The Lamplighter Illumination

By LL Downing

This third work is a presentation concerned with religious dogma and the many formal world-religions, their impacts on societal concepts and conduct, a review of scientific-conflict with formal religious dictates, and a search for the creators religious guidance for humankind. Understanding that the author has given due consideration to unharnessed superstition, the numeral 3 has been assumed to be a symbol of good luck, consequently, this discussion aspires to positively effect, in a significant manner, at least one third (base 3) of its readers.
The first third of any readership is undoubtedly firmly entrenched in their respective Religious followings and their life styles, and it is presumed that they will not be giving serious consideration to the materials presented here.
The second group of readers are believed to be more open minded, and will weigh the references to the religious and scientific milestones that have occurred throughout our Age of Enlightenment and also very early and contemporary times, and that these readers will consider the negative impacts on mankind and world history that religious dogma and world religions have made. This group of readers may be too firmly entrenched in conventional religious beliefs to consider changing their faiths and life styles, however.
The third group of readers are people dissatisfied with familiar religious and faith concepts, at least up to this point in their lives, and consequently are more receptive, or even actively seeking a new philosophy for facing their world experiences with confidence and happiness, that they have a serious concern for improving humankinds future, and that they are receptive to following Gods messaged Path.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504956543

LL Downing

The author sincerely wishes that all readers will find this work enlightening and worthy of their time and energy. This is the Authors third published work. The first was ‘Contemporary Russian’ (Author-House, 2013), a two volume work that strived to bring two different societies closer together, by working with similarities in their different languages. The second work was a handbook for aviation specialists, ‘Meteorology of Clouds’ (Author-House, 2014), this work was intended to provide meteorological understanding acquired from several decades of military and civil aviation experience, and that it should contribute to the safety and accuracy of Meteorological presentations for aircraft operations. It was also intended to instigate further interest in investigation/research of real-time aviation atmospheric phenomena.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 Modern Science

Chapter 2 World Religions

Chapter 3 God's World

Chapter 4 Gender in Religion

Chapter 5 God's Laws

Chapter 6 Gods' Communication

Chapter 7 Hydrologic Cycle

Chapter 8 Water World

Chapter 9 Good and Evil

Chapter 10 Religious Acceptance

Chapter 11 Radical Religions

Chapter 12 Heaven and Hell

Chapter 13 End Game

Chapter 14 Rebirth

The Author

References

FOREWORD

Evolution has provided us, the Human Animal, with the intelligence, the inquisitiveness (the need to know), and the on-going necessity to ask the question -- what and where - is the creator, who permits so much cruelty and suffering, along with the paradoxical beauty and marvelous gifts of life, that are an everyday happening throughout our lifetime experience.

INTRODUCTION

This presentation is an exposure that documents formal-religions failure through the centuries, by misguided piousness, corruption and the promoting of superstition and misleading falsehoods, religious dogma that has not met the needs of society! Each of the worlds' religious denominations profess to tell the creation story the way 'it really was', logic would imply that only one story of so many, would be most correct. Human experience indicates that probably, none of the religious-denomination 'creation stories' has ever had it right!

The following material attempts to present a scientifically-based, logical, common-sense recognition of the existent influence of Gods Laws. It suggests a societal path that promulgates empathy for our fellow citizens and a community-based priority of life, and that this is a practical path for a successful and enduring future for humankind, a path that prioritizes our existence in a dynamic and Universal creation.

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This is my father, in his newly issued Army uniform - the photograph was taken in 1919 at the end of World War I. My father was a talented man, however he possessed little Humanity. He, along with his two younger brothers, were abandoned for many years in an orphanage system where he wasn't allowed to be aware of his brother's presence (although in the same system at the same time) and where he was frequently abused by the staff (physical beatings and be-ratings). My father lost his religious faith because of this experience. He was a man who hardly ever showed or expressed his personal feelings.

Chapter One

MODERN SCIENCE

Let's start this presentation with a purely theoretical situation, which is centered on the misfortune of a fellow, who incidentally, has managed to reach the age of 30 years. This chap undertakes a summer vacation trip, which includes the Florida everglades. While with a group of fellow nature lovers visiting the Lake Okeechobee region, he happens to un-attentively, lose his balance, and falls awkwardly off a small wooden pier into a watery swamp, that the group had been studying. Before being able to swim back to a suitable shore landing-spot, a very large male salt-water alligator appears suddenly, and grabs the fellow. The unfriendly Gator, using its extremely powerful jaws, in one instant, cleanly biting- off the mans' right-arm (up to the shoulder socket, it was the gator's lunch hour). After several days in a Miami hospital, the unfortunate victim was stabilized and released (more than likely supplied with an adequate supply of pain-killers). The fellow was right-handed, incidentally. He quickly returned to his home in the Boston area.

If you were this fellows' physical therapy advisor, what advice would you give him? Please select from the following options:

A. Resolve that he will become primarily a left-handed person and advise him to immediately begin retraining his mind and remaining arm.

B. Advise him to contact a source for acquiring a Biomechanical replacement arm as quickly as possible.

C. Advise him to begin attending his church of choice, and praying twice daily to God, for a new right-arm.

D. Support in every way, the work of Doctor Michael Levin of Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

Responses 'A', 'B' and 'D' call upon scientific solutions to this mans' problems. Response 'C' may bring the man spiritual comfort, but logic and reason do not provide much assurance that this action will address his physical disability. You surely have asked yourself by now, who is Doctor Michael Levin? Well, Doctor Levin is the director of Tufts University's Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, he specializes in 'Human Regeneration'.

If a child experiences the loss of a finger-tip before reaching approximately 12 years of age, the tip will grow back. Reindeer shed and regrow their antlers, each springtime. Young rats have been known to regrow a lost leg.

Doctor Levin believes the key to human regeneration will be found in the electrical signals that are transmitted among our body cells, and the body's chemistry. In the late 18th century, Luigi Galvani, an anatomy professor at the University of Bologna Italy, found that severed frog legs responded physically to an electrical current. It has become known that electricity is everywhere in our bodies. The significance is well understood when applied to the nervous system and the heart, Pacemakers are one important result of this knowledge.

In 1992 Levin graduated from Tufts University with a dual degree in biology and computer science. While enrolled at Harvard Medical School, he worked closely with Cliff Tabin, who was known for his work on embryonic development.

When Levin was 31 years old, he began his research into the questions that would shape his life's work. What is the role of the body's intrinsic electrical signals? How do these signals interact with genes and proteins?

How do these signals affect the development of an embryo?

Doctor Levin started his research by attempting to enact control in animals that already possessed some regenerative ability. The African Clawed frog can regrow its tail, but only in its first 7 days of life, why? Dr. Levin determined that ion channels existed for the flow of electricity in cell walls, an important discovery.

It has been known for centuries that the Gila monster, an American southwestern desert lizard, has the ability to regrow its' dropped-tail (losing the tail is an escape mechanism). Levin investigated electrically-conductive chemicals that would affect animals. In 2005 Levin successfully accomplished regeneration in a tadpole that should have lost this ability. Levin has investigated flat worms with much success, changing their anatomy with regenerative processes. His team has successfully altered the ion channels in frog embryos! Doctor Levin and his team are working diligently to unlock the regeneration code, developing new research techniques, such as Vertiginous time-lapse photographic procedures to regenerate missing frog digits, and the same for mice, using Bio(logical)dome technology (developed at Tufts) in these procedures. Levin faces many hurdles and there is no guarantee that success with animals will translate to replicating the same features with human beings. Levin states: but I think the reality is, I don't know too many works of science-fiction that are as 'wild and out there' as things that have been discovered by real science.

Today, your television advertisements are offering the sale of chemical supplements that improve the brains memory function, electronic-devices that reduce joint pain, back-surgery that allows the patient to walk within minutes of the process, complete dental replacement, all are examples of wonderful achievements by modern science that enhance our every-day contemporary lives!

As an illustration of Gods probable endorsement of humankind's administration of Gods' creatures and the mother planet, the following contemporary Medical achievements have been miraculously obtained in the last two decades:

On July 2, 2008 a young black South Carolina girl was given a heart transplant, her artificial heart did not function properly, after almost four months, on October 29, another transplant was carried-out that was successful. She had been fitted with two mechanical heart-pumps (that temporarily replaced her failed heart), and she had successfully survived for 118 days without her own aortic organ, this extended period of artificial-support was a medically-scientific first!

In 1999 a persistent vegetative patient was seen to twitch by his nurse, the doctor had administered a sleeping pill, Zolpidem, believing the patient might be in discomfort. An hour later the comatose patient made a noise for the first time in 5 years. Only about 40% of comatose patients eventually respond, but this patient was fortunate enough to have conversations with his family.

Scientists have developed a quick genetic-disease-analysis device. Researchers are now able to differentiate between types of cancer which were previously believed to be of only one form. An invaluable new tool in the fight against cancer.

Scientists have built a surgery-robot that is smaller than a surgeons hands, it contains a myriad of tiny sensors, this robot is more accurate and precise than a typical surgeons skills permit. It is anticipated that in the near future, the robot will be developed to work independently inside a patients' body.

Scientists have developed a machine-implant that will allow completely blind individuals to distinguish colors and objects. The device works like a digital camera and is wired to the brain. Doctors also have been able to restore sight to long-term blind people using stem cells. These separate developments have made a most traumatic impact on individual patients' quality of life, both are significant advancements by contemporary medicine.

A woman paralyzed from the neck down, received two grids of electrodes implanted into her brain, the grids were in-turn connected to a computer. In a very short period of time, she learned to perform fluid motions while controlling a robotic arm. Further development will be making the system wireless. The next step will be to introduce sensory feedback, it will allow patients to feel with the arm, and allow completely paralyzed patients to regain independence.

Researchers believe that anyone who dies of a reversible cause (serious illness), doesn't need to die. Cooling the body, machine conducted CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation), and artificial blood-oxygenation, will sustain patients bodies and minds until their issue is resolved. Heart stoppage damage will be greatly arrested when these techniques are applied.

AIDS currently affects tens of millions of people around the world. Death, hospitalization, and the rate of progression from HIV to AIDS has been recently diminished by 80 percent. HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy) has permitted this success and was only presented to the medical community in 1996. HIV patients in the developed world can now expect a near-normal lifespan.

Gene-based Cancer therapy is being aggressively researched by American specialists. They have employed a type of analysis that is unique, running a sequencing machine and supercomputer non-stop to identify the gene that causes kidney cancer. Using this technique and a newly available drug, they have succeeded in seeing this disease go into remission. The new process sequences DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) and RNA