Then you must accept Kabbalistic numerology and believe the ancient authors of Kabbalah literature knew the secrets of the universe. Once you have accepted these premises, Braden shows how the elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in our DNA spell out YHVH. With a few deft tricks he can make the numbers work out just right. Then a further leap is asked of you – you are expected to accept that it translates to “ God/Eternal within the body” and that this means “ Humankind is one family, united through a common heritage, and the result of an intentional act of creation!” As if that weren’t enough, he tries to convince us that this message is the key to world peace. He thinks that what we call evolution is really just adaptation, and that evolution can’t explain our origin. 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 don’t show us living side-by side with our primate progenitors, so we can’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?!). Higher apes have 24 pairs of chromosomes humans have 23. Our chromosome 2 corresponds to chimp chromosomes 12 and 13 fused together, with part of the sequence “reversed”. He says it is unlikely that natural processes could account for this, but geneticists know this sort of thing happens frequently. Braden doesn’t seem to know much about anomalies of chromosome copying. Or about evolution, for that matter: he thinks modern human skeletons were found in same geologic formations as Peking man and Java man. He claims that there must be some force beyond the properties of chemistry that breathes life into the elements of creation. (Does combining two incomplete hypotheses usually lead to truth? If you hybridize two animals without horns do you expect to get horns?) Both the Bible and the theory of evolution are incomplete explanations, so his solution is to combine both. In order to follow Braden’s reasoning, you are expected to swallow the “science” of gematria whole. Of the many ways that we may define “science” today, The American Heritage Dictionary suggests that “any methodological activity, discipline or study” is a science. Through this widely accepted definition, the study of gematria can be considered an ancient science, as it yields precise and repeatable outcomes from specific operations between letters, phrases, and words. Gematria is the ancient Hebrew mystical system of numerology in which every letter is assigned a number.
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