The teachings in The Urantia Book about genics and race are easily misunderstood and, consequently, often unfairly criticized. This problem leads to rejecting the authenticity of The Urantia Book as a revelation, to disparaging the book and its adherents, and to suggesting that Dr. Sadler was the author of The Urantia Book or that he corrupted the revelatory process by interjecting his own ideas. This page is presented in an effort to address these and other issues.
February 2022, I published the Topical Study: Food For Thought, which is highly recommended as an introduction to this study aid. In September 2022, I penned a short piece for social media that captures the essence of this study and my understanding of The Urantia Book, in general:
Roles and relationships:
Valuable differences change and stay the same from generation to generation.
Male and female differences endure.
Racial differences blend into oneness.
Children becoming adults combines an enduring and an evolving aspect of life’s relationships.
Life works best when we make the most of enduring and disappearing differences.
Love is about wisely harmonizing these three fundamental differences—gender, race, and parent-child.
—Halbert Katzen
In 2021, I posted a new study aid—Genetic Introductions, Mutations, and Evolution: a Urantia Book perspective. This study aid provides a summary. It also uses questions to stimulate thought and to minimize the need for commentary (apologetics). As such, it is considerably shorter and more accessible than Eugenics, Race, and The Urantia Book, which was published in 2011 as an outgrowth of the UBtheNEWS project. (Two additional appendixes were added in 2018.) The newer appendixes and some of the chapters may still have value for those interested in deep study. But this new effort was intended generally to replace the previous work.
Consistent with the original effort, this new study aid demonstrates that Urantia Book teachings on genetics and race are altogether consistent with the best of contemporary moral standards.
UBtheNEWS documents how new discoveries and scientific advances increasingly support The Urantia Book‘s account of planetary history. Because the most popular UBtheNEWS reports (Adam and Eve, Gobekli Tepe) lead visitors directly to passages in The Urantia Book on race and genetics, “Eugenics, Race, and The Urantia Book” and “Genetic Introductions, Mutations, and Evolution” were undertaken to help people more directly and comprehensively understand The Urantia Book‘s teachings on this subject.
The topic of subnormals is mentioned but not developed in “Eugenics, Race, and The Urantia Book“. See SubTopical Study: “Where the Alpheus twins subnormal?” The other later-added appendix is: How are inferior(ity) and superior(ity) used? See subTopical Study: Aryans and Whites, a version of which was originally published as Chapter 10 in this paper.
Related UBtheNEWS reports and research pages include:
See also the UBtheNEWS Adam and Eve Report.
See also the UBtheNEWS Gobekli Tepe Report.
See also the UBtheNEWS Double Dual Origins of Modern Man and pre-Modern Man Research page.
See also the UBtheNEWS Eye, Hair, and Skin Color Research Page.
Other people’s efforts
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