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Issue#7 July 31, 2004
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Catastrophic Evolution

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Since I was about 16, when the new hormones surging through my body caused me to question most of the norms in society and science, I have had questions regarding the accepted Theory of Evolution, as originally presented by Darwin et al. Recently I finished a book by Immanuel Velikovsky which both summarized these doubts and gave them a very good scientific backing. Now, I'll tell you - I read this guy's first, and more controversial book entitled 'Worlds in Collision' and absolutely hated it. I thought his idea that the ancient literature of humanity showed in the recent past there was close encounter between the planet Venus and our Earth, which caused widespread devastation, and The Flood, was just short of insanity. However, in his second book 'Earth in Upheaval' he did a tremendously good job at presenting just the facts available in the archaeological and geological record and the logical questions raised by them, with very few wild speculations. In this book I discovered that the theory I'd been working on myself for the past twenty years had a name: Catastrophic Evolution. I will attempt to present the main points of the theory in this essay, and then go on to speculate, from a position just short of insanity, as to what is really going on.

Part 1: The Archaeological Record
One of the first things that bothered me about the archaeological record was the tracks left behind by long extinct animals. It is speculated that these were made by animals trodding in the wet mud, which then dried, capturing the print for aeons. Anyone who's strolled along a horse trail on a sunny day has seen this effect in the dried mud. But we've also seen the effect of the very next rainfall, which completely washes away all traces. In order for these tracks to be captured, it necessarily must not have rained again on that spot (where the ground was wet remember) for thousands of years. We can speculate that either there was a catastrophic change in the weather, or the ground was covered by a material such as ash or lava, which protected it, once again indicative of a catastrophe. One way or another, it is likely that the prints were made by animals fleeing for their life.

Most of our knowledge of long extinct animals, such as the dinosaurs, come from their numerous fossils. The question I have here is, once again, how did they form? In the past four hundred years, nearly a billion buffalo have lived and died on this continent alone. Yet, there has been no record of anyone ever finding a buffalo fossil. There are however, a stunning number of mastodon and mammoth fossils available. Why? Once again, some sort of protective material, such as ash or lava, must have covered the animals. Thus showing that a major catastrophe had occurred to preserve the bones for us to discover thousands and millions of years later. It is likely these animals died in agony.

In certain areas of Siberia, mammoths have been found in a perfectly preserved condition, their meat still being edible; these animals still had food stuck in their teeth. How is this possible? First of all, mammoths were immense herbivores very similar to elephants, requiring large quantities of tropical growth for consumption everyday, year round. How was this vast quantity of plants grown in a region that currently has a 6 month long night in the winter season, and whose ground remains permanently frozen, even through the summer months? Furthermore, in order to be preserved so well, these large, tropical beasts must have been frozen instantly, never to thaw again. What could cause such a drastic, immediate, and permanent change in the weather?

Part 2: The Geological Record
Throughout almost the entire world, there is evidence in the rocks that, at one time, they were covered by glacial ice miles thick. This evidence has even been found in equatorial places such as Brazil. It has been postulated, through the Ice Age Theory, that the earth has gone through some (relatively recent) ice ages, where the earth was almost completely covered in ice. The problem is, in modern day Siberia, currently the coldest place on Earth, there is absolutely no evidence of glaciers having ever covered the land. How is it that the glaciers were able to cover an equatorial country, receiving the highest possible amount of direct sunlight in a year, miles thick with ice, when at the same time Siberia, receiving only 6 months of indirect sunlight a year, isn't? Furthermore, where did all the ice come from? If the earth's temperature simply dropped rapidly, as is postulated by the theory and borne out by the mammoths in Siberia, the oceans would just freeze, leaving the land frozen in whatever state it last was. In order for there to be a tremendous amount of ice, the cold period had to have been immediately preceded by an incredibly hot period, hot enough to evaporate the water to form the glaciers later from snowfall. And if the earth was covered by miles thick ice at the equator, and frozen solid everywhere else, how did any life survive at all?

One very reasonable explanation for these oddities is that the continents once occupied different positions than they do today. If South America had once been located at the South Pole, it would certainly explain the large ice mass that grew in Brazil. According to the modern theory of continental drift and plate tectonics, this takes place as the large solid slabs, which the continents are riding on, move past each other. A little known fact with respect to this theory is that it has been mathematically proven that there simply isn't enough free energy available in the earth to move the continents the required distance in the required time. It is more likely, mathematically speaking, that the axis of the earth's rotation shifted somehow. Therefore, since the last glaciers were know to have covered North America until about 10,000 years ago, we could speculate that the continent of North America was, at the time, located at the South Pole. It's interesting to note that if this was the case, then Antarctica would be located at roughly the position of Toronto, Canada on the globe; that is, in a temperate zone. Furthermore, it would be seen to rest between two huge peninsulas (modern day Cape Horn in South America and the Cape of Good Hope in Africa), which may have been known at the time as the 'Pillars of Hercules', thus bearing out the continent's history, as recorded by Plato.

Before leaving the topic of the geological record, I have one more important point I would like to mention. It is recorded in the rocks of earth that many times in the past, the magnetic field of the earth has flipped (so the north end of your compass would point south). These flips have been shown to occur coincidentally with mass extinctions and the onset of "ice ages".

Part 3: Darwin
According to the currently accepted Theory of Evolution, as presented in Charles Darwin's book 'The Origin of Species', the species of earth today have arisen due to a slow process of natural selection, colloquially known as The Survival of the Fittest. I must stress here that this slow process is believed to have required million of years. This belief is known as Uniformitarianism: the only processes to have occurred in the past are necessarily occurring today, at approximately the same rate. As far as the extinction of species goes, Darwin was right on the money. We can clearly see animals going extinct all around us as their environment becomes inhospitable to their needs. To be sure, we ourselves, as homo sapiens, have caused the majority of these malicious changes. Why not? After all, we are the 'Fittest' species on the planet, aren't we? But there is a BIG problem with this theory: in all our years of scientific study we have never once seen a new species originate from another. This would be understandable if we were only watching one species in nature, as we would expect it to take millions of years for it to change. But we've studied millions and millions of species in the last few hundred years. If the theory of natural selection is true as far as the origin of species, the odds are stacked tremendously in favour of us having observed this phenomenon many times. But nada. Furthermore, through the selective breeding of dogs, we have been artificially inducing the exact conditions (according to the theory) required for the origin of a new species, for thousands of years. Yet, even though we've managed to make dogs look as different as Chihuahuas and Great Danes, and behave as different as Pitbulls and Golden Retrievers, dogs are still all the same species. If allowed to breed freely, in 10-20 generations they would revert back to a common looking and tempered breed.

Even with all our current knowledge of genetics and DNA and morphogenetic fields, there is still no known mechanism for a new species to arise in nature. In order for the evolution of a new species to occur, new information must be added to the DNA database located in the heart of every cell. By this, I mean the information required to build a wing, or grow tusks, or whatever. Where did this new information come from? Darwin speculated that it came into being by chance mutation, with the unfit versions being eliminated by natural selection. This idea does not fit the facts. Virtually every system in the body has what is known as irreducible complexity. That is, if you remove even just one small part of the system, the system no longer functions at all. The mammalian eye has been raised as an example of this phenomenon. Therefore, it is simply impossible that these systems have arisen by chance mutations, as there can be no operable intermediates. This is also true when we consider certain animals as a whole. A bat with semi-developed wings or a semi-developed sonar system would not be a fit system and these mutations would have been eliminated by the same natural selection which is trying to say they would arise.

Part 4: The Bible
Anyone who's taken an in-depth look at Evolution will recognize that the evidence I've given here is, in many ways, the same evidence used by Creationists to 'prove' their own theory. Unfortunately the facts simply do not support their alternative theory. Even if you are willing to allow for large and egregious errors in modern dating techniques, such as Carbon-14 for material from past life, or Radiometric Dating, used for rocks, there is still ample evidence to show that the earth has existed for billions of years, not the roughly 6000 years they are trying to peddle. Furthermore, there is also ample evidence that the earth has been inundated with numerous catastrophes over the millennia. Given the location of fossils and the turnings of the rocks, it is impossible to account for all this destruction with just the one Flood, which is what Creationists attempt to do. Unless, of course, during the Creation God hid false evidence for us to find, just to throw us off the true path, then proceeded to tell Moses the whole story, letter for letter, a thousand years later.

It is not very well known, but Creationists actually agree with some of evolution theory. In fact, if Darwin hadn't have gone beyond the evidence and postulated the origin of species by natural selection, perhaps instead naming his book The Extinction of Species, creationists would be in full agreement. However, even if we accept a date for The Creation millions or billions of years in the past, ALL species have had to exist since that time. Given that the number of extinct species likely far outweighs the number of currently living ones, how did we all manage to fit on this little planet? Were all the species tinier in the past? Dinosaur bones suggest not. And just what the hell were we doing with our big ol' brains during that whole time?

Part 5: Catastrophic Evolution
It is still possible to rectify all of this confusing evidence. The Theory of Catastrophic Evolution is pretty much a juxtaposition of the creationist and evolutionist arguments. The main points of the theory would be as follows:

1. Many times in the past, most recently about 10,000 years ago, the earth has shifted it's axis of rotation, thus rotating various continents, at various times, to the poles.

2. These axial shifts seem to coincide with a flipping of the magnetic field of the earth.

3. The axial shifts are accompanied by tremendous catastrophes, which cause mass extinctions, either by the immediate or secondary effects..

4. Soon after the axial shift, there is a flourish of 'Evolution' with truly novel species filling newly available niches the world over.

And there's one further point. This point was in fact mentioned in Velikovsky's book, but summarized in two short paragraphs with no further elaboration or comment. I can certainly understand why Dr. Velikovsky decided to tread lightly on this fact, given that he was hoping the theory would be accepted in academic circles, which it has been and still is, in it's esoteric underground. That point is this:

5. These evolutionary jumps are purpose driven.

For you see, in order for these changes to be purpose driven, there is no question of there being a designer, a supreme being. God, the One with the 'purpose'.

In today's society, there are more and more acceptable ways of viewing this. In the modern science fiction view, it could be Smith or Neo tinkering with the Matrix program. In the modern scientific view, it could be caused by the exposure to cosmic rays from the sun during the time when our magnetic field of protection is necessarily down. In the modern spiritual view, it could be God intervening to reveal more of the Total Reality of Heaven and Earth. In the modern enlightened view, it is known that we are the 'One' creating these cyclical changes, this path through Time, this universe, this Reality. Regardless of the perspective you choose to view this phenomenon from, there is no denying the fact that there is a purpose-driven force at work.

Part 6: The Scary Part
I had a stunning event of synchronicity recently occur. While I was sitting down to read 'Earth in Upheaval' on the couch in front of the tube, I was flipping through the channels to find some background noise. I happened to come across a report on CNN. It was a professor of geophysics from some university, I can't remember which, who was reporting the recent acknowledgement in most scientific circles that our Earth's magnetic field is in the process of flipping. In the last 70 years the field has dropped in strength by 15%. On the Creationist's time scale, this is incredibly fast, let alone the accepted geological time scale. In fact, if the dynamic mechanism that science currently believes causes the magnetic field were to simply stop, the field would not be dropping this fast.

Holy crap, eh?

The professor on the screen was saying that given the current decay rate, we can expect this to take around 200 years, which should give us plenty of time to study and prepare for the change. However, this is assuming a first order rate law for the field's decay. Once again, this does not fit the facts. As the prof himself stated, it is falling faster than if the mechanism of generation was just shut down. Therefore, either the mechanism has already reversed, or there is an outside force acting on the field to reverse it. Either way, it is more likely to be falling under a second order rate of decay, that is, it is accelerating. Given the mystical literature I've studied, there's pretty much no question in my mind when they thought this was going to happen. That would be the last year of the Mayan and many other ancient civilizations calendars: 2012. Assuming the rate of decay is second order, there is one benefit: the rate of change of the field will be at it's maximum at the point when it's strength drops to zero. Therefore it is likely that the amount of time the field is at it's weakest will be minimal. What's going to happen during that short amount time? That's up to us.

Part 7: Destiny
Created in God's image. That's what the bible says. This has been misinterpreted in many different ways for millennia. Most of these misinterpretations have been deliberately planted for our own protection. The truth of this passage is this: We are the Creators of this universe. That may seem a privileged position, but in the whole multiverse, we are just One of Many creator-species who, when taken as a whole, comprise the mind, body, and soul of God.

That doesn't mean we aren't special. I've been shown that, thanks to the psychic experiments of some of the more enlightened of us, the Illuminati, as well as the help from a creator-species from another Reality, when the evolutionary jump happens this time, we're going to accomplish something previously unknown in the multiverse. What will this be? Well, that's just it - it is completely unknown by any intelligence in the multiverse. The 'time' after 2012 cannot be seen clearly by any of the creator-species, no matter how far advanced of us they are. The ancient prophecies, which were possible due to the cyclical nature of the catastrophic destruction and 'evolution', are no longer agreeing with current events. We are now a wildcard. And every creator-species in the multiverse is sitting just out of phase of our reality, watching. We are the greatest show ever.

So what the hell are you supposed to do now? Near as I can tell, you just have to understand this fact, and accept responsibility for your part in the creation of this universe, for good or ill.

Just BE what you truly are. Everything else will work itself out.

Simon Christopher.

P.S. On the night I started writing this essay, I had a very strange dream. In it I was shown a map of North America in the near future. I cannot honestly say I remember how I was being shown this. At any rate, the picture was of a group of large islands, each about the size of Great Britain. In my dream I said: "My God, it looks just like Atlantis!"

 

Simon Christopher
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