Light Eye
01-17-2007, 01:34 PM
Dear Friends,
http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/CollinsA1.php
Be Well, Be Love.
David
The Cygnus Mystery: Did Cosmic Rays Affect Human Evolution?
By Andrew Collins So much attention has been paid to the possible correlation
between the stars of Cygnus and the principal pyramids at Giza that maybe it is
the right time to explain what exactly my new book The Cygnus Mystery is
actually about, for its interest in Giza and ancient Egypt is peripheral to the
main theme. This is the question of whether or not cosmic rays might have
effected jumps in human evolution in Palaeolithic times, leading to changes not
only in physique and behaviour, but also in creativity and consciousness. It is
a wild idea at face value, yet it is one that is beginning to appeal to
main-stream scientists and astronomers. Indeed, as long ago as 1973 American
astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan wrote in The Cosmic Connection that
human evolution was the result of incoming cosmic rays from some distant neutron
star, demonstrating how we are right to think of ourselves as part of a greater
whole at one with the cosmos.
Yet is this so? Is Charles Darwin's idea of evolution caused merely through
survival of the fittest and natural selection somehow flawed? The idea of cosmic
radiation reaching the Earth from deep space has fascinated the scientific world
since its discovery following a series of balloon ascents by Austrian physicist
Victor F Hess (1883-1964) in 1912. Then when in the late 1920s American
geneticist H J Muller (1890-1967) discovered that radiation (he used X-rays and
later radium) was a mutagen through his work with Drosophila fruit flies, the
subject of whether or not high energy cosmic rays might cause changes in human
DNA was voiced for the first time. Muller himself twice wrote about the subject,
concluding on each occasion that the normal background fluctuation in cosmic
rays reaching the Earth was inadequate to explain spontaneous mutations in life
forms, whatever their type. Muller was not wrong, but had he been privy to
modern scientific data that now confirms that
at certain times in the Earth's history it has been bombarded with high levels
of cosmic rays then he might have thought again.
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http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/CollinsA1.php
Be Well, Be Love.
David
The Cygnus Mystery: Did Cosmic Rays Affect Human Evolution?
By Andrew Collins So much attention has been paid to the possible correlation
between the stars of Cygnus and the principal pyramids at Giza that maybe it is
the right time to explain what exactly my new book The Cygnus Mystery is
actually about, for its interest in Giza and ancient Egypt is peripheral to the
main theme. This is the question of whether or not cosmic rays might have
effected jumps in human evolution in Palaeolithic times, leading to changes not
only in physique and behaviour, but also in creativity and consciousness. It is
a wild idea at face value, yet it is one that is beginning to appeal to
main-stream scientists and astronomers. Indeed, as long ago as 1973 American
astronomer and science writer Carl Sagan wrote in The Cosmic Connection that
human evolution was the result of incoming cosmic rays from some distant neutron
star, demonstrating how we are right to think of ourselves as part of a greater
whole at one with the cosmos.
Yet is this so? Is Charles Darwin's idea of evolution caused merely through
survival of the fittest and natural selection somehow flawed? The idea of cosmic
radiation reaching the Earth from deep space has fascinated the scientific world
since its discovery following a series of balloon ascents by Austrian physicist
Victor F Hess (1883-1964) in 1912. Then when in the late 1920s American
geneticist H J Muller (1890-1967) discovered that radiation (he used X-rays and
later radium) was a mutagen through his work with Drosophila fruit flies, the
subject of whether or not high energy cosmic rays might cause changes in human
DNA was voiced for the first time. Muller himself twice wrote about the subject,
concluding on each occasion that the normal background fluctuation in cosmic
rays reaching the Earth was inadequate to explain spontaneous mutations in life
forms, whatever their type. Muller was not wrong, but had he been privy to
modern scientific data that now confirms that
at certain times in the Earth's history it has been bombarded with high levels
of cosmic rays then he might have thought again.
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