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FOREWORD computer and can recreate each and any of us at will at the moment of death by a remote sampling of a single cell of our bodies. He reports that some 8,000 individuals from Earth had already been recreated on their planet when he was taken there in 1975. Outside of practical scientific laboratory research a recent highly significant development in the academic field has provided new support for Rael's message. On 4 August 2004 the most comprehensive challenge to Darwin's Theory of Evolution known as Intelligent Design Theory was presented quietly to the world. This new theory hypothesizes that no new living entity can happen by chance and it was presented formally by Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture in an article published in its biology journal by the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. The journal, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (volume 117, no. 2, pp. 213-239), carried an article entitled 'The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories,’ in which Dr. Meyer argued that no current theory of evolution could account for the origin of the information necessary ond 1 : te WT rt We sod to build novel animal forms. He proposed ‘intelligent design’ as an alternative explanation. This article represented an_ historic to o44 toe 1 4 1 rt. sod alternative explanation. This article represented an_ historic breakthrough for those who have long questioned Darwin's unproven theory because it was published in a peer reviewed academic journal and has since been used increasingly as a reference by scientists who were previously obliged to refer only to evolution theory in explaining their discoveries. Commenting on this development at the time, Dr Boisselier said those who supported Rael all over the world had cause to rejoice at this event since it made it possible for biologists to look at living entities not as the result of random mutations but more as sophisticated creations in which every detail had been thought out and had a reason to exist. "Biology will go so fast," she said, "once biologists stop being blinded by the evolution theory. I am sure that in ten years from now scientists will look back and wonder why they accepted evolution for so long." xix