Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Bibliography

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FINDING AND TESTING THE GENE

The team had 1,001 people take the Cloninger test and compared the answers to their DNA. The first seven genes tested didn't show any connection, but they found an interesting variety in the VMAT2 gene. Those genes with a puzzle piece C scored higher than with an A piece (Chapter Thirteen) revealing a pattern.

To finish up, they also tested the gene against other personality traits: intelligence, friendliness, openness, etc, but they found no real pattern with any other trait. From the final statistics, Hamer concluded the gene was at least half the reason for a certain level of spirituality.

If this is true, a student of evolution might say, "Hey, wait a minute. An animal getting a long-neck gene may be able to get scarce food higher in the tree. It will survive, and any children having this same feature will also survive. Why did a god gene help us survive?" Nobody has the final answer yet, but with a spiritual gene:

  1. We were more optimistic.
  2. We sacrificed for our clan.
  3. We more likely wanted to live. (Remember the VMAT2 mice?)
  4. We protected our children. Obviously, creatures that take care of their young have a better chance to spread. (This caring part of spirituality might have something to do with women scoring higher on the test.)

The VMAT2 gene seems to have a say in how spiritual we are.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF SCIENCE STUDYING SPIRIT

Over the years, people have conducted tests see if praying does any good. Some showed evidence, and some didn't because the early tests were haphazard.

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Sections

CAN SCIENCE DEAL WITH SPIRIT

SCIENCE STUDYING SPIRIT

MEASURING SPIRITUALITY

SEPARATING HEREDITY/CULTURE

GENES NEED NARROWING DOWN

FINDING AND TESTING THE GENE

EXAMPLE OF STUDYING SPIRIT

NOTHING DOES NOT EXIST

DOES EVERYTHING EVOLVE

ASSUMPTIONS

BEGINNING UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION

FROM "NOTHING" TO SOMETHING

FROM SOMETHING TO MATTER

EARLY UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION

FROM MATTER TO EARTH

FROM EARTH TO LIFE

FROM LIFE TO US

FROM US TO SUPERHUMAN












EVIDENCE ON EARTH

EVIDENCE FROM SPACE

FROM SUPERHUMAN TO GOD(S)

THEORY: MORE THAN EVERYTHING

IS THIS A GOOD THEORY

FINAL THOUGHTS

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