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starting from inorganic matter which resulted in the organic beings that we are, seemed to have too many faults to be a truly valuable theory. Moreover, it is presently being seriously questioned by eminent scientists. MAN I had noticed that since the beginning of time, Man lacked tolerance, love, respect and fraternity, in his relationships with others. I wished that these shortcomings would be erased in human relations. SOCIETY Throughout history, the repeated failures of every type of government to solve the fundamental problems of Humanity, have forced me to think of a system which would allow the election of the best qualified people on Earth, who would be concerned only with improving our society. This would imply that they would not be paid by the political, military or industrial trusts which have permitted a great number of deadly wars and an everlasting increase in weapons of destruction, in the name of values such as the mother country, work and family, and the servitude of Man by Man. I became conscious that Humanity had reached a crucial epoch, decisive in its evolution, where Man’s future had become a gamble. I felt that there existed, at the base of all the religions, a fundamental and accessible truth, but also that the primitive and obscurantist systems had used this truth to enslave men to absolute restriction. I also felt that this truth, as revealed by the prophets, had to come from beings who had reached a very high level of wisdom. I opposed the notion that Man had to be guilty because of his carnal nature, as I was against everyone who sought to diminish humans under the pretense that they would be greater after death, in another 350 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS THE RELIGIONS