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confident, be seen as the greatest revelation in mankind's recorded history. But of course until now there have been two obvious reasons why it has not been quickly recognized as such. Firstly, there is no incontrovertible, physical proof to back up what Rael has written. And secondly, the nature of what he says is deeply disturbing to the entrenched belief systems of religious, scientific, academic, and other institutions all around the world. As individuals too, we are all unconsciously influenced by the conventions of our education, our upbringing and that limited climate of thought fostered by our world's conservative and unadventurous mainstream news media. All this is not surprising since it requires considerable effort on the part of individuals to become independently open-minded and overcome such influences. For these reasons, this extraordinary information has seeped out only slowly around the world over the past thirty-two years, largely through the steady, unspectacular efforts of the International Raelian Movement which at the time of writing 1 1: ra ann 1 : 1 lays claim to some 60,000 members in nearly ninety countries. For more than thirty years now, Rael himself has, with gentle and patient good humour, explained his story again and again, certainly thousands of times to radio, television and print journalists in most of the countries of the world. When mocked or derided as he has present as his English language commercial publisher and a supporter of his extraordinary mission, he has always conducted himself with the same quiet courtesy and unshakable confidence. Never once have I seen him lose the calm demeanor of a man who knows without any to4 cwo4 1 to Ww 1 1 As far as providing proof is concerned, however, Rael quotes the Elohim as saying that they are deliberately withholding any outright physical evidence that would support their revelations - beyond the fact that their spacecraft will appear more and more frequently in our skies as time goes by. It is very important, they say, that we consider all their final information without proof - the logic and rationality of what they have revealed effectively contains its own hallmark of truth. xvi INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS often been in live or recorded studio interviews at which I have been shadow of doubt that he is telling the truth.