Braden doesnвЂ™t seem to know much about anomalies of chromosome copying. He says it is unlikely that natural processes could account for this, but geneticists know this sort of thing happens frequently. Our chromosome 2 corresponds to chimp chromosomes 12 and 13 fused together, with part of the sequence вЂњreversedвЂќ.

Higher apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes humans have 23. If we evolved over eons, why did we begin walking upright? And how do you explain the complexity of the eye? He says the fossils donвЂ™t show us living side-by side with our primate progenitors, so we canвЂ™t have evolved from them (but a few pages later he says that species previously believed to have evolved from one another over time appear to have lived with one another during the same period of time, making their emergence as a linear progression less likely?!). He thinks that what we call evolution is really just adaptation, and that evolution canвЂ™t explain our origin.

Then a further leap is asked of you вЂ“ you are expected to accept that it translates to вЂњ God/Eternal within the bodyвЂќ and that this means вЂњ Humankind is one family, united through a common heritage, and the result of an intentional act of creation!вЂќ As if that werenвЂ™t enough, he tries to convince us that this message is the key to world peace. With a few deft tricks he can make the numbers work out just right. Once you have accepted these premises, Braden shows how the elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in our DNA spell out YHVH. Then you must accept Kabbalistic numerology and believe the ancient authors of Kabbalah literature knew the secrets of the universe. Then you must believe that of the many, many things he has been called in many, many languages, he prefers one of his several Hebrew names, and specifically prefers the 4-letter form YHVH of that name. First you must believe there is a God, and only one God, and that he created humans (possibly by adding a secret ingredient to an ape). We are indeed the story-telling species, and Braden has created an engaging tall tale.Д«radenвЂ™s arguments only work if you are willing to accept a few ground rules. He explains this in his new book, The God Code, once again demonstrating that the human brain is marvelously adept at recognizing patterns and finding analogies. Gregg Braden says God did leave us a message вЂ“ in our DNA. In Contact, Carl Sagan speculated that if there was a God and he wanted to leave us a message, he might have encoded it in the digits of Pi. Maybe God didnвЂ™t leave messages in the Bible but never mind, there is always another inventive mind out there with a better idea. Skeptics had fun applying the same bogus method to Moby Dick and War and Peace and finding even more amazing messages there. The Bible Code found amazing messages by forming grids of various dimensions from the Hebrew text and looking for words in all directions as in a вЂњwordsearchвЂќ grid. Abductees find aliens in their bedrooms Von Daniken found ancient astronauts everywhere he looked. Children find animal shapes in the clouds adults find Jesus on a taco. You can find prophecies in the Bible and Nostradamus вЂ“ they are surprisingly accurate (at least in retrospect). The God Code: The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future, by Gregg Braden, Hay House, Inc., Carlsbad, California, 2004.

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