PART I

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction

• Scope

• Prelude

• The Case For God's Existence

• A Scenario In Unity

• Interdisciplinary Fertilization

• Anatomy Differences In Origins Of Families

• Is This Possible?

"Whom do people say that I am?" Jesus once askedhis disciples according to the Gospel of Matthew. Thedisciple's answered, "Some say John the Baptist, otherssay Elijah ... or one of the prophets." This reveals how,even then, there was little consensus over the identity ofthe enigmatic preacher from Galilee. And the controversyendures today. Some modern scholars say that historicalevidence reveals a much different portrait of Jesus than theone in the Christian creeds.

The historical quest has been denounced by someas a frontal assault on Christian faith and an attempt toundermine the Bible's authority. Yet proponents find init hope for a more rational basis for belief and a cleareressence of Jesus's teachings. Many scholars think thegospels are unreliable records since they were written asproclamations, not objective history, decades after Jesus'sdeath. (Excerpted from In Search of Jesus, U.S. News andWorld Report, April 8, 1996.)

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Reporting of religious events in Paleo-time could only betold by the word of God, as related in the Book of Genesis.But Biblical and historic man has misinterpreted the timeframe into something within their conceivable history. Wemay have a variance between the actualities of an eventand the Biblical interpretation.

In comparison with the technological knowledgeavailable as we enter the 21st Century, two and threethousand years ago there was incredible ignorance andlack of knowledge regarding nearly all phases of science,physical, social, and theological in comparison with thestate of knowledge as we know it today.

In light of these developments, some theologians areactually a part of the problem in their rigid, dogmaticmind sets. It was only in year 1996 that Pope John PaulII acknowledged that evolution may be a possibility. TheRoman Catholic Church now recognizes, as St. Augustinedid in about year 600 and St. Thomas Aquinas did inabout year 1250, that soul and body exists within the samehuman. This concept has been termed for hundreds ofyears as "dualism". It has been said, "There are laws in thebackground and contingency in the details."

The reader will see conflict between the rationalistand the mystic—between the person who believes in theconventional thought, and the mystic who is searching forsomething beyond conventional thought in an attempt toexplain and to understand.

In writing these pages, I do not portray myself in anyway as a scientist, and I think this is the strength of thisbook.

A scientist would feel compelled to protect hisprofessional reputation, to give lengthy support forthe hypothesis presented, and to provide unquestioneddocumentation for any statements made.

As the author, I do not feel constricted to these limits.I am a layman—a businessman by training, who has wideinterests in many fields. This diversity in backgroundhas fomented and developed a universal, or wide-scopeview in approaching possible solutions to the questionspresented in this book.

My thought mechanisms seem to want a desire to linkadvancements in science to a cause that is spiritual andwhich has a spiritual motivation. In many ways this studyis a reconciliation of science and theology. The two arenot as widely opposed as some people in the past havethought.

It seems that all fields of knowledge present a system ofhow each concept in their respective discipline develops.The fields of knowledge are like brothers and sisters in afamily, all of the same parents, with differences in theirnature, yet held together by their like genes. So, manyknowledge, cultural, and religious systems are different,yet alike.

These concepts many times seem to be related to oneanother. Social science rules have their parallel in provenrules of physical science: rules of accounting state that forevery debit there is a credit, and these have parallels innuclear theory that for every electron there is a proton,the business transaction that triggers accounting entries isparallel to the neutron from which electrons and protonsemanate.

I see at least three ways to study science: 1) Theacademic, laboratory, experimental way, to prove ordisprove some question or hypothesis—necessary, butmundane. 2) The theoretical method, employed byphysicist and mathematicians—the real fun of the chase. 3)The way of reason, multi-disciplinary association, and gutfeeling, a way used in brainstorming, where conventionallimitations are dismissed from mind in order to create newsolutions, or at least new questions to be studied later.

In industry, these three styles might be illustrated by:1) the worker, who is operational and actually makes theproduct, 2) the manager or foreman who coordinates theefforts in a sensible way, and 3) the executive or planner,who is paid to be creative and come up with better waysto run the enterprise, considering the multiple challengesthat exist in the universe of marketing, finance, future,and practicalities of actual existence. An executive willsometimes, faced with many subjects vying for his time,employ separate specialized entities, perhaps a researcheror planner, to concentrate on a particular aspect of hisresponsibilities.

So, in science, experts will explore in depth certainspecialized topics. I see future research, experimentation,and exploration as confirmation (and some rejection) oftheories and analysis presented here.

I visualize intuitive insight into how something mightbe, to infer, theorize, or simply speculate on its exactnature. I have tried to be a futurist, using cognitive subjectsfor wellspring ideas.

I hope to present a meeting ground for fundamentalistadvocates who hold that words stated in the Bible standwithout question, and the evidence before us that disputessome aspects given in the Bible, if taken literally.

I hope to present an integrated and plausible theoryof how and when souls were created by God, how theyfunctioned over the many eons to be God's messengers,acting to shape evolution.

Jesus, an intellectual and moral spiritual leader of Histime, was tried and crucified because He was facing anestablishment in which religion was simply an arm ofgovernment. One can compare the joint functioning oflaws in present-day Moslem countries and present-dayChristian oriented governments that separate church andstate in this regard.

One can also contrast a world in which science andgovernment are separate, versus that existing in a countrywhere science and government are interrelated, heavilysubsidized, and acting almost as one. In the latter, willscience evolve to be a tool of government, controlled bygovernment, and without freedom and independence ofthought?

It has been said that a mind once stretched by a newidea, never...