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PrefaceDID you ever ask yourself: "Who am I? What am I? Why am I?The world about you is a mystery. You yourself are a mystery. You have neverseen your brain, <strong>the</strong> seat <strong>of</strong> your intellect and all that you are.Your life is engulfed in mysteries. On reflection, your very existence is a mystery.Did you simply happen by unintelligent resident earthly forces without meaning orpurpose, or were you intelligently designed and created by an all-powerful God <strong>of</strong>supreme mind for a purpose that also has been hidden in mystery? In fact, <strong>the</strong> persistenttradition throughout human history about <strong>the</strong> Creator God has been such a mystery thathigher education in <strong>the</strong> Western world has sought to erase <strong>the</strong> mystery by giving itsvirtually unanimous acceptance to <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> evolution.Diffusion <strong>of</strong> education did not begin among <strong>the</strong> human race until after <strong>the</strong>invention <strong>of</strong> printing in <strong>the</strong> 15th century. As education became more widespread--asintellectualism developed--as knowledge <strong>of</strong> astronomy expanded knowledge <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>universe about us--thinking minds began to ask questions. What <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole vastuniverse? How did it all originate? Rational, scientifically oriented minds found<strong>the</strong>mselves unable to explain <strong>the</strong> developing knowledge <strong>of</strong> an expanded universe with <strong>the</strong>teaching <strong>of</strong> religion as <strong>the</strong>y knew it through <strong>the</strong> Roman Catholic Church andProtestantism, which had dominated <strong>the</strong> thinking <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Western world. The teaching <strong>of</strong> along-haired, semi-effeminate picture <strong>of</strong> Jesus and <strong>the</strong> concept <strong>of</strong> a God composed <strong>of</strong>invisible spirit was not intellectually satisfying to <strong>the</strong>m. It was all a colossal mystery. In<strong>the</strong> vanity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir self-pr<strong>of</strong>essed scholarly minds <strong>the</strong>y tried to evade <strong>the</strong> mystery entirelyon <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> materialism. They appeased <strong>the</strong>ir curiosity by attempting to work out asolution to <strong>the</strong> mystery <strong>of</strong> origins, existence, and life by reasoning out a self-satisfying,materialistic explanation.Gradually <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> evolution evolved in thinking, yet ignorant, minds filledwith intellectual vanity. This thinking evolved into <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> "use and disuse" by deLamarck. On <strong>the</strong> heels <strong>of</strong> de Lamarck's <strong>the</strong>ory came Charles Darwin with his <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> "survival <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fittest." Actually Darwin died unsure <strong>of</strong> his own <strong>the</strong>ory. However, twocolleagues, Haeckel and Huxley, fought vigorously to promote <strong>the</strong> Darwinian <strong>the</strong>ory intopublic acceptance.But were created human minds <strong>of</strong> intellectual vanity, who created a <strong>the</strong>ory, moreall-knowing than <strong>the</strong> supreme mind that created <strong>the</strong>m? The evolutionary <strong>the</strong>ory has beeninvented by human minds in an effort to explain <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> a creation without <strong>the</strong>preexistence <strong>of</strong> a divine Creator.And if <strong>the</strong> all-powerful God was your Maker, and exists as <strong>the</strong> divine Creator <strong>of</strong>all that is, <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> mystery about God emerges, in order <strong>of</strong> time sequence, as <strong>the</strong> first andparamount mystery <strong>of</strong> all.Who and what is God? That is a mystery not understood by any religion, notexplained by science, untaught by higher education. The intellectually vain originators <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> evolutionary <strong>the</strong>ory found <strong>the</strong> existence <strong>of</strong> God, as presented by religion, a mystery<strong>the</strong>y could nei<strong>the</strong>r understand nor accept. But <strong>the</strong> religionists whom <strong>the</strong>y rejected did not

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