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Experiments with goldfish and rabbits confirmed the assumption that learned knowledge can be transmitted from one body to another by the transfer of certain cells. Today it is an accepted scientific fact that memories are stored in memory molecules and that RNA and DNA molecules establish and transport memory contents. If these investigations were carried a step further, mankind might be able in the foreseeable future to stop knowledge and memory disappearing when a man dies, and to preserve and transmit the intellectual possessions he has acquired. stations’? the streets? These things may sound ridiculous today, but I think that the man who doubts their practicability is sticking his neck out more than the man who reckons with them as serious possibilities. As yet there is no scientific proof that unknown intelligences knew how to carry out this kind of memory manipulation in the remote past. Nevertheless, famous scientists such as Shklovsky, Sagan and others do not exclude the probability that there are living beings on other planets who have advanced far beyond our stage of scientific research. So it is not surprising that prophets 'nourished' in this way knew more than anyone else and were more intelligent than their contemporaries! Since the scientific discovery of the DNA double helix, we know that the nucleus of the gene contains all the information necessary for the construction of an organism. Punched cards are so familiar today that to simplify things I should like to call the building plan that is programmed in the nuclei 'punched cards governing life’. These punched cards build life according to a very precise time schedule. Let us take our own species as an example. A ten-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl are obviously adults in miniature, but they do not possess many of the attributes they will have one day as man and woman. Before they have grown up, the cells in their bodies will have divided a trillion times and with each cell division new building stages will be summoned from the punched card. Boys and girls begin to grow rapidly; pubic hair, facial hair and breasts begin to show. The punched cards never make a mistake; their holes determine the course of growing up at exactly the right times. Shall we live to see hyper-intelligent dolphins, 'programmed' in underwater research, go to ‘diving Shall we see apes whose brains have been 'programmed' to handle road-making machines working in Once again the Old Testament gives food for thought. It tells of several prophets who were given books to eat by the 'gods'. Ezekiel 3:3, recounts such a book feast: ‘And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll (of a book) that I give thee. Then did J eat it....'