Human life is not a tragedy, but has meaning and purpose. Life's Blessings begin with human conception.
The most basic question everyone faces in life is “Why am I here?” And “What is my purpose?” Rick Warren Evangelical Christian pastor, author and founder of Saddleback (mega) Church, Lake Forrest, CA, the 8th largest U.S. church, authored ‘The Purpose Driven Life [Time, April 18, 2005] [25 Most Influential Evangelicals Photo Essay, Time, July 2, 2005]
Warren says in his book that “starting place for the purpose of life must be with God and his eternal purposes for each life.“Real meaning + significance comes from understanding and fulfilling God’s purposes for putting us on earth. “God was thinking of each and every human long before each human ever thought about Him. “His purpose for a human’s life predates each human’s conception. Warren went on to say, “Humans can choose career, spouse, hobbies, other life parts. But humans can’t choose their purpose and meaning of life. The purpose and meaning of life fits a much larger, ‘cosmic purpose’ that God designed for eternity.
Warren successfully outlines his intention, a “blueprint for Christian living in the 21st Century.” However, Warren does not detail the ‘cosmic purpose’ to which he referred. Warren doesn’t describe that our God is both Scientist and Spiritual God and God’s 1st purpose, described so emphatically in Genesis, was the creation of nature, natural law and science, long before purpose human life. Warren skillfully evades a scientific Creation discourse
- [The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? By Rick Warren, Zondervan, 2007, Religion, 334 pages]
- The most lively, readable and authoritative work on the interface among the human mind, science and religion is ‘Neurotheology: Virtual Religion in the 21st Century’, which has become the classic in its field, a standard by which others are measured.
- [Laurence O. McKinney (1994). Neurotheology: Virtual Religion in the 21st Century. American Institute for Mindfulness]
- Other similar referereces are
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- [Shaw, Christopher; McEachern, Jill, eds. (2001). Toward a theory of neuroplasticity. London, England: Psychology Press. ISBN 978-1-84169-021-6]
Teachers, scientists, students, and readers worldwide have found answers they wanted to basic riddles we all face in these above references. McKinney’s ability to trace the basis and evolution of religious and metaphysical practice with modern brain scanning technology has been praised by experts in every field including leading Christian theologian Harvey Cox, the Dalai Lama, and visionary writer Arthur C. Clarke.
What will we actually experience at death? Why do all religions let us escape hell? Why does God act like your father, and not your friend’s father? Why do we get that tunnel of light? How do athletic training and sincere religious practice both alter the mind in positive ways? Exactly how did we become “human”? What were we thinking between conception and birth? When did we first notice time? “Be prepared to marvel at how the brain manages our world from moment to moment as it weaves the tapestry of consciousness. Then be prepared to relax when you finally learn why “heaven” in any religion is not only likely, but nearly impossible to avoid for reasons quite acceptable to modern science.” Neurotheology earned honorable mention in the Writer’s Magazine First Works competition and remains the classic in a growing field.
All spiritual systems have not been declared to be religious systems, or religions, and all religions weren’t necessarily intended to be spiritual, as they had been advertised, much too many critics’ chagrin.
Life is not a tragedy, but has meaning and purpose, beginning at the conception of human life. The human being person life cycle, by standard biological definition, begins at conception of life. The American College of Pediatricians concurs with the body of scientific evidence that human life begins at conception, aka fertilization [When Human Life Begins, American College of Pediatricians Position Statement, March 2004 and reaffirmed]
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are chemically reactive chemicals containing oxygen. Examples include peroxides, superoxide, hydroxyl radical, and singlet oxygen.[2] In a biological context, ROS are formed as a natural byproduct of the normal metabolism of oxygen and have important roles in cell signaling and homeostasis.[3] [2. Hayyan M, Hashim MA, AlNashef IM (2016). “Superoxide Ion: Generation and Chemical Implications”. Chem. Rev. 116 (5): 3029–3085] [3. Devasagayam TP, Tilak JC, Boloor KK, Sane KS, Ghaskadbi SS, Lele RD (October 2004). “Free radicals and antioxidants in human health: current status and future prospects”. ournal of the Association of Physicians of India. 52: 794–804]
In the absence of oxygen human life is measured in minutes. In the presence of oxygen, normal metabolism generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) that have the potential to cause cell injury contributing to human aging and disease. Between these extremes, organisms have developed means for sensing oxygen and ROS and regulating their cellular processes in response. Redox (oxidation-reduction) signaling contributes to the control of cell proliferation and death. Aberrant redox signaling underlies many human diseases. The attributes acquired by altered redox homeostasis in cancer cells illustrate this particularly well. This teaching review and the accompanying illustrations provide an introduction to redox biology and signaling aimed at instructors of graduate and medical students
ROS function at the start of life: In animals and human animals, ROS have important functions for life from the moment of fertilization. Otto Warburg was a notable German chemist/physiologist working on the embryology of sea urchins in the early 1900s [32]. He observed a rapid rise in oxygen consumption upon fertilization of the oocytes and reasoned this was due to increased respiration needed for the ensuing embryogenesis [33,34].
Subsequent studies have determined that while some oxygen is consumed in oxidative phosphorylation, the majority is used to produce nanomolar concentrations of hydrogen peroxide at the egg surface within minutes of fertilization [35]. This is accomplished by the NADPH oxidase family member designated Udx1 [36,37]. The hydrogen peroxide cross-links tyrosine residues in proteins of the extracellular matrix [38].
The functional consequence of the oxidative burst is that the fertilization envelope is rapidly converted into a physical structure that initially prevents entry of more than one sperm cell and then protects the developing embryo [39] (Fig. 5). Toren Finkel, “further understanding of these pathways promises to reveal to us many more secrets regarding how life begins, why it ends, and all the myriad complexities that make up the middle [180].” [Oxygen in human health from life to death – An approach to teaching redox biology and signaling to graduate and medical students by Margaret M.Briehl Redox Biology Volume 5, August 2015, Pages 124-139 Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redox.2015.04.002] [Oxygen and hydrogen peroxide in the early evolution of life on earth: in silico comparative analysis of biochemical pathways by I Slesak, H. Slesak, J. Kruk Astrobiology, 12 (8) (2012), pp. 775-784, [Life and death: metabolic rate, membrane composition, and life span of animals by A.J. Hulbert, R. Pamplona, R. Buffenstein, W.A. Buttemer, Physiological Reviews, 87 (4) (2007), pp. 1175-1213]
Fertilization is biologically termed the Conception of Life. Fertilization is the union of 23 male sperm chromosomes and 23 female egg chromosomes. In that instant the Krebs cycle, oxygen utilization, cellular respiration and living begins. Zygote Cell from Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body. Immediately following fertilization, the one cell zygote human anatomy for skin color, race, eye color, vision, hearing, heartbeat, blood pressure, gender, sexual orientation, intelligence, soul, faith and belief in God are stamped within the genes of the double helix of 46 pairs of DNA, one pair of 23 from each parent in the one cell zygote human being stage.
As the human person grows and develops, each stage i.e. the zygote one cell human person stage, followed by the embryo human person stage, fetus human person and then the born human person stage, become more complex but each stage of the human person manifests oxygen utilization, cellular respiration, all the identical genetic codes, including brain cells encoded for faith and belief in God. [mbmsrmd]
The life of each stage by standard biological definition is a human being stage. The scope and responsibility of pediatrics begins at conception of human life, continues during pregnancy and terminates by 21 years of age. Copyright © 1972 by the American Academy of Pediatrics”[AGE LIMITS OF PEDIATRICS, by M. Harr Jennison, Allan B. Coleman, Richard B. Feiertag, Robert B. Kugel, William B. Forsyth, Andrew Rinker,Sprague W. Hazard, Effie O. Ellis, Sarah H. Knutti, Pediatrics, March 1972, VOLUME 49 / ISSUE 3]
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that every person in the United States has the right and freedom to practice his or her own religion. Therefore by standard biological definition, the constitutional right and freedom to practice their own faith and belief in God should begin at conception because the neuroanatomical structures for faith and belief in God are encoded at conception in the one cell zygote DNA.
Biological Science proved that the human being person’s life begins at conception. Biological Science proved that at conception and the beginning of life, the DNA code for human being person’s brain anatomy is ‘genetically determined’ (Genetic Determinism). Neurotheological and Medical Science proved that the one cell zygote’s brain DNA, after the union of the 2 pairs of 23 chromosomes, one each from the mother and father, into a double helix of 46 chromosomes and the brain anatomy is hardwired and encoded, is ‘genetically determined’, for belief in God.
Neurotheological and Medical Science proved that the meaning, purpose and point of human life, belief in God, is ‘genetically determined’ within the human brain mindset. Christianity teaches that a human being person’s life is free born to serve righteousness, fulfil faith and belief in God and achieve their eternal promise. Husband and wife are theologically ‘one flesh’ and the conceived one cell zygote is biologically ‘one flesh’. Epigenetics is the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself and not applicable. [Epigenetics is controversial. Ledford H (2008). “Disputed definitions”.Nature.455 (7216):1023–8.]
The embryo stage from the 4th day after fertilization to the end of the 8th week. “Clearly, a zygote is ‘human Life’. It is ‘human’ since it contains human DNA, and it is ‘life’ since it’s alive. But I repeat: It is not a person. A person does not begin at conception.”
The following is where we disagree: “Indeed, being a person requires having a Central Nervous System,which a blastocyst obviously doesn’t have. Only a post-implantation developing embryo could have a CNS.” The zygote DNA is encoded with the genetic code for CNS DNA and after 5 to 7 days the resulting pre-implantation blastocyst can be harvested and implanted. [L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D., Ob/GYN, Mathematician and Lecturer in Gerontlogy, UCLA Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA.]
Blastocysts can be transferred successfully and nurtured to full birth. “Blastocyst culture and day 5 embryo transfer for in vitro fertilization allows selection of the best quality embryos for transfer.” Blastocyst definition: An embryo that has developed for 5 to 7 days after fertilization and has 2 distinct cell types and a central cavity filled with fluid (blastocoel cavity). The cells in a blastocyst have just started to differentiate. The surface cells that surround the cavity (just under the outer shell) are called the trophectoderm and will later develop into the placenta.
A more centrally located group of cells – the inner cell mass, will become the fetus. [Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago, Richard Sherbahn MD] The first one cell zygote human being stage with united 46 chromosomes DNA double helix, is then genetically encoded for spirituality, faith and belief in God, With one DNA genetically encoded strand from the mother and one from the father. Created in ‘His likeness’, cognitive mind, begins at the first human being one cell zygote stage.
The human brain is similar to a computer. The body, like a carriage, transports the brain primarily for spiritual and religious experiences through different environments and fruitfulness during crucial mindful processes. The human soul physiologically in real time, is conscious awareness of religious, spiritual and meditation mindful thinking energy, which has been processed in an anatomically DNA encoded designed brain network system, which was created with millions of brain neuron cells.
The soul conscious awareness in real time is perceived and activated through synaptic chemical neurotransmitter, Dopamine, converted at the cell dendrite into ionic electrical current input of sensory integrated internal and external stimulus energy. After real time, the soul is stockpiled and stored as memory soul in neuron microtubules after conversion into millions of macroscopic quantum state mass particles. The corpse’s brain and physical body decompensate, but neuron cell microtubules, similar to computer memory sticks, preserve important information. At death of the human body, the macroscopic quantum state mass particles will be converted back into their energy state andreleased into everlasting eternity. Stockpiled particles and atoms in microtubules will be converted back to energy waves, photons [Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives in Quantum State After Death by Janey Tracey. Tuesday, 17 June 2014]
Non-perishable, infinite macroscopic quantum conscious information energy, spiritual and religious thinking mindset power for faith and belief in God, stored in interneuron cell microtubules, is released ‘en bloc’ at death into Eternal Life. Structure of a microtubule. The ring shape depicts a microtubule in cross-section, showing the 13 protofilaments surrounding a hollow center.[author Thomas Splettstoesser (www.scistyle.com) 16 June 2015] Microtubules (micro- + tube + -ule) are a component of the cytoskeleton, found throughout the cytoplasm. These tubular polymers of tubulincan grow as long as 50 micrometres and are highly dynamic. The outer diameter of a microtubule is about 24 nm while the inner diameter is about 12 nm.
They are found in eukaryotic cells, as well as some bacteria,[1] and are formed by the polymerization of a dimer of two globular proteins, alpha and beta tubulin.[2] Microtubules are very important in a number of cellular processes. They are involved in maintaining the structure of the cell and, together with microfilaments and intermediate filaments, they form the cytoskeleton. They also make up the internal structure of cilia and flagella. They provide platforms for intracellular transport and are involved in a variety of cellular processes, including the movement of secretory vesicles, organelles, and intracellular macromolecular assemblies (see entries for dynein and kinesin).[3] They are also involved in chromosome separation (mitosis and meiosis), and are the major constituents of mitotic spindles, which are used to pull apart eukaryotic chromosomes.
Microtubules are nucleated and organized by microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs), such as the centrosome found in the center of many animal cells or the basal bodies found in cilia and flagella, or the spindle pole bodies found in fungi.
There are many proteins that bind to microtubules, including the motor proteins kinesin and dynein, severing proteins like katanin, and other proteins important for regulating microtubule dynamics.[4] Recently an actin-like protein has been found in a gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, which forms a microtubule-like structure and is involved in plasmid segregation.[5] [Pilhofer, Martin; Ladinsky, Mark S.; McDowall, Alasdair W.; Petroni, Giulio; Jensen, Grant J. (2011-12-01). “Microtubules in bacteria: Ancient tubulins build a five-protofilament homolog of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton”. PLOS Biology. 9 (12): e1001213 [https://www.rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb2/part1/microtub.htm] [Vale RD (Feb 2003). “The molecular motor toolbox for intracellular transport.”Cell. 112(4): 467–80] [Howard J; Hyman AA (Feb 2007). “Microtubule polymerases and depolymerases.”. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 19 (1): 31–5] [Jiang S, Narita A, Popp D, Ghoshdastider U, Lee LJ, Srinivasan R, Balasubramanian MK, Oda T, Koh F, Larsson M, Robinson RC (2016). “Novel actin filaments from Bacillus thuringiensis form nanotubules for plasmid DNA segregation.”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 113 (9): E1200–5] [Wayne, R. 2009. Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press, p. 165] [Microtubles, Wikipedia]
Now and together, many scientists are developing quantum theory to explain the phenomenon of consciousness.
Scientists believe that they found carriers of consciousness, the quantum energies that accumulate information during life, and after death of the body they “drain” consciousness somewhere else. Explanations are supported by multiuniverse theory, cosmic microwave background radiation, neo-biocentrism, quantum conscious information energy, reported traces of contact with other universes.
In the 1980s, Andrei Linde professor at Stanford University developed a theory of multiple universes, more universes than our one. Data received from the Planck space telescope support that our universe is not alone. Using the data, scientists have created the most accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic relic background radiation. Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from the North Carolina University with her colleagues argue: the anomalies of the microwave background exist due to the fact that our universe is influenced by other universes existing nearby.
Professor Stuart Hameroff from the University of Arizona announced that he has found evidence that consciousness does not perish after death, theory of neo-biocentrism which hypothesizes that there are soul quanta, quanta energies. According to Hameroff, the human brain is the perfect quantum computer and the soul or consciousness is simply energy information stored at the quantum level. It can be transferred, following the death of the body. Consciousness information represented by quantum energy merges with our universe and can exist there indefinitely, infinitely.
Robert Lanza on Biocentrism: The biocentrism expert Lanza suggests that the soul migrates to another universe. That is the main difference from his other colleagues. [Quantum Theory Proves That Consciousness Moves To Another Universe After Death 12/5/2015 by Anna LeMind via Learning & Mind, Truth Theory 2016] [“Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“, life does not end when the body dies, but your consciousness moves to another universe after death, by scientist Dr.Robert Lanza] Sir Roger Penrose, a Oxford physicist, reported that he found traces of contact with other universes.
These and other scientists are developing quantum theory to explain the phenomenon of consciousness.
Quantum conscious information energies are postulated to be located inside protein-based microtubules (neuronal microtubules), which previously have only been described a simple role of a reinforcement structure and also a transport channeling system inside living cells. “If the human dies, it’s postulated, that it is possible that the quantum conscious information energies can emerge from and exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a everlasting soul.”
This account of quantum conscious information energy explains things like: near-death experiences, celestial projection, out of body experiences, and even reincarnation without religious ideology.
Some scientists have postulated that the energy of human consciousness potentially can exists outside of the physical body on some other level of reality, possibly in another universe, human body or interstellar space. We are human beings with both biological and cosmological qualities and capacities. We humans have special meaning and purpose for life. Humans beings, the cosmos and hypercosmos are being continuously intertwined and regulated by the speed of light, the Theory of Relativity and Quantum mechanics [The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? By Duane Elgin, Apr 1, 2009 – Social Science – 230 pages]
Dr. d’Espagnat was awarded the Templeton Prize, 1 million pound sterling, March 16, 2009, by the United Kingdom Templeton Foundation for his work using theoretical physics to predict the reality of a hypercosmic God, who exists outside of the physical universe, possibly in another universe or 5th dimension. Australian scientists have recreated a famous experiment and confirmed quantum physics’s bizarre predictions about the nature of reality, by proving that ‘reality doesn’t actually exist until we can measure it’ – at least, not on the very small scale.
The wave–particle dual nature of light and matter and the fact that the choice of measurement determines which one of these two seemingly incompatible behaviors we observe are examples of some the controversial features of quantum mechanics and Theory of Relativity. Wheeler’s famous ‘delayed-choice’ experiment1, recently demonstrated in a single-photon experiment 2 and confirmed Bohr’s view that it does not make sense to ascribe the wave or particle behavior to a massive particle before the measurement takes place1. “Reality doesn’t exist if we can’t measure it” [Reality doesn’t exist until we measure it, quantum experiment confirms by FIONA MACDONALD, 1 JUN 2015 Science Alert] [Wheeler’s delayed-choice gedanken experiment with a single atom by A. G. Manning, R. I. Khakimov, R. G. Dall & A. G. Truscott, Nature Physics 11, 539–542 (2015)]
“The solar system is easy to calculate, because we can toss probes about here and there, and accurately measure the phenomena.” EEG measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic electrical current within neurons of the brain.[1]
The soul, the macroscopic quantum conscious spiritual and religious thinking mindset energy, is non-perishable, immortal and infinite and lives forever, wherever God intends.
After fertilization, biologically termed the Conception of Life, human termination of any stage of pregnancy, not only terminates the human life, created in His likeness’, prior to sanctification, that follows outside the womb, but also terminates human life’s capacity for Eternal Life, God’s meaning and purpose of human life, in the beginning.
Counting both the Right and Left sides of the brain, approximately 50+ areas of the brain contribute in spirituality, religiousness, meditation and belief and faith in God [Final Stage of Creation, mbmsrmd] or approximately 27 unilateral areas of the brain are involved in spirituality and belief. 10. 76% of doctors believe in God; 59 % believe in afterlife. 11.
“We are spiritual creatures having a physical experience.” said Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1881-1955. When expressed in terms of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, were are energy creatures having a physical experience, E=mc². Our energy states make us both relevant and relative. We are infinite spiritual, religious and/or meditation thinking “energy creatures having finite physical experiences.” [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]
- Humans beings have 2 known biological physical life stages:
a. inter-uterine life before birth
b. extra-uterine life following birth.
- Humans beings have 3 known consciousness-energy-stages:
a. inter-uterine human life pre-consciousness-energy-stage
b. extra-uterine human life consciousness-energy-stage
c. extra-human, infinite, eternal, consciousness-energy-stag
Albert Einstein said, “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
Physiological Spirituality, Religious and/or Meditative Mindsets are generated brain energy. Eternal Life does not end when the physical body dies, but the energy of the brain, soul and body moves into infinity and eternity. Energy from body, mind and soul never expires. Energy is infinite.
Sin and hate perpetrated against life, terminating life and the capacity for eternal life stage 1. actuated during life stage 2. not human physical death, are the enemies of infinite eternal spiritual, religious and/or meditation energy, for which the anatomy is encoded in the Brain DNA at fertilization aka conception of life.
Eternal Life Mindset is genetically encoded in all human brains, awaiting activation for Eternity. The conception of life, in the human sphere 1. ‘made in His Image’ 2. begins at fertilization 3.
Scientists have discovered what could be fossils of some of the earliest living organisms on Earth, which are represented by tiny filaments, knobs and tubes in Canadian rocks dated to be up to 4.28 billion years old. That is a time not long after the planet’s formation and hundreds of millions of years before what is currently accepted as evidence for the most ancient life yet found on Earth, reported in the journal Nature. Scientists’ found putative microbes from Quebec which are one-tenth the width of a human hair and contain significant quantities of haematite a form of iron oxide or “rust”. It was a bright red “concretion” of iron-and silica-rich rock contains the features interpreted as microfossils “It is very humbling to have the oldest known lifeforms in your hands and being able to look at them and analyse them,” he told BBC News. The fossil structures were encased in quartz layers in the so-called Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (NSB), an area of ancient ocean floor. It contains some of the oldest volcanic and sedimentary rocks known to science.
UCL Dr Dominic Papineau, who discovered the fossils in Quebec, believes this kind of setting was very probably also the cradle for lifeforms between 3.77 and 4.28 billion years ago. “It relates to our origins. For intelligent life to evolve to a level of consciousness, to a point where it traces back its history to understand its own origin – that’s inspirational.” At present, perhaps the oldest acknowledged evidence of life on the planet is found in 3.48-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia.
“They would not consider that there were organisms breathing oxygen at this time. It brings back the production of oxygen on the Earth’s surface, albeit by tiny amounts, to the beginning of the sedimentary record,” he said. “These (NTB) organisms come from a time when we believe Mars had liquid water on its surface and a similar atmosphere to Earth at that time,” said Mr Dodd. “So, if we have lifeforms originating and evolving on Earth at this time then we may very well have had life beginning on Mars.”
The suggestion that life had already arisen “just” a few hundred million years after the Earth had formed is intriguing in light of debates about whether life on Earth was a rare accident or whether biology is a common outcome given the right conditions. [Earliest evidence of life on Earth ‘found’ by Pallab Ghosh, Science correspondent, BBC News]
Standing about 4 feet tall, early human ancestor Paranthropus boisei had a small brain and a wide, dish-like face. It is most well-known for having big teeth and hefty chewing muscles. “Herpes has been around a long time, to say the least.
Ancient chimpanzees genetically passed oral herpes (herpes simplex 1, or HSV-1) to the earliest humans millions of years ago when our lineage split.” [CNN}
“And we almost missed out on catching that other scourge, genital herpes (HSV-2) — almost. Unlike HSV-1, HSV-2 didn’t make the leap to early humans on its own. “Unfortunately for modern humans, millions of years ago, an early human ancestor was in the right place at the right time to catch HSV-2. And it might not have happened if it weren’t for that meddling hominin species Paranthropus boisei, according to a new study in the Journal Virus Evolution.
One skull was nicknamed “Nutcracker Man” for these traits. Neanderthals may have self-medicated long before pills, study shows. “Boisei acted as the in-between agent for genital herpes to make the species jump from primates to humans, researchers say
- •Ancient chimpanzees,
•hominin species Paranthropus boisei,
•and Homo erectus were all in Africa between 1.4 million – 3 million yrs ago,
•in an area where the evolution of modern anatomical humans (Homo sapien evolved 200,000 yrs ago) would occur.
“It would be easy for them to come into contact with each other around water sources. HSV-2 itself was evolving at the time, and it could be spread orally. The researchers believe that the circle of life caused this transmission, which would have to happen through fluid exchange. Chimpanzee bites or scratches would transfer the virus through sores. So what about the human bloodline? According to the researchers, transfer could have happened through sexual intercourse or Homo erectus consuming boisei — or both. [This early human ancestor is to blame for genital herpes By Ashley Strickland, CNN October 2, 2017]
“We can ‘blame’ our ancestors for eating other hominins/great apes, this has been the source of other primate-to-human infections such as HIV,” Charlotte Houldcroft, senior study author and virologist at the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology, wrote in an email. “Eating other species closely related to oneself has risks, because pathogens adapted to species genetically similar to us will find it easier to jump the species barrier.”
“The most genetically diverse strains of HSV-2 come from Africa, and the amount of worldwide HSV-2 genetic diversity points to an out-of-Africa migration, according to the researchers. “Essentially, when humans migrated out of Africa, they already carried HSV-2, and wherever humans went, their viruses went too,” Houldcroft said. “HSV-2 infects for life and can be passed from mother to baby or between sexual partners, which made sure it successfully spread wherever humans did.” But making this determination when there are gaps in the fossil record required more than just an analysis of old bones. “We can use data from diseases to reconstruct events that are completely invisible to the archaeological and fossil records,” Houldcroft said.
“The signals in the HSV-2 virus are records of direct contact between the ancestors of us and chimps that we can tangibly now ‘see’ and gives us direct insight into the daily lives of our ancestors.” The researchers are now working with colleagues in South Africa and the United States to learn how other ancient conditions, like human pubic lice, transmitted to modern humans. “The usual obstacles of not enough fossils and archaeological preservation are always present, but also contribute to making the subject such a compelling one,” Houldcroft said. [This early human ancestor is to blame for genital herpes By Ashley Strickland, CNN October 2, 2017]
Dated to more than 300,000 years ago, the finds raise key questions about the defining features of Homo sapiens and how our kind came to be. Composite reconstruction of 300,000-year-old fossils from the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. Researchers say the fossils are the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens. [Credit: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig]
‘The year was 1961. A barite mining operation at the Jebel Irhoud massif in Morocco, some 100 kilometers west of Marrakech, turned up a fossil human skull. Published June, 2017 in J. of Nature. “Subsequent excavation uncovered more bones from other individuals, along with animal remains and stone tools. Scientists’ best guess was that the remains were about 40,000 years old and represented African versions of Neandertals. “In the decades that followed, researchers shifted their stance on the identity of the remains, coming to see them as members of our own species, Homo sapiens—and they redated the site to roughly 160,000 years ago. Still, the Jebel Irhoud fossils remained something of a mystery, because in some respects they looked more primitive than older H. sapiens fossils.
“Experts have long recognized that H. sapiens got its start in Africa. Up to this point, the oldest commonly accepted traces of our species were in Ethiopia: 195,000-year-old remains from the site of Omo Kibish and 160,000-year-old fossils from Herto.
“Yet hints that our species might have deeper roots had come to light. For instance, a skull with some modern characteristics from Florisbad, South Africa, was dated to 259,000 years ago—but the skull was assigned to a more primitive species, Homo heidelbergensis, and the date was never widely accepted. “Clues have also come from studies of DNA recovered from human fossils. In 2016 researchers led by Matthias Meyer, also at Max Planck, reported that they had recovered DNA from fossils at the Spanish site of Sima de los Huesos that indicated H. sapiens split from its closest evolutionary relatives, the Neandertals, more than 500,000 years ago, implying an older fossil record of H. sapiens remained to be discovered.
“Hublin said that by 300,000 years ago, early H. sapiens had dispersed across the continent. This dispersal was helped by the fact that Africa was quite different back then—the Sahara was green, not the forbidding desert barrier that it is today. “The researchers found that the groups to which these individuals belonged diverged more than 260,000 years ago, which would mean our species is at least that old. “The two new papers certainly complement each other,” observes evolutionary geneticist Alan Rogers of the University of Utah, who was not involved in either study. “The Jebel Irhoud paper tells us modern human morphology is older than we had thought. The Schlebusch et al paper says modern human populations have been separate for nearly this long.” “He notes the analysis by Hublin and his colleagues did not compare the Jebel Irhoud remains with fossils from Spain dating to more than 800,000 years ago that belong to a species called H. antecessor. “There is an archaic human population with facial morphology that resembles modern humans in many ways, and it is a lot older than Jebel Irhoud,” he says of H. antecessor. “Maybe Jebel Irhoud was evolving into modern humans, but another possibility is that it is retaining facial morphology from an H. antecessor–like population that may have been the last common ancestor of Neandertals and later African archaic humans.”
“The new discoveries seem poised to fan debate over who invented the artifacts of Africa’s Middle Stone Age (MSA) cultural period, which spanned the time between roughly 300,000 and 40,000 years ago. [Ancient Fossils from Morocco Mess Up Modern Human Origins, By Kate Wong on June 8, 2017, Scientific American]
“Archaic humans (Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals), did survive alongside Homo sapiens and Homo sapien-sapiens (MACH) until at least some 40,000 years ago and possibly until as late as the Epipaleolithic period about 12,000 years ago. “There is evidence of limited interbreeding of archaic neanderthals and modern anatomical humans, possibly modern anatomical cognitive humans. “Despite their differences, Homo sapiens and Neanderthals mingled, and over time, produced children with genes from both lineages. Today, the biological remnants of that collision between two distinct populations remain alive in the genomes of Europeans and East Asians.
“In conclusion, Neanderthal genome survives in modern humans of non-African ancestry and identified exactly which areas of the human genome retain segments of Neanderthal DNA. [The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans, Sriram Sankararaman et al, Nature 507, 354–357 Published online 29 January 2014] [Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes, Benjamin Vernot et al]
“Altogether, scientists now estimate that somewhere between 1.8% and 2.6% of the DNA in most people alive today was inherited from Neanderthals, according to a report published in the Journal Science. “The genetic contribution of these archaic hunter-gatherers is highest in people of East Asian descent, accounting for between 2.3% and 2.6% of their DNA. “Neanderthals lived primarily in Europe and western Asia for hundreds of thousands of years before they mysteriously disappeared around 40,000 years ago. However, in humans of western Eurasian heritage, the amount of Neanderthal DNA is a more modest 1.8% to 2.4%, researchers found.
“Anthropologists believe that the ancestors of modern humans encountered Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago, soon after they migrated out of Africa. That would explain why modern people of African descent have little to no Neanderthal DNA. [As much as 2.6% of your DNA is from Neanderthals. This is what it’s doing, A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right, and a modern human skeleton, left, on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. A newly sequenced Neanderthal genome reveals that modern humans got as much as 2.6% of their DNA from our extinct evolutionary cousins. (Frank Franklin II / Associated Press) Melissa HealyContact Reporter]
- “Natural selection is usually divided into
1.ecological selection
2.simple survival
3.sexual selection aspects of mate choice
4.competition,” Shriver said.
Exploring how local climate might have contributed to differences in nose shape, the researchers looked at the distribution of nasal traits in relation to local temperatures and humidity and found that the width of the nostrils strongly correlated with temperature and absolute humidity. Your nose and nasal cavity function as your personal air conditioner, warming and moistening air before it reaches your lower respiratory tract. In the late 1800s, British anatomist and anthropologist Arthur Thomson observed that long and thin noses occurred in dry, cold areas, while short and wide noses occurred in hot, humid areas.
Since narrower nostrils allow the nose to humidify and warm the air more efficiently, this was probably essential in cold, dry climates; people with narrower nostrils probably fared better and had more offspring than people with wider nostrils in locations farther from the equator. “Some of the nose variation is really the climate; some of it’s not,” Shriver said, noting that sexual selection played a role, as well, with people choosing mates based on notions of beauty, such as finding a smaller nose more attractive.
“The fact that we find such big male-female differences in all of the nose traits is also consistent with sexual selection having a hand,” he said. Still ecological selection and sexual selection often reinforce each other, and the study provides evidence that both types of selection have helped shape the nose. “This study advances our understanding of the complex picture of human facial diversity,” said Weinberg, who had no role in this project, though he has collaborated with several of the authors. The research attempts to connect the “shape of the external human nose to geographically relevant ecological factors” operating throughout our evolutionary past up to the modern day, he said.
“Researchers have only recently begun to uncover the genetic basis of traits like nasal shape in humans,” Weinberg said. “Studies like this can help us to frame those genetic findings within a broader context.” [Modeling 3D Facial Shape from DNA by Mark D. Shriver et al J. PLOS Genetics, March 20, 2014] [Climate, not just genetics, shaped your nose, study says By Susan Scutti, CNN, March 16, 2017
Mind and Brain are 2 different entities. Brain is the anatomy. Mind is the action or neurophysiology. Mind houses Cognition. Mind is triggered internally i.e. thinking, thoughts, perceptions, beliefs, faith, attitudes, patterns, emotions, willpower, past memory, learning memory and imagination, language and communications”
Cerebral Cortex → FRONTAL (blue), TEMPORAL (green), OCCIPTAL (red), and PARIETAL (yellow) Lobes [Mindsight: New Science of Personal Transformation, 2010, Dr. Dan Siegal ] [Does the Brain Control the Mind or the Mind Control the Brain? by Parag + Ayesha Khanna, Bigthink] [Dr. Dan Seigel] Mind Cerebrum [Lobes of the brain NL” by Henry Vandyke Carter – Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body: Gray’s Anatomy, Plate,The Cerebrum, Wikipedia]
- Spirituality, Religiousness and Meditation (SRM) Thinking and Mindfulness are triggered by sensory stimulation and sensory integration. SRM Thinking and Mindfulness are housed in the following Right and Left 50+ multiple brain parts.
•left brain right brain frontal brain lobes prefrontal cortex
•ventromedial cortex parietal lobe dorsal brain areas
•medial temporal lobes anterior cingulate cortex occipital cortex
•cerebellum multiple areas of limbic system thalamus
•thalamic reticular nucleus ventral tegmental brain septal area
•substantia nigra pars compacta arcuate nucleus of hypothalmus
•nucleus accumbens pituitary gland ventral cortical axis
•caudate nucleus insula bilateral fusiform regions
•para-hippocampal gyrus right and left angular gyri
Insights gained by Granger connectivity analysis informed researchers about the causal binding of individual regions activated during religious Belief processing. 42. Although religious practices have been universal throughout ancient human history, not enough is known about their biological basis at the neural level, according to another research project. Scientists are intensely investigating the neurology. They have deemed that the medial prefrontal cortex plays a vital role in the integrity of religious activity. “In this hypothesis, optimal functions of the medial prefrontal cortex, such as error detection, compliance to social norms, self-reflection, and theory of mind, are a key prerequisite to the maintenance of integrated religious activity. Hyper-religiosity may result from the hyperfunction of the medial prefrontal cortex, including rigid legalism (excessive error detection), excessive concern over one’s existence (excessive self-reflection), and delusional interpretation of God’s mind (excess of theory of mind)”. 43.
Religious Belief and behavior are a hallmark of human life, with no accepted animal equivalent, and found in all cultures (1). The biological basis of religion, however, is fiercely debated in fields as diverse as evolutionary psychology, anthropology, genetics, and cosmology. Counting Right and Left brain sides, Neuropsychological regions of Brain for SRM Thinking and Mindfulness stimulate truly remarkable enormous brain neuroanatomy.
- 41. [The neural correlates of religious and nonreligious belief by Harris S1, Kaplan JT, Curiel A, Bookheimer SY, Iacoboni M, Cohen MS, PLoS One. 2009 Oct 1;4(10):e0007272. PubMed]
42. [Brain networks shaping religious belief by Kapogiannis D1, Deshpande G, Krueger F, Thornburg MP, Grafman JH. Brain Connect. 2014 Feb;4(1):70-9. doi: 10.1089/brain.2013.0172. Epub 2014 Jan 15]
43. [The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in human religious activity. Muramoto O, Med Hypotheses. 2004;62(4):479-85]
44. [Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief by Dimitrios Kapogiannis,a,b Aron K. Barbey,a,c Michael Su,a Giovanna Zamboni,a Frank Krueger,a and Jordan Grafmana,1 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Mar 24; 106(12): 4876–4881. Published online 2009 Mar 9]
- Spirituality + Religious + Meditation Thinking + Mindfulness after sensory stimulation and integration have dramatic impacts on every day human life:
→ stimulate multiple brain parts
→ influence a more Positive living outcome
→ live longer
→ live healthier life
→ less depression
→ Less alcohol + drug addiction [Planate] 128]
- SRM T + M brains evolve → patterns → Once patterns established in Mind
→ SRM T+ M patterns → become Beliefs
→ once Beliefs formed in brain → confirmation in Beliefs established
→ confidence in Beliefs builds
→ round / round process begins [Shermer]
→ positive feedback loop continually increases, reinforces the Belief confirmation [The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer 2012]
Our Creator created special neurobiological and neurophysiological Dopaminergic networks. These are potential spaces and brain places when activated transmit SRM Thinking + Mindfulness. Dopamine neurotransmitters are signaling molecules or neurochemicals that tag neuron-receptors and transmit sense of Divine, SRM T+M across the brain networks, created for the human Mind’s God experience. [d’Aquili,MD (a psychiatrist)Newberg, MD(neurologist) J Neurotheology] Dopamine neurotransmitters also functions in many other brain functions: movement, memory, pleasurable reward, behavior, cognition, attention, inhibition of prolactin production, sleep, mood, learning. “The release of dopamine is a form of information, a message that tells the organism ‘Do that again.’ Dopamine produces the sensation of pleasure that accompanies mastering a task or accomplishing a goal, which makes the organism want to repeat the behavior, whether it is pressing a bar, pecking a key, or pulling a slot machine lever. You get a hit (a reinforcement) and your brain gets a hit of dopamine. Behavior—Reinforcement—Behavior. Repeat sequence.” [Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths]
- Reiterating, for convenience, from above: Neuron DNA, neural brain cells are hardwired for Belief in God, SRM T and M are neural brain tissue, “Brain God Spots” neuro-anatomically created [VMAT2 gene Dr. Hamer]
- 4 Belief in God Neural Patterns are organized in Neural Networks aka Neuronets.
•“Each neuron holds an idea”
•each neuronet (network) of neurons holds summation of ideas, for example, a Belief in our Creator
•Neural networks define Belief-systems, shape consciousness [Your Beautiful Mind, George Helou]
•Shakespear’s Cassius said, “Men at some time are masters of their own fate.” [David Warmflash Jan 13, 2015, Genetic Literacy Project]
•Humans need step-up
•Humans charged by our Creator → self-generating, triggering, activating Brain’s God anatomy, the “Final Stage of Creation”
•Designated for Cognitive function, the practice of spirituality, religiousness and meditation thinking and mindfulness
Cognitive Dissonance Theory (1957) by Leon Festinger theorized that human beings endeavor for internal psychological consistency and stability in order to mentally function in real world without stress and anxiety. In Psychology, Cognitive Dissonance is a resultant mental discomfort, psychological stress and anxiety experienced by person who simultaneously holds 2 or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. The occurrence of Cognitive Dissonance is a consequence of performing an action that contradicts the person’s personal beliefs, ideals, and values. “Our greater capacity for learning is often offset by our greater capacity for magical thinking.” [Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts, Gods to Politics and Conspiracies, How We Construct Beliefs, Reinforce Them as Truths
For example, when a person accepts belief, faith and ‘religious truth’ supported only by supernatural, mysterious and unrealistic religious explanations while the person conversely, at the same time, has been educated by medical and scientific explanations for belief, faith and truth in God. Stress and anxiety are manifest. Psychologists term that condition Cognitive Dissonance.
Human doubtfulness is often established, when religion is based on supernatural, mysterious and unrealistic explanations. The “essence Religious Doubt Principle” is manifest. Religious Truth is not apparent when religion is founded on eternal, supernatural, mysterious, unseen belief, belief and faith in God when the equation is summed with the finite, reasonable intelligent Human Mind. Under the circumstances religion might be called by some, mere superstition and others might say scientifically oriented person is prejudiced, too critical, and a heretic. Exact harmony based on supernatural and mysterious Divine Authority and the mind of human in those circumstances is called supernaturalized, because the person is not applying natural law and the science they have come to understand.
Supernatural and mysterious religious explanations concerning Jesus, God, Christianity, other messiahs and religions initiates the ‘Religious Doubtfulness Principle’. “Supernatural and mysterious religious explanations and human Religious Truth acceptance, based on religious grounds, principles, creeds, Divine Authority” initiate Doubt in Divine Authority, belief, faith and doubt in ‘imposed obedience’. When religions are based on Supernatural and mysterious events and histories, Doubtfulness, a ‘human nature’, with general psychological characteristics, feelings, behavioral traits of humankind are established. [The Irish Ecclesiastical Record. Browne and Nolan, 1890, English periodicals]
Conversely, Doubtlessness is the ideal spiritual and religious experience. The “humans doubtlessness condition” is an ‘Aha moment’. The human mind is in state of doubtless inner peace, a sense of well-being and motivation for personal transformation overwhelms the Mind”
Doubtless spiritual, religious and meditation experiences enhance the quality of life. Confidence in personal worship is markedly improved. The human mindfulness is stimulated, Dopamine is excreted and bathes the brain with satisfaction and feeling good emotions. The human will seek additional transformative SRM T and M experiences. Dr. Andrew Newberg found the specific neurological mechanisms, which elicit enlightenment and discovered how to activate those circuits in human brains.
Again reiterating for emphasis, medical doctors and scientists discovered that humans whose brains have been stimulated with doubtless, confident faith and belief experiences have profound, positive life changes, less stress, less mental illness, less alcoholism and drug dependence, more creative skills, are happier, more satisfied and live longer healthier lives.
Scientific Evidence Based belief and faith in God explanations are confident, moving, overwhelming experiences, implemented with certainty. [How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation by Andre Newberg, Mark Robert Waldman, Hay House, Inc, Mar 15, 2016 -Body, Mind, Spirit 288 pages]
Lack of scientific understanding in this report and Scientific Evidence-Based Faith In God are plausible nowadays, because “Science Illiteracy has become a threat to our nation.” The U.S. does not lead the world in scientific understanding and education as before.
Americans are now bad at science, scared of math, poor at physics and engineering.” [Neil deGrasse Tyson: U.S. science illiteracy a serious threat by John Newsom Jan 31, 2017 john.newsom@greensboro.com] Most recent Program For International Student Assesment (PISA) results 2015 math and science literacy U.S. found that U.S. 15-year-olds are 38th / 71 countries in math and 24th science. [U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries by Drew Desilver Feb 15, 2017, Factank, Pew Research Center] [U.S. students’ academic achievement still lags that of their peers in many other countries by Drew Desilver Feb 15, 2017, Factank, Pew Research Center]
- In 1988 a pathetic 10% of U.S. adults had enough basic science understanding to be able to read and undersatnd the Science Section of NY Times and in 2008 28% of adults high enough to understand scientific ideas and 37 % American adults accepted concept of biological evolution 2008. Evolution concept acceptance has declined in the last 20 years. [Jon Miller Report, U-M Institute for Social Research] [U.S. public’s knowledge of science: getting better but a long way to go, Feb 15, 2011, Diane Swanbrow, UMich News] Children and youth should not be dissuaded from belief in God because the U.S. public doesn’t believe our Creator is scientist and spiritual God. Very intelligent Harvard students scheduled to graduate Harvard 2019 surveyed:
■ 37.9 % atheists or agnostics; up from 32.4 % 2 years ago
■ 17 % Protestants + 17.1 % Catholic = 34.1 %, down 8 points from 2 years ago
■ 60.6 % “not at all religious” or “not very religious”
■ 14.5 % were “religious“, “very religious” including Christians, Jews, Muslims (Islam), Hindus + others
■ devoted Christians were therefore an even smaller %. [Paul Prather: Christianity’s influence continues to diminish and a recent Harvard survey is just one example of why BY PAUL PRATHER Contributing columnist September 19, 2015 Lex Herald Leader]
■ precisely the reason the reconciliation of science and religion are crucial.
This reporter has an excellent underastanding about the Creation of the universe and the Creation and conception of human life. This discussion concerns comparing and contrasting 2 types of faith and belief and does not concern the people who consider themselves an atheist, anyone who doesn’t believe in any gods, or an agnostic, anyone who doesn’t claim to know whether any gods exist or not.[Austin Cline, Dec 31, 2017, ThoughtCo.]
- Type 1. Scientific-Evidence-Based Faith and Belief In God
Type 2. Religious/Spiritual Non-Scientific-Non-Evidence-Based Faith and Belief in God.
- • Scientific and Religious accounts in Genesis agree according to scientists and IMHMSO
• The main difference is that the Scientific ‘language’ (semantics, meaning logic) of the Scientific-Evidence-Based Belief and Faith in God, is different from the
• Philosophical ‘language’ (semantics, meaning logic) of the Religious/Spiritual Non-Scientific-Non-Evidence-Based Belief and Faith in God.
• Scientists research, investigate and explain the creation of our universe based on truth and the facts unlike non-scientists.
3. However Both Beliefs and Faiths discipline puzzle.
- What one does in a society on Earth over approximately 75 years might seem ‘puny’ to some critics, compared to the billons of years God has invested in ‘His Master Plan’ for Human Beings’ ‘Eternal Flourishing’, the reward for virteous behavior(Goetz). [The Meaning of Life, Tes are equally important and contribute to our human meaning and purpose of life. Teachings of each discipline should be encouraged by both
4. The universe and human physical and energy life experiences have meaning, purpose, reason, cause and etiology.
•Where there is meaning, purpose, reason, cause and etiology there is a Creator.
•meaning, purpose, reason, cause and etiology are Explained both Biblically + Neurotheologically [How God Changes Your Brain, by Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman Ballantine Books. 348 pp. March 29, 2008] [Preparing Sacred Space: Practicing the Spiritual Disciplines With the Brain in Mind Edward B. Davis, Psy.D. (Wheaton College) and Pastor Jim Laffoon (King’s Park International Church)] [Eutopia, Whistle While You Work by Micheal B. Minix, Sr., M.D., July 1, 2015]
- Personally testifying, evidence-based, scientific faith and belief founded on research facts and truth concerning our Creator and Creation and allegorical bible interpretation are with certainty, as real to me as
• solving chemistry and physics problems
• E = mc²
• diagnosing an elusive disease
• performing laser treatments for Diabetic Retinopathy
• playing and running a football
• unlike my previous faith and belief, which was based on
• non-evidence based, non-scientific, supernatural, mysterious, doubtable stories passed down generations
• and literal, unrealistic, interpretation of the bible.
- Humans are charged with the The Meaning and Purpose of Life, implying
•the pursuit of Perfection, biblically, of God’s ‘Image’ or, implying, Neurotheologically, stimulating neural activity and growth, aka Neuroplasticiy of the human brains’ Neuroanatomy,
•and the pursuit of Perfection, biblically, of God’s ‘likeness’, or, implying, Neurotheologically, the human action and human performance of faith, belief and obedience to Him, and all activities and behaviaors of Spiritual, Religious, Meditation thinking and mindfulness.
Human Beings’ Meaning and Purpose of Life and Human Beings’ Rights end, where God’s Meaning and Purpose for Human Life and God’s Rights, pertainig to Human Beings, begin. (Affoter 2007) (Brown 1971) (Levine 1987) (Cottingham 2003) (God-Centered ‘Purpose Theorists’) “God has all the rights in the universe.” [John Piper] God’s Rights are superior to all others. We humans are the only persons God can Reward or Blame for the conduct of our lives. God expects a return for His reward from each and every Creation and‘Conception of Human Life’. The process is similar to a puzzle, with the placement of pieces specifically designated. Human beings must ‘take charge’ and willfully resolve thhe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright © 2016 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University]
However, this reporter agres with Dr. Nancy Abrams, attorney and science reporter, and physicist Dr. Joel Primack in their book ‘The New Universe and the Human Future’: “We humans are the handiwork of a loving God, who planned the universe and everything that happens within, is all-knowing, all-good and the all-powerful Creator of our universe.”
- Jesus disseminated the blueprint, a guide for obedient performance for we Christians. Most religions have blueprints. Human beings are intended to upload a blueprint for obiedience, as if it were stored for transfer on a memory stick, onto our brains’ computer, the vast neuron networks for faith amd belief in God and Spiritual, Religious and Meditation Thinking and Mindfulness, the engagement which is DNA hardwired (inherited). Scientific evidence based Christians worship God, alone, and praise Jesus for teaching Christians how to worship God. So how does a Neurotheological Christian explain an evil human, who would be so unlike the living Jesus IMHMSO evil is the absence of a Blessed, Sanctified Psyche or Mind, the Soul
• and Evil is manifest
• when the neuroanatomy of the Soul ‘in His Image’ is willfully neglected by its human mind.
• Evil is facilitated by inertia, unwillingness to activate the human brain’s Faith and Belief neural network.
• The brain’s Faith and Belief neural network are wasted by neglected activation and negative growth
• of the 55+ brain regions dedicated to neuroanatomy of the Soul ‘in His Image’
• and dedicated to the neurophysiology of the Soul ‘in His likeness’
• The blessed, sanctified Psyche Mind energy, the e-Soul, which never dies, is released by the dead physical body and dwells forever in the Hypercosmos [Dr.d’Espagnat] of our Creator aka Heaven
• The evil pyche mindful energy is likewise released at death of the physical body into interstellar obscurity, aka Hell
- Humans are Created to live on earth, the proving ground, not a Garden of Eden.
- Humans are created, when proving, to willfully activate the human brain’s Faith and Belief neural networks and sanctify their e-soul, no matter their circumstances.
- Then their e-soul will live forever in the Garden of Eternity.
- Unfortunately, some humans e-psyche, by failed choice, will struggle forever in interstellar obscurity.
Bullet Brief summary from the above report for reader convenience:
- •Biblical and Neurotheological meaning, purpose, reason, cause and etiology explanations in Genesis are the same
•Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive
•Science and Religion are not either….or
•He is both a scientific and spiritual God.
•Natural law and science God Created preceded human life by millions of years.
•Human beings are charged with Preparing a Sacred Place within their soul,
•The soul is the 50+ regions strategically located the R and L brain anatomy of each and every human, even the atheist and agnostic, even if one has not activated the soulful state which facilitates a meaningful life.
•They are the “Final Stage of Creation” for each and every human
•This brain neuroanatomy is specifically designed for Spiritual, Religious and Meditative Doubtless Sacred, Obedient Mindfulness
•For the attainment of The Meaning and Purpose of Life, the pursuit Perfection of ‘His Image’ and ‘His likeness’
•Willful activation of “Brain God Spots”, neural brain tissue, neuro-anatomically created with nuclear DNA [VMAT2 gene Dr. Hamer]
•For Belief and Faith in God Neural Patterns (Neural Networks, Neuronets)
•by Stimulating Neural Activity + Growth, (SNAG the Brain) Neuroplasticity is a human choice. Neuroplasticity, Created by God, is not automatic.
•Requires spiritual exercise, daily reading, learning about, praying, worshiping and spending quiet time with God and all other sacred exercises and activities.
•The meaning, purpose, reason, cause and etiology of Human Life
Is the willful activation of the neuroanatomy stimulating and memorizing the neurobiological spiritual mindset for Belief and Faith in God
•The Brain Cortex and Mind increases in size in those 50+ areas of the brain anatomy which were Created for Belief and Faith in God
•Human beings are charged with The Meaning and Purpose of Life, the pursuit of Perfection of ‘His Image’ and ‘His likeness’ in their souls, the 50+ Brain areas,
•charged with pursuit of Perfecting Worship of Him Alone and pursuit of Perfecting Obedience to Him Alone
•Humans can only accept responsibility for their own Imperfections, not the Imperfections of others, although others can be shown the way, the truth and the life
•Following pursuit of Perfections, achieved by Human Sacredness, Human souls will be transformed into Eternal Life itself
- “Man is ‘perfectible’, which means man is continually improvable rather than capable of actually reaching absolute perfection.” [Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths]
- •Created in ‘His likeness’, the cognitive mind, begins during the first human being one cell zygote stage.
•The human body transports the brain primarily for spiritual, religious and meditative experiences through different environments and fruitfulness during the crucial mindful processes.
•The corpse’s brain and carriage decompensates, but neuron cell microtubules, similar to computer memory sticks, preserve important information.
•The soul’s non-perishable, infinite macroscopic quantum conscious information energy, spiritual, religious and meditative thinking mindset power for faith and belief in God, stored in interneuron cell microtubules, is released ‘en bloc’ at death into Eternity.
•The soul, the macroscopic quantum conscious spiritual and religious thinking mindset energy, is non-perishable, immortal and infinite and lives forever, wherever God intends.
•Narrow is the gate, difficult is the way which leads to life; there are few who find it [Mat7:13-14]
•(IMHMSO)
“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
[Michael Shermer,The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies; How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths]
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