Urantia Book Commentary and Articles

This is a very interesting article posted by Dr Mercola. Enjoy the movie...To view additional comments by Dr Mercola, please click on "external source" below.

Following are some Urantia Book quotes which illustrate the soundness of the ideas presented in this video, and their harmony with Urantia Book teachings:

MECHANICAL UNIVERSE MYTH

103:6.4 When man analytically inspects the universe through the material endowments of his physical senses and associated mind perception, the cosmos appears to be mechanical and energy-material. Such a technique of studying reality consists in turning the universe inside out.

42:11.1 In the evaluation and recognition of mind it should be remembered that the universe is neither mechanical nor magical; it is a creation of mind and a mechanism of law. But while in practical application the laws of nature operate in what seems to be the dual realms of the physical and the spiritual, in reality they are one.

42:11.2 Mechanisms do not absolutely dominate the total creation; the universe of universes in toto is mind planned, mind made, and mind administered. But the divine mechanism of the universe of universes is altogether too perfect for the scientific methods of the finite mind of man to discern even a trace of the dominance of the infinite mind. For this creating, controlling, and upholding mind is neither material mind nor creature mind; it is spirit-mind functioning on and from creator levels of divine reality.

LIFE IS BASED ON SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

49:1.6 The early stages of life evolution are not altogether in conformity with your present-day views. Mortal man is not an evolutionary accident. There is a precise system, a universal law, which determines the unfolding of the planetary life plan on the spheres of space. Time and the production of large numbers of a species are not the controlling influences. Mice reproduce much more rapidly than elephants, yet elephants evolve more rapidly than mice.

71:5.3 Throughout the earlier ages of any world, competition is essential to progressive civilization. As the evolution of man progresses, co-operation becomes increasingly effective. In advanced civilizations co-operation is more efficient than competition. Early man is stimulated by competition. Early evolution is characterized by the survival of the biologically fit, but later civilizations are the better promoted by intelligent co-operation, understanding fraternity, and spiritual brotherhood.

LIFE EVOLVED AS A RANDOM PROCESS

49:1.7 The process of planetary evolution is orderly and controlled. The development of higher organisms from lower groupings of life is not accidental. Sometimes evolutionary progress is temporarily delayed by the destruction of certain favorable lines of life plasm carried in a selected species. It often requires ages upon ages to recoup the damage occasioned by the loss of a single superior strain of human heredity. These selected and superior strains of living protoplasm should be jealously and intelligently guarded when once they make their appearance. And on most of the inhabited worlds these superior potentials of life are valued much more highly than on Urantia.

GENES CONTROL YOUR LIFE

116:6.1 In the evolutionary superuniverses energy-matter is dominant except in personality, where spirit through the mediation of mind is struggling for the mastery. The goal of the evolutionary universes is the subjugation of energy-matter by mind, the co-ordination of mind with spirit, and all of this by virtue of the creative and unifying presence of personality. Thus, in relation to personality, do physical systems become subordinate; mind systems, co-ordinate; and spirit systems, directive.

19:1.5 ...The human mind would ordinarily crave to approach the cosmic philosophy portrayed in these revelations by proceeding from the simple and the finite to the complex and the infinite, from human origins to divine destinies. But that path does not lead to spiritual wisdom. Such a procedure is the easiest path to a certain form of genetic knowledge, but at best it can only reveal man's origin; it reveals little or nothing about his divine destiny.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Questions about Chromosome Count

This is a question and answer recently published in the FAQ section of Truthbook.com regarding the number of chromosomes in human cells, vs the number of "trait determiners," and just what this seeming discrepancy of Urantia Book revelation with known science can mean.

At the end of this Q+A, there is a link to another site wherein author Kermit Anderson discusses these Urantia Book concepts as well.

Q: On page 397:11, The Urantia Book states that there are 48 units of pattern control in the sex cells of human reproduction. I believe this refers to chromosomes... if not, what could it mean? Our science counts 46 chromosomes. Prior to this discovery, it was thought there were 48, but that was in chimps.

I think this is fundamental to the truth of The Urantia Book, as it is stated as fact in the Origin of the Human Race, and all development is based on that assumed fact. This makes all so-called truths suspect. I wish this were not so, for I am a seeker.

A: Yes, The Urantia Book does state that there are 48 units of pattern control. The general assumption always tends to be that this is a reference to chromosomes and since it's incorrect then those looking for disputable facts will simply say, "see, The Urantia Book doesn't know what it's talking about." If the revelators had meant chromosomes they would have used that word since they did use it in one other place.

"On Urantia there are forty-eight units of pattern control--trait determiners--in the sex cells of human reproduction."(36:2.4)

This statement about "forty-eight units of pattern control"--forty-eight units of trait determiners (genes)--is in the context of the "design" of Urantia will creatures. The Life Carriers designed us with twenty-four chromosomes, twenty-two autosomes and two sex chromosomes. In the process of protein synthesis, the single-stranded messenger RNA (mRNA) is the "pattern". Each strand of the double-stranded DNA is a unit of "pattern control". The integrity of the pattern in each strand is controlled, because the DNA strands are a complementary pair. Therefore, each DNA strand serves as a control for the transcription of RNA patterns; and twenty-four chromosomes implies forty-eight units of pattern control, two for each chromosome.

The revelators point to "the sex cells of human reproduction", rather than to somatic cells, in an attempt to keep us from misinterpreting the statement. At the time of the revelation, scientists mistakenly thought that there were forty-eight chromosomes in a somatic cell; and even with the correct number of chromosomes (forty-six), the revelators are trying to help us avoid the confusion of the homologous pairs of autosomes in a somatic cell. A germ cell has twenty-three chromosomes, and "the sex cells" collectively are the two different implementation subsets of the full design set of twenty-four chromosomes.

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