History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism

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A Profound Story
Lost Tribes... and the Power of Myth

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism
Ronald Sanders
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A Profound Story.......2004-01-13

Crucial to the understanding of contemporary American social-culture, and supplementary and cleansing, perhaps, for those concientiously trying to address our society's incongruities. Sanders' allows himself the freedom to reference and elaborate on (and better yet storytell) obscure or arcane information without abandoning the requisite of factual historical development; a technique fitting for an enterprise as delicate as sourcing racism as we know it. Speculative and never presumptuious, he weaves especial elements of recent western history around a mundane ambition that seeks a certain truth. Inspired but controlled, and by no means requiring a kind of academic expertise to read--a book with insights of lasting implication.

Lost Tribes... and the Power of Myth.......2002-10-16

I read this book twenty years ago when it first came out but its impact was so profound that it left an indelible mark. Every American should read this. The part about the Mayflower and the charter myth of the New Canaan, wherein genocide is made out to be a commandment from God, has shaped U.S. foreign policy ever since. This book, if read in conjunction with Jonathan Kozol's work "The night is dark and i'm far from home", Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States", and the book in French, "L'Entaille Rouge" should rouse everyone in the U.S. from their deep slumber and help them understand something crucial: the New Canaan myth, which found expression in the genocide of the Indians, has shaped their national psyche. The U.S. was born as a haven for the Puritans, and the Puritans were anything but "nice", in fact, to borrow a phrase from the current Puritan in the White House, they were evil. Indulge in a little psychoanalysis and face the dark side in your national character... read this book!

Braindance: New Discoveries About Human Origins and Brain Evolution

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CSI Meets the Human Cranium
Mildly interesting contentious hypothesis.
Strives to explain what truly distinguishes human beings

Braindance: New Discoveries About Human Origins and Brain Evolution
Dean Falk
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When first published in 1992, Braindance presented a revolutionary look at the origins of the human brain. Biological anthropologist Dean Falk now brings the discussion into the 21st century. In this revised edition with a new preface and updated information through 2003, she reexamines her groundbreaking research of how the human brain evolved and reveals how this process continues to impact our species.

Around two million years ago, our earliest hominin ancestors experienced an explosive brain expansion, at least one million years after they began to walk upright. Rather than linking bipedalism alone with brain expansion, as previously theorized, Falk's explanation involves climate. She contends that bipedalism allowed our ancestors to wander farther afield in savannah-like regions, where their brains were subjected to solar heating. Falk and her colleagues discovered that one hominin line developed a complicated brain-cooling system to combat the destructive effects of excessive heat. This ability and expanding brain size evolved together, thus producing hominins with a brain capacity three times greater than their ancestors.

Falk further discusses the evolution of visual skills, right-handedness, language ability, right-brain/left-brain and male/female differences--and the uniquely human ability to dance. The specifics of how we tapped, toed, and twisted through the prehistoric "brain dance" form the story line of this book. And what did two million years of bigger brains produce? The last chapter summarizes Falk's ideas on human cognitive and conscious capacities for the future.

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CSI Meets the Human Cranium.......2006-07-19

This is an excellent book, and like all good scientific works the author has her own particular thesis, the "cranial radiator." Standing upright on the hot African savanna reduced the overall heat uptake of our ancestors' bodies by exposing less of them to the sun, and changes in cerebral "plumbing" were also required that may have added redundant capabilities later exapted as human intellect. There is a lightness of touch to "Braindance" evidenced by the author's photo on the back cover, which is actually a monkey, purportedly an "ancestral portrait." There is also an excellent photo of Glen Conroy doing research in Chad, he is holding an M16! These are the Indiana Jones's of anthropology.

The human fossil record is primarily one of skulls and teeth and this expertly written account of past and present brain anatomy is elegant, timely, and significant.

Mildly interesting contentious hypothesis........2006-01-11

This is a very readable book providing a gentle overview of brain functions and their possible evolutionary roots. A great deal of the book concentrates on the discovery and study a endocasts from a small sample of primates. This leads on to an inconclusive discussion about the bipedal development and its relationship to the evolutionary brain. The human ability to dance, or more precisely the human ability to lay down the motor memories assiociated with dance movements, while notionally the subject of the book receives much less attention than the title suggests. The author's main point is that only humans dance, and this is sufficiently distinctive in evolutionary terms to merit much wider appreciation. The flaw in this argument, as I see it, is that dance itself has evolved across time and society. It is unlikely the waltz could have been developed by head hunters, and equally unlikely that it could have emerged today. The cultural context is critical to appreciating the type of dance that emerged. For instance, humans run differently than primates, we swim and eat differently too. Should all these areas not also receive special attention? I am also aware that young animals often display 'dance like' moves when practising hunting. For example, kittens will often practice stalking and prancing with older cats. The arguments in the book about the special nature of dance, I didn't find convincing. This was not a major downside to the book, simply a hypothesis that I couldn't accept. The downside of the book were the anecdotes that related yet another professional spat between the author and a rival colleague. A sense of friction with other colleagues can be conveyed without the degree of elaboration employed here. The anecdotes interrupted the narrative. Frankly I found them jarring and thought they reflected badly on the book as a whole.

Strives to explain what truly distinguishes human beings .......2004-11-11

Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, Braindance examines what science has to say about the evolution of the human brain and the origins of humanity as a species. Looking at what the most recent discoveries have to say about male brains versus female brains, and the difference - or resemblance - that human brains have with regard to primate brains, and much, much more, Braindance strives to explain what truly distinguishes human beings in terms as accessible to lay readers as it is to field professionals and academic scholarship. Information-packed and highly recommended.

Discoveries: Human Origins (Discoveries (Abrams))

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A nice introductory text
Richly illustrated short review of human evolution.
Richly illustrated short review of human evolution
A lavishly illustrated introduction to human origins

Discoveries: Human Origins (Discoveries (Abrams))
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A nice introductory text.......2007-07-04

I read this little book in a day on my bus commute, it's a good introduction to the evolution of Homo sapiens. is is one of those topics I'm absolutely fascinated by; I read about our predecessors, and see their bones, and imagine what they must have been like. Human Origins gave me plenty of fuel for thought.

The author describes the varying attitudes towards early anthropology and paleontology, particularly as it related to Christianity at the time. He discusses the attempts by some people to use religion to prevent any dialogue about evolution, and particularly human evolution (descended from apes? Scandalous!). Herbert also brings up some of the clumsy first attempts at examining bones found in quarries and elsewhere, to include some of the incredibly outdated information on various races. He then dives into tracing our family tree from early primates, to Australopithecines, then to Neanderthaler and Cro-Magnon, and finally to the earliest known specimens of Homo sapiens.

The text is well written and is nicely punctuated by a series of illustrations in full color. Along with photos of key specimens, there are also some excellent artistic depictions of imagined reproductions of early human life, to include sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant examples from the 19th century.

All in all this is a good introductory text. I'd recommend it for anyone from teen to adult who wants a relatively easy, but informative, read on the topic of the origins of humanity.

Richly illustrated short review of human evolution........1996-12-21

This short paperback includes an incredible amount of information about human evolution between its covers. Along with up to date text and many color pictures of reconstructions of ancient hominids, there are several first hand accounts of important discoveries of fossils. The perspective of the author emphasizes contributions of French anthropologists at the expense of scientists from other countires, and the author's placement of the earliest modern humans in the Middle East will be controversial. All in all however this is an excellent complement to other introductory material about human origins, and the illustrations alone are worth the reasonable price

Richly illustrated short review of human evolution.......1996-12-21

A lavishly illustrated introduction to human origins.......1996-11-16

This is a beautiful book --- especially for the beginner. Easy to read, lavishly illustrated, and small enough not to be heavy, it introduces the reader to various ideas we have had about our origins, Darwin's theory of evolution, and the discoveries of various fossil humans. The introductory illustrations are especially striking because they illustrate the way our species has evolved from ape-like beginnings. These illustrations also graphically show the way culture has evolved along with our bodies. I feel this book is invaluable for a student of biology or anthropology, or anyone who wants an comprehensible introduction to a fascinating but complex subject

What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race

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The origin of life. The beginning and end of the universe. The workings of the brain. These are the big questions, the ones scientists and nonscientists alike love to ponder and that give deeper meaning to our quest for knowledge. John Maddox, former longtime editor of Nature, has endeavored to outline our progress, and, more importantly, our goals in these and other fields of study.

What Remains to Be Discovered details the past, present, and possible future of science in three sections: "Matter," "Life," and "Our World." The author's broad, multidisciplinary grasp of science is apparent as he guides us effortlessly through the work of scientists from ancient times to the present. Having first shown us an up-to-date map of scientific knowledge, he then emphasizes the large blank spaces still remaining and suggests where explorers might best continue their efforts.

From natural selection to the luminiferous ether, each question answered has provoked many, often more difficult, challenges for a new generation of researchers. Maddox hints at what our future textbooks will say, but is also careful to remind us that the history of science is full of surprises. We'll do well to remember that as we enter the 21st century. --Rob Lightner

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What wonders of science will the 21st century bring? John Maddox takes up this challenge by describing precisely what remains to be discovered. Building on twenty-three years' experience at the helm of the world's preeminent science magazine, Nature, Maddox identifies new areas of discovery in physics, biology, health, intelligence, and global catastrophe. As Maddox shows, the rate of scientific discovery will continue to accelerate, hurtling us toward ever more exciting discoveries in the next century.

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Pessimistic Overview, Already Outdated.......2007-08-26

The title of the review suggested a negative reaction to the book. It is only in light of succeeding events that my attitude has been affected. It it were 1998 (the year of publication) I would probably give five stars but the role of prophet is fraught with danger and already several of his findings have been challenged.

Maddox speaks a great deal about the origin of life. Recently, scientists repoerted overwhelming evidence that life originated in the interior of comets where the correct ingredients and more important, the necessary time existed. Other groups report that "synthetic life" is probably within ten years. We may not know exactly how life started but creating animate from inanimate matter is the best first step. The author bemoans our ignorance of how our brain operates and of consciousness itself, yet computers faithfully representing the entire neural pattern of small areas of the brain have been created and test results mirror reality. Knowledge in this area increases at an astounding rate. The author wrote in the midst of the Human Genome Project that was completed in an exponential factor, far ahead of what the "experts" predicted. Since completion, work has accelerated on identification, organization, testing and manipulation. Despite the mantra of "nothing has really changed", a cursory perusal of the subject reveals incredible insights daily. Genetic manipulation, albeit on a simple scale, has cured cancer patients in Japan. Ontogeny, the science of embryonic development, has made startling advances as we close in on the keys within DNA that transform an egg into a caterpillar and then a butterfly. It is NOT true that all we are doing is "listing discoveries" or "naming cell parts". Knowledge from one area affects another: A working theory of photosynthesis at the quantum level has led to nanotech discoveries revolutionizing solar cell efficiency.

Physics and cosmology are vibrant. Quantum Mechanics swirls with theories, some (or all) of which may be true (sorry for the inside joke). The author repeatedly states that knowing a fact is not the same as understanding it but it is the best first step. The GUT may be a chimera (Feydman thought so), gravitons may be unique (doubtful but possible) and string theory may be wrong but efforts in those areas uncover peripheral knowledge and aid in our understanding of the nature of reality.

Some areas of evolution remain cloudy. A recent discovery places human separation from other primates millions of years earlier than previously thought and firmly set our origins in Africa. The Big Bang, multiple universes and the essence of time remain outside confirmed knowledge. The "problem" is that increasingly, the so-called "scientific" questions are becoming philosophical ones that require a fresh approach to the subject. The author is correct when he says that we are learning with each new discovery how little we know and how much more we have to learn.

Great one-volume overview, but there are better books out there.......2006-12-15

I have to confess that I did not finish this book, as I was convinced of its merits about halfway through.

"What Remains to be Discovered" provides a good overview of astronomy, the origin of life, and the future of our world. It is nice to have all three in one volume. However, the writing is uninteresting and inconsistent.

The first section, on astrophysics, is very strong and authoritative, but written much more engagingly by Stephen Hawking in "A Brief History of Time."

The second section, on life, was much weaker and the reason I stopped reading. Written at a high school level (most readers are already familiar with cholorplasts and mitochondria, but he takes time to define them), this section presented general ideas on the origin of life, but provided few facts. Maddox seems much less familiar with the extant scientific literature on this subject than he does on astronomy. He presents few results of scientific studies and focusses mostly on a logical, theoretical approach. I much prefered Stuart Kauffman's "At Home in the Universe."

I give it three stars because it presents these ideas in one volume, an ambitious undertaking and would be a decent overview for someone who did not wish to take the time to read the several other, and more thorough, books on these subjects.

The more we know the more we do not know .......2005-08-30

I am among those who found this book quite difficult to read. I am not a scientist by training and a good share of the most technical description and discussion did not really make that much sense to me.
Nonetheless I learned much from the book. The main premise that there remains much to be discovered and known seems to me indisputable .And this even though there may be realms such as quantum physics where the main map is already largely drawn, and the questions which remain are of more minor significance.
The most challenging questions are as I understand it those which relate to the human mind and human situation. It is clear that we are not even close in having a real understanding of how the ' mind ' works. And in a world in which there are so many rapid developments scientifically and techologically it is clear that the major question, of the future of mankind( And our possible replacement or supplementation by other intelligences) has no clear and simple answer.
Maddox writing toward the end of the book on the possible disasters of Mankind is especially disconcerting. He does not go into the detail that Martin Rees does in presenting the various ways we may finish ourselves off, or be finished off, but he is disconcerting enough.
Above all though I think he achieves his main purpose in the book, and refutes those who want to argue that the main scientific problems (John Horgan) have already been taken care of.
Anyone who studies history or the creative life of mankind knows that so long as we are here and thinking and exploring we will be making and creating new problems and new questions.

The welcome influence of healthy scepticism.......2003-01-05

Probably written originally for the `fin de siecle' market, I suspect this book will have a much longer shelf life. John Maddox has a finely honed sense of what constitutes good science, which is not surprising for the long time editor of the prestigious journal `Nature'. He writes with authority on a vast array of subjects, and seems comfortable with the complexities of all of them. As a result, he is well qualified to distinguish between what is good science and what is metaphysics.
Why is this important? Many science writers have written books on string theory, evolution, black holes, dark matter, quintessence etc. and have done so as though writing about real entities. It is as if media departments, under pressure from funding agencies for results, have pushed them into proclaiming the reality of their theories, and then sold them onto an unsuspecting public in impressive looking books (often heralded by the supposed cognoscenti who should know better) as the latest discovery. John Maddox makes it his business to pour very cold water on most of them and argues, for instance, that `putative' or `tentative' or `candidate' black holes are not quite the same thing as experimentally established, tried and tested ideas that we normally associate with good science and science practice. This is therefore an extremely timely book, for it is the writers of science that have foisted metaphysics on us as a fait accompli, half suggesting that theories of everything are within our grasp in a short while. In contrast, John Maddox points out that for all our knowledge, we know hardly anything at all about many traditional areas of enquiry such as cell division, and that most of our efforts seem to be spent on the `naming of parts'. The genome project is a good example, but while that is a huge achievement, knowing how all the parts are put together is an undertaking that will tax our understanding for very many years yet.
What is left to discover is therefore breathtaking, and it is his healthy scepticism that reveals this. The quantum gravity problem, for instance, will not be resolved by the accumulation of data, and points at serious conceptual difficulties of a qualititative rather than quantitative form. Yet if string theory is likely to solve this, it will not be in this century that it will be testable, and at the moment stands as a lone contender that is no better than an educated guess.
But there is a darker side to John Maddox. As editor of Nature, he played a crucial role in the Bienveniste fiasco, in which a magician was employed to discredit homoeopathic experiments which suggested that water could hold a memory of what had been in it, and which had been removed. At such times, healthy scepticism turns into prejudice, and yet still appears to retain its own character. I doubt whether a magician was used to discover the errors of calculation that caused CERN scientists to proclaim prematurely the discovery of the Higgs boson. The irony is that this particle is said to have a nature not dissimilar to that of a homoeopathic remedy, having an effect more by memory than presence. Yet despite such errors, such `exotic' ideas receive major funding, and are not discredited. When advances in ideas in such areas as homoeopathy are announced, they are the spur to renunciation at any cost, and its absence even of mention is to be noted in this book. Gene structure is based on memory, and we also experience an effect of memory when something or someone is removed from our presence; it is called grief, or sadness. Perhaps such cross-categorial references are distasteful to us, but that is no reason to pillory ideas that are striving for advancement. Such ideas may appear to threaten basic scientific assumptions, but it may well be these that are preventing progress in so many areas. Scepticism is necessary for this to happen, but it so easily disguises itself as something else entirely.
Notwithstanding, this book goes a long way in correcting the focus created by other books concerning science which claim far too much for themselves and for this one fact alone, this is a book well worth the effort of reading.

Great Survey of Science Now, Past & Future........2002-10-07

John Maddox was long-time editor "Nature". Magazine. All in professional scientific research know "Science" and "Nature" are the two preeminent journals where technical papers are first published. Some of the great discoveries such as the electron, DNA and quantum theory have been published in these journals.

It is a great fortune that John Maddox, the retired editor of "Nature" took the time write this book and at the turn of the century, turn of the Millennium. It is a gift of great learning that Mr. Maddox has given to the world at the turn of the millennium.

Some writers have commented this book is hard reading, hard to follow and dense technical writing. Friends, this is not "People" or "Time" magazine. This is not supposed to be light reading; this is a discussion of what science has discovered and what science may discover in the future. Many commentators and professional scientists have long awaited this book.

Mr. Maddox breaks the book into three parts. 1. Matter 2. Life 3. Our World. This alone is noteworthy breakdown of our present knowledge of the world. Of note, Mr. Maddox writes that all scientific explanation of anything must include a "physical or materialistic" explanation.

The physical explanation or rather Physics has triumphed over virtually all other sciences. Indeed, physics is the foundation of all the sciences. We all know the chief problem of physics is the unity of theory of relativity with the quantum theory. Indeed as writer Michio Kaku said, our sum total knowledge of the universe is in the theory of relativity and of the quantum.

Mr. Maddox was a Physics professor before and his knowledge of physics allows him to delve into great details about the unification of the two great theories of the 20th. Century.

The second and third part of the book on "Life" "Our World". This discussion is a bit murky. We all know biology is not an exact science and any discussion of "Our World" is bound to be of a subjective nature.

Mr. Maddox discusses the computer, mathematics, and a family tree of man, avoidance of asteroids. Needless, one 400 page book is not going cover this in detail nor with precision or clarity.

The book can be read in one or two days. It not a textbook per se but a general discussion now, past and the future of science. It provides a sense of "time" and "place" of science for the lay reader and the professional scientists. It is great for practicing scientists and for individuals who aspire to be scientists. It may even offer general roadmap of where we want to be headed in science. This book is a must buy.

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The Discovery of Man. The Story of the Inquiry Into Human Origins
Stanley Casson
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The discovery of man;: The story of the inquiry into human origins;
Stanley Casson
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Human Origins: Tracing Humanity's Evolution (The Encyclopedia of Discovery and Invention)
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A novel way to resolve science and the Bible

Both scientific research and scriptural quotations abound in this revolutionary theory.

New Evidence for Two Human Origins: Discoveries That Reconcile The Bible and Science
Gary T. Mayer
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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ASIN: 1425973221

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The subject of human origins is a topic that not only feeds our curiosity; it also offers to be a topic that can bring us greater meaning to our lives. It has been assumed by many scientists and biblical scholars that the human race emerged from a single nucleus. Could this have been a wrong assumption? New evidence has come to light indicating that Adam and Eve's descendants married into an existing race. Where did this existing race come from? When and where did these two races merge? This book provides a thesis which answers all these questions and, in so doing, harmonizes the teaching of the Bible and the true teachings of science.

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A novel way to resolve science and the Bible.......2007-09-24

Gary T. Mayer, a retired professional engineer, former member of Wycliffe Bible Translaters and graduate of Trinity International University where he received a MDiv degree, offers a relatively novel approach to resolving science and the Bible. He presents a thesis that the Bible presents God as orchestrating a process of human descent from animals, resulting in a pre-Adamite race that existed in the Middle East contemporarily with God's special creation of Adam and Eve (the Adamic race) directly from the earth.

He bases his case primarily on the decline in life spans recorded in Genesis, using a 929-year average potential life span for the Adamic race and a 60-year average life span for the pre-Adamic race. He then develops various plausible scenarios of potential life sppans resulting from mixed marriages within the genealogies recorded in Genesis, assuming that potential life spans of the offspring equal the average of those of the parents. He demonstrates that these scenarios, arrived at from his dual origin thesis, fit the gradually reduced lifespans given in the Genesis genealogies.

His case for the validity of this approach is based on Matt Ridley's "Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters," (HarperCollins, 1999), p. 204: "Aging is turning out to be one of the things that is under the control of many genes. One expert estimates that there are 7,000 age-influencing genes in the human genome, or ten percent of the total."

The rest of the book shows how this thesis fits well with the Genesis narriative, demonstrating that the Bible teaches that the days of creation in Genesis 1 are not 24-hour days, that the "sons of God" of Genesis 6 are Adam and Eve's descendents who married into the pre-Adamic race (the "daughters of men"), etc. He also deals with Bible verses that seem to contradict the dual-origin thesis. Along the way he discusses Noah's flood and the present of sin in the human race.

In summary, this book is filled with thought-provoking insights and makes a good case for two human origins.

Both scientific research and scriptural quotations abound in this revolutionary theory........2007-09-06

Bible-faithful Christian and retired professional engineer Gary T. Mayer presents New Evidence for Two Human Origins: Discoveries That Reconcile The Bible and Science, an exploration of the mysteries surrounding humanity's origin that dares to search for harmony between the Bible and science. Questioning the all-too-common assumption that the whole of the human race evolved from a single nucleus, New Evidence for Two Human Origins draws upon recent evidence suggesting that Adam and Eve's descendants could have married into a pre-existing race. If so, when and where did these two races merge? Both scientific research and scriptural quotations abound in this revolutionary theory.

Origin and Evolution of Mankind (Occult History of the Making of Mankind Retold in the Light of Modern Discoveries)

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Origin and Evolution of Mankind (Occult History of the Making of Mankind Retold in the Light of Modern Discoveries)
B. Kumar
Manufacturer: Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division
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Binding: Hardcover

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