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See Etymology of Coined Terminology.
Introduction
p2-5: spirit capacity for spiritual See cross-reference study: Spirit(ual) Receptivity and Capacity(ies).
Section 1: Life Carrier Functions
Section 2: The Evolutionary Panorama
p2: sponges: See UBtheNEWS: Sponges research page.
See Matthew Block’s parallel chart for human source materials:
(1) Ernest William Barnes, Scientific Theory and Religion: The World described by Science
and its Spiritual interpretation (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1933)
(2) Charles Schuchert, A Text-book of Geology, Part II: Historical Geology, Second, Revised
Edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1924)
p3,4: See Topical Study: Health and Healing.
p4: suddenly From Wikipedia: Stephan Wolfram: “From 1992 to 2002, Stephen Wolfram worked on his controversial book A New Kind of Science, which presents an empirical study of very simple computational systems. Additionally, it argues that for fundamental reasons these types of systems, rather than traditional mathematics, are needed to model and understand complexity in nature. Wolfram’s conclusion is that the universe is digital in its nature, and runs on fundamental laws which can be described as simple programs. He predicts that a realization of this within the scientific communities will have a major and revolutionary influence on physics, chemistry and biology and the majority of the scientific areas in general, which is the reason for the book’s title.”
See “Is There Design in Nature,” Section 7 of Neal Kendall’s Scientific Symposium presentation at Urantia Foundation in 2016.
p6,7,10: frog A study published out of Hiroshima University in 2021 supports frogs as the ancestor of other vertebrates, stating “What’s more, the research team uncovered that the potential sex-chromosomes involved in the translocations contained orthologs of the sex-determining genes in mammals, birds, and fishes.”
A 2021 TED talk by Michael Levin reviews new research with frogs that is helping to identify and manipulate an electrical communication between cells (not related to the nervous systems) that tells cells how to behave.
p12: whales (61:2.11), (65:2.12) provide the other two references to whales, as a species. difficult whales of selfishness (130:1.2) ref: story of Jonah.
Section 3: The Fostering of Evolution
p3: frog A study published out of Hiroshima University in 2021 supports frogs as the ancestor of other vertebrates, stating “What’s more, the research team uncovered that the potential sex-chromosomes involved in the translocations contained orthologs of the sex-determining genes in mammals, birds, and fishes.”
A 2021 TED talk by Michael Levin reviews new research with frogs that is helping to identify and manipulate an electrical communication between cells (not related to the nervous systems) that tells cells how to behave.
Section 4: The Urantia Adventure
See Topical Study: Genetic Introductions, Mutations, and Evolution: a Urantia Book perspective.
p3: frog A study published out of Hiroshima University in 2021 supports frogs as the ancestor of other vertebrates, stating “What’s more, the research team uncovered that the potential sex-chromosomes involved in the translocations contained orthologs of the sex-determining genes in mammals, birds, and fishes.”
A 2021 TED talk by Michael Levin reviews new research with frogs that is helping to identify and manipulate an electrical communication between cells (not related to the nervous systems) that tells cells how to behave.
Section 5: Life-Evolution Vicissitudes
p1,2: See Topical Study: Health and Healing.
p4: See Tribulation(s) cross-reference study.
Section 6: Evolutionary Techniques of Life
p1: the exact location and the velocity, This is known in quantum mechanics as the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: ΔxΔp ⩾ ℏ⁄ 2. It is interesting to notice that this uncertainty is related to the measurement and is not a fundamental property of the so-called “quantum systems”.
kill protoplasm in order to analyse it: The idea that our knowledge of the living cell is complementary to the complete knowledge of its molecular structure goes back to Niels Bohr. He suggested that the complete knowledge of this structure can be achieved only by operations that destroy the life of the cell and so it is logically possible that life precludes the complete determinations of its underlying physicochemical structure. See W. Heisenberg, “Physics and Philosophy”, 1958, p. 104.
p4: Video of cuttlefish eating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdm_C1sAGD8
Scientists still do not seem able to identify vanadium as the carrier of oxygen. It seems there is bias against accepting the theory, which has been proposed, because of the unstable relationship vanadium has an oxygen carries (apparently requiring the high concentration). See Wikipedia page: vanadium. “Vanadium is essential to ascidians and tunicates, where it is stored in the highly acidified vacuoles of certain blood cell types, designated “vanadocytes”. Vanabins (vanadium binding proteins) have been identified in the cytoplasm of such cells. The concentration of vanadium in the blood of ascidians is as much as ten million times higher than the surrounding seawater, which normally contains 1 to 2 µg/l. The function of this vanadium concentration system and these vanadium-bearing proteins is still unknown, but the vanadocytes are later deposited just under the outer surface of the tunic where they may deter predation.
Nautilus article showing openness to vanadium as an oxygen carrier in the context of a discussion about evolution.
In depth research articles: Tunicate Research in Prof. Robinson’s Lab. Vanadium Complexes by Ton Hubregtse.
p5: 64:3.5 marks the origin of the Neanderthal race at 850,000 years ago. From the Abstract of a study published on Science Advances in May 2019: “Drawing on quantitative analyses of dental evolutionary rates and Bayesian analyses of hominin phylogenetic relationships, I show that any divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans younger than 800 ka ago would have entailed unexpectedly rapid dental evolution in early Neanderthals from Sima de los Huesos. These results support a pre–800 ka last common ancestor for Neanderthals and modern humans unless hitherto unexplained mechanisms sped up dental evolution in early Neanderthals.”
p1,8: physics (chemistry) is used six paragraphs and every time it is used in association with chemistry. See: (12:9.3), (58:2.3), (65:6.8), (66:5.24), (102:4.6), and (195:6.11). Chemistry also appears at: (41:2.6), (42:9.1), (49:5.19), (65:6.1), (74:6.3), and (81:2.9).
p10: capacity and spirit receptivity See cross-reference study: Spirit(ual) Receptivity and Capacity(ies).
Section 7: Evolutionary Mind Levels
p6: spirit receptivity See cross-reference study: Spirit(ual) Receptivity and Capacity(ies).