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Creationists. And it can be explained by Intelligent Designers, who claim anything so bewilderingly complex couldn't possibly have been arrayed without the guidance of some superior, unifying intelligence (which they stop short of calling "God", because otherwise they are merely Creationists without cant). Considering all of the above, we Interventionists believe the terraformer sce- nario explains the fossil record of life on Earth with more creativity, more accuracy and more logic than the others, and in the fullness of time will have a far greater prob- ability of being proved correct. We don't bother trying to establish or even discuss who the terraformers are, or how they came to be, because both are irrelevant and unknowable until they choose to explain it to us. Besides, speculating about their ori- gin detracts from the far more germane issue of trying to establish that our explana- tion of life's origin makes better sense than any other. We will continue to be ignored by mainstream media simply because the idea of intelligent life existing outside Earth is so frightening to the majority of those bound to it. Among many reasons for fear, the primary one might be our unfortunate habit of filtering everything beyond our immediate reality through our own perceptions. Thus, we attribute to others me traits and characteristics we . Another bad habit appears when over new technology. Invariably our first thought is: "How can we use this to kill more of our enemies?" Collectively, we all have enemies we want to eliminate to be done with the problem they present. Like it or not, this is a dominant aspect of human nature. Because we so consistently project onto others the darkest facets of our nature, we automatically assume—despite ET and Alf and other lovable depictions in our cul- ture—that real aliens will want to harm us. Consequently, we avoid facing the possibil- ity of their existence in every way we can. (Here I can mention the obstinate resistance I have personally found to serious consider- ation of the Starchild skull, which by all rights should have been eagerly and thor- oughly examined three years ago.) So Interventionism is ignored because it scrapes too close to UFOs, crop circles, alien abductions and every other subject that indicates we humans may, in the end, be infinitesimally insignificant in the grand scheme of life in the universe. There is much more to say about it, of course, espe- cially as it relates to human origins, but that has to wait until the second instalment of this essay. For now, let the last word be that the last word on origins—of life and of humans—is a long, long way from being written. But when it is, I strongly suspect it will be...Jntervention. oo About the Author: Lloyd Pye, born in 1946 in Louisiana, USA, is a researcher, author, novelist and scriptwriter. His independent studies over more than three decades into all aspects of evolution have convinced him that humans did not evolve on Earth, or at least are the product of extraterres- rial intervention. His book, Everything You Know Is Wrong — Book One: Human Origins, can be ordered through website http://www.iUniverse.com or Barnes & Noble at http:/Awww.bn.com. His article, "Evidence or Creation by Outside Intervention", was published in NEXUS 9/04. Part Two of his essay, "Darwinism: A Crumbling Theory", will be published next issue. Lloyd is scheduled to speak at the 2003 NEXUS Conference in Amsterdam next March. Visit Lloyd Pye's website at http://www.|loydpye.com. NEXUS + 77 Darwinism: A Crumbling Theory DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com