Prologue, vii, 
Part One: Divine Creation, 
Chapter 1 God's History of Intelligence, 7, 
Chapter 2 God's History of Intelligence (continued), 24, 
Chapter 3 The Origins of Neuro/Thought, 45, 
Chapter 4 Psycho/Spiritual Stages in Human Development, 54, 
Chapter 5 The Divine Fundamentals of Science, 75, 
Part Two: The Lord of History: His Macro/Discovery Ages, 
Chapter 6 Discovery Ages: From Adam to Jesus, 87, 
Chapter 7 Discovery Ages: Mohamed to the Great Khan, 114, 
Chapter 8 Discovery Ages: Renaissance Missions, 128, 
Chapter 9 Discovery Ages: New World to tele/Evamgelists, 140, 
Chapter 10 Discovery Ages: God's Final Discovery Age, 159, 
Part Three: God's Deliverance, 
Chapter 11 Understanding God through Judeo/Christianity, 167, 
Chapter 12 The Nature of God, 179, 
Chapter 13 Pathway to Spiritual Growth, 186, 
Part Four: Divine Beauty, 
Chapter 14 The Golden Ratio, 203, 
Chapter 15 A Cathedral Devoted to Beauty, 209, 
Chapter 16 The Rise of 21st Century Art, 216, 
Chapter 17 Religious Art Fit for the 21st Century, 228, 
About the Author, 259,

CHAPTER 1

God's History of Intelligence

If we look at the ideational triumphs ever-evolving as revealed byGod and only discovered by scientists, scholars, academicians, and thefull-range of socio/poitical leaders, logic must correctly conclude thatGod is an immeasurabley intelligent Being. By reflecting on the all-knowingnature of God, these scientific and quantitative concepts andtheir wisdom, set to be uncovered across an historic timeline, have beendazzling, transcendant, and astonishing. Certainly revealed and thendiscovered by the searching mind of Man, the ever-accelerating expansionof ideational erudition reached a number of high points since the 15thcentury Renaissance, into the Enlightenment of the 18th century, andon to the brillance of the Modern Age. As we know it to be today, theillumination of humanity has been theologically forged and shaped bythe "revealed Divine" and "human discovery" of cerebral events in atleast ten pivotal areas: (1) high-mathematics; (2) the sciences, hard andsoft; (3) micro&info technology; (4) capitalism and banking; (5) politicaldemocracy; (6) the marvels of medicine; (7) the application of Englishas international communication; (8) Space travel and its research; (9)genetics; and (10) the Moral Evolution of Western Mankind.

Since the onset of the 21st century, what has been happening acrossthe family-of-nations is full/scale "plagiarism" of these Western, cerebralaccomplishments. At this juncture of time, there are no competing,East/West, philosophical models vieing within the intellectual world ofhumanity. Hence, this cascading tide of "Global copycatism" of thesekey ten idea/factors is accelerating within the cultural institutionsof the nations of the Black, Brown, Yellow and Hybrid races of PlanetEarth. These conceptual elements have been successfully propelling thecourse of the "survival evolution" of the Modern Era dating back to theRenaissance Period of history.

Divine Intelligence (I): High Mathematics

Since the 15th century and due to the brilliance of the Westernmathematician, the nine billion inhabitants of Planet Earth alivetoday benefit from the prospects of: (1) the networking of humanityvia the Internet; (2) R&D explorations of Outer Space; (3) the micro/technologies of medicine and dentistry; (4) high-speed transportationboth at the personal and community levels; (5) worldwide TV intendedfor the rapid dissemination of cultural news, styles, and entertainment;(6) the hi-tech, ways&means of abundant, food production; (7) readilyavailable Global, commercial air travel; (8) international, personal,communication systems; (9) effective educational and corporate methods;along with, (10) computerized 24/7 banking and finance.

Indeed, the Modern World of the 21st century is beholding tothe territorial/cerebral accomplishments of Western mathematicalscholarship, ranging from Descartes (1596-1650 AD), to Fermat (1601-1665AD) to Newton (1642-1727 AD) to Leibniz (1646-1716 AD) tothree generations and ten mathematicians of the Bernoullis family thatspanned the 17th and 18th centuries; to Euler (1707-1783 AD), the mostprolific mathematician in the history of Man; to LaGrange (1736-1813AD) to LaPlace (1749-1827 AD) to Fourier (1768-1830 AD), along withother great minds, from the 17th through the 19th centuries, includingPoincare (1854-1912AD). All their quantitative insights were revealed viathe Caucasian genes endowed by God.

As Divinely revealed, the science of quantity, i.e mathematics, comesabout as a symbolic output from our spatial/intellectual neuro/centers.This has become energized as a DNA/territorial imperative. Accordingly,in order to enhance our prospects of survival via intellectual adaptation,the environmental control of our surrounding numerics becomesdecisive. While daily, great societies regularly utilize high mathematics,yet-developing nations merely emulate these Western discoveries.And, primitive societies genetically can not. Moreover, an analysis ofthe readings of history written by any respectable author easily woulddisclose that it was the Western Psyche that produced the "brilliantmathematics," of the Occident. The elevated, techno/scientific thresholdof a New Era, the 21st Century, becomes proof-positive of these ideo/cultural customs.

As the biographies of the great mathematicians have been scripted,the unveiling of the steps of knowing how the "pure numbers" of ourambiance perform to serve the institutional/survival life of civilized,Western societies, are informative. In general, this accruing, mathknowledge can neither be traced to the psycho/dynamics of personal biosnor to the educational opportunities of the great mathematicians. Per se,it has all been racial and genetic.

"Brilliance," when expressed by any academic field of erudition canbe traced to both the DNA and the Divine. It is neighter politicallyskewed by the times nor upon the learned privileges of the few. Norby, the opportunities of individual experiences. But rather, uponthe territorial emissions of the "quantitative genes." If true, out of thevectors of Mankind's, numeric, ideational history comes the reasonablehypotheses drawn and pursued by the 21st century's "bio/science ofquantity." Most likely, the high and pure mathematics have been createdand driven as cerebral DNA/derivatives as Divinely revealed, primarilyout of the territorial impetuses of the Western Mind. Historically, allother nations, races, and ethnics can't make this claim.

Divine intelligence (II):Advanced Sciences—Hard and Soft

Truly, the pure sciences of the Western World have been continuallyserving the democratic, freemarket and ever-evolving, legal traditionsand ideals. These scientists are less anxious to solve the practical aspectsof their cultures and more centered upon the formulation of the generallaws of the Universe. For the Modern Era, it was the "intellectual brawn"of the Causacoid West that began to acquire a "momentum of scientificthought" both in Ancient and Medieval times. These intellectual eventscascaded into the 17th century and prompted the inquires of six Westernscholars of Italian, Dutch, English, and German descent. With Galileo,Torricelli. Huygens, Boyle, and Von Guericke, modern-day sciencebegan to take shape. Since the Renaissance, as initiated by the poetryof Petrarch (1304-1374 AD), along with those of the Enlightenment(17th/18th AD), the Ages of Western, scientific lore drifted away fromthe "religious obstinacy" of the Roman Church by underscoringreasoning rather than legend or faith. Yet in partership, it was Christianintellectualism and secular individualism that induced the many fields ofpure science to materialize, flourish, and become formalized within boththe academic and governmental settings.

Some aspects of the purer sciences that were systematically probedincluded the studies of thermodynamics, mechanics, light, optics, heat,gravity, electromagnetism, and electricity. As a group, these scientificpursuits revealed some of the principles that underlie and interfacewith conventional and compatible erudition, thereby formalizingthe study of Physics, the "Mother of Science." Over the centuries thisblossoming study of the physical realm shaped, expounded, and spreadacross the Western World by the efforts of a host of Caucasian scientistsof French, British, Austrian, Danish, New Zealander, Polish, Italian,and American pedigrees. These scholars contributed notably to today's,ever-expanding, Western, scientific/technological tradition. Today, theAsian/Africaan family-of-nations is coveting and parodying the scientificaccomplishments of the West.

As a sidebar, although culturally incorrect to admit, in the year2005 AD, Harvard University's Chancellor objectively recognized thatthe plain-to-see gender gap existing in the sciences had to be genetic-in-kind.Set within he Liberal politics of the Cambridge campus, theChancellor left us with the inference that only on rare occasions werefemales, e.g. France's Madame Curie, and Asia's, Yukawa Hideki, wereable to participate as equal colleagues within the "good ole boy" cliqueof the scientific establishment. Ergo in conclusion; for the sake of thepurity of hard data curiousily interacting with the obsessive drive toexplore the unknown must be deemed as DNA/synonymous withmale/territorial attributes. By way of his "thrust for knowing," thenature of the male genome comes about as distinguished by the lineageof our territorial ansestors. In tantem, the Cro Magnon, the Viking,the Classical European, and the New-World American comprised thegenetic roots of science. All other racial categories have failed to liveup to this scientific history. Why God has selected this gender venue toreveal His scientific secrets of Creation seems to be consistent with Hispast selection of the then-despised, Ancient Israeli to lead the MoralEvolutuioon of Western Man. Undeniably, God favors the unfavorableto execute His intentions for Planet Earth, including the lame, the last,the least, and the lost of us.

Divine Intelligence (III):Micro and Infoo/Techology

The survival of Humankind and its mirror-image, the evasion of theMalthusian Threat of extinction, have been driven and determined bythe evolutionary intercession and interactions of three factors. I. Ideas.II. Geo/Exploration. And III. Technology. Accordingly, the HomoSapien thought-out his tenure from the dawn of his Creation ran awayfrom the dangers of annihilation by shaping tools. In many ways, botheconomically and militarily, the technology of-the-day always has beena fundamental antecedent for the developing and developed societies intheir conquests and survival. As the history of how Man fashioned tools,instruments, implements, machines, and new materials lead the rate ofdevelopment of the purer forms of engineering, in lieu of the appliedforms of technology. This trend has been accelerating geometrically,irrespective of environmental limitations or the political realities-at-hand.Indeed, the pursuit of technology ranks with the pursuit of ideas andthe urge to geo/explore. In the main, technical prowess leading to theModern Era, as compared to the Ancient Ages of China and India, wefind that the rapidity of this upwardly bowed, mathematical trend of purevs applied tech/evolution can be traced directly to the masterstrokes ofthe brain of Western Man, as revealed by God. This DNA of exceptionaltecho/adaptations, along with its geological, food-gathering modes, cameabout via the cerebral talents of the Occident

The first technologies were the primitive tools fashioned by EarlyMan, the Homo Hablis. Hand-held flints were utilized to slice theirhunted-catch, to prepare their abodes, and to put together theirloose-fitting attire, as well most importantly, to start fires. Progressively,Man learned to create new tools from older tools. Across a movingtimeline, out of this Stone Age tool-kit begot the agri/tools and war/armaments needed for the budding civilizations of the Bronze Age,then the Iron Age. Subsequently from simple utensils and farmingimplements, came the metallurgy needed for the arms of war. It wasthe formidable and contending tech/nations that were organized andadministered by the alpha-males of the Caucasian Regions of the"Fertile Crest" of Mesopotamia. Today as neighboring nations of theMideast, they are known as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel,Greece—and Egypt. Afterwhich both in theory and practice for thepast 500-years the alpha-masculine component of the DNA/Caucasoidaccounted for the initiation and flowering of the technological Ages ofModern Humankind.

From the relative simplicity of tech/tools of Early Man and theAncient World (Tech/Stage I) came the Greek principles of sciencewhich gave rise to more-complex implements. As a sequential alliance,the Greco/Roman civilization helped compose a new generation oftechnology. That is Tech/Stage II; that produced the inventions ofscrew pumps, siphons, pulleys, levers, cams, engines, cogs, valves, andturbines that added significantly to the tool kits of Mankind. Withoutintention or design, these latter tech/inventions became pooled to gaverise to the field of engineering, which for the next two millennia wouldserve as the professional steward of the technologies-of-the-day. In everyfacet of socio/economic expansion, the professional relationships amongengineers-to-technicians-to-mechanics-to-construction managers held fastand trustworthy to build a better society and travel to Outer Space fit forthe offspring of Man/Woman. This process was fully God-driven.

Later on, a Tech/Stage III lifted the human work-condition upto a higher plane by adding various devices for employee resources,such as: the clock, printing press, the wheel, spinning jenny, massproduction lines in factories, and fast-and-faster, cheaper-and-cheaper,transportation and energy modes, including Robert Fulton's steamboat.As well in the Western World, out of this line of Divinely inspired,DNA/ingenuity by the A;pha Caucasian Male, came Tech/Stage IV.This phase constituted a higher plane of enlightenment, being markedby the invention of electricity, multi-energy options, far-reachingcommunications, and ever-expaning, travel systems, along with, thetelephone, phonograph, radio, telegraph, motion picture, auto, andaircraft. Then in the 1960s AD came the Space Age, a Tech/StageV, also known as the Microtech Era of Galactic loftiness. In turn,the tools required by Space vehicles gave rise to a host of new micro/technologies for the 21st century generation including: (a) advancedsurgical methods; (b) Global positioning satellites; (c) Internetcommunications; (d) worldwide marketplaces; (e) commercial air-travel;(f) genetic research; (g) robotic manufacturing; (h) hand-held, personalcommunications; (i) Global-reaching TV; along with (j) militaryand border security applications which have protected and kept theAmerican Empire viable.

Mainly spurred by Japan emulating the West following WWII, whathas been happening in the past century is the development of yet-higherand higher technology, most of which has been utilized Globally outof the "Japanese plagiarizisms" of Western science and technology, andby both Russia and the Sino/Orient. At the root-levels of the chroniclesof tool-making, it was the Divinely inspired DNA of the masculineCaucasian that mobilized, propelled, and actuated the technologicaldevelopments of Tech/Stage I (Early and Ancient Man), Tech/Stage II(Medieval Civilizations), Tech/Stage III (Renaissance Epoch), Tech/Stage IV (Modern Era) and Tech/Stage V (Space Era).

Divine Intelligence (IV): Capitalismand the Central Bank

In the Lord's Prayer, Christians beseech: "Give us this day our dailybread" confirming that Providence is one of the important ingredientsin the socio/spiritual relationship between Man and God. As expected,the spin-offs out of the socio/emanations of the food-gathering urgings ofeither an individual or that of a specific community, Divine Providencehad to become an active participant in the personal and socio/spiritualsurvival of the Human Race.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776 AD) must be considered theFather of the "great ideas" of capitalism and the free-market, which thecivilized and developed nations have been practicing for a number ofcenturies. These idesa of a free-market set in the efficacy of the CentralBank also must have been Divinely revealed and inspired. Existentialfreedom, like love, justice, truth, and holiness, is a principal componentand attribute of the Godhead. Ergo, both the freee marketplace coupledwith the liberties guaranteed by democratic politics would be consistentwith pleasing God. And which, the non-Western World is tryinganxioualy to adopt.

In this regard in Asia since the end of WWII and with great fervor,Adam's, 18th century brilliant theories are being culturally tailored todovetail with the varying, market traditions of the Orient-at-large.Mainly noted in China and India this notion of economic and politicalliberty has engendered socio/political and economic contentions withthe West. The great ideas of Adam Smith is mutating, transforming,and restructuring the archaic and barbarian ways of the Globe. Simplystated, this DNA/endowed Brit/Viking, Asam Smith, posed that the useof tactical and strategic "capital" when utilized as a tangible product arethe best means toward economic prosperity. Make money work for you, notyou for money, was his message of the market free of centralized controls.Withn this free-trade milieu, where wealth is regulated mostly by aCentral Bank, both production and distribution of goods&servics causeboth profit and surplus to abound, to ensue, and to amass. Over the past250-years, this basic, economic thesis boosted by Divine freedom was ableto engulf the imaginations and transformations of the economic enginesof the Western World. More than any other writing in the full-historyof economic thought, Adam Smith's, 18th century notion of a laissez-faireAgora, which has been devoted to the compassionate exploitattionof capital as a yield-producer of wealth, has been the guidepost for alldemocratic governments. To be sure, Divine freedom has expressed itselfin society's breadbasket.

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God's Intelligent Design for Planet Earth

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