mean here. They clearly don’t support the traditional story of evolution. Let’s begin with what we know for certain about us, and what’s scientifically agreed upon when it comes to our appearance on Earth.


FACT 1: Two hundred thousand years ago the first modern humans (known as ‘Anatomically Modern Humans’ or AMH) appeared on earth.


FACT 2: Seemingly overnight in the fossil record modern humans showed up with the advanced brain, body and nervous system leading to the extraordinary capabilities that make us who we are today.


FACT 3: The links between fossilised remains shown on the conventional human evolutionary tree are noted as dashed lines, because they represent inferred, or speculative, relationships. One hundred and fifty years of


searching, using the greatest scientific minds, the most sophisticated equipment, the greatest funding from the most prestigious universities, has yet to reveal the physical evidence that supports the connections. Yet these relationships are still taught as fact.


FACT 4: The origin of human chromosome 2, the second largest chromosome in the human body, has been scientifically determined to be the relic of an ancient fusion of primate DNA. Following this mutation, the new chromosome was modified and stabilised with a precision that cannot be attributed to evolution.


These facts are problems for the conventional scientific thinking when it comes to the theory of evolution. To be clear, the exceptional features stated in Fact 2 didn’t develop slowly over long periods of time, as evolution theory suggests. Instead, already present in our ancestors were characteristics that include a brain 50% larger than that of our nearest primate relative and a complex nervous system with emotional and sensory abilities fine-tuned to our


world. They were already developed in AMHs when they appeared. Humans – we humans – haven’t changed since the first AMH appeared. In other words, we are the Anatomically Modern Humans 2000 centuries later.


We are over-endowed! One of the central themes in evolution theory is that nature gives us whatever features we need to survive, only when we need them to survive. In other words, the theory says that we have abilities such as standing upright, advanced peripheral vision, and the ability to share our emotions through smiles and frowns, because we needed them at some point in the past. Alfred Russell Wallace, a fellow


scientist and colleague of Darwin’s, and a strong supporter of Darwin’s theories, stated this idea clearly in a paper he published in 1870. In the final chapter of Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection Wallace stated, “Nature never over-endows a species beyond the needs of everyday existence.” Because our advanced brain,


extended neural network and extraordinary abilities of self-healing, the self-regulating of our immune system, the self-triggering of our longevity hormones and our potential for deep intuition has been with us from our beginning, they appear to be inherent in our being rather than evolutionary add-ons developing over time. This fact directly contradicts the role of Wallace’s ideas in our appearance. We are all over-endowed! Two questions immediately come to


mind when we consider that we have such advanced characteristics: Why did we appear with such


extraordinary abilities already developed 200,000 years ago? How do we fully awaken these


advanced capabilities in our lives and in our world today? Today, scientists are re-discovering


the exceptional features that have been with us from our beginning, including the specialised cells in the human heart that enable deep intuition on-demand and the ability to thrive through big life changes.


New discoveries need a new story Clearly the mystery of our beginning, and the extraordinary abilities that are key to our existence, are part of a story that doesn’t fit the conventional thinking of evolution. For this reason we need a new story that accommodates the evidence. Or conversely, we need to follow the evidence that we already have to the new story that it tells. From fossils and grave sites to brain size and DNA, the evidence is already answering the deepest questions of our existence. In doing so it’s also telling us a new human story. The key is that we must think differently about ourselves to accept what the story reveals. If we’re honest and acknowledge


that what we know of the world and about ourselves is changing, then it makes sense that our story must change as well. In all likelihood we’ll discover that our new history, and the story that follows, is hybrid of all stories – the marriage of evolution and directed mutation – in a form of directed evolution that is not accounted for in any of the existing theories alone. The growing body of evidence


supporting precisely such a story suggests that we are, in fact, the product of an exceptional process that reflects an unmistakable intentionality. We owe it to ourselves to embrace the evidence, and the story it tells. The reason that our new story is so important is simple: The better we know ourselves, the better we can thrive in the new world that’s emerging. n


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