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Study shows humans still evolving
PhysOrg.com, 4th October 2011

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides evidence of human evolution and rapid genetic changes suggesting that, contrary to modern claims, technological and cultural advancements have not halted the evolutionary process in humans.

The new study, led by geneticist Emmanuel Milot from the University of Quebec, looked at a group of women from the remote island town of Ile aux Coudres in Quebec, Canada. The team looked at the birth, death and marriage records kept by the Catholic Church in the town. They were specifically looking at the data from women who married between 1799 and 1940.

What they discovered was that within that 140 year time frame, the age that the women conceived their first child dropped from 26 to 22. Looking at cultural, social and economic differences in the women, the researchers were able to determine that 30 to 50 percent of this variation in age was explained solely by genetic variations. [...] This is not the first study to show that human evolution is still happening. Recent studies include the Tibetans evolutionary change to adapt to the lower oxygen levels found in their high altitude environment. This change has only occurred throughout the last few hundred generations. Other studies show that humans have only evolved the ability to tolerate lactose in their systems over the last 5,000 or so years.

Comment: Personally, I think the Tibetan research is far more convincing, but the principle to remember is that humans can and will evolve quickly based on a desire to survive even in extreme environments.

A plant that sows its own seeds discovered
Discovery On, 20th September 2011

Scientists have discovered a tiny plant which they say bows down and sows its own seeds.

The dainty, inch-high plant with pink-and-white flowers was found growing in the backyard of a local plant collector in rural northeastern Bahia, Brazil, one of the world’s most biologically diverse areas.

Comment: Maybe the plant is impatient and hates waiting for some insect or bird to do the job and so it decided to evolve... LOL! Anyway, I always have difficulties with this subject because botantists and biologists always say they have 'found' new species but just because they have found something undocumented, does not mean it is really new and so unless a species is heavily monitored (history retained in DNA?), then I think it's difficult to make a call about whether evolution really has taken place.

Well-preserved seeds found in 3,000-year-old storage units
Discover On, 23rd November 2010
Archaeologists found many well-preserved fruit and vegetable seeds, including almonds and melon seeds, from more than 3,000 years ago — some even look like new seeds — according to the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology on Nov. 20. The archaeologist said that people of the Zhou Dynasty had built unique storage units 3,000 years ago that were capable of keeping things fresh.
Actually, I wonder whether of this is an example of history repeating... Since we now have the Svalbard Vault, Norway being used to preserve the world's seeds in case of mega disaster...

G'day darling! Talking birds that escaped from Australian owners teach wild cockatoos to speak
Daily Mail, 14th September 2011

If you’re out for a walk and a bird in a tree says to you ‘Hello there’, don’t worry, you’re not going mad.

Naturalists have reported a growing phenomenon of pet parrots that have been taught to repeat phrases by their owners before escaping from their cages and then passing on the technique to the wild flocks they join.

One scientist said that he had received numerous calls from people who were baffled to hear voices calling to them from trees in their gardens. [...]

‘These birds are very smart and very social, meaning that communication and contact is important between them,’ said Mr Robinson. ‘These flocks are showing to us that they aren’t quite as bird-brained as many people think. ‘I just hope a pet bird that’s been taught dirty words doesn’t join a flock because we don’t want to hear that kind of thing going around the back gardens.’

Comment: This is another example of rapid evolution and this time it's birds demonstrating their teaching skills....

Meteorites Pummeled Earth, Delivering Gold
A slew of meteorites pelted Earth some 3.9 billion years ago -- delivering that gold you may be wearing on your finger.
Discovery News, 7th September 2011

Your wedding ring, the gold chain around your neck… even the platinum in your catalytic converter. For all of these you can thank a slew of meteorites that pelted Earth around 3.9 billion years ago, says new research.

Certain metals like gold, platinum, nickel, tungsten and iridium are attracted to iron, which comprises the Earth's core. So when the Earth first formed as a molten mass, all of these elements should have migrated to the core, leaving the outer layers of Earth stripped of its precious metals.

Comment: Of course, this is complete speculation. I would imagine that some time in the future, it will be obvious that catalytic energies are delivered to Earth as Space Weather at times of major evolutionary change. Interestingly, we have at least one maverick scientist who is literally extracting tiny amounts of gold, literally from the air, something I wrote about in my book... Anyway, how Earth got certain elements is a major area of interest to geoscientists and there have been many related articles about the drizzle of nanodiamonds that supposedly fell when a comet shattered. Logic dictates that for nanodiamonds to drizzle down for months and months, it would have had to have been a massive comet or a long cometary debris train, so the idea does seem very unlikely.... Yet, there is plenty of proof that in Earth's long history, there have been many major Space Weather events, just like we are experiencing now.

Plant has evolved a specialist bird perch
BBC News, 6th September 2011

New research sheds light on the world's most specialised bird perch. The researchers suspect that the vertical, branchless stem of a South African plant - locally called the Rat's Tail - has evolved to encourage pollinating birds to visit its flowers.

The birds hang upside down from this perch and fertilise the plant when they thrust their beaks into the red flowers to drink nectar. The international team reports the findings in the Annals of Botany.

Plants go to great lengths to attract animals to pollinate them; they seduce insects, birds and small mammals with colourful, shapely, sweet-smelling flowers. Some plants even wave at passing pollinators.

Comment: We are living at a time of rapid evolutionary change, there will be many wonders... It seems here that the botantists are telling us that plants are conscious, but then research has been telling us this for decades.

Building Blocks of DNA Found in Meteorites from Space
space.com, 8th August 2011

The components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites, researchers announced.

A different team of scientists also discovered a number of molecules linked with a vital ancient biological process, adding weight to the idea that the earliest forms of life on Earth may have been made up in part from materials delivered to Earth the planet by from space.

Past research had revealed a range of building blocks of life in meteorites, such as the amino acids that make up proteins. Space rocks just like these may have been a vital source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth.

Comment: Slowly, slowly the general public are being provided with the information that life must exist throughout the universe and there is plenty of evidence in the form of ancient rocks. Of course, the Panspermia theorists have know this for decades because some highly educated people had to ability to work this out from the raw evidence but the general public have been mislead by religionistas and the scientific mafia. The probability of life throughout the universe means that other forms of life could have evolved over billions of years differently to life on Earth and this awareness is acutely required as it becomes obvious that a whole ecology or shadow biosphere appears on Earth. Disclosure is inevitable because this planet is already becoming a cosmic aquarium, it's simply getting too difficult to hide the truth when so many people are encountering our cosmic neighbours.

Can evolution outpace climate change?
UC Davis, 8th June 2011

Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published today (June 8) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The tide pool copepod Tigriopus californicus is found from Alaska to Baja California — but in a unique lab study, the animals showed little ability to evolve heat tolerance.

“This is a question a lot of scientists have been talking about,” said study co-author Eric Sanford, an associate professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis and a researcher at the university’s Bodega Marine Laboratory. “Do organisms have the ability to adapt to climate change on a timescale of decades?”

Comment: How interesting! This article based on the results of one study, neglects to inform the reader that the geological record shows that at times of rapid evolution change, many species die but many others flourish and scientists have NO idea what the factors are behind the changes. Whatever, the fact that scientists are even talking about evolution change taking place in decades reveals there must be more than enough examples to force them to reconsider what they know about evolutionary change. Hence, we have geneticists and evolutionary biologists/ecologists organising new conferences where it is obvious they seem to have completely abandoned their prior Darwinian theology. Hence we read:

Ecological and Evolutionary Epigenetics is a new field of frontier research at the intersection between molecular genetics and evolutionary ecology. Research in this field is rapidly expanding because of the growing realization that epigenetic processes, notably those involving DNA methylation, might be much more relevant for ecology and evolution than previously acknowledged. Indeed, there is accumulating evidence that:
(1) epigenetic variation can be a source of heritable phenotypic variation that is independent of DNA sequence variation
(2) epigenetic variation is widespread in natural populations
(3) the environment plays an important role in inducing epigenetic variation both within and across generations.
Thus, epigenetic variation might be a significant source of heritable phenotypic variation in natural populations. Moreover, induced epigenetic changes could represent an important component of the ecological and evolutionary responses of organisms to environmental change.

ESF-EMBO Symposium, Epigenetics in Context: From Ecology to Evolution [18-23 September 2011]

A fish with arms... and a 'T-Rex' leech found up a girl's nose: Scientists reveal amazing top 10 'new species' list
Daily Mail, 24th May 2011

* Amazing jumping cockroach and glowing fungus also make top 10 list
* 10million species waiting to be classified, say experts

It looks like a pancake, crossed with a fish, and a bat... with arms. And it hops. So it's no surprise scientists have labelled one of their new discoveries the hopping pancake batfish.

The creature is one of ten 'new species' to have made it onto a list of weird and wonderful creatures published today. Joining it is the 'T-rex leech' - a bloodthirsty 2inch invertebrate which was discovered when it was pulled from the mucous membrane of a girl in a remote region of Peru.

Comment: Again, more reports that highlight the fact that evolutionary biologists must have a dilemma when there are so much evidence of new species appearing... I even argue that there may be species on this planet that have never been seen and recorded by humans but it does not mean they are new. What's more, it only take a few DNA changes and something becomes brand new. This is especially interesting as scientists are telling us that various species can adapt in a matter of years caused by changes in their habitat and there are now many examples..

I'd like to introduce to you a new species of animal, plant, & insect
Above Top Secret, 23rd May 2011

They didn't croak after all! World's rarest toads found in area less than half the size of a football pitch
Daily Mail, 24th May 2011

Pictures: See-Through Frog, Other "Lost" Species Found
National Geographic News, 24th May 2011

7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes
Cracked.com News, 18th May 2011

When the international ban on the trade of ivory took effect in 1989, there were about a million elephants in Africa and about 7.5 percent of those were getting poached to death every year. Today, less than half of them are left, and we're still losing about 8 percent of elephants to ivory poachers. Pretty much everything we've done to protect our wild pachyderm friends has failed.

So elephants have decided to take matters into their own hands ... or trunks or weirdly rounded three-toed feet or whatever. To make themselves less appealing to their greatest enemies (poachers), elephants all over the world have begun selecting against having tusks at all. For example, it used to be that only 2 to 5 percent of Asian male elephants were born without tusks, and you can believe those few were the belittled Dumbos of the group.

By 2005, it was estimated that the tuskless population had risen to between 5 and 10 percent. And it's not just happening in Asia, either. One African national park estimated their number of elephants born without tusks was as high as 38 percent. It's natural selection in action: either lady elephants are deliberately choosing tuskless mates, or the only boy elephants surviving into breeding time are the ones born without tusks. Either way, that tusklessness is getting passed on.

Comment: Many scientists complain about global warming or climage change and generally only want to lament about extinctions but all along there have been many stories of animals evolving in decades rather than according to Darwinism and the text book millions of years of very slow change. Here the details, especially about the elephants evolving so quickly to stay alive from the threat of humans is absolutely incredible. I truly believe that this is due to the evolutionary energies now on the planet. This is not speculation, scientists know where this is energy is coming from and that there has been a substantial increase over the last 50 years. All I can say is, good for the elephants!

Extinctions Overestimated by 160 Percent?
National Geographic, 18th May 2011
"Global extinction rates may have been overestimated by as much as 160 percent, according to a new analysis. In recent decades numerous studies have predicted that habitat destruction will doom some 20 to 50 percent of Earth's species within 500 years."
I call this evolutionary change, the same tha as happened many times in the history of the Earth.

Spectacular mammal rediscovered after 113 years -- first ever photographs taken
PhysOrg.com, 19th May 2011
"A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, South America. The magnificent red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis), stayed for almost two hours while two research volunteers took the first photos ever of a creature the world thought would never be seen again."
Obviously, it's not extinct, but just good at hiding away from humans when it wants to....

The winners of mass extinction: With predators gone, prey thrives
PhysOrg.com, 2nd May 2011

In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species. For the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics in the fossil record, thanks to a mass extinction that decimated ocean life 360 million years ago. [...]

"This is the first time that specific, long-term predator-prey interactions have been seen in the fossil record," said Lauren Sallan, graduate student in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and lead author. "It tells us a lot about the recovery from mass extinctions, especially mass extinctions that involved a loss of predators."

Comment: Well, I am hoping that Viola Petitt Neal in her book Through the Curtain was right about the removal of a select group of human predators on this planet... Yet, from my basic studies of evolutionary biology, this is exactly what we should expect at times of massive evolutionary change when the predators who have overstressed the environment are the first to be removed...

New plant species offers insights into how evolution works
Discovery You, 21st March 2011

Scientists have revealed that a new plant species is providing an insight into how evolution works and could help improve crop plants.

The new plant species, Tragopogon miscellus, appeared in the United States 80 years ago. It came about when two species in the daisy family, introduced from Europe, mated to produce a hybrid offspring.

The species had mated before in Europe, but the hybrids were never successful. However in America something new happened. The number of chromosomes in the hybrid spontaneously doubled, and at once it became larger than its parents and quickly spread.

Comment: Here we are told that despite the efforts of humans to create hybrids, this will only work when the environment decides that hybrids will be allowed. It's that simple.

Did Climate Change Make Us Human?
The Resilient Earth, 24th February 2011

Given the ongoing controversy over global warming the question of whether humans can change Earth's climate is a familiar one. Lost in the fight over anthropogenic global warming is a more subtle and possibly more important question—how has climate changed people. In recent decades, the fossil record of hominin evolution and behavior, though still incomplete, has improved greatly. Triggered by a recent National Research Council (NRC) report, a perspective article in the journal Science poses the question, “did climate change shape human evolution?”

One fact is often overlooked when it comes to discussing humanity's place in nature, and that is that man is a part of nature. Indeed humans are a product of nature and the ever changing living system that controls the climate of planet Earth. In the brief for the NRC report “Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution,” the relationship that every species, including man, has with nature is spelled out:

All living things interact with the earth system—the combinations of land, atmosphere, and oceans—that make up the planet’s environment. As the earth system has changed over time, individual species have responded to these changes. In some cases, species have moved to new locations. In other cases, they have remained and adapted to the environmental changes, and sometimes this has led to the formation of new species. In some cases, species have become extinct.

Comment: I believe that Universal Intelligence sets the parameters for all life on Earth and at particular periods in the cycle of life on this planet, massive changes are made. We are facing one now but it seems that the ancient warnings of what can happen have not gone completely unheeded. I don't hold popular views, so I am still ruminating over the Mayan belief that monkeys use to be humans that degenerated due to a cosmic bombardment that happened in our distant past.

Finally the men of the Third Age underwent physical mutations, exactly as if they had been exposed to radiation by an atomic explosion, since their race disappeared and was replaced by the 'Race of the Fourth Age.'

'Nothing remains of the men of the Third Age but the monkeys of the forests. These [mutated] are descendents of men. That is why the monkey resembles men.' (From the Popul Vuh. Unlike conventional prehistorians, the ancient Mexicans, believed the monkey descended from man, by mutation and deterioration of the species.)

Robert Charroux, Legacy of the Gods (1974)

Even today, a few bold Mayan Elders state the some humans are going to devolve and be turned into trees. This may be an extreme view, (metaphysical sources just say that some folk will not be reincarnating back on this planet), but it is not inconsistent with views held by evolutionary biologists who tell us that at certain times, mutants arise who become the dominant species version. The metaphysical community have been talking about this for a long time, but most have not talked about those who are certain to devolve and how this will take place. So, the reality of ~~evilutionary~~ evolutionary change has still not sunk in, even as i) the cosmic ray counts are at a space age high and anticipated reach levels not seen in hundreds of years, ii) cosmic radiation is pouring onto the planet because iii) Earth's magnetic field has weakened and is now full of 'rifts', no doubt caused by the mega magnetar blasts from deep space.

Mutation Lets Fish Thrive in Toxins
The high levels of PCBs in the Hudson River should be deadly -- but not to these fish.
Discovery, 17th February 2011

THE GIST

* Mutations in a Hudson River fish species allow it to resist pollution.
* The mutations may allow the fish to survive, but they also ensure that PCBs are passed into the food chain.

In the mucky bottom of the Hudson River dwell abundant Atlantic tomcod -- brownish, mottled fish a bit longer than a hand. There, too, can be found some of the highest concentrations of pollutants in the United States, the remnants of nearly 30 years of dumping from General Electric plants upriver. These tomcod have evolved to survive their inescapable lot of swimming in the nation's biggest Superfund site, finds new research, published online today in Science. [...]

"These are the guys that are most exposed," Wirgin said of the Hudson fish. "They are the ones that had to develop resistance." Wirgin suspects that there are more animals out there like the tomcod.

"I don't know what percent of species in a highly contaminated spot are going to be resistant," he said. "It's probably not that rare of an occurrence."

Comment: So, some fish stays alive by evolving but it also stays in the food chain to poison humans who are the cause of the problem in the first place... Is this evolutionary karma? But seriously, this debunks the notion of evolution taking thiusands of years and strengthens the latest discoveries of the ability of species to create 'sloppy' copies of DNA that can then be used when required to create cope with new environmental conditions, see recent article below:

Did SCIENCE Just Say That Myra Shackley Was Right???
The Big Study, 7th February 2011

This is perhaps something that is well known "out there" in electronic-land, but it just became known to me, so I'll share. I was for years a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] and received the magazine SCIENCE as part of that. Upon retirement, I dropped all this, due to rather expensive dues. Once in a while the AAAS tries to get me to come back by sending me a free copy. Thus, the other day the "fateful" magazine arrived. And within was an article that rang bells. In fact, it came very close to being [for me] solid scientific evidence for the claim by the lady above that there are/were wild-living non-Homo Sapiens sapiens living in modern times in the central regions of Asia. My goodness!! What is science coming to??

Comment: This is interesting for many reasons but primarily it means there is evidence that non-Homo Sapiens have existed until fairly recently and some might even still be around based on all the reports of wildmen seen around the world. It does make you wonder about the evolutionary process and the comment here of the 'human tree' being more like a 'human bush' is quite thought provoking. Of course there is also the belief of 'intervention' of human DNA to consider, that explains why humans are so different from their ancient relatives. Besides that, there is no explanation for why so many species have refused to evolve and have remained more or less the same for millions of years and in times of dramatic evolutionary change, some new species have suddenly disappeared and others suddenly appeared with no apparent evolution involved.

Caltech geobiologists uncover links between ancient climate change and mass extinction
Eureka Alert, 27th January 2011

PASADENA, Calif.—About 450 million years ago, Earth suffered the second-largest mass extinction in its history—the Late Ordovician mass extinction, during which more than 75 percent of marine species died. Exactly what caused this tremendous loss in biodiversity remains a mystery, but now a team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered new details supporting the idea that the mass extinction was linked to a cooling climate.

"While it's been known for a long time that the mass extinction is intimately tied to climate change, the precise mechanism is unclear," says Seth Finnegan, a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and the first author of the paper published online in Science on January 27. The mass extinction coincided with a glacial period, during which global temperatures cooled and the planet saw a marked increase in glaciers. At this time, North America was on the equator, while most of the other continents formed a supercontinent known as Gondwana that stretched from the equator to the South Pole.

By using a new method to measure ancient temperatures, the researchers have uncovered clues about the timing and magnitude of the glaciation and how it affected ocean temperatures near the equator. "Our observations imply a climate system distinct from anything we know about over the last 100 million years," says Woodward Fischer, assistant professor of geobiology at Caltech and a coauthor.

Comment: It is evident that our world is currently facing climate change and mass extinction, but history also reveals that there is also massive evolutionary change and new life. The issue is that mankind has no control over how this is achieved and sometimes the transition is done in an extreme manner, as we can see as clearly evident from Earth's geological upheavals.

Origin of life studies cancel each other
Pravda, 24th December 2010

In 2009, Brown University biology professor Ken Miller wrote in the journal New Scientist that "the most profound unsolved problem in biology is the origin of life itself." Actually, it is not a problem in "biology," but a problem for evolution's anti-supernatural bias. And the problem is not only still unsolved from an evolutionary standpoint, it shows all the signs of being unsolvable by strictly natural means.

Two new studies purport to have made some progress in resolving this dilemma. Ironically, however, they cancel each other out. [...]

Neither heat nor cold can help chemicals come to life. Naturalistic origin of life research is more hopeless at finding an answer than it has ever been, especially since the "prebiotic soup" scenario was abandoned. It appears that the fancy phrase "precellular Darwinian evolution" used by the Nature authors is just "spontaneous generation" in new clothes.

The data from origin of life research all point to one clear conclusion: Nature is not enough to produce the conditions, machines, information, or chemicals for a living cell. The solution must therefore be found outside of nature. This scientific inference is also well-supported by Scripture, which says, "For by [God] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth."

Comment: It's interesting to get an update on the struggle that scientists are having explaining the origin of life. I simply can't agree with the final paragraph either. Maybe the we should consider whether humans know all the Laws of the Universe? This is another longer article pointing out the same issue.

Is the Origin of Life in Hot Water?
Discovery Institute, 8th December 2010
The following is worth noting: "Dembski and Wells state the overall problem best in their work, Design of Life (2008):

Whenever origin-of-life researchers accept plausibility rather than evidence as their standard for scientific truth, they in effect give up the search for what really happened or for what with reasonable probability could have happened. Plausibility, as Stewart and many origin-of-life researchers understand the term, implies no effort to estimate probability. Instead, they settle for what they can imagine was possible or could have happened. In this way, they substitute opinion and prejudice for experiments and data." (241)

Earth's exposure to radiation stresses biodiversity, study says
May be tied to solar system's bobbing path around the Milky Way
MSNBC, 22nd December 2010

A puzzlingly regular waxing and waning of Earth's biodiversity may ultimately trace back to our solar system's bobbing path around the Milky Way, a new study suggests.

Every 60 million years or so, two things happen, roughly in synch: The solar system peeks its head to the north of the average plane of our galaxy's disk, and the richness of life on Earth dips noticeably.

Researchers had hypothesized that the former process drives the latter, via an increased exposure to high-energy subatomic particles called cosmic rays coming from intergalactic space. That radiation might be helping to kill off large swaths of the creatures on Earth, scientists say.

The new study lends credence to that idea, putting some hard numbers on possible radiation exposures for the first time. When the solar system pops its head out, radiation doses at the Earth's surface shoot up, perhaps by a factor of 24, researchers found.

Comment: This article can be linked to the false idea that has mislead many into believing that Earth will be passing through the Galactic Plane in 2012. Well, the numbers vary, but here it states we are 10 million years away from this eventuality. However, even if this was true, I don't see any of these 2012ers explaining that the result would be DNA mutations and rapid evolutionary change. However, we do have the new phenomena of Space Weather, something that has been acelerating for over 20 years and has become a serious threat to our technological societies. I have not seen any statistics for the overall increase in background radiation, but we do know that cosmic rays are at a Space Age high. See: Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII Phase 2 (2006) Board on Radiation Effects Research (BRER) link The explanation is that in the course of moving around the galactic centre, our solar system has arrived at new region of space and the transition has severely affected the Sun's behaviour, at the same time that Earth is losing her planetary and solar system shielding. Research papers and articles are easily available for those prepared to look, but obviously, the 2012 cosmic fairy tale being perpetuated in some quarters, is a long way from the truth. Please note the details of the original press release:

Looking to heavens, KU researchers solve puzzling extinctions on Earth
Kansas University, May 18, 2007

Human Gene Mutation Creates Resistance to A Rare, Violent Epidemic
Daily Galaxy, 18th November 2010

"It's absolutely fascinating to see Darwinian principles at work here. This community of people has developed their own biologically unique response to a truly terrible epidemic. The fact that this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades is remarkable."

Professor John Collinge, Director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Prion Unit

A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council scientists.

Comment: It makes you wonder when some claim that humans are suppose to be vegetarian but when we eat each other, human genes get to work and mutate to stop us dying from this bad habit! Anyway, like the many examples of creatures on Earth evolving in a matter of decades as changes to their natural habitats occur quickly, we have an example of humans also evolving in a matter of decades and it is in stark contrast to now outdated Darwinian dogma that states evolution is a slow and progressive, taking hundreds of thousands of years. Personally, as I have previously written, the evidence point to new cosmic influences driving sudden evolutionary change on Earth.

Passing Into the Energy Cloud
Huffington Post, 28th October 2010

On Christmas Eve, 2009, the startling hypothesis that our Solar System, the Sun and all its planets, are moving into a potentially dangerous and destabilizing interstellar energy cloud, was resoundingly sustained. In their research paper, "A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the Solar System," published the December 24, 2009 issue of Nature, a highly respected scientific journal, M. Opher et al report on data transmitted from Voyager, the twin spacecraft that have been exploring the outer reaches of the Solar System since 1977.

Comment: The author Lawrence Jospheph is basically advertising his book, but at least he is aware that Earth is facing massive evolutionary change caused by dramatic changes in our solar system.

Biodiversity': the new Big Lie
Telegraph Delingpole Blog, 21st October 2010

And so it begins. With all the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle-aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching “Climate Change”. The newer, younger, sexier model’s name? Biodiversity.

Consider this summary of the UN’s two-week Convention On Biodiversity, launched on Monday:

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are being asked to agree to new 2020 targets after governments largely failed to meet a 2010 target of achieving a significant reduction in biological diversity losses, a goal set at the last biodiversity in 2002. And one of the same issues that led to failure the first time around could jeopardize this meeting: money.

Developing nations say more funding is needed from developed countries to share the effort in saving nature. Much of the world’s remaining biological diversity is in developing nations such as Brazil, Indonesia and in central Africa.

Do you see what’s going on here?

Comment: This is very interesting, as this latest UN initiative, will only serve to wake up the general public to the reality of massive evolutionary change and obviously, I don't think that is such a bad idea. However, I have noted in the past and as I wrote about in my book, evolutionary biologists make sweeping statements about climate change and claims that extinction levels are the highest in 65 million years, but at the same time, they keep making announcements of many new discoveries that could be examples of rapid evolutionary change in biodiversity for all we know. Well, you have to dig a bit deeper to find scientists who realise that climate change is related to dramatic changes in Earth's cosmic environment, as I have pointed out on this blog many times. For more info on why people are so skeptical see:

Biodiversity: Manufacturing a Crisis
Resilient Earth, 3rd October 2010
With the UN trying to promote diminishing biodiversity as the NEXT BIG CRISIS it is interesting to note the chaos among diversity researchers. It is hard to make definitive statements regarding loss of diversity when science can not even tell us how many different creatures there are on the planet. Nevertheless, the UN has launched the International Year of Biodiversity, warning that the ongoing loss of species around the world is affecting human well-being. Yet another UN generated “science based” crisis to keep the world's citizens in a frenzy—shades of the failed global warming crisis, which the UN is rather hoping we all will forget.

Comment: Obviously, many many scientists are completely unaware of Space Weather and the associated science and therefore don't understand why there is some real panic by others, who do understand what is going on, but are being controlled by powers who are desperately trying to benefit from this knowledge...

Dolphins 'walk' on water
The Telegraph, 23rd October 2010

Dolphins in the wild are teaching themselves to "walk" with their tails along the surface of water, biologists have claimed.

Dolphin tail-walking has no known practical function and has been likened to dancing in humans. WDCS researcher Dr Mike Bossley, who has observed Adelaide's Port River dolphins for the past 24 years, said he had documented spectacular tail walking in two adult female dolphins, known as Billie and Wave.

Now four other individuals have been recorded perfecting their walking techniques – Wave's calf Tallula, Bianca and her calf Hope, and calf Bubbles. Tail walking is very rare in the wild and in thousands of hours of observation only one other dolphin has ever been observed tail walking in the Port River, and then only once.

The Port Adelaide dolphins are now said to be tail walking many times each day.

Comment: The story about the dolphins walking on water is very important and we just have to wait and see whether this trick is then picked up by dolphins everywhere. This will become undeniable proof of the the principle of the hundredth monkey, with serious implications that scientists have tried to deny in the past. Can this principle apply to humans? I think so, and that explains why there is such massive denial, because scientists would then have to seriously consider the theories of morphogenetic fields or fields of information specific to all forms of life on this planet. These informational fields are theoretical (scalar, torsion field theory), but scientists do not want to believe that they apply to all forms of biological life and can be updated with new information.

Nanodiamonds discovered in Greenland ice sheet
Nanotechnology Now, 12th September 2010
$Click for a close-up image (taken with transmission electron microscopy) shows a single lonsdaleite crystal (hexagonal nanodiamond, left), and associated diffraction pattern (right). Credit: University of Oregon.$ "There is a layer in the ice with a great abundance of diamonds," said co-author James Kennett, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth Science at UC Santa Barbara. "Most exciting to us is that this is the first such discrete layer of diamonds ever found in glacial ice anywhere on Earth, including the huge polar ice sheets and the alpine glaciers. The diamonds are so tiny that they can only be observed with special, highly magnifying microscopes. They number in the trillions."

This discovery supports earlier published evidence for a cosmic impact event about 12,900 years ago, Kennett explained. He said that the available evidence in the Greenland ice is consistent with this layer being at or close to this age, although further study is needed.

Comment: This is the latest in a series of reports over the last few years (see archives), but it seems that scientists still don't want to let go of the comet impact theory even though there no evidence of a comet crater and prefer to ignore those who state that the Earth experienced a major Space Weather event where these nanodiamonds appeared to have lingered in the air for months. There is also a direct link with climate change and a major extinction level event so it is understandable why there is such a high level of resistance by some scientists who do not wish to contemplate that Earth is not an isolated island from the rest of the universe. From an earlier report we read:

In the study, published in Science [subscription required], researchers used transmission electron microscopy to identify nanodiamonds at a number of North American sites, from Arizona to South Carolina to Manitoba, Canada. “We’ve discovered nano-diamonds that are not normally produced through average processes on the surface of the Earth,” said [study coauthor] James Kennett…. “They indicate there was an extra-terrestrial event on Earth 12,900 years ago” [BBC News]. The tiny diamonds are encased in carbon spheres that form through instantaneous melting, and the diamond crystals have a hexagonal pattern rather than the usual cubic structure, indicating that they were formed by intense heat and pressure. Such diamond crystals have been found only within meteorites at at impact craters, the researchers say. Source: Nano-Diamond Discovery Suggests a Comet Impact Killed the Mammoths

Obviously, this would be explainable if Earth was engulfed in crystalline cloud which is mostly likely starting to occur again now. Btw, these hexagonal crystals could the very same adamantine particles that the metaphysical community are expecting and the same particles (Stardust) that scientists are anxiously trying to capture as they are leaking into our solar system, see archives.

Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?
Yahoo News, 2nd September 2010

Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.

Some scientists have speculated that effects of humans - from hunting to climate change - are fueling another great mass extinction. A few go so far as to say we are entering a new geologic epoch, leaving the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch behind and entering the Anthropocene Epoch, marked by major changes to global temperatures and ocean chemistry, increased sediment erosion, and changes in biology that range from altered flowering times to shifts in migration patterns of birds and mammals and potential die-offs of tiny organisms that support the entire marine food chain.

Comment: Well, evolutionary biologists are very short sighted these days as the historical record clearly shows that that we have had continuous change for billions of years on this planet. There are certain epochs were some species are eliminated en masse and at the same time others just appear and flourish that are more suited to the environmental conditions. Scientists cannot explain how this can occur simultaneously, and they certainly don't acknowledge that the evidence is clear that evolutionary change on this planet is being managed by universal intelligence.

Fish-catching trick may be spreading among dolphins
Yahoo News, 29th August 2011

PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Dolphins in one western Australian population have been observed holding a large conch shell in their beaks and using it to shake a fish into their mouths -- and the behavior may be spreading.

Researchers from Murdoch University in Perth were not quite sure what they were seeing when they first photographed the activity, in 2007, in which dolphins would shake conch shells at the surface of the ocean.

"It's a fleeting glimpse -- you look at it and think, that's kind of weird," said Simon Allen, a researcher at the university's Cetacean Research Unit.

"Maybe they're playing, maybe they're socializing, maybe males are presenting a gift to a female or something like that, maybe the animals are actually eating the animal inside."

Comment: So we can add this trick to the news of a dolphin teaching his new dolphin friends how to tail walk after being released from an acquarium. Well, we are seeing more and more animals and sea creatures doing things that are decidedly sophisticated and some things that have absolutely nothing to do with survival like an elephant painting flowers. If this keeps up, evolutionary biologists might even start to wonder about what exactly is going on.

Corn stalk with 27 ears puzzles farmers
The Hawk Eye, 19th August 2010

MASON CITY- North Iowa farmers are puzzled by a curiously bountiful corn stalk growing in front of a restaurant in Mason City. The more than 5-foot-tall plant in front of the Wild Horse Western Cafe has 27 ears of corn on it. Usually a single corn stalk has two or three ears. Osage area farmer Don Ahrens says he has never seen or heard of anything like it. He says a genetic mutation might have caused it, but he's not sure.

Cafe owner Ilene Mittag said she got three plants from a Minnesota farmer in June when they were about a foot tall. Two grew up normally, but she said one went "out of control."

Comment: We now know that seeds can be modified by intense electric fields and that the new versions of these seeds that have been produced have proven to be a vast improvement. I can only see this as evidence that the morphogenetic fields have been upgraded and it is possible for DNA to harness this new genetic in formation, so we are seeing examples of these spontaneous and positive DNA mutations taking place. See, The "Primeval Code" – the ecological alternative to controversial genetic engineering!

Life on Earth gets wiped out every 27 million years, say boffins
'Nemesis' dark star theory poohpooh'd, though
The Register, 12th July 2010

The revelations are made in a new paper from paleontologist Richard K Bambach of the Smithsonian Institution and astronomer Adrian Melott, flagged up by the Physics arXiv blog and viewable online here.

According to Bambach, there's no doubt at all that every 27 million years-odd, huge numbers of species suddenly become extinct. He says this is confirmed by "two modern, greatly improved paleontological datasets of fossil biodiversity" and that "an excess of extinction events are associated with this periodicity at 99% confidence". This regular mass slaughter has apparently taken place around 18 times, back into the remote past of half a billion years ago.

Comment: If this scientist had not been from the Smithsonian Institution I would have completely ignored this news item. However these astronomers seem to be able to avoid following consensus and have a habit of actually paying more attention to observations. However, I am still dubious that they mention Nemesis, the idea that a huge, dark companion body orbits the Sun so far out that it comes near only on a 27-million-year cycle. Since NASA scientists are also talking about Nemesis and other scientists are claiming that something is disturbing the Oort cloud, I wonder whether this is a piece of disinformation, as this 'research' has been placed on an open archive but apparently NOT undergone peer review. Never forget, a little bit of truth is often used as bait for some BIG LIES. Hence, the 27 million-year cycle is very close to the often cited 30 million year cycle associated with our solar system moving through the galactic plane.

Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years', claims leading scientist
Daily Mail, 18th June 2010

#E00000 As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction. And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.

He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and 'unbridled consumption.’ Fenner told The Australian newspaper that 'homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years.'

Comment: I think we are in for a re-birth, but there is a lot of deadwood to be got rid of first. That means that evolutionary changes driven by cosmic forces will determine that a new human with higher consciousness (mutant) will arise and Space Weather is set to zap those that no longer harmonize with Earth. I'm sorry if you don't like the idea but you need to study many subjects to realise that life on Earth has been destroyed many times before and recovered. I know there are people who feel secure because they have a bunker and gold but that is of zero interest to cosmic forces that can seriously sterilise this planet.

Pictures: Nine Fish With "Hands" Found to Be New Species
National Geographic, 24th May 2010

Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a recent scientific review of the handfish family.

Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from areas around the city of Hobart (map), on the Australian island of Tasmania.

Though no one has spotted a living pink handfish since 1999, it's taken till now for scientists to formally identify it as a unique species.

Comment: Well, whilst evolutionary biologists tell us we are facing the greatest extinction rate in 65 million years, we seem to have constant reports of new species being found. Others, are claiming that species and plants are resilient and are adjusting to cope with new conditions, and they have the genetics to tune into the environment and quickly change their characteristics or habits/habitats to quickly adapt. So, we have many examples of evolutionary change that is occuring in decades not thousands or tens of thousands of years. As I have said many times before, how do we know if we have never seen a new species before that it has not quickly evolved from something else that we have not seen seen before either? See video clip, Science - Walking Fish

All Species Evolved From Single Cell, Study Finds
National Geographic News, 14th May 2010

All life on Earth evolved from a single-celled organism that lived roughly 3.5 billion years ago, a new study seems to confirm. The study supports the widely held "universal common ancestor" theory first proposed by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago.

Using computer models and statistical methods, biochemist Douglas Theobald calculated the odds that all species from the three main groups, or "domains," of life evolved from a common ancestor—versus, say, descending from several different life-forms or arising in their present form, Adam and Eve style.

The domains are bacteria, bacteria-like microbes called Archaea, and eukaryotes, the group that includes plants and other multicellular species, such as humans.

The "best competing multiple ancestry hypothesis" has one species giving rise to bacteria and one giving rise to Archaea and eukaryotes, said Theobald, a biochemist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. But, based on the new analysis, the odds of that are "just astronomically enormous," he said. "The number's so big, it's kind of silly to say it"—1 in 10 to the 2,680th power, or 10 followed by 2,680 zeros.

Comment: I am not sure this is really "astronomically enormous". I have seen even bigger astronomically enormous probabilities calculated for the occurence of life based on the 20 biologically important amino acids and the sequencing needed to create enzymes. For the 2,000 enzymes that are known to be crucial over a fairly wide spectrum of life ranging from simple micro-organisms all the way up to humans, the probability that they would occur is 10 followed by ~~40,0000~~ 500,000 zeros. I wonder if I started writing zeros on the walls, how many times I would have to go around the room and whether there would be enough wall space to write ~~40,000~~ 500,000 times... This is the EXACT reason why scientists who can actually comprehend the meaning of this kind of probability believe there is some type of creative agency in the universe and you can call that The Creator, God, or The Divine Principle, whatever you like. By the way, I am neither a creationist or an evolutionist, I prefer to study the facts. Update I am actually working my way through research papers and articles on this subject and it looks like this probability was revised UP! Now, the probability for the development of life is truly astronomical! LOL!

Tibetans developed genes to help them adapt to life at high elevations
PhysOrg.com, 13th May 2010

Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill - and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing that through thousands of years of natural selection, those hardy inhabitants of south-central Asia evolved 10 unique oxygen-processing genes that help them live in higher climes.[...]

Even at elevations of 14,000 feet above sea level or higher, where the atmosphere contains much less oxygen than at sea level, most Tibetans do not overproduce red blood cells and do not develop lung or brain complications. The Utah and Chinese researchers found evidence that this might be related to at least 10 genes, two of which are specific genes strongly associated with hemoglobin, a molecule that transports oxygen in the blood.

Comment: The statement that this variation in genes was due to thousands of years of natural selection is commonly accepted speculation. We already know that lower forms of life in stressed environmental conditions can actively modify their own genetics, if given anough time, but the mechanism has got nothing to do with natural selection.

Fossil from cave is a ‘missing link’
Times Online, 4th April 2010

A FOSSIL skeleton of a child discovered in a cave system known as the Cradle of Humankind may represent a previously unknown stage in the evolution of man.

The skeleton, which is almost complete despite being 2m years old, is believed to belong to one of the hominid groups that includes humans. Hominid fossil finds are usually little more than small bone fragments. Scientists hope such a complete find will help them to work out what our ancestors looked like and to determine key dates in their evolution from ape-man to man-ape. Experts who have seen the skeleton says it resembles Homo habilis, the first species of advanced human.

Comment: I'm a skeptic, where have we heard all this before? Oh yes Piltdown Man! See previous comments about Ida, the last attempt that academics made to provide a "missing link". Best of the Blog - Evolutionary Change

The day the Earth froze: An hour-long storm started a mini ice age, say scientists
Daily Mail, 2nd April 2010

An hour-long hailstorm from space bombarded the Earth 13,000 years ago - plunging the planet into a mini-ice age, scientists claimed today.

The catastrophe was caused by a disintegrating comet and saw the planet sprayed by thousands of frozen boulders made of ice and dust. The collisions wiped out huge numbers of animal species all over the world, disrupted the lives of our stone age ancestors and triggered a freeze that lasted more than 1,000 years. [...]

Professor Napier's theory suggests the devastation took place when the Earth strayed into a dense trail of fragments shed by a large comet. Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each one releasing the energy of a one megaton nuclear bomb. The impacts would have filled the atmosphere with smoke and soot and blotting out the Sun. [...]

His model, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that the 'hailstorm' would have only lasted about an hour. It would have caused thousands of impacts, generating global fires and depositing nanodiamonds at the 'extinction boundary' marking the point in time when many species died out.

Comment: Here we are told that Earth suffered a severe Space Weather event but there have been many doubts expressed about what exactly happened. Previous articles have stated that some of this space debris was suspended in the air and it is much more likely that a comet tail full of debris came very close to Earth and polluted Earth's atmopshere for a long time. Maybe we even experienced a small interstellar cloudlet with crystalline properties that engulfed our world and caused the mini-ice age and flooding. That scenario would be quite topical as dense plasma with crystalline properties is now invading our solar system which 'coincides' with the arrival of diamond ray or diamond flame energy according to a reputable metaphysical source...

Mega-flood triggered cooling 13,000 years ago: scientists
News Daily, 31st March 2010

Scientists say they have found the trigger of a sharp cooling 13,000 years ago that plunged Europe into a mini ice age. Mark Bateman from the University of Sheffield in England said a catastrophic flood unleashed from a giant North American lake dumped large amounts of freshwater into the Arctic Ocean. This led to the shutting down of the Gulf Stream ocean circulation pattern that brings warmth to Europe.

"We're talking about a lake the size of the UK emptying very quickly," Bateman told Reuters by telephone. "We don't know the exact period of time but we're talking about a catastrophic flood."

Comment: Note image icon: Rotation (green), Precession (blue) and Nutation in obliquity (red) of the Earth. According to ancient sources, life on Earth is periodically disrupted by fire or flood. The reason WHY is due to the consciousness of humans not being high enough for universal consciousness that literally refreshes the planet with energies on a periodic basis. If the incoming energy is too high and therefore human consciousness is too low we get mostly wiped out and that is the reason why 'prophets' are sent with a message that humans need to shape up. Hence, this knowledge has been retained but hidden within mythology, religion, philosophy, literature, architecture, arts and culture etc. The most often discussed period is linked with the Earth's precessional cycle of approx. 26,000 years, but smaller events are linked to 13,000 years. I don't have enough strong evidence for smaller timescales but here we are told there was a major flood 13,000 years ago and probably it was the biblical flood of Noah, the same flood detailed in a host of other sources retained as ancient writing. Now, we have hit the 26,000 year marker again and the panic is on, but little understanding that the fire is aetheric fire, but I have also called it an electromagnetic flood for scientific reasons. We have been reliably told with scientific reports to back it up, that Earth's grids have been updated so we are not expecting complete devastation. However, there are high levels of ignorance about what is taking place, even from people who claim to be knowledgeable. So at the moment, we have reports of orbs dropping aetheric fire over major cities and not a peep from the metaphysical community, unbelievable but true! Do I know everything that is happening? Certainly not! But I have worked very hard in the past 6 years or so and I am quite pleased that I can see the overall Big Picture.

Ongoing human evolution could explain recent rise in certain disorders
Scientists call for integrating evolutionary perspectives into medical curricula
Eureka alert, 11th January 2010

The subtle but ongoing pressures of human evolution could explain the seeming rise of disorders such as autism, autoimmune diseases, and reproductive cancers, researchers write in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Certain adaptations that once benefited humans may now be helping such ailments persist in spite of – or perhaps because of – advancements in modern culture and medicine.

"This work points out linkages within the plethora of new information in human genetics and the implications for human biology and public health, and also illustrates how one could teach these perspectives in medical and premedical curricula," says author Peter Ellison, John Cowles Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. [...] In the final presentation of the colloquium, researchers called for the integration of evolutionary perspectives into medical school curricula, to help future physicians consider health problems from an evolutionary perspective.

Comment: It looks like some are starting to think and the paradigm is shifting...

Stephen Hawking: "The Human Species Has Entered a New Stage of Evolution" - The Daily Galaxy Top Story of 2009
Daily Galaxy, 5th January 2010

Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points out in his Life in the Universe lecture, is about a bit a year.

"By contrast," Hawking says, "there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage, and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA." This means Hawking says that we have entered a new phase of evolution.

Comment: Now isn't this interesting, that this article was made the top story of 2009! The argument being here is similar to that being made by others in the metaphysical community, but I think the story is not complete. We have got to the hundredth monkey phase or critical mass where those who have reached a certain level then work to upgrade the rest of humanity. This is being done through information and I would say that also represents energy levels ie upgrading the morphogenetic field for humanity. We don't have to keep repeating the mistakes of the past and we can share our knowledge which is for the benefit of the whole human race. Those who are hiding information are the Neanderthals and they will be bypassed as part of the evolutionary process.

Evolution may take giant leaps
PhysOrg.com, 11th December 2009

PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of thousands of species of plants and animals suggests new species may arise from rare events instead of through an accumulation of small changes made in response to changes in the environment.

The traditionally accepted idea of species evolving through gradual changes is the Red Queen hypothesis, named after a character in Alice in Wonderland, who explains to Alice that "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." The hypothesis, that species continually change and adapt to compete with co-evolving species and retain their ecological niche, was proposed in 1973 by Leigh Van Valen. Dr Pagel said that the research shows speciation is the result of rare events in the environment, such as genetic mutations, a shift in climate, or a mountain range rising up. Over the long term new species are formed at a constant rate, rather than the variable rate Pagel's team expected, but the constant rates are different for different groups of species. The work suggests that natural selection may not be the cause of speciation, which Pagel said "really goes against the grain" for scientists who have a Darwinian view of evolution. The model that provided the best fit for the data is surprisingly incompatible with the idea that speciation is a result of many small small events, Pagel said.

Comment: Here we have a scientist who has looked at the evidence and has concluded that evolution is NOT a slow process, which is an issue for Darwinists, but instead they occur as evolutionary spikes which are driven by changes in environmental and most likely cosmic factors.

Mass Extinction: Why Did Half of N. America's Large Mammals Disappear 40,000 to 10,000 Years Ago?
Science Daily, 27th November 2009

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2009) — Years of scientific debate over the extinction of ancient species in North America have yielded many theories. However, new findings from J. Tyler Faith, GW Ph.D. candidate in the hominid paleobiology doctoral program, and Todd Surovell, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming, reveal that a mass extinction occurred in a geological instant. [...]

However, new findings from Faith indicate that the extinction is best characterized as a sudden event that took place between 13.8 and 11.4 thousand years ago. Faith's findings support the idea that this mass extinction was due to human overkill, comet impact or other rapid events rather than a slow attrition.

Comment: I sometimes wonder why scientists write these, "we don't know" articles. Maybe, they feel obliged to tell us that they don't know or maybe it clears their conscious. Well, I have given my opinion many times about this particular extinction event, but here I would just like to focus on the fact it occurred at approx. half of Earth's precessional cycle. What's more, scientists don't tend to focus on the fact that evolutionary change is determined by cosmic factors and species that cannot adapt and evolve just go into extinction. There seems to be evidence that the universal directive and evolutionary impetus means increasing complexity and sophistication. Any life that cannot comply with this directive is wiped out, scientists seem really puzzled by this but it seems to be part of Universal Law.

Humans Still Evolving as Our Brains Shrink
Refreshing News, 14th November 2009

"Evolution in humans is commonly thought to have essentially stopped in recent times. But there are plenty of examples that the human race is still evolving, including our brains, and there are even signs that our evolution may be accelerating.

Shrinking brains Comprehensive scans of the human genome reveal that hundreds of our genes show evidence of changes during the past 10,000 years of human evolution.

"We know the brain has been evolving in human populations quite recently," said paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Surprisingly, based on skull measurements, the human brain appears to have been shrinking over the last 5,000 or so years. Is our evolution accelerating?

There are signs that human evolution may not only be continuing, but that its rate has even accelerated in recent times. Hawks and his colleagues have found evidence of rapid change, with a host of new mutations originating in the last 40,000 years. So what might explain this apparent acceleration?

Comment: Please note the caution at the start of this article. If you read more articles on the subject, there seems to some effort to decry human evolution because it's about change and for some reason that is an issue. 40,000 years ago was when humans underwent a transition to modern behaviour and scientists still don't know WHY. Yet, there is clear evidence that there was a host of evolutionary changes and many different species either thrived or went extinct. Interestingly, this occurred at the same time that the Earth's magnetic field shrank to 10% of today's value for about 3,000 years and cosmic rays flooded the planet causing genetic mutations. Some scientists still want to argue about what happened but there are many different studies that point out cyclical cosmic factors drive evolutionary change on Earth. Whatever, the counter arguments, evolutionary biologists have fully accepted the science of Epigenetics, after 50 years of research, that reveals that DNA processing follows blueprints held in the environment. For those who want to take this understanding one step further, morphogenetic or scalar fields are controlled by cosmic intelligence. So the explanation here of changing habitats causing the evolutionary change in humans is very weak and seeks to ignore the evidence that life on Earth is directed by universal forces. Please remember, we are constantly being showered by cosmic energy and scientists have no understanding as to how this energy bombardment is being used by cosmic intelligence, yet metaphysical sources are emphatic that consciousness is constantly being directed to Earth. Therefore, it is most certain cosmic laws allow for increasing complexity, that all life is 'encouraged' to follow. It must also be stated that mystics who tune into the most beneficial cosmic energies and allow themselves to evolve, will develop exceptional gifts. Yet, there seems to be times in cosmic cycles, where a wholesale shift of all lifeforms are directed to evolve and as the build-up of cosmic energies on our planet accelerates and DNA mutations correspondingly increase, we are now facing one of those periods.

Rich 'may evolve into separate species'
The super-rich may evolve into a separate species entirely in the future due to enhancements in biotechnology and robotic engineering, American futurologist Paul Saffo has said.
The Telegraph, 25th October 2009

"Mr Saffo, from San Francisco, says in the future people will be able to grow their own replacement organs, take specially tailored drugs, and use genetic research tools to alert them from any possible hereditary health dangers. He adds that tomorrow's world will be a fusion of biology and technology, where robots do the chores, cars drive themselves and artificial limbs are better than real ones."

Comment: Personally, I take this kind of "news" as just wishful thinking. Humans are changing and drugs are becoming less effective. What's more, genetic material is processed by DNA bluprints held in the environment and so cannot be accessed. However, I do believe some humans will live longer but based on their spiritual condition, so I think these kinds of claims is fantasy talk, especially as rich folk are not known to be living longer now, even though they can afford the best treatments. Incidentally, I could not bear to put the image of the cyborg on my website, I think the notion of the cyborg human is an affront to our 'divine' status.

'Eighth wonder' Ida is not related to humans, claim scientists
US palaeontologists dismiss initial claims about the 47million-year-old fossil found in Germany's Messel Pit
The Guardian, 21st October 2009

"Her arrival was announced with unrestrained razzmatazz. She was the "eighth wonder of the world", "our Mona Lisa" and an evolutionary "Rosetta Stone", according to the researchers who unveiled her. The female in question was Ida, a 47million-year-old primate, whose exquisitely preserved fossil was touted as the remains of our earliest human ancestor. She was, they said, the "link" between us and the rest of the animal kingdom.

Or maybe not. Writing in the journal, Nature, a team of palaeontologists from New York claim that Ida is not related to humans at all. Instead, they conclude, the $1m fossil looks more like a small lemur or maybe a loris. [...] "Our analysis and results have convinced us that Ida was not an ancestor of monkeys, apes, or humans, and if anything has more relevance for our understanding of lemur and loris origins," said Erik Seiffert, a fossil hunter at Stony Brook University in New York who led the Nature study.

Researchers behind the Ida fossil, known formally as Darwinius masillae, immediately defended their own interpretation, which is based on two years of meticulous measurements of the remains.

Comment: Science by press release is a very bad practice. It really makes you wonder if any of these palaeontologists have ever heard of the expression "crying wolf". See previous archive entries, Evolutionary Change.

Mutations Make Evolution Irreversible: By Resurrecting Ancient Proteins, Researchers Find That Evolution Can Only Go Forward
Science Daily, 24th September 2009

A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings -- the result of the first rigorous study of reverse evolution at the molecular level -- appear in the Sept. 24 issue of Nature. [...]

The discovery of evolutionary bridge burning implies that today's versions of life on Earth may be neither ideal nor inevitable, said Joe Thornton, a professor in the UO's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. [...]

GR's [glucocorticoid receptor] evolutionary irreversibility suggests that the molecules that drive our biology today may not be inevitable products of the evolutionary process. "In the GR's case, restrictive mutations erased the conditions that previously opened up the ancestral form as an evolutionary possibility. It's likely that throughout history other kinds of restrictive mutations have taken place, closing off innumerable trajectories that evolution might otherwise have taken," Thornton speculated. "If we could wind back the clock and allow history to unfold again, different sets of mutations, apparently inconsequential at the time, would almost certainly occur, opening up some potential paths and blocking others -- including the one that leads to the present that actually evolved in our world," he said. "If what we observed in GR evolution is a general phenomenon, then the biology we have is just one of many possible rolls of the evolutionary dice."

Comment: This is important research and highly relevant as humanity is now taking an evolutionary leap.

Mutation Rate in Humans Measured by Direct Sequencing
Xinhua News, 29th August 2009

An international research team has reported the first direct measurement of the general rate of genetic mutation at individual DNA letters in humans.

The team, including 16 Chinese and British scientists, published its findings in the latest edition of the journal Current Biology.

"If we say the mutation drives human evolution as an ongoing train, now we finally get its speed measured," said Dr. Xue Yali, a Chinese scientist working in the British Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the first author of the team's research paper. [...]

"The accumulated mutation in history has made us evolve from ape to human, but finding this tiny number of mutations in individuals was more difficult than finding an ant's egg in the emperor's rice store," Xue said.

Comment: Well according to my research there are 4,000 flaws in human DNA, but since I am not a biologist I have still yet to understand what they mean as a 'flaw'. There are also suggestions that there are regular breaks in DNA, so this kind of assessment causes a problem when evolutionists are asked to explain the discrepancy, if the current human gene pool represents the pinnacle of evolution. It all depends on your perspective as to whether you see genetic changes as mutation or evolution. From the metaphysical point of view, there are some who are astute enough to understand that Light Codes are being sent to the planet to "repair" our DNA and make us fit for the next stage of our evolutionary development.

Microorganisms can predict changes in their environments—upending age-old biological tenets and giving new insight into non-neural genius
Seed magazine, 7th August 2009

"Princeton molecular biologist Saeed Tavazoie first began investigating this strange phenomenon after reading a 2002 paper demonstrating that yeast, when exposed to a stressful stimulus such as extreme temperature, would activate a large set of genes that served no function to combat the stress. “There seemed to be a disconnect.” Tavazoie says. “And so we decided to step back and rethink the whole idea of how microorganisms respond to their environments.”

What Tavazoie demonstrated in a study published last year, and what the Weizmann team argue in the new Nature paper, is that

microorganisms are capable of interacting with their surroundings in a way that goes beyond simple reflexive behavior. Though pre-inducing genes diverts resources in the first environment and therefore temporarily hinders the organism, it confers a fitness advantage in the future. Prediction is a short-term energy expense for long-term gains in survival. [...] Audrey Gasch, a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studies similar stress responses in yeast. She agrees that an understanding of predictive gene induction will greatly alter how biological science is conducted. “Scientists really need to start thinking broadly about their results,” Gasch says. “We were duped based on a lot of assumptions in the literature, and no one had gone and tested this very basic question, which is: Are these gene expression changes really important to survive the condition that triggers their change?”"

Comment: I would like to say that the kind of thinking that this scientist is proposing, requires a brain that is networked differently to the norm and thus is at a higher level of consciousness. Besides that, this research serves to help us understand the process of evolutionary change and the effort within the New Age community to encourage people to cooperate with universal intelligence. The most interesting thing here is the activation of many genes that are not immediately required, but provides an advantage in the future. I have to smile as I realise that is EXACTLY what people are doing when they work with the human energy field and activate the layer of light that represents a holographic projection of our DNA, a grid of 64 diamonds.

Comet Swarm Delivered Earth's Oceans?
National Geographic News, 5th August 2009

"A barrage of comets may have delivered Earth's oceans around 3.85 billion years ago, a new study suggests. Scientists have long suspected that Earth and its near neighbors were walloped by tens of thousands of impactors during an ancient event known as the Late Heavy Bombardment."

Comment: Well, there is a certain maverick scientist who is currently crooning about his 30 years of opposition against the standard comet model who understood this principal a long time ago. The science and metaphysics now agree about water, but the metaphysics goes further and tells us that consciousness is being continually delivered to the planet. There are some 'comets' that are really just massive sparks of pure consciousness, as they are mistaken by scientists to be rocky/icy comets, (the Russians are more honest and tell us that sometimes when they probe the inside of what they think is a comet's coma, they can't find anything 'solid' inside). In reality, all comets serve to effect the energetic balance of the environment of Earth. Hence, there is a need to integrate more science with metaphysics to truly understand our reality.

Did an ice age boost human brain size?
New Scientist, 29th July 2009

"IT IS one of the biggest mysteries in human evolution. Why did we humans evolve such big brains, making us the unrivalled rulers of the world? Some 2.5 million years ago, our ancestors' brains expanded from a mere 600 cubic centimetres to about a litre. Two new studies suggest it is no fluke that this brain boom coincided with the onset of an ice age. Cooler heads, it seems, allowed ancient human brains to let off steam and grow."

Comment: I think this article reveals just how much scientists are stabbing in the dark trying to understand the link between massive global climatic change and human evolution. These scientists are talking about 2.5 million years ago, but the same thing happend approximately 40,000 years ago when the Earth's magnetic field dropped to 10% of today's value allowing cosmic rays to flood the planet. This generated massive evolutionary change, where species either just died because they could not adapt or they quickly evolved, this understanding is termed "punctuated equilibium" to confuse the uninitiated. Now, NASA is telling us that besides the slow ebbing away of the Earth's magnetic field, the earth's magnetosphere sometimes parts like a pair of curtains and allows vast amounts of solar and cosmic energies to enter the atmosphere of Earth. This is happening at the same time that the solar system protection provided by the solar wind is quickly 'evapourating' thus exposing Earth to galactic and intergalactic energies. (Meanwhile, the Mayan prophecy of a New Age dominated by space or the aether is simply ignored by the 2012 fraternity.) Evolutionary biologists claim that we are seeing the greatest rate of extinction in 65 million years, but also admit some extraordinary rapid evolutionary changes. Those who are prepared to do some serious unbiased research, will soon understand that everything on this planet is controlled by external universal forces and because everything is interlinked, like the mechanism of an an old fashion watch or clock, once one cog starts turning, lots of other wheels start turning too. The overall mechanism is known in some scientific circles, but the details are still hazy because scientists have only started to understand that DNA blueprints are 'tuned' by the environment and the concept of morphogenetic fields is simply just too advanced for most of them. Hence, this is why there are attempts by politicians and their friends to force feed we the people some rubbish about CO2 driving evolutionary change in the hope of increasing future tax revenues. What's more, as a seeker of the truth, I could not understand why the New Age community were promoting 'energy balancing' and DNA activations, it was the latest fad with no intelligent explanations and no scientific justifications. It was not until I started researching and discovered Space Weather and how that could be interlinked with the scientific disciplines of cosmology, astronomy, plasma physics, atmospheric physics, geophysics, geomagnetism, and bioelectromagnetism could I properly understand metaphysical information. This was the point that I realised the world was facing massive evolutionary change. There is nothing anyone can do to stop the process of evolutionary change.

Tiny diamonds on Santa Rosa Island give evidence of cosmic impact
Eureka Alert, 21st July 2009

"Nanosized diamonds found just a few meters below the surface of Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara provide strong evidence of a cosmic impact event in North America approximately 12,900 years ago, according to a new study by scientists.

Their hypothesis holds that fragments of a comet struck across North America at that time. The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was led by James Kennett, professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, and Douglas J. Kennett, first author, of the University of Oregon. The two are a father-son team. They were joined by 15 other researchers.

"The pygmy mammoth, the tiny island version of the North American mammoth, died off at this time," said James Kennett. "Since it coincides with this event, we suggest it is related." He explained that this site, with its layer containing hexagonal diamonds, is also associated with other types of diamonds and with dramatic environmental changes and wildfires. They are part of a sedimentary layer known as the Younger Dryas Boundary. "There was a major event 12,900 years ago," said James Kennett.

"It is hard to explain this assemblage of materials without a cosmic impact event and associated extensive wildfires.

This hypothesis fits with the abrupt climatic cooling as recorded in ocean-drilled sediments beneath the Santa Barbara Channel. The cooling resulted when dust from the high-pressure, high-temperature, multiple impacts was lofted into the atmosphere, causing a dramatic drop in solar radiation." The tiny diamonds were buried below four meters of sediment and they correspond with the disappearance of the Clovis culture –– the first well-established and distributed North American peoples. An estimated 35 types of mammals and 19 types of birds also became extinct in North America about this time.

Comment: These scientists are trying to explain how it rained diamonds in a previous undisputed period of evolutionary change, but they are looking on the ground for all the evidence and have not considered the possibility of a massive Space Weather event. It must also be noted the date given for this event is about half of the approx. 25,920 years associated with Earth's precessional cycle. According to carefully preserved esoteric knowledge and ancient mythology, our planet has been most vulnerable to catastrophe at certain points in the precessional cycle that has either resulted in fire or flood. Worldwide disasters have been caused by the massive disparity between incoming evolutionary energies and the levels of human consciousness. Low spiritual intelligence has routinely caused our own demise but somehow this time, we have collectively managed to raise our vibration enough to avoid complete catastrophe. Since I have searched high and low for truth and enlightenment for approaching 30 years, I have started to seriously wonder how many people really care about understanding the true nature of our reality. The real issue is that the interest of the individual is not really of paramount interest to universal forces in the final energetic "judgement" of mankind, a factor that seems to have alluded many.

Study catches two bird populations as they split into seperate species
PHYSorg, 14th July 2009

" A new study finds that a change in a single gene has sent two closely related bird populations on their way to becoming two distinct species. The study, published in the August issue of the American Naturalist, is one of only a few to investigate the specific genetic changes that drive two populations toward speciation.

Speciation, the process by which different populations of the same species split into separate species, is central to evolution. But it's notoriously hard to observe in action. This study, led by biologist J. Albert Uy of Syracuse University, captures two populations of monarch flycatcher birds just as they arrive at that evolutionary crossroads. " [...]

That change appears to have been enough to create a reproductive barrier for flycatchers. Not every species is so picky, so a color change doesn't always drive speciation. Nonetheless, these results suggest that it can take as little as one gene, in the right spot in the genome, to cause a fork in the evolutionary road."

Comment: We are at an evolutionary crossroad and this bird study helps us to understand what exactly is happening to humanity.

Scientists reveal connection between cancer and human evolution
PHYSorg, 2nd July 2009

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer. [...]

The findings were recently the cover story in the journal Genome Research. "The concept that the same principles that drive evolution toward the emergence of new species govern the emergence of diseases is new," Mishmar explains. "A clinician looks at the genome of a tumor, or other disease, and compares it to the normal population, looking for new mutations that do not occur there. I assume the mutations are already part of the population and have had a survival function. When these same mutations reoccur in the correct environment, they can cause disease."

Comment: Again, we have scientists who have fully embraced the concept that the environment is the main determinant for how DNA templates are 'tuned'. Recent articles tell us that the growth of Epigenetics research has been 'explosive'. However, the metaphysical perspective has always known that humans by their intent can cooperate with the environment and have an ability to 'fine tune' their own DNA. At this time of evolutionary change, understanding how this works is paramount.

DNA Template Could Explain Evolutionary Shifts
PHYSorg, 21st June 2009

"Rearrangements of all sizes in genomes, genes and exons can result from a glitch in DNA copying that occurs when the process stalls at a critical point and then shifts to a different genetic template, duplicating and even triplicating genes or just shuffling or deleting part of the code within them, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a recent report in the journal Nature Genetics.

"I think this is going to make people think very hard about copy number variation with respect to genome evolution, gene evolution and exon shuffling," said Dr. James R. Lupski, vice chair of molecular and human genetics at BCM and senior author of the report. [...]

In a previous report, Lupski and colleagues described how the process that copies DNA during cell division stalls when there is a problem with the genetic material. In some cases, the process seeks a different template, often copying another similar but significantly different stretch of DNA before it switches back to the appropriate area."

Comment: Since I am not a biologist, I would describe this report as 'technical'. However, we know that the environment ultimately decides what happens with our genetic blueprints and makes the appropriate decisions as to what to do. Therefore, those metaphysicians who are actively working with 'light codes' that repair DNA in order to accelerate their evolutionary progression, appear to have understood how to co-operate with universal intelligence.

Moth turns from black to white as Britain's polluted skies change colour
The Peppered moth, which changed its colour from white to black in areas of Britain with heavy pollution, is now reverting to its original appearance.
The Telegraph, 19th June 2009

"The moth was white with small black speckles but over time it evolved to being almost black in parts of the UK because of heavy industrial pollution. The change made it less obvious to predators against backgrounds of grime and soot. Having declined by more than two thirds compared to 40 years ago, it is regarded as a classic example of natural selection and has consequently become known as "Darwin's moth."

Comment: Well, this moth is making a complete mockery of the beliefs of evolutionary biologists as it flips back and forth in decades as environmental conditions change. So as experts try to blame global warming for the changes they admit," These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly." See Global warming already killing species, analysis says

Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon'
Physorg.com, 10th June 2009

"It may not be the Yeti, but in a remote region of the Russian mountains a previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Lead Scientist Professor Hans Cornelissen and his Russian-Dutch team describe this finding today in Ecology Letters. The root belongs to the small alpine plant Corydalis conorhiza and unlike normal roots, which grow into soil, they extend upward through layers of snow. Given this novel behaviour, the scientists have termed them 'snow roots'.

"This is a completely new discovery," says Cornelissen, an associate professor of ecology at VU University in Amsterdam. "Snow roots are thus far unknown and a spectacular evolutionary phenomenon."

Comment: Interesting!

The Spooky World Of Quantum Biology
h+ Magazine, 1st June 2009

"Now, a new kind of science, called “quantum biology,” is beginning to emerge –- and it could change everything we know, again.. Quantum Biology The premise is simple. Life is a molecular process; molecular processes operate according to the quantum playbook; therefore, life is a quantum process.

And yet, it wasn’t until the nineties that anyone suggested biology could be better understood by looking at it through the lens of quantum theory. (The seminal paper was D.V. Nanopoulos’ "Theory of brain function, quantum mechanics and superstrings.”) Not long after that, the idea caught on – particularly in the neurosciences, where the idea of the brain as a quantum computer quickly became a topic of fierce debate. [...]

Quantum biology stands to answer other big questions, as well –- questions that many contemporary biologists prefer to ignore. McFadden, in his excellent primer Quantum Evolution, cites several experiments that suggest certain mutations are “intelligent,” even “anticipatory.” For example, bacterial cultures have been observed to evolve clever responses to lab toxins at speeds that – just like the emergence of DNA from a primordial soup – defy astronomical odds. Can biological quantum calculation account for this? McFadden thinks so. (His hypothesis was itself anticipated in the science fiction of Greg Egan, whose novel Teranesia featured some very “spooky” retrocausal mutations – including the instantaneous appearance of entire new ecosystems via competing future evolutionary scenarios. Whether such extreme examples of quantum biological principles are possible remains to be seen.)"

Comment: Well, with the terms and conditions for all life on Earth rapidly changing due to the breakdown of the Earth's defences against Space Weather, there will be some very rapid evolutionary responses and we have been told to expect physical changes in humans too.

The Big Question: Is 'Ida' really the missing link between humans and animals?
The Independent, 21st May 2009

"Why are we asking this now? The fossil, nicknamed "Ida", was discovered in 1983 but the scientific paper describing it has only just been published amid great secrecy to coincide with the commercial launch of a popular science book and a television documentary. The creature in question has been named Darwinius masillae in honour of Charles Darwin and it lived 47 million years ago.

Comment: See also the New Scientist version, Why Ida fossil is not the missing link . The scientific community are generally very opposed to science by press release and what surprises me is how quickly the rebuttals have occurred. There is a long history of fakes by paleontologists e.g. 'Piltdown Man' and levels of scepticism are high. The Piltdown Man was a supposed relic of an ancient ape-man discovered near the village of Piltdown in Sussex, England in 1912. What followed was tremendous academic celebration but immediately, some suspected it was a grand hoax, and after decades of campaigning it was eventually exposed as a forgery by the British Museum in the 1950s. From the book, Forbidden Archaelogy: The Hidden History of the Human Race(1993) by Cremo and Thompson they quoted Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum who wrote:

"I have sometimes wondered whether it was a misguided impatience for the discovery of a more acceptable 'missing link' that formed one of the tangled skein of motives behind the Piltdown Forgery (1912)."

Cremo and Thompson conclude that the "carefully planned forgery" by someone with scientific training, acting alone or with others. There is a cast of suspects and people with a solid motive for trying to convince the world of the veracity of Darwin's The Origin of Species and the connection between Homo Sapiens and ancient Miocene apes. So, it looks like 'Ida' is just another attempt and as the saying goes, 'those who do not know history, are doomed to repeat it'. Thus it makes one wonder when are these scientist "storytellers" going to realise that people are just not that gullible these days.

Life’s First Spark Re-Created in the Laboratory
Wired Science, 13th May 2009

"Researchers synthesized the basic ingredients of RNA, a molecule from which the simplest self-replicating structures are made. Until now, they couldn’t explain how these ingredients might have formed. [...]

Like other would-be nucleotide synthesizers, Sutherland’s team included phosphate in their mix, but rather than adding it to sugars and nucleobases, they started with an array of even simpler molecules that were probably also in Earth’s primordial ooze. They mixed the molecules in water, heated the solution, then allowed it to evaporate, leaving behind a residue of hybrid, half-sugar, half-nucleobase molecules. To this residue they again added water, heated it, allowed it evaporate, and then irradiated it."

Comment: I can only presume that when they irradiated this 'ooze' they used ultra-violet radiation to mimic energies from the Sun, to encourage synthesis. The reference to these ingredients being found in interstellar dust clouds and on meteorites suggests that researchers are finally coming round to agree with Panspermia theorists, decades after these ideas were initially suggested.

Freaks Survive Because They Are Strange
Live Science News, 12th May 2009

If a blue jay sees a normal-looking salamander, it will eat it. But if the same bird sees a freak, it may let it go. [...] University of Tennessee researcher Benjamin Fitzpatrick says this discovery, which his team reports in the open access journal BMC Ecology, suggests why rare traits persist in a population.

Predators detect common forms of prey more easily, the scientists figure. The majority that share a common look are always on the dinner menu, while oddballs are left to reproduce. "Maintenance of variation is a classic paradox in evolution because both selection and drift tend to remove variation from populations," Fitzpatrick explained today.

Comment: I could not resist using the 'happy evolution' spider! Well, after two hundred years of research into evolution we find that there are still "classic paradoxes" that conventional wisdom cannot explain.

British scientists study Hawaiian happy face spider
The Telegraph, 22nd April 2009

"The spider, which measures just a few millimetres across, has developed bizarre markings giving the appearance of a smiling face. Scientists think the spider, which has the scientific name Theridion grallator and is harmless to humans, has evolved the patterns to confuse predators. [...]

Dr Geoff Oxford, a spider expert from the University of York, said: "I must admit when I turned over the first leaf and saw one it certainly brought a smile to my face. "There are various theories as to why the spider has developed the markings it has, one of these that it may be to confuse predators."

Comment: Happy Evolution!

Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution
McClatchy Newspapers, 8th April 2009

"We're not finished yet. Even today, scientists say that human beings are continuing to evolve as our genes respond to rapid changes in the world around us. In fact, the pressures of modern life may be speeding up the pace of human evolution, some anthropologists think.

Their view contradicts the widespread 20th-century assumption that modern medical practice, antibiotics, better diet and other advances would protect people from the perils and stresses that drive evolutionary change. Nowadays, the idea that "human evolution is a continuing process is widely accepted among anthropologists," said Robert Wald Sussman , the editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis . It's even conceivable, he said, that our genes eventually will change enough to create an entirely new human species, one no longer able to breed with our own species, Homo sapiens.

Comment: According to our scientists, human evolution is an ongoing process and metaphysical sources suggest we can expect rapid evolutionary changes that will be physical. Some researchers have already noted physical changes in 'super psychic' children, but I think the physical changes could be far more dramatic.

Mass Extinctions, Ancient Viruses May Hold Clues to Life’s Origins
Physorg.com, 3rd April 2009

"Mass extinctions occur repeatedly, though irregularly, throughout Earth's history, and occasionally these extinctions have been devastating to life on our planet - or have they?

Extinction events have sometimes accelerated the evolution of life on earth by eliminating old dominating species and making room for new ones. A new study takes this idea a step further, showing that life may have never achieved the complexity necessary for the development of advanced multi-cellular organisms without recurring extinction events."

Comment: It's interesting to think that we are on the verge of a mass upgrade of humanity and that the rich and powerful won't have any influence over the process in any way, 'human' dinosaurs without the ability to evolve will be gone. Bribery and corruption won't be helpful in this process either!

A comet may have caused widespread large mammal extinctions 12,900 years ago
Projo.com, 31st March 2009

"The big bang theory's back. But this time the theory doesn't involve the cosmos, just a comet. Some scientists hypothesize that relatively recently in our geological history a comet collided with Earth. And they're not talking about the collision 65 million years ago that did in the dinosaurs. They're talking about a collision 12,900 years ago, which did away with woolly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and giant sloths, among some three dozen large mammals. [...]

"It has generated quite a bit of controversy in the field, some of it not necessarily polite," says David Fastovsky, a professor of sciences at URI, who specializes in the study of dinosaur extinction."

Comment: 12,900 is approx. half of the precessional cycle, which is the last time Earth's alignment to the greater celestial forces caused a major influx of cosmic/galactic phenomena. The scientists here are desperately trying to keep the focus on a comet when there is NO impact crater and no evidence of widespread fires. The associated carbon rich "black mat" is a thin layer filled with "hexagonal nanodiamonds", irridium and other material that could have only come from a cosmic source, hence the evidence for a Space Weather event is strong. This is the same event where scientists state, "Diamonds drizzled down by the tons" and lingered in the air for months. See archives July/August 2008 or google for similar stories. By the way, it's all highly relevant, as the Earth is now being blasted with Space Weather, fire balls, meteorites and plasma "entities" etc.

Genetic Code Mashups to Create New Species
Daily Galaxy, 26th March 2009

"Researchers smashed up the DNA of yeast cells using high energy X-Rays. How a team dedicated to creating mutant super-bread obtains funding is not made clear, but observation of the irradiated cells yielded interesting results:

as the nuked microorganisms quite literally tried to pull themselves together, they didn't put things back the way they were. The repeated sections of DNA can cause broken pieces to be mixed and matched between entirely new chromosomes. This method of mutation is quite extreme, but such aberrations can happen without nuclear blasting (it just takes longer) and form part of the all-important biological diversification process."

Comment: OK, this article is relevant when extremely high energies are being generated in our own atmosphere that are producing x-rays and gamma rays. NASA tells us that cosmic rays are at an all time high and record Gamma Ray Bursts are occuring on a regular basis. It seems whatever the Universe can fling at us, we are getting it and probably energies that we have not even properly understood yet too. The problem now for people who have not been working on their energy fields is the danger of trying to integrate new energies too quickly and the danger of this was outlined in my book.

Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
New Scientist, 21st January 2009

"IN JULY 1837, Charles Darwin had a flash of inspiration. In his study at his house in London, he turned to a new page in his red leather notebook and wrote, "I think". Then he drew a spindly sketch of a tree. As far as we know, this was the first time Darwin toyed with the concept of a "tree of life" to explain the evolutionary relationships between different species.

[...] "The tree-of-life concept was absolutely central to Darwin's thinking, equal in importance to natural selection, according to biologist W. Ford Doolittle of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Without it the theory of evolution would never have happened. The tree also helped carry the day for evolution. Darwin argued successfully that the tree of life was a fact of nature, plain for all to see though in need of explanation. The explanation he came up with was evolution by natural selection.

Comment: This article is fundamentally flawed as it does not mention the relationship between DNA and the environment even though the last 25 years of research has produced hundreds of papers that confirm this relationship. The results of the Human Genome Project was a massive shock to geneticists when they found that the number of genes could not account for the complexity of humans who had the same number of genes as a rat. The science of epigenetics which means "control above genetics" has revealed that DNA blueprints can be modified by the environment and specifically electromagnetic signals. Thus, anyone who still believes in the primacy of DNA is behind the times, this concept is now dead and this article, mourning the loss of one of Darwin's basic tenets, demonstrates the intransigence that exists in the scientific world.

Diamonds Linked to Quick Cooling Eons Ago
New York Times, 1st January 2009

"At least once in Earth's history, global warming ended quickly, and scientists have long wondered why. Scientists found microscopic diamonds in the black layer of rock at Murray Springs in Arizona. Now researchers are reporting that the abrupt cooling — which took place about 12,900 years ago, just as the planet was emerging from an ice age — may have been caused by one or more meteors that slammed into North America. That could explain the extinction of mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and maybe even the first human inhabitants of the Americas, the scientists report in Friday's issue of the journal Science. The hypothesis has been regarded skeptically, but its advocates now report perhaps more convincing residue of impact: a thin layer of microscopic diamonds found in rocks across America and in Europe. [...]

At each site the scientists looked at, the diamond layer in the rocks correlates to the date of the hypothesized impact. Within the layer, the scientists report finding a multitude of diamond particles, all encased within carbon spheres.

"We've yet to find a single diamond above it," Dr. West said. "We've yet to find a single diamond below it." Perhaps more telling, the scientists reported last month at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, the carbon atoms inside some of the diamonds are lined up in a hexagonal crystal pattern instead of the usual cubic structure. The hexagonal diamonds, formed by extraordinary heat and pressure, have been found only at impact craters and within meteorites and cannot be formed in forest fires or volcanic eruptions, Dr. West said.

Comment: Astrophysicist Paul LaViolette has a very nice, long and detailed response to geologists and astrophysicists about this event, which he believes was a result of Space Weather. As we see here, the scientists are speculating, but a blast of Space Weather is a much better fit for all the evidence. There are many articles on this new theory, which scientists aim to take to the mainstream. See Gems Point to Comet as Answer to Ancient Riddle, Tiny diamonds share geologic record with massive extinction & Diamonds Link Comet To Mammal Extinction

Did magnetic blip trigger mass extinction?
Rising hot material upset convection in Earth's core, says new theory
MSNBC News, 12th December 2008

"It was a dying on a scale never seen before or since on Earth. The slaughter was everywhere; the fertile ocean and balmy supercontinent Pangea were transformed into killing fields, littered with the bodies of ancient animals. By the time the dust had settled on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago, 90 percent of life on the planet had been snuffed out."

Comment: This new theory suggests that the trigger that caused 90% of life on Earth to be wiped out, was a weak magnetic field allowing cosmic rays to come in and seed clouds that effected the climate. Wait a minute, isn't that what's happening now.... Whatever, the extinction took millions of years and still certain species survived and evolved to meet the challenge of the new conditions. This is the exact same scenario facing all life on this planet, to meet the challenge of changing conditions and to evolve.

'Orphan' Genes Play An Important Role In Evolution
Science Daily, 18th November 2008

"Closely related animal species share most of their genes and look almost identical. However, minor morphological differences allow us to tell them apart. What is the genetic basis for these differences?

Often, the explanation is provided by minor changes in spatial and temporal activity of transcription factors - "regulator" genes which are conserved throughout the animal kingdom. However, every group of animals also possesses a small proportion of genes which are, in contrary, extremely variable among closely related species or even unique. For example, a gene may be present in one species or animal group, but not in any other. Such genes are referred to as "novel," "orphan" or "taxonomically restricted". Their function and origin are often obscure. What are these genes needed for?"

"The data indicate that "novel" genes are involved in generation of novel morphological features that characterise different species, thus pointing the way to a new, more complete understanding of how evolution works at the level of a particular group of animals. Emergence of "novel" genes may reflect evolutionary processes which allow animals to adapt in the best way to changing environmental conditions and new habitats."

Comment: Hmmm.... Personally, I am worried about "novel" features appearing in humans as they are being seen in the aetheric template of some humans by the more 'gifted' folks. However, the day could arrive – who knows when that would be – when we get a manifestation into the physical..... Quite frankly, I really don't think the world is adequately prepared....

How Evolution Learns From Past Environments To Adapt To New Environments
Science Daily, 10th November 2008

"The evolution of novel characteristics within organisms can be enhanced when environments change in a systematic manner, according to a new study by Weizmann Institute researchers. Merav Parter, Nadav Kashtan and Uri Alon suggest that in environments that vary over time in a non-random way, evolution can learn the rules of the environment and develop organisms that can readily generate novel useful traits with only a few mutations." "The ability to generate novelty is one of the main mysteries in evolutionary theory."

Comment: We are currently at the start of a period of evolutionary change so this kind of research is particularly relevant. We are told that 'somehow' organisms learn from previous environments using a guidance system that can be used for evolutionary progression when environments change. This guidance system must exist somewhere, but we are not told how or where. This is why I believe that Rupert Sheldrakes's theory of morphogenetic fields or fields of information stored in the environment MUST exist and are a critical in understanding that when environments change, there is a rapid evolutionary response.

Rapid Evolution of a Plant in Response to a Change in Climate
CO2 Science, 29th October 2008

"Contrary to what climate alarmists continue to blithely claim, this study demonstrates that plants have the capacity to rapidly alter a number of life-history traits that enable them to better deal with the consequences of climate change. Earth's plants, therefore, are likely to be much more resilient to global warming and potential associated changes in precipitation regimes than people have long been misled to believe."

Comment: The above conclusion provides us with an opinion based on current scientific methods and these scientists are not alone, many others have come to the same conclusion; "Skelly et al. say that the case for rapid evolutionary responses among many other species "has grown much stronger (e.g., Stockwell et al., 2003; Berteaux et al., 2004; Hariston et al., 2005; Bradshaw and Holzapfel, 2006; Schwartz et al., 2006; Urban et al., 2007)." As a result, they write that "on the basis of the present knowledge of genetic variation in performance traits and species' capacity for evolutionary response, it can be concluded that evolutionary change will often occur concomitantly with changes in climate [our italics and bold] as well as [with] other environmental changes (e.g., Grant and Grant, 2002; Stockwell et al., 2003; Balanya et al., 2006; Jump et al., 2006; Pelletier et al., 2007)."" Source link here. Yet, it's obvious that over billions of years of climate change and even cataclysm, the Earth's flora and fauna has clearly demonstrated it's ability to adapt and survive.

'Magnetic Death Star' Fossils: Earlier Global Warming Produced A Whole New Form Of Life
Science Daily News, 23rd October 2008

"An international team of scientists has discovered microscopic, magnetic fossils resembling spears and spindles, unlike anything previously seen, among sediment layers deposited during an ancient global-warming event along the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States."

"Fifty-five million years ago, Earth warmed by more than 9 degrees Fahrenheit after huge amounts of carbon entered the atmosphere over a period of just a few thousand years. Although this ancient global-warming episode, known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), remains incompletely explained, it might offer analogies for possible global warming in the future."

Comment: An historical precedent for evolutionary change, magnetism and new geometry. Here, we have a real example of global warming driven by a cosmic source which drove evolutionary change as, "Almost half of the common sea bottom-dwelling microorganisms known as foraminifera became extinct", and other bacteria evolved as "a fossil bloom of bacteria that make iron-oxide magnets within their cells, but also an entirely unknown set of organisms that grew magnetic crystals to giant sizes." The report ends up by stating, "These fossils may be telling a story of radical environmental transformation." Now, in this current episode of transformation, humans are also required to encorporate a higher level of magnetism or else they will become extinct. Please note that according to these scientists, the unique "spearhead" geometry, not found anywhere else in the paleontological annals, was caused by "strange climate conditions". Thus, it seems life on Earth responding to atmospheric changes by changing geometry is not unprecedented.

Earth In Midst Of Sixth Mass Extinction: 50% Of All Species Disappearing
ScienceDaily.com, 21st October 2008

"The Earth is in the midst of the sixth mass extinction of both plants and animals, with nearly 50 percent of all species disappearing, scientists say.

Because of the current crisis, biologists at UC Santa Barbara are working day and night to determine which species must be saved. Their international study of grassland ecosystems, with flowering plants, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

Comment: Evolutionary biologists are well aware that evolutionary change is underway, but usually they blame it on pollution or global warming. What this report does not mention is that the evidence shows that the pace of evolutionary change is accelerating and some changes are being recorded in decades not hundreds of thousands of years as scientists have taught. The justification for attempting some kind of eco-engineering, does not take into account that in previous great extinction events, universal forces determined new balanced ecosystems, as many species either disappeared, survived or evolved. Our scientists have no ability to control life on Earth, that priviledge is reserved by univeral intelligence.

Volcanoes May Have Provided Sparks Of First Life
Science Daily, 16th October 2008

"New research suggests that lightening and volcanoes may have sparked early life on Earth." "It is commonly thought that early Earth was comprised of many small volcanic islands. This study suggests that lightning and the release of gases associated with these volcanic eruptions could have produced the necessary chemical components to give rise to early life."

Comment: Scientific experiments prove that without the catalyst of electromagnetic energy, the divine "spark", there can be no life. Yet it seems that electromagnetic energy is not enough and scientists tell that the pieces that make up complex biomolecules do not readily come together by themselves. This has been a major obstacle for origin-of-life theories, but this has been overcome by suggesting diamonds can impose a rigid order on molecules near its surface, enabling biomolecule manufacturing. What's more, this is most likely to occur in or in the vicinity of volcanoes on early Earth. Astrobiologists suggest that the diamond geometry has very special properties that have unique ordering effects and promote greater molecular complexity. This understanding is especially relevant as it is now raining diamonds (highly catalytic electromagnetic plasma) and the metaphysically astute are being encouraged to use the diamond geometry to facilitate their evolutionary progression. See Diamonds May Be Life's Birthstone. I am truely astounded by this additional confirmation of the importance of diamond geometry.

Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist
Daily Mail, 7th October 2008

"For centuries, writers have attempted to predict the future of the human race. Some have argued that we are destined to evolve into super-beings, others that we are turning into dim-witted goblins incapable of anything more demanding than watching TV. But according to a leading geneticist, both visions are wrong because human evolution has ground to a halt. Professor Steve Jones, of University College London, says the forces driving evolution - such as natural selection and genetic mutation - no longer play an important role in our lives. The people living one million years from now, should Man survive, will resemble modern-day humans. 'We now know so much about the process of evolution that we can make some predictions about what might happen in future,' said Professor Jones in a lecture on Monday. Evolution is driven by natural selection and mutation."

Comment: Well, as the Earth's shielding drops and cosmic and galactic radiation floods our planet, DNA mutations WILL become more prevalent and most scientists are in no doubt that this will FORCE evolutionary change. The evidence shows this has happened before in the past and has to be considered regardless of whether there is enough evidence that suggests the blueprints that control DNA processing will or have already been changed. This understanding explains why some in the metaphysical community have been actively working with "New Energy" to protect their energy field which holds the information for our physical, mental, emotion and spiritual nature and have sought to allow themselves to evolve to comply with the evolutionary destiny of mankind.

Mass Extinctions And The Evolution Of Dinosaurs
Science Daily, 30th September 2008

"Dinosaurs survived two mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems, according to new research published this week. Reporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated, but that their rise was a slow and complicated event, and driven by two mass extinctions."

Comment: The question here is; what are the factors that determine whether a species disappears or evolves? Scientific studies suggest, that natural selection is determined by the environment and whether species can contribute to balanced ecosystems. Once a species start to dominate then they are wiped out. Universal consciousness determines which species are to be eliminated and which will be allowed to evolve. It seems strange to me that we can look back on the evolution of life on Earth and fail to pay attention to how well mankind is doing, in relationship to being in balance with the environment.

Fast [Climate changes in the past]? Try The Younger Dryas
Global Warming Politics, 23rd September 2008

Quote given from a brilliant new review published recently in the scientific journal, Progress in Physical Geography [see: G. M. MacDonald et al.: 'Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers', Progress in Physical Geography 32(2) (2008), pp. 139 - 172: DOI: 10.1177/0309133308094081.

"Some shifts in climate may have been gradual, but events such as the YDE ['Younger Dryas Event'] or the MCA ['Medieval Climate Anomaly'] and the LIA ['Little Ice Age'] were much more rapid.

Responses to climate change have included changes in geographical distributions, shifts in community composition and extinction. Species which are extant today have in the past been organized into communities that have no modern counterparts. Regional bio-diversity has seen marked changes in response to shifts in climate. In addition to these ecological responses, which are expected in the case of large-scale habitat changes and climate warming, there is also evidence that species have responded with genotypic and phenotypic shifts in the face of Quaternary climatic change. Such evolutionary responses should also be anticipated in the future."

Comment: These scientists are telling us that abrupt climate changes have happened in the past and the evidence shows that species have responded by rapid evolutionary change. Guess what? It's about to happen again and the inhabitants of Earth are largely unprepared because this time, the bar is being reset to facilitate a higher level of consciousness. This helps to explain why there is so much panic in certain quarters, because it will be change that will be impossible to control.

'Junk DNA' May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes In Human Thumb And Foot
Science Daily, 5th September 2008

"Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled us to manipulate tools and walk upright." "In the last several years, scientists have discovered that non-coding regions of the genome, far from being junk, contain thousands of regulatory elements that act as genetic "switches" to turn genes on or off."

Comment: It's amazing that scientists would call parts of the human genome that they didn't understand junk in the first place....

Diamonds May Have Jumpstarted Life on Earth
Yahoo News, 26th July 2008

"One of the greatest mysteries in science is how life began. Now one group of researchers says diamonds may have been life's best friend. Scientists have long theorized that life on Earth got going in a primordial soup of precursor chemicals. But nobody knows how these simple amino acids, known to be the building blocks of life, were assembled into complex polymers needed as a platform for genesis. Diamonds are crystallized forms of carbon that predate the oldest known life on the planet.

In lab experiments aimed to confirm work done more than three decades ago, researchers found that when treated with hydrogen, natural diamonds formed crystalline layers of water on the surface. Water is essential for life as we know it. Also, the tests found electrical conductivity that could have been key to forcing chemical reactions needed to generate the first birth. When primitive molecules landed on the surface of these hydrogenated diamonds in the atmosphere of early Earth, a few billion years ago, the resulting reaction may have been sufficient enough to generate more complex organic molecules that eventually gave rise to life, the researchers say."

Comment: Recent research is stacking up to support the theory of Multidimensional Reality, which explains how our reality is determined by a crossover of energy from higher dimensions. The link with Panspermia theory can also be linked to metaphysical teaching and how life is delivered by cosmic forces.

Diamonds May Have Rained Down From Space During Ice Age
Fox News, 8th July 2008

"Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United States might have rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered over Canada and set North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of animals and humans. New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in Ohio and Indiana reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada several thousand years ago. The question is, how?"

Comment: The comet theory is based on geological evidence of a cosmic driven event but the 'impact' site cannot be found...... Note the statement; "Diamonds drizzled down by the tons." There have been channelled messages that tell us that we are about to be deluged by "Diamond Flame Energy", at the same time that we have digital images being taken by ordinary people showing that it's 'raining' diamonds (aetheric plasma). For the many reasons specified in my book, "Tuning the Diamonds", this energy has the ability to structure matter, but it also represents the purest form of Universal Consciousness. We are at the start of a massive deluge of electromagnetic energy and some of the consequences are explained in my book.

Ancient diamonds 'may reveal earliest life on Earth'
Daily Mail, 3rd July 2008

"Life may have appeared only a short time after the Earth was formed out of a swirling disc of gas and dust, scientists said today. They believe 4.2 billion-year-old diamonds could contain an imprint of this earliest existence.

If they are right it will mean a major re-think about the emergence of biological activity on Earth." "But the diamonds, containing a type of 'light' carbon normally associated with living organisms, raises the possibility of life existing at least 700 million years earlier. The diamonds were trapped inside extremely old zircon crystals recovered in 1983 from the Jack Hills of Western Australia.

Resarch leader Dr Alexander Nemchin, from Curtin University of Technology in Australia said: 'We believe this find to be the oldest terrestrial light carbon reservoir discovered so far. 'It opens up the possibility of biological activity during the period not long after the Earth's formation.'" "'The discovery challenges our fundamental understanding of processes active in the early history of the Earth,' Dr Nemchin said. 'It suggests that life may well have appeared on Earth long before the period of heavy-meteorite bombardment believed by some to have initiated the emergence of life on Earth.'"

Comment: "Very interesting article as it relates to the theory of Multi-Dimensional Reality and especially now as cosmic and galactic "gas and dust", which should really read 'plasma and dust' is sprinkling the Earth with new diamonds......

Rapid Genetic Change in Terrestrial Plants:
CO2Science.org, 18th June 2008

"Some fifteen years ago, Root and Schneider (1993) wrote that CO2-induced changes in global climate were expected to occur "too fast for evolutionary processes such as natural selection to keep pace," and that this constraint "could substantially enhance the probability of extinction of numerous species."

This idea has pervaded the thinking of climate-alarmists ever since it was first suggested; and it figures prominently in the ongoing doom-and-gloom predictions of Al Gore and James Hansen. But is it correct? In an exciting new paper recently published in Global Change Biology, Jump et al. (2008) describe an experiment that suggests the contention is fatally flawed." "In a conclusion that clearly repudiates this catastrophic extinction scenario, Jump et al. say that their results actually demonstrate "that rapid evolution in response to climate change may be widespread in natural populations, based on genetic variation already present within the population," which likelihood is becoming ever more evident with each new study that investigates the subject."

Comment: The scientists have been noticing rapid evolutionary change for some time and the studies just keep coming.....Those with predictions of doom and gloom and the whole '2012' catastrophe scenario have simply missed the point.....

Life's Raw Materials May Have Come From The Stars, Scientists Confirm
Science Daily, 13th June 2008

"Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June 2008. The finding suggests that parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA may have come from the stars. The scientists, from Europe and the USA, say that their research provides evidence that life's raw materials came from sources beyond the Earth."

Comment: See previous comments on this subject. Anyway, I have just watched the fantasy film 'The Golden Compass', as it was recommended to me by my teeenage son, who has read my book and could immediately see the connection. I have to say I was so fascinated with the storyline and the whole concept of 'dust' coming into Earth's atmosphere and effecting humans that I have resolved to read the book version, especially the bit where they decide to explore 'other worlds' that are the source of the 'dust'. This is highly relevant to my belief that we are experiencing evolutionary change being driven by cosmic energy. Again, the Russians have informed us that they have been investigating HUGE vortexes of energy coming into our atmosphere. I believe that is what the chemtrails are all about, somehow 'controllers' are trying to interfere with the downflow of energy. The UK military have already told us, that this plasma energy is easy to see using their sensors. Personally, I think all their efforts are in vain, do they really think they can fight this cosmic deluge? As I point out in my book, between 2007 - 2012 the increases in energy will be 100,000 times, year on year. I truly believe that great efforts are being made to inform ordinary people of what is taking place on this planet. If you want it straight, you can read my book, I don't think my analysis is subtle at all!! Unfortunately, many don't understand what is taking place and are being distracted by other more mundane issues and many so-called spiritual leaders are not really in tune with what's going on and don't understand the dynamics.....Well, actually thinking about it, I am most certain that SOME of these spiritual leaders DO KNOW what is taking place and are doing their best to prevent their flock from waking up to a new reality....

There Is 'Design' In Nature, Biologist Argues
ScienceDaily.com, 18th February 2008

"There is, indeed, a design to life -- an evolutionary design," Miller said. "The structures in our bodies have changed over time, as have its functions. Scientists should embrace this concept of 'design,' and in so doing, claim for science the sense of orderly rationality in nature to which the anti-evolution movement has long appealed."

Comment: "Intelligent" universal energy is self-directing and self-organising and regardless of what scientists choose to believe, everything that exists has this "divine" component, as the evidence clearly shows.

Evolution as Biological Thermodynamics
Blog.wired.com, 13th February 2008

"When Guy Hoelzer runs computer simulations of organisms living in the modeling equivalent of a featureless plain, he sees them break into different species -- even though there's no reason for natural selection to take place.

That preliminary but tantalizing finding hints at some larger phenomenon driving the mechanisms of neo-Darwinian evolution. Hoelzer thinks the phenomenon is self-organization: combine energy with complex networked interaction and order will emerge."

Comment: This statement is a good summary; "But I don't see ideas about self-organizing complex systems as competing with our traditional Darwininan evolution, but extending them and putting them into a thermodynamic context. I'd hope that my colleagues would see this as a point of view for deepening understanding."

Humans are still evolving - and it's happening faster than ever
The Guardian, December 11, 2007

"Humans are evolving more quickly than at any time in history, researchers say. In the past 5,000 years, humans have evolved up to 100 times more quickly than any time since the split with the ancestors of modern chimpanzees 6m years ago, a team from the University of Wisconsin found."

Comment: The acceleration of change has only just seriously started, see comments about this research below:

Are Humans Evolving Faster?
Physorg.com, December 7, 2007

The above link provides a copy at Godlike Productions. Quotes: "We aren't the same as people even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago". "Our study denies the widely held assumption or belief that modern humans [those who widely adopted advanced tools and art] appeared 40,000 years ago, have not changed since and that we are all pretty much the same. We show that humans are changing relatively rapidly on a scale of centuries to millennia, and that these changes are different in different continental groups."

"History looks more and more like a science fiction novel in which mutants repeatedly arose and displaced normal humans." "A key finding: 7 percent of human genes are undergoing rapid, recent evolution."

Comment: The explanations given for this recent rapid acceleration are not linked to cosmic factors but other researchers and scientists have already made this connection. Metaphysical sources are very clear that human evolution will occur in the most spiritually evolved first and they will act as "wayshowers" for the rest of humanity, so are you ready to be a mutant?

Ice age comet theory causes big bang
Some say it hit U.S. 13,000 years ago
The Times-Picayune, 2nd November 2007

Comment: Well, I am seriously wondering who else out there has understood what is happening on this planet. Our scientists are studying a 2-inch-thick carbon-rich "black mats" found in about 50 sites across North America. This layer contains grains with iridium, carbon spherules and fullerenes packed with concentrations of helium 3, "all of which are evidence for an extraterrestrial impact" about 12,900 years ago, yet the same article tells us that there is no evidence of massive burning. The problem that these scientists are facing, is that they do not realise that we live in a plasma universe. According to Russian sources, some comets are PURE PLASMA ENTITES, if one of those hits the planets it will not create a crater, but it will have the ability to change the chemical properties of matter. These geologists are NEVER going to work it out without getting some basic concepts right first. What gets me, is that metaphysical sources have told us that big deliveries are on the way, unfortunately the mouthpieces are just that, they don't understand what the messages mean.....

Human race will 'split into two different species'
Daily Mail, 26th October 2007

"The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000."

Comment: I think there is a smidgen of truth in this report but this interpretation appears to be based on one academic's fantasies. Real scientific studies quite clearly show that evolutionary change is determined by the environment which has the ultimate control over our DNA. Humanity will split, but the next stage according to seers, will be based on our willingness to spiritually evolve.

Which Came First, The Chicken Genome Or The Egg Genome
Terradaily.com, 9th October 2007

"Which came first, the chicken genome or the egg genome? Researchers have answered a similarly vexing (and far more relevant) genomic question: Which of the thousands of long stretches of repeated DNA in the human genome came first? And which are the duplicates?"

Comment: I suppose someone has to try and work it out!

South Carolina site holds evidence of comet explosion
Contra Costa Times, 7th October 2007

"Scientists, led by Richard Firestone of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, took soil samples from throughout North America and in Belgium. In a layer dating to about 12,900 years ago, they found high levels of iridium, nanodiamonds and glasslike carbon that could have been caused by a comet explosion and subsequent fires."

Comment: THE SCIENTISTS DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE THAT THIS LAYER OF SOIL WAS CAUSED BY A COMET, BUT IT SEEMS IT DID HAVE A COSMIC SOURCE. NOW WE HAVE BEEN WARNED ABOUT THE ARRVIAL OF DIAMOND RAY/FLAME ENERGY AND WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE OF IT RAINING DIAMONDS! INCREDIBLE!!!!

Study: Evolution may have increased speed
Science Daily, 30th August 2007

A complex Israeli study has determined the pace of evolution increases when evolutionary goals are continuously changed. "Since evolution takes place under changing environmental conditions, forcing organisms to continually adapt would, at least intuitively, slow the process, the researchers said. But when they created a simulation that repeatedly changed the goals, evolution actually increased speed and the more complex the goals, the faster evolution accelerated."

Comment: For a system as complex as our Earth, the rate of evolutionary change must be fast or else it will fail according to our understanding of the science of energetic transitions. This study is published online here

What triggers mass extinctions?
Mystery surrounds the ‘reset buttons’ that clear the way for new species
MSNBC.com, 8th August 2007

Comment: The unsolved mystery of mass extinctions has vital clues that researchers have already identified as the "reset buttons". These are 1. The Earth's magnetic field dropping like a stone, 2. Cosmic rays penetrating the atmosphere with ease (there is debate here about the role of the Sun in "batting away" cosmic rays because the highest energy cosmic rays are not diverted at all anyway and 3. The strange coincidence of the metal iridium which is a highly catalytic rare Earth element. Due to the distribution of this irridium the evidence suggests it comes from a cosmic source. These factors can be easily combined by the concept of highly catalytic and evolutionary energies coming from a galactic cosmic source driving evolutionary change on Earth. That is exactly what is occurring now and explains the anomalies because the energy is interdimensional and acts to reprogram the morphogenetic fields which control all species on Earth. All species out of balance with the environment get balanced off into extinction! Simple really!

Butterfly shows evolution at work
Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly.
BBC News, 12 July 2007

"We usually think of natural selection as acting slowly, over hundreds of thousands of years." "But the example in this study happened in the blink of the eye, in terms of evolutionary time, and is a remarkable thing to get to observe." "To my knowledge, this is the fastest evolutionary change that has ever been observed," said Sylvain Charlat, of University College London, UK, whose study appears in the journal Science."

Comment: We are living at a time of great evolutionary change, when will humans realise that they are being requested to evolve quickly too, as environmental conditions change?

Evolutionary Adaptations to Climate Change
CO2 Science, 30th May 2007

Franks et al. say their results "provide evidence for a rapid, adaptive evolutionary shift in flowering phenology after a climatic fluctuation," which "adds to the growing evidence that evolution is not always a slow, gradual process but can occur on contemporary time scales in natural populations," and, we would add (as was the case in this study), in response to real-world climatic changes." The Specter of Species Extinction: Will Global Warming Decimate Earth's Biosphere?

From the executive summary: "Proponents of what we shall call the CO2-induced global warming extinction hypothesis seem to be totally unaware of the fact that atmospheric CO2 enrichment tends to ameliorate the deleterious effects of rising temperatures on earth’s vegetation. They appear not to know that more CO2 in the air enables plants to grow better at nearly all temperatures, but especially at higher temperatures. They feign ignorance of the knowledge (or truly do not know) that elevated CO2 boosts the optimum temperature at which plants grow best, and that it raises the upper-limiting temperature above which they experience death, making them much more resistant to heat stress.

Comment: What amazes me is that nobody has thought to be concerned about human evolution. One mainstrean report says that the human race will split, that's funny because there are a few metaphysical messages that say the same thing.

Predicting catastrophic transitions
EurekaAlert, 22nd May 2007

Comment:Press release of an article to appear in the June issue of The American Naturalist, discussing, "How complex systems, such as the earth's climate, coral reefs, oceans and socioeconomic systems, seem to respond little to gradual change until a critical tipping point is reached, after which the system may collapse completely. After such collapse, the original state of the system is hard to restore." Well, as we are going through a period of rapid evolutionary change, it might explain why we need catalytic energy to speed the whole process up and make sure we don't fail to get to the next level without total catastrophe.

Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen
Guardian Unlimited, 20th May 2007

Comment: This newspaper report says a group of scientists have found a layer of microscopic diamonds at 26 different sites in Europe, Canada and America. The remains of a giant carbon-rich comet that crashed in pieces on our planet 12,900 years ago. Remember it's only a theory used to explain why the sites are so scattered, another explanation could be a blast of energy from the galactic center or an exploding supernovae. Whatever, the layer of microscopic diamonds is hard evidence. Yet, this is especially interesting when metaphysical sources are telling us to prepare for the arrival of diamond flame energy. Scientific opinion here: Did Impacts Influence Human Evolution? Update Another version of this story specifically tells us of that the analysis of the rock layers also revealed the existence of iridium, from the platinum group of elements, which is a rare earth element. This discovery only solidifies existing data that associates periods of dramatic evolutionary change with incoming cosmic energy which is highly catalytic.

Scientists Foresee Extinction Domino Effect
Inter Press Service News Agency, 17th May 2007

Comment: Well, I agree that we might see this extinction domino effect, but we must remind ourselves that we are witnessing evolutionary change. Birds, animals, insects and even plants will adapt quickly, if not, they will die off, that is the process of natural selection. This has happened before on this planet, yet the polar bears survived previous extinction events and there is no reason to believe they won't survive this time around. "However, what is not well understood, even by scientists, is exactly how insects, bacteria, birds, and animals interact with trees and plants to produce the ecological services we rely on, like clean air and water." Well, the reckless attitude towards our environment means that humans are the ones who have the most to worry about. We have the technology and know-how but no will to do things differently and live in a more holisitic way with our planet. Sorry, Carbon Credit Funds will not do, unregulated companies shuffling share certificates about, is not the answer.

MASS EXTINCTION UNDERWAY
The World Wide Web's Most Comprehensive Source of Information on the Current Mass Extinction
David Ulansey's website, Current

Comment: 300 links to authoritative reports and updates about the current mass extinction. New articles are added regularly.

Ancient mass extinctions caused by cosmic radiation, scientists say
KAZINFORM, 23 April 2007

Comment: This is what I believe. On Earth, we are seeing a dramatic increase of incoming cosmic rays facilitated by a declining magnetic field. Our evolutionary biologists are alarmed by the high rate of species extinction, the highest in 65 million years. When are people going to start wondering whether they are on the hit list too?

Extinction, like climate change, is complicated
Mongabay.com, March 26, 2007

Comment: Scientists tell us that humans evolve during short periods of great environmental change and argue that climate change forces humans to adapt. However, research also shows that in energetic systems, additional energy supplied by the environment can be used to facilitate development. So, we find that, "While climate change has caused species extinction, it has also led to the birth of new species, including mankind." We have to consider that this current period of climate change will also create a new type of human, the question is: what are the "rules" that determine natural selection. Personally, I think the main determining factor will be based on our spiritual development, which can be measured as a balanced electromagnetic field.

Human species 'may split in two'
BBC News, October 17, 2006

Comment: Now, I have started to understand the process of evolutionary change, metaphysical sources of information that are fairly unambiguous that some kind of division of humanity is on the cards seem much more credible. The interpretation given here, appears to be a very subjective, and thus difficult to give any credence. However, as our energ fields and DNA can be adjusted by external electromagnetic fields, it is not difficult to see why some scientists think that cosmic rays, gamma ray bursts from exploding supernovae or massive bursts of electromangetic energy from the galactic center will modify our existence on Earth. The real question is; what are the factors which will determine the upward evolutionary spiral of the human being? I believe the next stage will be about the development of our spiritual values and we will have to walk our talk. The Universe will examine our energy fields to determine the truth.

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