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massive 1,400-plus cc of Homo sapiens would require possibly kingdom use the entirety of their brains to function and survive. 100 times more than the three-million-year period of her exis- | But Man is endowed with a brain whose capacity far exceeds his tence. Furthermore, the Earth would be littered with the remains —_ present needs—one more clear contradiction to linear evolution of all the intermediary hominids as the brain capacity painfully | whereby a given physical development occurs only by virtue of increased by fractions over many millions of years. necessity. Additionally, the head of Homo sapiens is quite dis- It is indeed unfortunate for the trowel-carrying palaeoanthro- _ proportionate to his body and, being subjected to the high gravita- pologists that another, far more reliable branch of science has _ tional field of planet Earth, it is largely responsible for the physio- gone on record as claiming that the original "Eve" of our species _logical stress placed upon his heart, back, neck and legs. can be genetically traced to having existed only since 200,000 If "Big-head' is the result of either God's design or evolution, years ago. The evidence for the claim is based on a thorough _ then on either count it would seem to be a failure. If, on the other analysis of the mitochondrial DNA in the placental tissue of hand, an indigenous 500-cc hominid had been genetically engi- women from various races around the world: neered and had its brain capacity increased, there would also have "Scientists at the University of California been the necessity for it to be protected with at Berkeley, led by Dr Alan C. Wilson, sup- the oversized and weighty skull with which port the view that modern man, Homo sapi- we are so handicapped. ens, originated in Africa about 200,000 Again, an inevitable question arises. For years ago and later spread throughout the what reason would this have been done? We rest of the world." . f h can only surmise that it was either for the (Source: The New York Times, 26 March In view () t ese high-principled objective of accelerating the 1986) ® intellect of the most suitable creature on the findings, how planet for its own sake, or that we were engi- neered to be intelligent enough to carry out the instructions of our masters. In either case, the handicap of an overweighted head quently confirmed by several independent deny that Man would have been of secondary importance to investigators. Their only disagreement was the main objective of the perpetrators. over the number of original "Eves" neces- : h b : All the evidence suggests that a planet sary to have given enough genetic variation must ave een with a lower gravitational field would have for the species to have survived. According been advantageous to the health and efficien- to the experts, there would have needed to the result of cy of Homo sapiens. We cannot help but have been a colony of at least 600, but no og wonder whether the Olympic records provide genetic more than 10,000 females. the very evidence we need to realise engineering by indigenous to planet Earth. If we had This investigation resulted from studying a known rate of mutation in a gene whichis | Cah We possibly exclusively female. The figure was subse- Additionally, during the writing of that, in our present form, we are not evolved here, should we now not be this article, a similar investigation into the male-only "Y" chromosome has, according to Dr Michael Hammer of di : . d confronted with records which have Arizona University, concluded that: an a van ce : stabilised? It would be understandable "Adam lived in Africa 188,000 4 y and natural for our athletes to be striv- years ago." progenitor 2 ing to improve upon a record that was (Source: The Times [London], 24 set, say, 50 years ago. Contrary to this, November 1995) however, all the records involving a gravitational factor are progressively improving year by year—something indicative of a creature adapting itself With two branches of science in such direct conflict, the inevitable question arises as to which one is cor- to an alien environment. Tect. Could it be that we are the optimum Both the Church and the evolutionists are now faced with such _—_ design for a creature tailored to the lower gravitational field of a overwhelming evidence that they would need an alchemist's abili- __ planet such as Mars? The large brain and weighty skull essential ty to change black into white if they are to escape the logical con- to a high intellect may of necessity need to live in a gravitational clusion. field much lower than that of planet Earth, where the mechanical In view of these findings, how can we possibly deny that Man heart pump would be under considerably less strain and the crea- must have been the result of genetic engineering by an advanced _ ture would live far longer, thereby extending its learning and progenitor? The diehards will still of course insist that this inventive capacity. If this were so, our options may have been occurred by the hand of God, whom they have never doubted to _ limited to Mars and our Moon—both of which, being devoid of be anything but the Father of Mankind, But here, even archaeolo- atmosphere, were unsuitable. gy does them a disservice, for there is an ever-mounting accumu- lation of evidence to show that the original ‘deity’ was female. Even an elementary analysis of our thought processes contra- THE MARTIAN CONNECTION dicts the idea of linear evolution in Man. While still possessing In the case of Mars, however, this was not always so. Readers the animal instincts of sex, survival and territorial imperative, we | of NEXUS will need no introduction to what has come to be are, nevertheless, appreciative of the Arts and the beauty of __ referred to as the "Martian enigma"—a rock formation in the nature—things of which the animal kingdom is totally unaware. Cydonia region which bears too many resemblances to a human It is considered a physiological fact that members of the animal _face to be dismissed as pure chance. In the case of Mars, however, this was not always so. Readers of NEXUS will need no introduction to what has come to be referred to as the “Martian enigma"—a rock formation in the Cydonia region which bears too many resemblances to a human face to be dismissed as pure chance. 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