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RELIGION AND SCIENCE COMPROMISE Mexico has now been identified. Furthermore, the resultant kinetic energy released by what is now known to have been a 10- In the last century, despotie religion was forced to form an _ kilometre-diameter body was more than sufficient to have extin- alliance with science to avoid the head-on collision which would guished many life-forms on the planet virtually instantaneously. have been bound to result from the conflicting information which — The survivors of the impact would have inevitably succumbed in was emerging. Regrettably, most of our scientific pioneers were, _ the ensuing ‘nuclear winter’. for the most part, born in an era when it was considered heretical Since the announcement in distinguished periodicals in 1993 of to contradict established belief, and they went to considerable —_ the confirmation of the Yucatan impact site, the ‘cat’ has been let lengths to accommodate the epithets of religion in their theories. out of its proverbial ‘bag’ and the threat posed by thousands of In keeping with that doctrine, any embarrassing artefacts or dis- | Earth-crossing asteroids and comets has at last been realised. coveries which threatened the authorised and accepted religious Already, a growing number of them have been identified. status quo were overlooked. Indeed, the close passage of the IRAS-Alcock-Iraki comet in To make matters worse, the scientific academy became equally 1983, which was only noticed at the last minute (in astronomical partisan, rejecting any theory or discovery made by those who _ terms), is now known to have been one of the principal reasons were not 'club' members. Archaeologists were dissuaded from behind the Americans setting up Spacewatch, and the inevitable finding anything which might rock the authorised version of _ necessity of Spaceguard. The President of the United States has Man's evolution from ape to primitive, culminating in the God- _ instructed these new organisations to document fully every Earth- fearing creature which had been modelled in his creator's own _ crossing body by the end of this millennium. image. The gravity-defying monuments of ancient history were Even so, the potentially incoming comets from the Oort Cloud explained away as pagan edifices, paid for with the blood of thou- _— could never be so catalogued, and, in the opinion of Messrs sands of innocent slaves. To credit Victor Clube (Head of Astrophysics at the constructors with knowledge of Oxford) and Bill Napier (Astronomer astronomy and mathematics— at the Royal Observatory at which they so obviously pos- Allow us, therefore, to prepare Edinburgh), there is a mathematical sessed—was heretical. certainty of a cometary close-passage Equally heretical was the sug- your minds for the ultimate or impact within the foreseeable gestion that this tranquil Earth, revelation: proof of an advanced astronomical future. They, like so created by God for his chosen peo- many other authors who have been ple, could ever be subjected to a intelligence which preceded us, ignored in the past, suggest that the catastrophe capable of destroying and the extent to: which some have Earth has been subjected to periodic, mankind. After all, how could that catastrophic destruction several ever be explained away as ‘God's | Sone to. preserve it and others to times in its history and will continue conceal it. purpose’? to be so threatened. One of the major facets of the With the confidence of not being combined scientific and religious burned at the stake, other investiga- suppression was highlighted in tors are now claiming that there is July 1994 by the impact on Jupiter of ample evidence to suggest the pres- the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Despite the comparison by one __ ence of celestially promoted disasters in more recent times, and ‘authority’ who likened the event to firing a baked bean ata charg- _ satellite photography of the Earth's surface has done a good deal ing rhinoceros, the violence of the encounter was awesome—as _ to confirm it. any reasonable mathematician could have predicted. The resurrection of myths and legends suggests that these may The media, unhampered by the unholy alliance between Church —_ have been based on actual events and that the stories of destruc- and academic astronomy, raised the obvious question: “What if it tion of civilisations by fire and by flood may be more literal than happened here?" Some pandered to the official line of saying, many would care to think. "Thanks to Jupiter, the celestial 'Hoover’, it is extremely unlikely that we could ever be subjected to such an event." " 0 They appear to have totally overlooked the fact that Jupiter has LUCY" VERSUS MICROBIOLOGY another effect, far less benign; for it is this gravitational giant Within these proven scenarios of violence we are expected to which incessantly disturbs the asteroid belt and releases occasion- _ believe that from the Eocene Age a hominid biped developed al planetoids which career towards the Sun with the capability of | from an ape-like, tree-dwelling creature into modem Man. The annihilating life on our planet if it should happen to be in the _ palaeoanthropological academy produces hero after hero clutch- wrong place at the wrong time. ing yet another minor bone from some creature's foot or knee, For years, evolutionists have attempted to explain away the _ claiming that he has found the ‘missing link’. Within 24 hours, wholesale extinction of the dinosaurs at the close of the newspapers around the world miraculously reconstitute the whole Cretaceous period. Any theory has been acceptable, with one _ of the skeleton and form of the creature from these minor discov- exception: the catastrophic impact of a celestial body. Those — eries. Thereby, millions of people are once more inveigled into who proffered this suggestion were labelled "doomsday mer- believing yet another piece of scientific disinformation. chants". The evolutionists felt they were on safe ground by There is, however, a glaring oversight in their assumptions. To demanding, "If this were ever the case, then show us the crater," produce "Lucy's" very attractive kneebone and claim that this feeling confident that, after 63 million years, the erosive climate lady was our walking ancestor of three million years ago, rather of the Earth would have obscured any evidence of it. overlooks one essential ingredient of the creature: her brain Once again, scientific discovery has upset the "benevolent God’ _ capacity. Even with a modicum of knowledge on these matters, theory, and the very site of the impact in the Yucatan peninsula in the development of her brain from some 500 cc, at best, to the Within these proven scenarios of violence we are expected to believe that from the Eocene Age a hominid biped developed from an ape-like, tree-dwelling creature into modem Man. The palaeoanthropological academy produces hero after hero clutch- ing yet another minor bone from some creature's foot or knee, claiming that he has found the ‘missing link’. Within 24 hours, newspapers around the world miraculously reconstitute the whole of the skeleton and form of the creature from these minor discov- eries. Thereby, millions of people are once more inveigled into believing yet another piece of scientific disinformation. There is, however, a glaring oversight in their assumptions. To produce "Lucy's" very attractive kneebone and claim that this lady was our walking ancestor of three million years ago, rather overlooks one essential ingredient of the creature: her brain capacity. Even with a modicum of knowledge on these matters, the development of her brain from some 500 cc, at best, to the 28 ¢ NEXUS JUNE-JULY 1996 RELIGION AND SCIENCE COMPROMISE "LUCY" VERSUS MICROBIOLOGY