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PART THREE UMMITE THEORIES OF EVOLUTION SYNOPSIS

Introduction to part 3
Letter D 58
"Evolution", article from the META SCIENCE website, written by N Lecot
General conclusion and reflections on these three booklets
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INTRODUCTION TO PART 3: . " Ummite theories of evolution " Before reading the Ummite letters about evolution (mainly letter D.58), we thought it would be interesting to present an (extremely simplified) table summarizing the important periods in the evolution of the Universe, whose scale we reduced to " one year ".

EVOLUTION	Number of estimated years	Dates equivalent to one year	Hours	Delta
BIG-BANG	12 000 000 000	1^st January		1 year
FORMATION OF THE EARTH	4 500 000 000	August 15		4.5 months
BACTERIA (APPEARANCE OF LIFE)	3 600 000 000	September 15		3.5 months
PHOTOSYNTHESIS	3 200 000 000	September 24		3 months, 7 days
CRUSTACEANS	650 000 000	December 10		21 days
MOLLUSCS	500 000 000	December 15		16 days
VERTEBRAE	480 000 000	December 16		15 days
INSECTS	370 000 000	December 17		14 days
REPTILES	290 000 000	December 20		11 days
MAMMALS	190 000 000	December 24		7 days
BIRDS	140 000 000	December 26		5 days
PRIMATES	70 000 000	December 29	22. 00	50 hours
EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS	65 000 000	December 29	23. 00	49 hours
HUMAN PHYLUM	20 000 000	December 31	10. 00	14 hours
AUSTRALOPITHECUS	4 000 000	December 31	21. 00	3 hours
HOMO SAPIENS	17 000	December 31	23 H 59' 16' '	44 seconds
BIRTH OF CHRIST	2 000	December 31	23 H 59' 55' '	5 seconds
NOW	0	new year	Midnight

Life has only existed on Earth for " 3.5 months ", Homo Sapiens has emerged only in the last " 45 seconds ", in relation to the Big-bang estimated some 12 billion years ago. The accuracy of this figure, or even whether or not this "phenomenon" ever took place is not the object of our study here. This table underscores how " young " our species is, compared to the age of the universe as we currently understand it. It is also an important argument for the following hypothesis: if life could exist on other planets, a " lag " of a few thousand would only represent a few seconds on the scale of the Universe. Why should we be the ones who have evolved the quickest (since bacteria) if life appeared more or less at the same time everywhere else in the Universe? And life did not appear at the same time everywhere, why should Earth be the " place " where it appeared first?

Thus if the Ummites had a few centuries " head start " on our knowledge and technology, nothing is terribly astonishing...

This key document (on evolution) is not especially difficult to read, but it calls into question darwinist theory (or Neo-Darwinist, known as also " synthetic theory ") for it relegates random chance to a secondary role as instigator of mutations. But the entire synthetic theory is not to be rejected! It is likely that this principle is responsible for the evolution of species, but between that and claiming that random chance " creates " new species, is an important step.

It is remarkable that this debate has raged for several years in the annals of science (we refer you to, among others, the April 1996 edition of "LA RECHERCHE" and the September 1997 edition of " SCIENCES et AVENIR "). More and more researchers believe that a " neo-lamarckian " type of evolutionary theory, in which random chance plays a small part, to the benefit of a strong "programmed intention ", could replace neodarwinism before long.

Following letter D 58 is a text written by Nicolas LECOT, an excerpt from the META SCIENCE website, then as a conclusion, an strictly personal attempt by one of the editors of these booklets to infer the guiding philosophy of all these writings.

Editors.

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