Case of the "Intelligent Designer"
Was I.D.
an E.T.?
In
March 1925 the Tennessee legislature outlawed the teaching of any doctrine
denying the divine creation of Man as taught by the Bible. In July of that
same year, John T. Scopes, a high school teacher, was brought to trial for
teaching Evolution in violation of the state law. The ensuing Scopes
Trial (or, deridedly, the "Monkey TriaI�) drew worldwide attention to the
seemingly irreconcilable conflict between Creationism (the old fashioned belief
in the biblical account) and Evolution (based on Darwin's findings of Natural
Selection).
John
Scopes was found guilty and was fined $100; the Tennessee law was repealed in
1967; but the debate
has not ended: Is Man, Homo sapiens, solely the product of a long process
of natural selection (�Evolution"), or the result of a divine decision, a
deliberate act by a Creator ("Creationism�)?
The
Evolutionists cannot fathom how the other side can ignore the overwhelming evidence
for life�s beginnings billions of years ago and claim that it is all the
result of six days of creation; the Creationists, pointing out that a complex watch
required a watchmaker, cannot see how the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens as
the most complex life form can deny the Hand of God.
Enter
�Intelligent Design�
In
the past several
years the debate has manifested itself again, with greater vigor,
not only in the so-called Bible Belt states, but also in unexpected places as
the Michigan House of Representatives and the Pennsylvania education system.
The most recent instance
is Ohio, where the arena is the state's Board of Education.
Reports
of these developments in the liberal media do not hide a degree of alarm at
these developments -- not so much because they
continue to occur, but because the attack on Darwinian teachings now come from
�Creationism in disguise,� and �a good disguise� at that (Time
magazine). The disguise is called
"Intelligent Design� (�I.D.� for short); Its proponents, by and
large, do not take a position on how Life got here; they just deny that natural
selection (i.e. evolution) alone could have brought us about.
Somewhere along the way, they hold, there had to be an Intelligent
Designer.
What
alarms the media and the scientific community is the fact that the proponents of
ID are not Bible-waving old ladies, but intellectuals and academics from varied
disciplines in science, philosophy and theology.
Their concerted attack on Evolutionism has been called by the established
scientific community �a wedge strategy to restore Creationism in disguise� (Science
magazine).
Identifying the
Intelligent Designer
The
proponents of the new version of Creationism, one must conclude from a study of
their writings and arguments, find it easier to make a case for Intelligent
Design than to answer the question: If so, who was the Intelligent Designer?
While
many scientific critics of ID hold that the neo-Creationists are conservative
Christians upset about the displacement of God from school curricula, �the
fact is that many leaders of the new movement prefer to skirt the question, or
even allow an abstract �God� to be embedded in the very beginning of the
universe: �No one really knows how the universe got built with DNA that can
replicate itself,� (in the words of William Demski, a professor of
mathematics).
A New York Times
Puzzler
In
its issue of April 8, 2001, The New York Times, in a page-one article by
James Glanz, informed its readers that in spite of some wins by Evolutionists in
Kansas, Michigan and Pennsylvania, they �find themselves arrayed not against
traditional creationism, with its roots in biblical liberalism, but against a
more sophisticated idea: the Intelligent Design theory.�
But
who, if so, was the Intelligent Designer? As
I was reading the article on that Sunday morning, I was delighted to learn that
The
designer may be much like the biblical God, proponents say, but they are open
to other explanations, such as the proposition that life was seeded by a
meteorite from elsewhere in the cosmos, or the new age philosophy that the
universe is suffused with mysterious but inanimate life force.
That
proponents of ID consider the bringing of life to Earth by a meteorite as one
explanation, I felt, was close enough to my Sumerian explanation that the Seed
of Life (what we now call DNA) was imparted to Earth by the invading planet
Nibiru during the collision (�Celestial Battle�) some four billion years
ago.
But
it turned out from examining the newspaper�s website and earlier editions,
that the New York City edition that I was reading excised an intriguing and key
sentence from the original article. Here
is what the paragraph had read in its original version, with the omitted
sentence highlighted:
This
designer may be much like the biblical God, proponents say, but they are open
to other explanations, such as the proposition that life was seeded by a
meteorite from elsewhere in the cosmos, POSSIBLY INVOLVING EXTRATERRESTRIAL
INTELLIGENCE, or the new age philosophy that the universe is suffused with a
mysterious but inanimate life force.
"An
Advanced Civilization from Another World"
As
my readers know, what I have said in my books went beyond the common origin of
Life (=DNA) on Earth and elsewhere in the Universe.
I showed that according to the Sumerian texts (on which the biblical
account of Genesis was based), Evolution took its course both on Nibiru and on
Earth. Beginning much earlier on
Nibiru, it produced the advanced Anunnaki on Nibiru but only early hominids on
Earth when the Anunnaki had come here some 450,000 years ago.
Then, I wrote, the Anunnaki engaged in genetic engineering to upgrade the
hominids to Homo sapiens (to be in their likeness and after their image, as the
Bible says).
While
I was still wondering how the extraterrestrial angle was excised from the Times
article in April 2001, I was delighted to read thus in its editorial on March
17, 2002. Headlined Darwinian
Struggle in Ohio, the editorial explained:
Adherents
of intelligent design carefully shun any mention of God in their proposals.
They simply argue that humans, animals and plants are far too diverse
and complex to be explained by evolution and natural selection, so there must
have been an intelligent designer behind it all.
Whether that designer is God, AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION FROM
ANOTHER WORLD, or some other creative force, is not specified.
The
emphasis of the astounding statement is mine.
Back
to Enki?
This
is quite an advance in acknowledging the Sumerian data � from the general
possibility of an involvement by �Extraterrestrial Intelligence� in cosmic
life, to an Intelligent Designer from �an advanced civilization from another
world.�
It
is progress spanning the tale of the collision that spread the Seed of Life to
the genetic engineering by the Lord Enki.
Have
the editorial writers of the New York Times read my latest book, The
Lost Book of Enki?
ZECHARIA SITCHIN
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Z. Sitchin 2002
Reprinted with permission
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