History and Science
In The Urantia Book
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A Unique Quality of Credibility
After recounting gradual evolutionary developments and major mutations that led up to the first human beings, The Urantia Book’s section on world history then provides a detailed account of both the cultural and genetic evolution of humanity. When it was published in 1955, some of its history was consistent with scholarship, much of its history was in direct conflict with scholarship, and much of what it said was completely original.
Since 1955, new discoveries and scientific advances have been increasingly catching up to assertions made in The Urantia Book that were at odds with or not yet considered by scholarship. This pamphlet provides several summaries to help you appreciate the nature of these corroborations.
The Urantia Book also provides information on astronomy, atomic physics, geophysics, geology, and paleontology. New discoveries and scientific advances are also catching up to statements made in The Urantia Book about these subjects. As a public service, UBtheNEWS documents how new discoveries are catching up to The Urantia Book and provides other educational and introductory material.
UBtheNEWS and The Urantia Book
UBtheNEWS.com is a public service project that provides the full text of The Urantia Book and documents the extraordinary ways in which new discoveries and scientific advances are catching up to it. The website provides an overview of The Urantia Book along with a variety of other educational materials to help make your introduction to this book efficient, enjoyable, informative, and thought provoking. The “Star Power” page lists famous people who have found The Urantia Book worth reading.
The Urantia Book is a gift to humanity. It claims angelic authorship. There is no hierarchical religion associated with it and no one claims to be the author. Many aspects of its origins were kept secret. This was done to limit well intentioned, but misdirected, attempts to assess its credibility based on beliefs about how it got here. And it allowed for a more solid and lasting foundation of credibility to develop based on appreciation for the superior quality of its teachings and the unique quality of credibility that grows from the emerging pattern of corroborations.
An exquisite theology, cosmology, and philosophy are revealed in this extremely informative and insightful text. It also recounts all the years of Jesus’ life and, in doing so, clears up many misunderstandings about his life, death, and teachings. The Urantia Book harmonizes theology, cosmology, and science and provides the extraordinary insights that come from learning our entire planetary history.
Quotes from The Urantia Book
“Science should do for man materially what religion does for him spiritually: extend the horizon of life and enlarge his personality. True science can have no lasting quarrel with true religion. The "scientific method" is merely an intellectual yardstick wherewith to measure material adventures and physical achievements. But being material and wholly intellectual, it is utterly useless in the evaluation of spiritual realities and religious experiences.”
“The certainties of science proceed entirely from the intellect; the certitudes of religion spring from the very foundations of the entire personality. Science appeals to the understanding of the mind; religion appeals to the loyalty and devotion of the body, mind, and spirit, even to the whole personality.”
“The hungry soul of man refuses to be satisfied with anything less than the personal realization of the living God. Whatever more God may be than a high and perfect moral personality, he cannot, in our hungry and finite concept, be anything less.”
“It is literally true, "Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known." But honest doubts and sincere questionings are not sin; such attitudes merely spell delay . . . The reason of science is based on the observable facts of time; the faith of religion argues from the spirit program of eternity. What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation.”
List of UBtheNEWS Reports
Human History:
Adam and Eve, Creating Fire, Early Migration to Britain,
Early Migration to the Americas, Garden of Eden, Gobekli Tepe,
Shroud of Turin, Vikings
Astronomy:
Galaxies: Who’s Counting?, Mercury’s Rotation, Tycho’s Nova
Genernal Science:
Chromosome Count, Inner Ionosphere, Magnetic Sensitivity,
Pangaea to Plate Tectonics, Sierra Mountains
A Select Summary of UBtheNEWS Reports
Early Migration to Britain
The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (“AHOB”) was launched in 2001 to revitalize the study of ancient archaeological sites in Britain. By 2005, AHOB researchers established that humans occupied Britain 700,000 years ago. This discovery surprised the archaeological community. Prior to AHOB, the evidence for early human habitation only went back 500,000 years.
The Urantia Book states that humans started living in Britain about 900,000 years ago and that evidence of this can still be found near the English Channel. This is where the AHOB team discovered the evidence that brought occupation of Britain 200,000 years closer to The Urantia Book’s assertion.
The Garden of Eden
In explaining religious traditions about the “Garden of Eden,” The Urantia Book says it existed as a long, narrow peninsula that jutted off the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It also explains that this peninsula sank to the bottom of the sea about 33,000 years ago. Modern technology now provides us with detailed maps of the Mediterranean basin, which were not available when The Urantia Book was published.
The maps reveal an underwater landscape that matches up with all the details provided about the Edenic peninsula.
National Geographic Map 1962
An Image Using Recent Technology
The location, between Cyprus and Syria, is exactly where three highly active tectonic plates converge. Tectonic plate theory was not invented until a decade after The Urantia Book was published. Numerous correlations make this report especially impressive.
The Inner Ionosphere
The Urantia Book asserts that an “inner ionosphere” exists about seven miles above sea level. Atmospheric researchers have long held that the only region able to support the existence of an ionosphere starts at about fifty miles high.
In the late 1980’s, a phenomenon known as “blue jets” was finally documented. Because blue jets are flashes of blue light that emanate from the top of storm clouds, pictures proving their existence were not obtained until the Space Shuttles and other high flying aircraft were finally able to film them.
Previous undocumented reports by pilots had been dismissed because the existence of blue jets powerfully calls into question longstanding beliefs about the atmospheric conditions necessary for an ionosphere to exist. The blue jet phenomenon, however, is perfectly consistent with and corroborative of The Urantia Book’s assertion regarding the existence of an inner ionosphere.
Tycho’s Nova
In 1572 a supernova occurred that was so bright it could be seen in the sky during the day and took more than a year to fade away. Tycho Brahe documented the event. In 1955, before astronomers developed theories on whether a supernova might have a double star origin, The Urantia Book referred to it as a “double star explosion.” It was not until the 1970’s that astronomers concluded that Tycho’s Nova must have had a double star origin. In 2004, researchers found what they believe to be the companion star involved in the creation of the explosion. |
