to explore if you are really
searching for answers to the ultimate questions. Where did we come from and where are
we going? Modern philosophy has given up the search for these answers, a void now
filled by science and religion. Science in turn has specialized in narrow fields with a very
conservative concept called “Peer Review” which stifles new and better scientific
theories. Accordingly, Darwin’s now badly outdated Theory of Evolution based on
random changes and “Natural Selection” continues to influence many scientists who
should know better. It took me 30 years to outgrow most of my religious prejudices and
another 30 years to realize that science has more prejudices than religion. Now after
finding Wisdom in the New Age movement, I am joining the Intelligent Design (ID)
bandwagon.
If you think that “Intelligent Design” (ID) is only for Bible thumping
Protestants, you are wrong. Many scientists, historians, religious liberals and especially
New Age authors are joining the growing ID bandwagon. Life slowly evolved on Earth
over many ages, but there are many signs of extraterrestrial contributions, including
primordial seeds (panspermia) and the many subsequent mass extinction events. Many of
the mysteries of the construction of the Earth and its Moon suggest Intelligent Design.
There are even more obvious signs of extraterrestrial influences in cultural evolution and
the civilization of humans. I think that Intelligent Design is now the preferred half-way
house between Creationism and random or Darwinian Evolution.
Darwin espoused his theory of evolution by the natural selection of random
changes. Wallace, co-inventor of the Theory of Evolution with Darwin, found many
signs of purpose in evolution. Many evolutionists today share some of Wallace’s ideas,
and most scientists find many unexplained rapid changes in evolution, especially
following mass extinctions of life on Earth. We will return to this subject later. The
subject of evolution is complex, involving science, religion and history. Our current
information explosion is weakening the strength of random evolution as a theory. For
example, we now know from inspired science that the demise of the dinosaurs was due to
a meteor, a very major extraterrestrial force. Was it an accident that this extraterrestrial
event helped the evolution of mammals? The Intelligent Design versus Evolution debate
must consider the very improbable creation of most new species following the mass
extinction of most old species. The fossil record documents the fact that this has
occurred again and again over the last two billion years. .
Are there signs of design or intelligence in evolution? We will start at the
beginning and present facts and arguments along the following lines.
1. The geological formation of the Earth and Moon is a sign of intelligence.
2. The evolution of all life on Earth without outside help is very improbable.
3. The evolution of intelligent life on Earth is a miracle and not chance.
4 Domestication of plants and animals are sure signs of intelligent design.
5. Most extraterrestrial intervention in evolution is intermittent.
6. Most extraterrestrial intervention in cultural evolution is periodical.
Creationism originally believed that Yahweh created the heavens and the Earth in
several days. Physicists say that the creation of the universe and our galaxy was over ten
billion years ago. Intelligent Design usually recognizes One Supreme Creator, but
tending to billions of galaxies and trillions of planets over billions of light years is a
formidable task well beyond human comprehension. Perhaps Planet Earth is the best
place to study the Creator’s handiwork, realizing that the Universe is almost infinite and
our viewpoint is very limited, both in space and time.
The Earth is uniquely suited for life as we know it. It is located in a relatively
quiet part of a stable galaxy. It is properly located in a stable solar system early in the life
of a most benevolent sun. Water temperatures on Earth are usually between their
freezing point and their boiling point. Most of the known water in our solar system is on
our Earth, although most theories of the Earth’s formation predict that very little water
vapor, free hydrogen and free oxygen existed in our atmosphere four billion years ago.
The atmosphere has cooled and now contains mostly oxygen, carbon dioxide and
nitrogen, perfect for life as we know it. It is a mystery where all the water and oxygen
came from, but we live on a planet with the perfect amount of water and oxygen at the
right temperature. We should consider that this may not be a coincidence.
While researching the origins of the Earth and Moon, I ordered the recent
informative New Age book “Who Built the Moon” by Christopher Knight and Alan
Butler. Based on their earlier book “Civilization One”, the authors knew that the Moon
played an important role in the evolution of life and humans. Their research and book
now add to my knowledge of the Moon, especially information confirming it’s intelligent
design. Around three billion years ago, the Moon was much closer to the Earth, and tides
were huge.
The massive tides created by the infant Moon would have caused erosion on a
scale beyond our experience today. Millions upon millions of tonnes of land
would have been pulverized and swept out to sea, then widely distributed and
eventually settled on the seabed. This process liberated vast amounts of minerals
into the oceans-- minerals that emerging life simply could not be without.
(Page 107)
Also, the early Earth rotated significantly faster on its inclined axis, producing more
frequent tidal surges, higher winds and more atmospheric erosion. Meteor impacts and
volcanoes added to erosion and especially mineral distribution into the many dynamic
tidal pools.
Knight and Butler think that the Earth may be hollow. NASA seismic tests
discovered that the Earth rings like a bell, very unlike the Earth. The Moon has a low
average density like the crust of the Earth, but NASA has also discovered mysterious
lumps of unusually high mass scattered inside the Moon. Perhaps they are UFO bases.
Science has no better explanation. Knight and many scientists are convinced that the
lightweight Moon was made from the 4.5 billion year old Earth crust, based largely on
analysis of Moon rocks extracted by astronauts.
The Moon is bigger than it should be, apparently older than it should be and much
lighter in mass than it should be. It occupies an unlikely orbit and is so
extraordinary that all explanations for its presence are fraught with difficulties….
(Page 57)
Knight and Butler also studied the role of the Moon regarding plate tectonics, noting that
Mercury, Mars and Venus show no signs of plate tectonics. They agree with most
scientists that removing major portions of the Earth crust to make the Moon drastically
carved up the early Earth and seas.
What caused plate tectonics to commence in the first place and what is the engine
driving the process? There is a growing body of evidence to show that in both cases
the answer is almost certainly the Moon. What is more, it is now being suggested that
without plate tectonics the Earth may not have proved to be a suitable haven for life at
all (Page 99).
Knight and Butler think that it took most of the crust of the early Earth to build the Moon.
There are many scientific theories of how rocks like the ancient Earth crust got to the
Moon, mostly involving monstrous collisions from two large planetoids. One collision
does not produce the right angular momentum. Knight’s suggestion that extraterrestrials
built the Moon is as rational as any scientific theory. Like the origin of life on Earth, the
origin of the Moon appears to be too ancient and complicated for a scientific explanation
acceptable to the most informed scientists.
Who built the Moon? Was it the same extraterrestrials who coaxed the Earth into
exactly the right orbit and filled the seas with water? Was it the same extraterrestrials
that tilted the Earth to make four seasons, created a protective magnetic field, controlled
the Earth’s interior temperature, shaped the continents using plate tectonics and seeded
the Earth with life forming DNA and RNA life? Maybe Christopher Knight will tell us
more in his next book, including where the aliens came from. Christopher is good at
reading archaeoastronomical signs, especially in England. My book “Ancient Gods and
Their Mysteries” suggests they look at Sirius and Orion.
Another recent book goes into even more technical detail about the customization
of Earth for DNA and RNA based life. “Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Very Rare in
the Universe”, by P.Ward and D.Bromlee. They consider that DNA may be floating
around our galaxy, but that advanced life like plants and animals should be very rare
indeed, because their requirement are very exceptional. They agree with a growing
number of scientists who think the seeds of life were transported to a primitive sea or
tidal pool billions of years ago. Francis Crick the co-discoverer of DNA called this
Panspermia. The arrival of seeds on Earth may be accidental or it may have been
directed by ID. In any case, it was surely a miracle.
The Earth has a molten iron core, although no scientist knows why it is still
molten after four billion years. If someone tells you that radioactive decay keeps the
mantle molten, ask him which isotopes have a half life over five billion years and how
many gigatons of these rare radioactive isotopes would be required to keep our iron core
molten? Most scientific theories say that the solar system formed about five billion years
ago, and radioactive materials with very long half lives are rare in the solar system. We
don’t know of any significant amount of heat producing radioactive materials with a half
life of over a billion years that has ever been found in meteors, asteroids or moon rocks.
Some scientists calculate that the Earth requires a nuclear reactor to keep our iron core
molten. I hope they are wrong!
The Earth has a magnetic field which protects life from cosmic rays, another
enigma. Our neighboring planets also have iron cores, but they do not have magnetic
fields. Before Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and brought back moon rocks,
most theories predicted that the Moon was an accretion of space rocks like meteors and
asteroids. This theory works for most planets and moons. However, the Moon has a low
density and no signs of an iron core. Our large low density moon is unique in the solar
system and its origins are unknown. It now appears to be made out of a 4 billion year old
crust of the Earth. Large tides helped the evolution of life. The tilt of the Earth’s axis
also helps evolution, as does its 24 hour rotation. The Moon is a major stabilizer of both
the tilt of the Earth and its rotation rate, two important evolution aids for plants and
animals.
The ocean currents currently provide a rare and stable climate over most of the
Earth. Recent studies show that major ocean currents like the Gulf Stream are finely
tuned, and sensitive to changes like global warming. The Gulf Stream is getting weaker
with melting glaciers, and Europe is getting colder with severe summer heat waves. At
one time, there was one large land mass called Pangea. The theory of plate tectonics
describes how separate continents and mountains are being formed by a dynamic Earth.
If we believe in Intelligent Design, we should look for signs of extraterrestrial influences
both above and below the Earth’s crust. Mysterious hot spots of molten lava have been
found where a line of volcanoes are formed as the tectonic plates move over the hot spots
which stay fixed in the mantle. For example, the many islands of the Hawaiian Island
Chain were formed over fifty million years by only one of the dozens of hot spots. These
hot spots are a mystery, and may be of extraterrestrial origin. Hot spots may be the
missing source of heat energy which is keeping the Earth’s iron core molten. The
following Figure from “Exploring Our Living Planet” by Robert Ballard shows the
location of 39 hot spots, mostly on the ocean floor.
The following Figure from “Earth History and Plate Tectonics” by Carl Seyfert
and Leslie Sirkin shows several oceanic mountain ranges caused by hot spots. Note that
Easter Island lies at an important geological location, the intersection of a string of
volcanoes and two tectonic plate ridges.
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The mountain chain formed by the Easter Island hot spot goes east thru the Nazca
Tectonic Plate to Peru. Near the coast, the Nazca Plate goes under the South America
Plate with enough force to raise the entire 5500 mile long Andes Mountain Range to an
elevation over 20,000 feet! This is called subduction, the major cause of earthquakes and
tsunamis. The source of the energy that moves the tectonic plates is unknown, but it is
very large indeed, creating huge forces that literally move mountains.
The following Figure from ”History of the Earth” by Don Eicher and Lee
McAlester shows locations of major sources of copper and molybdenum. New mountain
ranges like the Andes are also major sources of tin, nickel, silver, and gold.
Is it a coincidence that mysterious tectonic plates form mountain ranges which break
open the Earths crust to reveal precious metals? The Sumerians recorded that the
extraterrestrial Annunaki were very interested in gold and other metals. History records
that they were very interested in copper and tin, teaching the Sumerians how to make
bronze and leaving behind bronze clamps and large prehistoric mines. Much copper and
tin from ancient mines appears to be missing from the face of the Earth!
Richard Nisbet has a web site www.ancientwalls.net where he ties in ancient
mysteries between the Andes and Easter Island. He says that Thor Heyerdahl believed
that the famous statues or Moai on Easter Island were built by people who came from the
east, like from Peru. Also, many of the megalithic stone walls on Easter Island predate
the current natives which date to about 700 AD. Nisbet finds many similarities between
the ancient walls around Cusco and those on Easter Island. Consider the following
impressive photo from Sacsahuaman in the Andes.
Now compare this Stone Age workmanship to the following Easter Island wall
from www.mysteriousplaces/EasterIsland.com.
Nisbet notes that the Earth-shaking catastrophe that occurred around 9600 BC
could have lowered the Nazca plate and possibly the lost island of MU while raising the
Andes Mountains. We note that Lake Titicaca which is now at 12,500 feet above sea
level still has sea horses and other signs of ocean life. Some of the world’s largest and
oldest megaliths are at Tiahaunacu, 12 miles south of Lake Titicaca. This huge and deep
mountain lake is probably the world’s biggest potential source of hydroelectric power.
Water is a key ingredient in most theories of plate tectonic motion..
Posnansky, an archaeo-astronomy scientist dated Tiahaunacu ruins from 15,000
BC to 11,000 BC, when ancient docks were lakeside. Millions of people have seen the
more accessible megaliths around Cuzco and Machu Pichu., noting that the old layers of
stones are much more impressive that the later Inca additions. Most agree that the old
technology would be hard to duplicate today, and unlikely products of stone age tools.
Many visitors see signs of a lost civilization and others see signs of Intelligent Design.
They may not be mutually exclusive? .
A pioneer in understanding the violent nature of the Earth since the last ice age is
Immanuel Velikovsky who wrote “Earth in Upheaval” about 50 years ago. He found the
Andes to have many signs of upheaval in the last 20,000 years. He noted that Lake
Titicaca has tilted and fluctuated over 300 feet in recent time, including the 10,000 to
15,000 BC dates archaeoastronomers have calculated for Tiahuanacu. Velikovsky also
noted many terraces now above 12,000 feet around the altiplano from Tiahuanacu,
Bolivia to Machu Pichu, Peru. These many terraces currently do not support agriculture.
Velikovsky thinks that the elevation of Lake Titicaca and the altiplano were probably
about 5000 feet lower 15,000 years ago. Current scientific analysis says that modern
crops like potatoes were not domesticated in the Andes before 8000 BC. The extensive
terraces and irrigation canals may be signs of Mu survivors developing plants for future
generations, or they may be signs of extraterrestrials domesticating plants over 10,000
years ago. Fortunately, both Bolivia and Peru are enjoying a good tourist trade to this
enigmatic region, and are more receptive than Egyptians to unearthing more mysteries.
The authors of “Rare Earth” emphasized plate tectonics as a very rare key to
animal life on Earth, but they forgot to mention that tectonics created oil, coal and natural
gas. Most coal was formed in the northern hemisphere when all land was in one super
continent, called Pangea. Most oil originated during the ancient Cretaceous Age when
South America was adjacent to Africa but divide from Eurasia.. Most of the world’s oil
was later formed in an old organic rich sea near the current Mediterranean Sea, as shown
on the following National Geographic map of major oil reserves. Like other earth
mysteries, conditions favorable for large organic sea deposits were just right for making
oil, followed by just the right amount of subduction.
Modern geneticists and microbiologists have discovered that genes, DNA and
RNA, the building blocks of life, are much more complicated than earlier scientists
thought. Genes are very complex organisms made out of a few basic chemicals like
amino acids. Living organisms replicate themselves, a unique and miraculous function of
RNA and DNA. During the second half of the twentieth century, many scientists tried to
make life from non-life. Their batting average to date is zero, although all sorts of
catalysts like high voltage discharges were tried. Against all odds, some diehards are still
trying, hoping for a miracle. Other scientists have long realized that a miracle indeed is
required to create life out of non-life. One of the discovers of DNA, Sir Francis Crick,
was convinced that life did not evolve out of a primordial non-living soup. He believed
that the complicated DNA and RNA sources of life first came to Earth on a meteor or
asteroid. This theory which he called “Panspermia” says that life on Earth had an
extraterrestrial source, based on seeds from outer space. The miracle of life must have
first occurred on another solar system much more than three billion years ago. Was the
source of this seed intelligent? Was seeding life on Earth part of a plan? Crick’s
Panspermia is very close to Intelligent Design.
Life comes from life, almost by definition. We cannot create life from non-life,
but we daily create life from life. Farmers and shepherds have been breeding better
plants and animals for millennia. Geneticists have even cloned a few animals. Artificial
selection is intelligent design, and not natural selection. Breeding works within a species,
but man has yet to develop a new viable species of a mammal. Mating and breeding with
viable offspring are key to defining a species. It is important to note that varieties, sub-
species, breeds and races are not different species. New varieties of a species are
produced almost daily by natural selection by nature and artificial selection by man.
Artificial selection is surely intelligent design by humans, and it has been very successful
in producing improved cattle and faster horses.
Creation of a new species is very difficult, perhaps miraculous. It is not life from
non-life, but it is very rare in the last 100,000 years. The further up the food chain, the
rarer is the formation of new species. Man and nature are both good at the destruction of
species, but the creation of new species remains a mystery. Paleontologists estimate that
99.9% of all the many species that once lived on Earth are now extinct. Their estimates
are based largely on the fossil record. The fossil record indicates that periodical mass
extinctions destroyed most species. Miraculously, new species emerged following the
major mass extinctions. Many Darwinians still think that new species are formed by
random mostly harmful mutations and natural selection, but why are there very long time
periods with very few new species? This dilemma is being studied in detail by serious
students of both Darwinian Evolution and Intelligent Design. Darwin was wrong about
the origin of species being a gradual continuous process. Evolution is not the survival of
random variations more fit to survive. Darwin’s Finches adapted to diverse ecological
niches, but weren’t they all the same species? Could they interbreed? Biologists very
seldom claim to have created or even observed the creation of new species. Some
geneticists think that they may have created new species of fruit flies using high levels of
radiation and selective breeding over many generations. Their successes are not well
known, and that would still be intelligent design and not natural selection.
We now realize that mass extinctions are the major factor influencing the demise
of old species and the subsequent creation of new species. The main ways we know
about extinctions are by drastic changes in the fossil record following drastic Earth
changes, like meteors, volcanoes and earthquakes. Extensive investigations in geology,
mineralogy and paleontology confirm that a large meteor hit the Earth and caused the
extinction of the dinosaurs. This evolutionary mass extinction of all dinosaurs and the
subsequent creation of new species of mammals is a major shift in evolution leading to
primates and man. There are signs of massive volcanic activity associated with many of
the previous mass extinctions, perhaps triggered by extraterrestrial forces.
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both found much data to support their
theory of evolution in fossils. They also admitted that there were many missing links in
the fossil record. Over a hundred years of subsequent extensive research has not solved
this major defect in Darwin’s theory, which he often admitted. Indeed, the fossil record
today does not support a gradual evolution of new species, but instead indicates major
changes in species over short geological periods. One major change in the variety of
species is the transition from non-flowering plants to flowering plants. In evolutionary
terms, this transition was sudden, expansive, diverse and worldwide. The cause remains
unknown, but extraterrestrial influences are likely. The simultaneous arrival of insects
like bees and butterflies to pollinate these flowers is another enigma best answered by
Intelligent Design. Random mutations which increase survival value in isolated
ecological niches are very rare in one species and the prevailing scientific theory that
many species of plants and animals evolved rapidly in a codependent manner over the
whole Earth is very hard to defend.
Many biologists and physicians believe in Intelligent Design. Human physiology
in particular is too complicated and too specialized to be a random walk of largely
deleterious mutations. The eye and the brain in particular are very complicated and well
designed systems. The large and complex human brain has evolved in the short
evolutionary time of several million years. It is much larger than the brains of other
primates, and has yet to be used to capacity. Before man learned to read, write and
calculate, he already had a large brain. The redundancy of the left and right hemispheres
has had little survival value for the human species to date. Again and again, the
physiological changes seem to precede the need. The evolution of complex biological
systems before they are needed is a good case for ID and a very good indication of a plan.
Biological evolution is slow and difficult to analyze, especially for indoctrinated
scientists who have been taught various forms of Darwinian Evolution for many decades.
Evolution is a general term which means to evolve. Planned or not, life on Earth has
evolved over billions of years. There are many problems in dating billions of years, but
radioactive dating methods have improved during my lifetime, especially for organic
matter during the important period of human evolution. Scientists still have a hard time
dating solid inorganic matter like stone tools, although they can date the age when rocks
solidified or crystallized. Homo sapiens have evolved from more primitive humans in the
last two million years. Anthropologists have concentrated on the hominid family starting
with Homo habilis, but our ancient family history still has many missing links. With
many bones less than a million years old, scientists have yet to convincingly relate Homo
erectus, Homo neanderthalus, Homo flores and Homo sapiens. We don’t know if any of
them could interbreed, but genetic data indicates that Homo sapiens and Neanderthal man
are different species. One stark fact is clear. In spite of the important evolutionary trend
for genera to diversify into many species, the hominid genus has degenerated into only
one species, Homo sapiens in a split fraction of geological time. Was this also planned?
Over one hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthal man and Homo erectus had
us vastly outnumbered in Europe and Asia. The Neanderthals were bigger and stronger,
had larger brains, were good big game hunters with spears and occupied the best caves.
They were well adapted to ice age Europe for 200,000 years when first confronted with
modern Homo sapiens in the Levant east of the Mediterranean about 100,000 BC.. Data
available to date indicates that Neanderthals survived this confrontation and Homo
sapiens disappeared in Asia Minor until another migration out of Africa about 50,000
years ago. Neanderthal man disappeared between twenty and thirty thousand years ago.
Most anthropologists attribute this to artificial selection at the hands of smarter humans,
but many of us doubt that brains are better than brawn for big game hunting and hand to
hand combat. Both used similar weapons.
The Earth was friendlier to primates and other large mammals between 100,000
BC and 20,000 BC than it was from 15,000 BC to 5000 BC, but both Homo
neanderthalus and Homo erectus mysteriously became extinct. Food supplies were
plentiful. By luck or by plan, Homo sapiens were fruitful and multiplied during the last
twenty thousand years of the last ice age. The rapid reduction of many species to one
species without a major mass extinction is an anomaly for the concept of natural
selection. Either Intelligent Design or artificial selection are more likely theories than
natural selection. If God created man in his own image, he took his time until the last
20,000 of 3,000,000,000 years. We have much to learn about divine patience.
Towards the end of the last ice age, there was a mysterious mass extinction of
large mammals in Europe, Asia and especially America. I have yet to find an
anthropologist who suggests an extraterrestrial explanation, although New Age scholars
have found evidence of cosmic dust, cosmic radiation and a shift in the Earth’s poles.
Most anthropologists now believe that improved Clovis spear points caused the
extinction of millions of large mammals in North America, including mammoths,
mastodons, rhinoceros, huge bears, horses and the impressive top predator saber-tooth
tiger. In America, over 60% of all the land mammals over 100 pounds disappeared
between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago! There were not enough hunters or Clovis- point
spears in America at this time, and no domesticated dogs or horses. Only one kill site has
been found where Clovis spears killed a mammoth! Most of the large animals living in
North America before 13,000 BC became extinct, and most of the large animals now
existing in North America migrated from Asia with these Clovis big game hunters
following this enigmatic mass extinction.
Outside the peer approval domains of anthropology and paleontology, we find
two important books finding extraterrestrial influences on this enigmatic extinction of
large mammals. “Cataclysm: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500
B.C.” by D.S. Allan and J.B. Delair presents physical evidence like craters and frozen
mammoths found in Siberia with temperate zone grasses in their stomachs. Their data fits
well with the cosmic forces and debris caused by the explosion of the nearby Vela
Supernova around 13,000 BC, the Greek myth of Phaeton and the Sumerian myth of
Creation. The other impressive book was “Earth Under Fire: Humanity’s Survival of the
Apocalypse” by Paul LaViolette. Paul’s theory is that cosmic dust was stirred up by
superwaves from the galactic center which periodically influences the Earth’s climate.
He corrects the carbon dating data used by Allan and others to date the peak of the mass
extinction episode as 10,750 BC and also corrects the stellar orientation of the Giza
pyramids to 10,800 BC. That is the date that the three Giza pyramid orientation match
the Orion belt stars. Most of the mass extinctions in America are dated to before 10,000
BC, with later dates for Europe and Asia.
New Age readers are probably aware that this is an auspicious time in the history
of humans. Plato and Edgar Cayce date the demise of Atlantis to about 10,000 BC.
Huge glacier lakes were breaking thru ice dams, and most mammoths burial sites look
more like flood disasters than human kill sites. Charles Hapgood in his book “Path of the
Poles” describes a slow relocation of the North Pole between 16,000 and 10,000 BC.
Like Allan and Delair, he now supports arguments for a sudden shifting of the Earth crust
about 10,000 BC. Hapgood also reminds us that a shifting of the Earth crust as a whole is
different from plate tectonics. The energy comes from centrifugal forces due to shifting
masses of ice, an interesting contrast to volcanic heat. When I read that flow rates in our
major rivers were about 50 times current rates, I realized that eastern migration of Clovis
big game hunters across the mountains and flooded rivers with their families was
unlikely. I have seen the Potomac River at 50 times normal flow after a hurricane, and
have a very good mental picture of the Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado and Snake Rivers
at extreme flood stages. Clovis Indians went south to New Mexico where they hunted
mammoths around springs. Descendents of a small group of American natives from the
Bering Straights reached South America about 10,000 years ago. Why do we find more
evidence of huge bears, camels, large ground sloths and mammoths in America dating to
about 11,000 BC than humans? Humans did not kill the many large mammals to
extinction! Extraterrestrial forces and floods probably did. Was this Intelligent Design?
We now have two miracles occurring around 10,000 BC which helped the
subsequent cultural evolution of man. In America, Europe and Asia, almost all scientists
agree that the mass destruction of large mammals helped the shift from hunting to
farming. Not only was there less big game to hunt, but there were fewer predators left to
hurt farmers. Mammoths, rhinos, huge bears and Saber-tooth Tigers were not very
friendly to farmers. In, Asia, the reduction of big game was accompanied by the
domestication of the grey wolf. The dog has been such a divine companion to man,
especially shepherds, that I occasionally think that the dog may have domesticated man.
Will Hart has found a very important clue to guided cultural evolution in the
domestication of the wolf about 11,000 BC. All dogs descended from the grey wolf and
some geneticists classify dogs in the wolf species Canis lupus. Dogs are domesticated
wolves which can still breed with them, with viable pups. It is extremely difficult to
domesticate wild animals, especially wolves. Modern efforts have been unsuccessful.
How did Stone Age humans domesticate dogs at a time span when many other large
mammals were becoming extinct? Domestication of plants and animals is a long and
arduous process and is a very unlikely activity for hunter-gatherers who surely came
close to starvation many winters following the last ice age. This was a difficult time for
humans. Why didn’t they eat the dogs and seeds?
Three of the most important crops domesticated in the Fertile Crescent were
wheat, barley and grapes. Grain is a mystery, because it is not a natural food for primates
and it is hard to digest. Wheat and barley were cultivated to make bread and beer. Grapes
were cultivated to make wine. Is this more Intelligent Design?
Throughout the world there is mythical and physical evidence of extraterrestrial
interventions and catastrophes like floods. From India, ancient poems talk about the gods
walking with long strides and leaving huge footprints on the Earth. We note that the
Mayans with their accurate calendars identifies Five Ages of Man, all long strides of the
gods creating and destroying man. Is it a coincidence that the Mayan Third Age of Man
started on 11,131BC and ended on 7121 BC? Science now documents that the three
largest floods experienced by Homo sapiens occurred during the Mayan Third Age of
Man. Notably, two occurred near the beginning of the Age and one occurred right at the
end. Students of Intelligent Design should look at this period as a major sign of divine
intervention. I am convinced that rapid changes occurred because of extraterrestrial
forces. It was a tough time for all large mammals.
The Mayan Fourth Age of Man started on 7121 BC, the most probable time for
the Deluge. Sea levels were rapidly rising, and man was struggling for survival
throughout the world. Yet signs of domestication of plants and animals are found in the
highlands of Asia Minor, New Guinea and the Andes. Extensive flooding has been found
near the Black and Mediterranean Seas. “Uriel’s Machine” by Christopher Knight and
Robert Komas documents evidence of meteor impacts around 7640 BC and 3100 BC,
spanning the Mayans Fourth Age of man. Most of the domesticated plants and animals
used in the world today were domesticated in this difficult Fourth Age of Man. This is a
major sign of Intelligent Design. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
The Fifth Age of Man started at 3114 BC and ends on 2012 AD. As destiny has
it, 3114 BC is the dawn of history, the start of writing in Sumer. The Sumerians
documented that extraterrestrials civilized man. Originally called Anunnaki or the sons
of Anu, they were later called the shining ones or gods. They civilized humans, so I call
them the civilizers! Around 3000 BC the Annunaki taught Sumerians writing,
mathematics, metallurgy (bronze), the wheel for making pottery and carts, and a
theocratic society based on gods and kings. The Annunaki came from the planet Nibiru
which has a 3600 year orbit, so Anu visited the Earth every 3600 years. The first
domestication of animals dates to about 11,000 BC. The first domestication of plants
dates to about 7000 BC. In Egypt, Menes united upper and lower Egypt in 3114 BC.
The civilizers appear to come and go, leaving footprints on Earth and the Mayan ages
match much of their activity. Look for footprints on the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, India,
New Guinea, Malta, Nan Modal, Peru, and England. Note that Stonehenge, Newgrange
and the Hypogeum date to 3100 BC.
My search for signs of the civilizers has revealed activity along ley lines.
JayAlison has fine tuned a great circle which goes thru Giza, Petra, Ur, Persepolis,
Mohenjo Daro, Angkor, New Guinea, Easter Island, Nazca, and Machu Pichu
(home.hiwaay.net/jalison). Most of our domesticated plants and animals originated near
this great circle. The first three scripts and three undeciphered scripts were found near
this ley line. The earliest irrigation and plumbing systems were located on this ley line as
were the world’s major religions. Note that the above signs of civilization were from
isolated and unrelated locations. Egypt and Sumer had different writing, mathematics,
myths and calendars which were mysteriously born full-grown at the dawn of their
civilizations. There are ancient signs of irrigation systems and domestication of plants in
the mountains of New Guinea and Peru. We note that major tectonic plates meet under
both the New Guinea highlands, Easter Island and the Andes. Is the Alison great circle an
important sign from the civilizers, set up long ago and maintained periodically? Do
auspicious mountain top obelisks at Machu Pichu and Petra line up with the Great
Pyramids and point to a future celestial event, perhaps with Ceres?
The civilizers left many signs and they deliberately confused our languages and
scripts. Every issue of Atlantis Rising shows more and more New Age seekers visiting
Egypt, Angkor, Petra, Nazca and Machu Pichu. Enjoy the intuitive majesty of the Sphinx
and the Great Pyramid, but also look for signs of Intelligent Design all around, especially
underground. Many megaliths look like machine foundations and not monuments. Look
for bronze clamps and right angle cuts which could not be made using stone hammers.
StoneAge humans did not build most of the monuments attributed to the Old Kingdom.
Similar to the Stone Age Andes ruins, the quality of stone construction in Egypt
deteriorated from the oldest megaliths. The golden age of Egypt and the most impressive
pyramids preceded the usage of metal tools and the wheel in Egypt. The theory of
Intelligent Design may help open our eyes to even more amazing mysteries.
Robert Berringer is a retired Nuclear Engineer with a Theology Degree from Harvard
University. He finds the New Age and Intelligent Design theories to be stimulating
and insightful. Learn more about the author and his book “Ancient Gods and Their
Mysteries: Will They Return in 2012 AD?” at www.CloudriderBooks.net.
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