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disinfectant, among other things, is a colourless, unpleasantly acrid-smelling gas. This, the most complicated chemical compound in space to date, which was ascertained from fifteen out of twenty- three sources s Of radiation by the American scientists, extends the list of primitive substances which are accepted as building stones of life by way of amino acids. This news provides new fuel for the suspicion that life is present in the cosmos. But if there is life on other planets, I think it likely that unknown cosmonauts brought with them to our earth branches of knowledge of the kind we are now acquiring and that they made our ancestors intelligent by manipulation of the genetic code. According to my speculations, this could only have taken place by an artificial mutation of primitive man's genetic code by unknown intelligences. In that way the new men would have received their faculties suddenly—consciousness, memory, intelligence, a feeling for handicrafts and technology. woman: ‘And the LORD GOD caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; man. ‘And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones (!), and flesh of my flesh (!): she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a Man.' It is quite possible that woman was created from man, but Eve can hardly have blossomed forth in her naked beauty from the narrow rib of the male thorax by a conjuring trick—after a surgical intervention? Perhaps she originated with the help of a male sperm cell. But as according to the biblical Genesis there was no female human being in Paradise who could have received the seed, Eve must have been produced in a retort. Now a number of cave drawings showing objects like retorts in the vicinity of primitive man have been preserved. Could foreign intelligences with a highly developed science and knowing about the immune biological reactions of bones have used Adam's marrow as a cell culture and brought the sperm to development in it? The comparatively easily accessible human rib would obviously have been the most suitable container for this biologically possible act of creation. That is a speculation, but one that is practicable in the present state of scientific knowledge. In the earlier account of the creation in the Bible we read (Genesis, 5:1-2): In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him. "Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.’ In the later biblical story of the creation (Genesis, 2:21-23), we find a different version of the origin of ‘And the rib, which the LORD GOD had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the