Intelligent Universe

By Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Ancient records suggest that universes, galaxies, stars, and planets are alive and sentient and capable of communicating with their Creator, as are the peoples who inhabit them. What does our universe look like? What does it have in common with human physiology? How are we connected to it? What natural infrastructures are designed into it? What did the inhabitants of Babel intend to accomplish when they started building a pyramid? What of our Heavenly progenitors? Is there an eternal pattern of creation, opposition, and redemption common to the Fathers of our God? Are human beings mere creations of God, or are we His literal offspring? Inquiring minds and sincere hearts may find a springboard to soul stretching questions in this candid, concise, and well sourced work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ilyan Kei Lavanway
• Release date: May 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301208272

Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Ilyan Kei Lavanway is a proliferate yet undiscovered and unheralded Christian author. He served as a full-time missionary for two years in Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986-1988. Since 2005, he has written and published over two dozen books of various lengths, ranging from a few pages to almost five-hundred pages. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.Mr. Lavanway is married and has an autistic son who has Down's syndrome. Mr. Lavanway grew up in Wenatchee and Waterville, Washington State. He is the oldest of nine siblings, seven of whom are living. He spent his high school summers driving wheat trucks and combines during harvest, earning cash to support his first love, the love of flight. He was an avid private pilot in his teens.Ironically, for all his love of aviation, Mr. Lavanway's fourteen years in the United States Air Force never landed him a flight crew assignment. Nope. He was kicking it subterranean school in a capsule beneath the North Dakota plains as an ICBM launch officer for his first four years of service, followed by a year of really uninteresting work in a vault, on base. His next two years took him up near the Canadian border, to the giant, phased array space surveillance and early warning radar site outside Cavalier, North Dakota.Then, he was off to California. Academic assignments filled the final seven years of his military service. By the time he was medically retired from active duty, he had discovered his passion for writing.Since life has thrown him a few curves that make it impractical for him to return to flying airplanes any time soon, he has poured his heart into the written word.Mr. Lavanway feels he has a God-given gift and responsibility to express eternal principles that will point sincere readers to the scriptures, to the living apostles, to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and ultimately to a personal relationship with God the Father, and with God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Ghost.

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Intelligent Universe

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By Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Copyright 2013 Ilyan Kei Lavanway

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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

About the Author

Preface

The promise of God unto all who obey the Word of Wisdom: They shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures…(Doctrine and Covenants 89:19)

One fundamental question I hope and pray you will answer for yourself after reading this work is: Are we mere creations of God, like the trees, the animals, and the stars, or are we literal offspring of God?

An idea came to me Wednesday morning, 19 March 2013, at around 0700 hours, shortly after I had put my son on his school bus. I do not even remember what triggered this thought, but I feel it came as a result of many questions I have been pondering for a long time. The thought came into my mind while talking to my wife about some unrelated article she had read on a news website.

I immediately felt I should make a written record of this idea. I also felt I should share it with my mother over the phone. She lives almost 3,000 miles away.

I confided this idea to my mother and she felt a strong impression that I have come upon something big, perhaps dangerously big, and that I should exercise prayerful caution in deciding when and with whom I share these thoughts.

She felt that if shared with the wrong people or at the wrong time, someone might take the idea and twist it. She could not elaborate on that feeling, but I trust her advice. I have confided to her my deepest thoughts throughout the years of my life, and never to my recollection has she told me she felt impressed that I should keep my ideas from others. Never until now, with this particular idea.

Having recently read the book titled Visions of Glory as told to John M. Pontius, I am now certain that I am not the only one who thinks along the lines of reasoning I am about to share.

I am not a man of particular import or public renown. As of the time of this writing, I am not