Some say the physical evolution of man ended 72 kya. Curiously, this is the date given for the advent of Ihin man and also for the following:
the first AMHs in Altai, Russia
the first modern Chinese21
Europe’s Fontéchevade Man, who was essentially like ourselves, allowing us to “date our species as in existence perhaps seventy thousand years ago”22
the deepest divergence in an evolutionary tree, developed by genomic studies23
the Welsh genome, where the biggest difference (eight mutations) is among individuals who shared a common ancestor ca 80 kya24
the common ancestor of European and Australian Aborigine (dated to 70 kya); while New Guinea mtDNA traces back to 77 kya25
the cognitive explosion, which some say occurred around 73 or 70 kya,26 matching India’s Ramayana, which traces the beginning of writing and culture to an ancient white race some 70 kya
Also suggesting the advent of man between 80 and 70 kya is the work of a Native Cree archaeologist who has created a database of the oldest sites in the New World—with five hundred entries ranging back as far as 80 kya, just as Native American mtDNA sequences from a Northwest tribe trace back to 78 kyr. While the earliest engraved object in America dates to 70 kya,27 American grinding tools and pollen of cultivated corn have been dated between 70 and 80 kya.
HOW OLD IS THE EARTH, REALLY?
Just as the age of man may be a great deal younger than we are taught, the age of Earth itself has, I believe, been greatly overestimated. Modern science speaks of billions of years for Earth’s age. Darwin assumed there were virtually no limits to the time in which natural selection operated, positing, in effect, a perpetual motion machine. For example, he estimated more than 300 myr for the time in which the Wealdon deposits of England had eroded, “a mere trifle of geological time.”
Figure 10.7. Ages of the planet as told in Oahspe. By the ancients, the four seasons of manifestation were termed semu, hotu, adu, and uz, corresponding respectively to: birth/time of creating, growing and maturing, harvest and senility, and, finally, time of destruction and rest. In semu a planet is ripe for the bringing forth of living creatures. Then it enters hotu, for it is past the age of begetting, even as the living who are advanced in years. Next it enters adu, and nothing can generate upon it. Finally comes uz, and it is spirited away into unseen realms.
Yet Darwin’s contemporaries (and the following generation) found evidence for a younger Earth; hence, in the second edition of Origin, Darwin confessed his rashness; and in yet later editions he quietly withdrew his bloated estimate, which “proved to be immensely above that of the reputable geologists and physicists of the time.”28 Darwin’s 300 myr was then reduced to 70 myr at the outside, while his son, Sir George Darwin, would calculate a geological history for Earth no older than 100 myr, perhaps as little as 50 myr (as against today’s claim of 4.6 billion).
In fact, some scientists are saying that erosion rates indicate that the continents are no older than 20 myr29 (versus the orthodox two and a half billion); other geologists believe that figure is somewhere between 25 and 70 myr.30 Lord Kelvin (who discovered the second law of thermodynamics as well as absolute temperature, which is measured today in Kelvin degrees), calculated Earth’s age*126 based on how long it took to cool down to its present crustal temperature. Kelvin’s thermodynamics was itself based on the principle that energy always becomes less available; therefore hot bodies always cool down.
Kelvin counted 98 myr since the solidification of Earth’s crust. His new science was a blow to the evolutionist’s uniformitarianism, for Earth’s age now appeared to be but a fraction of what Darwin’s theory required. This, of course, was disputed vigorously by evolutionists, who required many more millions even billions of years for their theories to hold. We might also wonder why 95 percent of animal phyla are said to be no older than 40 myr.
The geologic column, argued one critic, is but “a public relations tool for the general theory of evolution.”31 It all comes back to the requirements of Darwinian gradualism. The great maverick scientist, Immanuel Velikovsky, an inspiration to Einstein, thought, like Kelvin, Earth much younger than generally believed. If the Darwinian establishment today says Earth cooled down enough to make oceans and rocks 3.8 billion years ago, there are still some intrepid scientists who contend that the maximum age of the oceans is only 62 million years. Darwin’s “partner” in evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, dated the oldest rocks to no more than 28 myr.
Geologists with no ax to grind for deep time or Darwinism have fixed the limits of geologic time (age of Earth) at about 70 myr. In 1862, Darwin himself became worried whether there was in fact enough time for the accumulation of such minute changes (in animal species) to amount to such large effects, when Kelvin, that year, said Earth was less than a 100 million years old—the time needed for it to have cooled down to its present temperature. Comte de Buffon was an Enlightenment naturalist who pointed out that living forms could only have been produced when Earth cooled down to a temperature suitable for life. Based on the geothermal gradient observed in mines, he calculated our planet cooled sufficiently to support life 70 kya. Although his work was criticized, and “hot origin” almost dropped out of science, his idea of gradient was later validated. Buffon also calculated that in another 70,000 years the planet would be so chilled as to sustain no life on its surface.*127 The gradual cooling of Earth, he thought, had eliminated the warm-loving fauna of an earlier day, while many of today’s existing species will, in time, perish from the same cause.
EXTINCTIONS: A TIME TO LIVE AND A TIME TO DIE
From the time of semu to uz, creatures are born and die. Why do most species (99 percent) go extinct? (Most vertebrates have gone extinct after a tenure of about a million years on Earth.) Failure to adapt, of course, is the stock explanation. Or a species vanishes because it has successfully evolved to something else; the parent species disappears or is replaced after it changes into the daughter species. Or so they say. Evolutionists also contend that certain species went extinct because they had become too “specialized” to a particular niche, which then changed, making new (impossible) demands. Such species presumably failed to come up with “favorable mutations,” as selection required. All this, in my view, is pure speculation. Species do not really overspecialize or wear out (another theory). Certain animals have simply failed to propagate, including men.
I have come to think of most extinctions, quite simply (and parsimoniously), as a function of heat loss; in this view, only those plants and animals better equipped to withstand cooler-drier conditions persist. (Indeed, Afrocentrists, as we will see in the next chapter, use global cooling and drying to explain the critical change from one fossil type of hominid to the next.) In the animal kingdom, the mass extinction events that eliminated dinosaurs or trilobites were, in my understanding, due to chill kill.
The story begins with hot Earth. “As a testimony to man, behold the earth was once a globe of liquid fire!”32 In the beginning, a planet comes forth as a molten mass of hot, undisciplined gases. Once stabilized and cooled, it matures. And after the span of ages, it goes out like a candle in the firmament—cold and dry, slackening in its dotage, in velocity, moisture, heat, and light—until extinct. This should be axiomatic. Buffon, Lyell, Leibniz, Kelvin, Descartes, and many other scientists besides recognized the cooling state of Earth.
A slowing Earth is a cooling Earth: Earth is aging now, with slower rotation and weaker electromagnetic field. And as Earth’s rotation slows, the solar day lengthens. Because of steady slowing, an extra second (a “leap second”) is added to atomic clocks from time to time to make up for the lag. Speed also correlates with heat, as demonstrated in October 2006 when astronomers announced the fastest known planet, named SWEEPS-10, with a “year” just ten hours long and a surface temperature of about 3,000 degrees Farenheit.*128
In the new-old science, the temperature of a planet depends on its axial velocity,†129 which is rapid in t
he youth of a world and slowing with age. Although the textbooks might say otherwise, I believe temperature loss (through slowing) is an intrinsic feature of planetary life and the probable cause of most animal extinctions. Indeed, I propose using this model to date the advent of man to ca 80,000 BP, at which time the average temperature on the planet fell to 98 degrees. Frankly, this cooling, 80 kya, is the opposite of orthodox science, which has things warming up during an interglacial period at around 75 kya (and lasting supposedly until 10 kya).
At the time of the quickening of animal life, Earth, according to the structure of coral fossils, made its daily rotation in what would now be twenty-one hours and forty minutes. This would give a difference, in animal heat, of 2.5 degrees, which is to say that large animals, now extinct, had an average body temperature 2.5 degrees higher than at present. In other words, three hours and twenty minutes’ loss in axial motion produced a loss of 2.5 degrees of vortexian (ambient) heat.
As the decline in axial speed indicates, a fraction of a second is lost every century, and as that motion is diminished, so is heat; just so, can the aging of any planet be observed in the diminishing of its atmospheric warmth and breadth. Today, only a few miles above ground level, hardly 122,000 feet up, the temperature above tropical regions is as cold as above the polar regions. In very small increments, and over a great span of time, the atmosphere of our world has lost both amplitude and heat. Picture a time-lapse viewing of Earth in formation: a rapidly rotating fiery furnace begins to decelerate. The flashing heat subsides, in degrees, along with decrease in axial motion. Now the atmospheric canopy begins to cool. The surface world becomes, at last, habitable.
And over the eons, when the temperature finally falls to 98 degrees, Earth is ripe for the bringing forth of human creatures. According to this scheme, we can place the quickening of man at eighty thousand years ago, at the very end of the Semuan age. To find the time of first man, we place his temperature at 98 degrees Fahrenheit for optimum health. Four below normal will be the end of the period of man’s inhabitation of Earth. After the vortexian radiation reaches this period (94 degrees F), man will cease to propagate, and so, become extinct on Earth.*130
“The earth upon which we live is but a cooling planetary mass,” stated George Frederick Wright on page one of Origin and Antiquity of Man. In his view, Earth “became fit for the habitation of man only during recent geological ages. A few million years ago the heat upon the surface of the earth was so great that it would have been impossible for man to have endured.”
Twentieth-century scientist Louis Alvarez popularized the idea that an asteroid struck Earth at the K-T boundary (Cretaceous-Tertiary), causing major extinctions through a disruption of the food chain. Can we blame mass extinctions on catastrophes? In the Alvarez model, immense clouds of asteroid dust would have blocked sunlight. (The reader might be interested in finding out more about dark periods in chapter 4 of my book Time of the Quickening. For example, in the age of Thor, ca 15 kya, “the lands of earth were covered in darkness (nebulous period) [due to] a veil over the face of the sun.”33) But some mass extinctions did not involve an impact. If mass extinctions are caused by catastrophes, why do some species survive and others perish? We recall that the Devonian extinction effected mostly shallow water invertebrates; of course, it was coldest in the shallows.
At the critical point of heat loss, a species ceases to propagate. The time of begetting has a beginning and an end for all the living. With cooling, “bison genetic diversity plummeted. . . . Cold and dry conditions dominated.” Horses also went extinct (in Alaska) at that time.34 Every species has its own temperature threshold (cold tolerance)—critical not only to its own metabolism but also to the food chain it feeds off. There is a time of genesis and a time of old age for all individuals, all species, even all worlds.
Scientists Comte de Buffon, Richard Owen, Thomas Henry Huxley, Isaac Asimov, and others agree on this much: cooling was the cause of the dinosaur extinction—not a giant asteroid (à la Alvarez) or solar flares charging Earth with lethal levels of ultraviolet radiation or even because they had become “overspecialized.” Only this: With a loss of 2 or 3 degrees in body temperature, the empire of the saurians came to an end; other large animals also went out of existence. The apparently abrupt ending of the giant reptiles, as Gerald Heard saw it in The Sources of Civilization, was “probably connected with the close of a vast period of equable warm conditions and the onset of a new age in which the winters were bitterer . . . in the cold, the reptile falls into anesthetic coma.”
The hulking saurians were just too big to burrow and hibernate (like the smaller animals, which did survive), and the temperature probably dropped too low to hatch their eggs. Good-bye giant reptiles, hello little mammals. Loss of heat is evident by the kinds of animals that succeeded them: the fur- and feather-bearing creatures, sheathed in fatty layers and adapted to a cooler clime.
Figure 10.8. Wing Anderson’s chart indicating 144,000 years as total lifespan of humanity. With mankind now 72 kyr, we are halfway through the Age of Man; in other words, our procreation period is to last another 72 kyr. And whereas the first half of the age of man was focused on corporeal things, the second half is to be spiritual, ushering in the world community of nations and cosmic understanding.*131
Even as certain species of animals have ceased to propagate, and have become extinct, so shall it be with man . . . [when] the earth will have fulfilled its labor.
OAHSPE, SHA’MAEL, PLATE 40, BOOK OF COSMOGONY AND PROPHECY
Eight degrees of vortexya, in this reckoning, is the sum of man’s existence on Earth, which is a span of 144,000 years, called the grand cosmic day or human season, within which mankind is born (semu), matures (hotu), and passes into old age (adu) and death (uz). (See figure 10.8.)
HOMINID EXTINCTIONS
What has caused hominid extinctions in the past? Amalgamation? Catastrophe? Genocide? The Ihins of Shem and Ham became extinct by amalgamation (EBA) after 12 and 21 kyr respectively (more on EBAs in chapter 12). There have also been many natural disasters that have decimated the tribes of man. Asuans, for example, were destroyed by a kind of brimstone falling on the five divisions of Earth, approximately 72 kya.35 In very recent time, several Andamanese groups were wiped out in the 2004 Boxer Day tsunami. As for genocide, all the Old World Ihins were exterminated before the flood. Eight thousand years ago all the Druks of Heleste (southeast Europe) were exterminated as well as the hoodas (Druks) of Arabinia, at the hands of the Ihuans who slaughtered them right and left; degenerate Ihuan-Druks were pursued without mercy by the more civilized pure Ihuans.36 In addition, the extermination of Negrito groups is not hard to discover in the record: the aboriginal people in Japan, reddish-skinned pygmies, were wiped out by the Ainu. Similar histories tell of death-dealing cave fires, which eliminated the Nittevo (Sri Lanka), the Ebu Gogo (Flores), and the Taiwanese Negritos who were brutally trapped and massacred, according to their destroyers, the Saisyat. In America, the scenario is almost identical: the Paiutes once launched a war against the marauding Druks (giants cannibals): “My people gathered wood and began to fill up the mouth of their cave.”37 They set it afire, totally exterminating the tribe of red-haired cannibals.
Archaeological evidence of other massacres includes the upper layers of Mohenjo Daro, where groups of contorted skeletons were apparently massacred. The Tasmanians were exterminated by the new settlers. On Easter Island, the Short Ears exterminated the Long Ears in the thirteenth century. There have been far too many holocausts to mention—religious, political, territorial, tribal.
Have yet other races been eliminated by neutering? The Ihins made eunuchs of the ground people and Yaks; later, the Ihuans also neutered the Yaks and ground people “wherever they came upon them.” Later on the Ongwee-ghan made eunuchs of their Ihuan enemies.38
And what about extinction through sterility? The Yaks were barren and died off—tens of millions of them. But even then, they were not extinct, so many had been produce
d. Starvation and disease have also killed off whole populations. An ancient Hittite text, for example, refers to such a time: “barley and wheat throve no more, oxen, sheep and humans ceased to conceive.”39 Sterility of people and barren fields is also described in the related flood myths of the Assyrians.
This rule follows on all worlds; that with the culture of the corporeal senses, man becomes vigorous, strong, and independent; and with the culture of the spiritual senses, they become weak, sensitive and dependent. In the first case, they ultimately become selfish and wicked; in the second case, they become impotent, and unadapted to corporeal life, and thus become extinct. On all worlds . . . [are] provided these two seasons: a season for the development of the corporeal senses, and a season for the development of the spiritual senses.
OAHSPE, BOOK OF OSIRIS 12:6–8
Figure 10.9. Plate 40 from the Oahspe, Sha’mael. “A time shall come when the earth shall travel in the roadway of the firmament, and so great a light will be therein that the vortex of the earth shall burst, even as a whirlwind bursteth, and lo and behold, the whole earth shall be scattered and gone, as if nothing has been. But ere the time cometh, My etherean hosts shall have redeemed man from sin. Nor shall the inhabitants of the earth marry, for the time of begetting will be at an end. . . . The earth will have fulfilled its labor, and its services will be no more under the sun.”
Figure 10.10. Homo limpus. Cartoon by Marvin E. Herring.
The earth gives away of its substance into atmospherea over hundreds of years; and the fields become barren and cease producing; and certain animals become barren . . . and their species go out of existence. Man is subject to the same forces; when the earth is in the giving-off period, behold, man ceases to desire of the earth.
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