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‘Intelligent Design’ into public awareness and opened a new era of debate about evolution theory and our origins. Quickly becoming known in short as ID, ‘intelligent design’ is now beginning to be studied and developed in some respected universities. Even President George W. Bush, who is not renowned for his intervention in purely intellectual debates, has declared that ‘intelligent design’ is as likely an explanation as evolution theory. Does this mean that President Bush has taken the first step on his 1 nor snd 1 wr way to becoming a Raelian? Perhaps, perhaps not. Whatever the truth proves to be, this is another illustration of the gradual c 1 : cnn row 1 emergence of strong corroboration of Rael's story. Indeed we might speculate that the very essence of the Elohim's ‘intelligent design’ is that they are waking up the world they created to the whole truth very slowly since being shocked suddenly and instantly into full wakefulness from deep sleep is always very unpleasant and sometimes 1 . damaging. However, it is for all these reasons that the title Intelligent Design - Message from the Designers has been given to this new edition of Rael's writings. In a striking new Author's Postscript to this book Rael develops this theme to a new level. He says that the original and unique Raelian explanation of the origins of life on Earth effectively offers a Third Way between Darwin and Genesis and it can best be described as atheist Intelligent Design, which is the scientific creation of life on Earth performed by an advanced human civilization. And uniquely this Third Way is reproducible in a laboratory. Having said all that, I must emphasize that no brief summary can really do justice to the high import of this whole book. To grasp the full significance of all its major assertions requires that measured consideration be given to each and all of them in their context. Therefore, I trust in writing this foreword that others on reading it, will be encouraged to give the whole book a careful reading. If it is all true, and I feel sure it has been honestly and truthfully reported, then nothing in the world could be more important. INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS This landmark academic event brought the new conceptual term ro. moots tt 1 1 e Whatever the