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coming from new technologies such as the base sequence analysis for 16S-ribosomal RNA.
Why did the revelators leave us with these strange inconsistencies? Without them, their description of the introduction of life plasm 550 million years ago would appear to gel perfectly with the concept of the "Cambrian explosion," its dating at 540 million years before the present, and the preceding emergence of multicellular organisms. Probably many of us would then have used this prophetic information as proof positive for us to assert that the Urantia Papers are a revelation having celestial sources. The probable occurrence of "pre-life" organisms prejudices the validity of that assertion.
My personal view, detailed in Innerface International Vol.5 No.7, is that such prophetic material borders on the miraculous to the point that our free will becomes imperiled in a way that is contrary to universe policy--which is the same kind of reason for which Jesus spurned the use of the miraculous to draw attention to himself and his teachings.
Ken Glasziou
Reference
1. See article "Patience--a millennium is a 1000 years," (p. 4.)
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