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The Coming Scientific Validation of
The Urantia Book  By Dr. Philip Calabrese
Introduction. Although
the Urantia Book [UB] was first published in 1955, already by 1942 it was "fixed" and by 1946 the final versions
of the 1st edition plates were in the vault of printer RR Donnelley & Sons of Chicago, ready to produce 10,000 copies.
[Mul00]
Did Human Beings Write The Urantia Book? Imagine some people cooperating in the endeavor of quietly
putting the Urantia Papers together. Without computers their research team would need to find the best human writers
in astronomy, geology, paleontology, chemistry, physics, biology, botany, and all other fields, selectively use their ideas
and sometimes even their phrasing, but avoid all of their blunders. A superhuman task!
Items a) and b) below
will be proved by exhibiting certain scientific quotations from the Urantia Book and from prominent contemporary scientists
and commentators. Items c)-f) will be supported by additional references from the UB.
a) The Urantia
Book has predicted many implausible and subsequently verified scientific facts better than our scientists while also successfully
avoiding untenable systematic errors, unlike our scientists.
b) Therefore, on statistical grounds, only super-humans
could have written the science and cosmology of the Urantia Book.
c) Concerning the UB's disclaimers
of providing "inspired cosmology", the cosmology of the Urantia Book while "transient" (a few hundred
years in this context) is nevertheless of "immense value" in this transition period and beyond.
d) Examples
of immensely valuable "instruction in cosmology" from the UB.
e) Soon-coming scientific predictions
of the UB, and
f) Predictions for the future from the cosmology of the UB.
Science and Cosmology
in the Urantia Book. The following are implausible scientific positions and predictions that are now accepted by contemporary
scientists:
1) "Piltdown Man" - The 1912 & 1917 "missing link" fossils, a hoax finally
exposed and discredited after 1950 [Har03]. Almost all scientists in the field were fooled including William Gregory
and Henry Osborn, who was the Urantia Book's main human source for prehistoric man [Blo05].
Had it taken "Piltdown
Man" seriously The Urantia Book would have discredited itself as a divine revelation. But while acknowledging and
describing Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, Java and Heidelberg Man, and even while affirming evolutionary theory's main lines
of thought, The Urantia Book nevertheless flatly states that no such "missing link" (aka "Piltdown Man")
will be found because none exists [p.669]. Conservatively, less than 2% of scientists disbelieved Piltdown "missing
link" man. The probability of randomly choosing these over the others is less than 1/50.
2) Pangaea
- Alfred Wegener's 1920's theory of a single continent that broke apart and "drifted" (largely rejected
by 1929, vindicated in the late1950's and 60's). [Wag96, Hug05,Wei05]. Continents float on liquid rock;
allowed "continental drift". Only a few geologists (< 5%) defended Wegener's theory of continental
drift until the 1950's. So the probability of randomly choosing their position is less than 1/20. But the
UB embraces it. [p.663] ....
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here to the rest of the article: http://urantiabook.org/archive/readers/Coming_sci_val_abstr2.htm
Dr. Phil Calabrese is a mathematician with a wide variety
of experience as university professor, mathematical inventor, aerospace analyst and computer programmer, prime contractor
for Department of Defense, and senior scientist for US Navy. He has also given numerous invited presentations and published
many scientific and cosmological papers dedicated to readers of The Urantia Book. pc@datasynthesis.org
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