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topics as diverse as the infinite nature of all living matter, our planetary history, human and plant genetics, sexuality, sensuality, psychology, politics, and the true nature of criminality. They also throw fascinating new light on many other mundane issues including property ownership, wise child-rearing, the outdated values of our conventional marriage systems, and the high importance of sport, even violent sport, in creating and sustaining harmonious and eat . peaceful human societies. In reporting details of how all life forms on Earth including the ecology and ourselves were engineered by human scientists from another part of our galaxy, Rael effectively demystifies and refocuses all the ancient scriptures of the world's major religions. While emphasizing that all faiths and their historical traditions and cultures still deserve our respect, he makes it clear how they have become outdated while still continuing to testify obscurely to this newly revealed practical scientific reality. Most controversially, this volume abolishes the notion that a benevolent, all-knowing, all-powerful, spiritual, mysterious and immaterial God presides over us all. The scriptures of all the major religions, it emphasizes, are about representatives of that ultra-sophisticated and highly refined civilization - human beings just like ourselves - who care deeply about us, because it was here that they first discovered and developed their own genius for transforming life from planet to planet by their mastery of DNA. In short, this massively important book sets our past, present and future on a firm scientific basis without diminishing the beauty, joy and spirituality of our existence. In fact, it greatly enhances the understanding and practice of a new common-sense spirituality based around meditation and achieving the inner peace and harmony that is eminently appropriate in this new era of space travel and genetic modification of ourselves and our environment. The author of these unique writings was born Claude Vorilhon in France in September 1946. He changed his name to Rael, which ' ' r . 1 te oo td means ‘messenger’ in Hebrew, after meeting a human being from another planet when a small spacecraft landed in a remote volcanic region of south central France in December 1973. During several xii INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS