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behavior. Many of the fungi also represent a retrograde movement in evolution, being plants which have lost their chlorophyll-making ability and have become more or less parasitic. The majority of disease-causing bacteria and their auxiliary virus bodies really belong to this group of renegade parasitic fungi. During the intervening ages all of the vast kingdom of plant life has evolved from ancestors from which the bacteria have also descended." (732)
Written by a "Life Carrier," it is written as if there was no life of any kind (including bacterial life), on this planet prior to the implantations made by the Life carriers just 550,000,000 years ago.
This accords with what most believed in the 1930's--that the pre-Cambrian period was devoid of life forms until the Cambrian age about half a billion years ago. It also accords with what is expressed on page 1109.
"The laws of revelation hamper us greatly by their proscription of the impartation of unearned or premature knowledge." (1109)
In many instances the Revelators have gone to extremes to follow their mandate. But they did tell us what they were doing, if we would listen. (see also 1008, 1260)
However they have given us their answer to the question of whether life is a spontaneously occurring phenomena. No, life is not a spontaneously occurring phenomena. It is always brought to the planets by the Life Carriers.
"Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets." (399)
The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasm to a new world, but not always. They sometimes organize the life patterns after arriving on the planet. Such was the origin of the planetary life of Urantia. (399)
"That we are called Life Carriers should not confuse you. We can and do carry life to the planets, but we brought no life to Urantia. Urantia life is unique, original with the planet. This sphere is a life-modification world; all life appearing hereon was formulated by us right here on the planet." (667)
According to the Urantia revelation, Life Carriers first visited this planet 900,000,000 years ago as part of an inspection commission which recommended Urantia be placed on the life-experiment registry. They returned 600,000,000 years ago but decided to wait before initiating life, something which was done 550,000,000 years ago.
So whereas the overall description of life establishment procedures may be correct, the details for Urantia certainly is in conflict with current evidence, though in line with what most thought in the early 1930 period. Perhaps we will get the opportunity to check it out on the Mansion Worlds.
That leaves us with the other question--do universes create themselves? The answer again is no, they are created. An interesting addition is that they are regulated. They do not run down and energy flow is regulated, a cyclic process that is heading towards a steady state equilibrium.
"Supreme Power Centers are permanently assigned to our local universe. These beings receive the incoming lines of power and relay the down-stepped and modified circuits to the power centers of our constellations and systems...Power centers are not, however, concerned with transient and local energy upheavals, such as sun spots and system electric disturbances; light and electricity are not the basic energies of space; they are secondary and subsidiary manifestations." (456)
The power-energy supervision of the evolutionary inhabited worlds is the responsibility of the Master Physical Controllers. They are able to effect energy control in a collective as well as an individual capacity. As requirements vary, they can upstep and accelerate the energy volume and movement or detain, condense, and retard the energy currents. They influence energy and power transformations somewhat as so-called catalytic agents augment chemical reactions. They function by inherent ability and in co-operation with the Supreme Power Centers. (326, 457)
So, barring an accident, it appears that our planet should be safe for a long time into the future.
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