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Margaret Kirk - An Exploration Into Creation

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Kirk wrote her book out of dissatisfaction with both the traditional creation account contained in Genesis (in which God created "out of nothing") as well as with modern evolutionary biology (in which "man," her preferred term for "human being," arose by "luck" over geologic time). She presents her alternative view as "musings" based on "research" (including excerpts from the work of Erich Von Daniken, P.D. Ouspensky, Edgar Cayce and Emmanuel Velikovsky).

For Kirk, Earth is actually a space station built by god-like "space colonizers" who genetically engineered man and developed a civilization deep within the hollow earth.

"It is probable," Kirk writes at the end, that "their supply lines from home base thinned to nothing. This loss of contact, followed by a nuclear accident affecting some of their fusion reactors housed in the Earth's protective core, produced chaos. The survivors fled to the surface, bleeding and terrified. ... Our progenitors had little left but the fragments of a language based on geometric symbols ... painted on the dark walls of French caves."

Today's genetic engineering techniques reflect the science used by the ancients to "author" man. (Evolution must be wrong, then, since man came from the skills of highly advanced beings and not from the randomness of genetic variation; creation stories don't point to God but to these very advanced space travelers.)

But Kirk is doing more than musing. In her introduction she says her view is intended as a "gentle assault" on the theories of evolution and the "Biblical account of creation, spoon-fed to us in our infancy along with strained spinach and applesauce" which, she writes, are masks "to hide the face of ignorance. ... (They) do nothing toward calming our fears, healing our anguish."

What is frustrating about the book is that the author's musings on one page become settled fact a few pages later. She writes that "I like to think that by now we should be fairly certain that other civilizations do exist" (on other planets). Eleven pages later she writes: "One thing we are very certain of - we are not alone." Three pages later: "If there are civilizations other than our own in this universe (and we think there are) and if these other civilizations are older, more highly advanced (as it seems they should be) then, quite logically, they have been building space worlds more advanced than anything we can possibly dream up. ... They must have space colonies. We might ask, are we one of them?" Well, of course!

There are factual errors. Kirk writes that "Christopher Columbus sailed across an unknown body of water. At that time it was believed that the earth was flat." But the introduction to "The Log of Christopher Columbus," published by International Marine Publishing and McGraw-Hill, says "No literate person in 1492 thought that the world was flat; the Greeks had proved the sphericity of the earth long before Christ. ... The question under debate was the size of the globe."

What is misleading is the author's use of "science." If the speculations she quotes (all from tertiary sources) seem to accord with modern science, she celebrates: "Science today is gradually accepting (ESP phenomena) as a measurable energy." But look out; science is avoiding UFOs. "Perhaps it is as rumors have it - our government has already had meetings with our extraterrestrial neighbors. ..." What follow are pages and pages of UFO accounts. The point here is that science is used as an authority only when it appears to "support" the author's beliefs, but dismissed as a conspiracy against the truth when it does not.

She concludes with a quotation from James Kavanaugh's "The Birth of God": Man "has outgrown the Ten Commandments (and) the centuries of Christian legalism that forbade him to believe in himself. Now he has moved past the age of religious law into the era of personal responsibility."

Kirk has found solace in her story. Her fears and anguish have been calmed. Wishful thinking will do that.

Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. To submit review copies of published books (no manuscripts please), or to make comments, please send e-mail to dbarnett@maxinet.com.

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