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==PAPER 58: LIFE ESTABLISHMENT ON URANTIA==   

==PAPER 58: LIFE ESTABLISHMENT ON URANTIA==   

58:0.1 In all [[Satania]] there are only sixty-one worlds similar to [[Urantia]], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65#65:4._THE_URANTIA_ADVENTURE life-modification] [[planets]]. The [[majority]] of [[inhabited worlds]] are peopled in [[accordance]] with [[established]] [[techniques]]; on such [[spheres]] the [[Life Carriers]] are afforded little leeway in their [[plans]] for [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life implantation]. But about one world in [[ten]] is designated as a [[decimal]] [[planet]] and assigned to the special registry of the [[Life Carriers]]; and on such [[planets]] we are permitted to undertake certain life [[experiments]] in an effort to [[modify]] or possibly improve the [[standard]] [[universe]] [[types]] of living [[beings]].

58:0.1 In all [[Satania]] there are only sixty-one worlds similar to [[Urantia]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65#65:4._THE_URANTIA_ADVENTURE life-modification] [[planets]]. The [[majority]] of [[inhabited worlds]] are peopled in [[accordance]] with [[established]] [[techniques]]; on such [[spheres]] the [[Life Carriers]] are afforded little leeway in their [[plans]] for [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life implantation]. But about one world in [[ten]] is designated as a [[decimal]] [[planet]] and assigned to the special registry of the [[Life Carriers]]; and on such [[planets]] we are permitted to undertake certain life [[experiments]] in an effort to [[modify]] or possibly improve the [[standard]] [[universe]] [[types]] of living [[beings]].

==58:1. PHYSICAL-LIFE PREREQUISITES==   

==58:1. PHYSICAL-LIFE PREREQUISITES==   

58:1.5 But as this era opens, [[Urantia]] is in every way [[evolving]] toward a [[state]] favorable for the [[support]] of the initial [[forms]] of [[marine]] life. Slowly but surely [[physical]] [[developments]] on [[earth]] and in adjacent [[space]] regions are [[preparing]] the [[stage]] for the later attempts to [[establish]] such life [[forms]] as we had [[decided]] would be best [[adapted]] to the unfolding [[physical]] [[environment]]—both [[terrestrial]] and [[spatial]].

58:1.5 But as this era opens, [[Urantia]] is in every way [[evolving]] toward a [[state]] favorable for the [[support]] of the initial [[forms]] of [[marine]] life. Slowly but surely [[physical]] [[developments]] on [[earth]] and in adjacent [[space]] regions are [[preparing]] the [[stage]] for the later attempts to [[establish]] such life [[forms]] as we had [[decided]] would be best [[adapted]] to the unfolding [[physical]] [[environment]]—both [[terrestrial]] and [[spatial]].

58:1.6 Subsequently the [[Satania]] commission of [[Life Carriers]] returned to [[Jerusem]], preferring to await the further breakup of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangea continental land mass], which would afford still more inland seas and sheltered bays, before [[actually]] beginning [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life implantation].

58:1.6 Subsequently the [[Satania]] commission of [[Life Carriers]] returned to [[Jerusem]], preferring to await the further breakup of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangea continental land mass], which would afford still more inland seas and sheltered bays, before [[actually]] beginning [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life implantation].

58:1.7 On a [[planet]] where life has a [[marine]] [[origin]] the [[ideal]] conditions for [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life implantation] are provided by a large number of inland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea seas], by an extensive shore line of shallow [[waters]] and sheltered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay bays]; and just such a [[distribution]] of the [[earth]]'s [[waters]] was rapidly [[developing]]. These ancient inland seas were seldom over five or six hundred feet deep, and sunlight can penetrate [[ocean]] [[water]] for more than six hundred feet.

58:1.7 On a [[planet]] where life has a [[marine]] [[origin]] the [[ideal]] conditions for [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life implantation] are provided by a large number of inland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea seas], by an extensive shore line of shallow [[waters]] and sheltered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay bays]; and just such a [[distribution]] of the [[earth]]'s [[waters]] was rapidly [[developing]]. These ancient inland seas were seldom over five or six hundred feet deep, and sunlight can penetrate [[ocean]] [[water]] for more than six hundred feet.

58:1.8 And it was from such seashores of the mild and equable climes of a later age that [[primitive]] [[plant]] life found its way onto the [[land]]. There the high [[degree]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon carbon] in the [[atmosphere]] afforded the new [[land]] varieties of life [[opportunity]] for speedy and luxuriant [[growth]]. Though this [[atmosphere]] was then [[ideal]] for [[plant]] [[growth]], it contained such a high [[degree]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide carbon dioxide] that no [[animal]], much less [[man]], could have lived on the [[Surface|face]] of the [[earth]].

58:1.8 And it was from such seashores of the mild and equable climes of a later age that [[primitive]] [[plant]] life found its way onto the [[land]]. There the high [[degree]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon carbon] in the [[atmosphere]] afforded the new [[land]] varieties of life [[opportunity]] for speedy and luxuriant [[growth]]. Though this [[atmosphere]] was then [[ideal]] for [[plant]] [[growth]], it contained such a high [[degree]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide carbon dioxide] that no [[animal]], much less [[man]], could have lived on the [[Surface|face]] of the [[earth]].

==58:4. THE LIFE-DAWN ERA==   

==58:4. THE LIFE-DAWN ERA==   

58:4.1 That we are called [[Life Carriers]] should not [[confuse]] you. We can and do carry life to the [[planets]], but we brought no life to [[Urantia]]. Urantia life is [[unique]], [[original]] with the [[planet]]. This [[sphere]] is a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65#65:4._THE_URANTIA_ADVENTURE life-modification world]; all life [[appearing]] hereon was [[formulated]] by us right here on the [[planet]]; and there is no other world in all [[Satania]], even in all [[Nebadon]], that has a life [[existence]] just like that of [[Urantia]].

58:4.1 That we are called [[Life Carriers]] should not [[confuse]] you. We can and do carry life to the [[planets]], but we brought no life to [[Urantia]]. Urantia life is [[unique]], [[original]] with the [[planet]]. This [[sphere]] is a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65#65:4._THE_URANTIA_ADVENTURE life-modification world]; all life [[appearing]] hereon was [[formulated]] by us right here on the [[planet]]; and there is no other world in all [[Satania]], even in all [[Nebadon]], that has a life [[existence]] just like that of [[Urantia]].

58:4.2 550,000,000 years ago the [[Life Carrier]] corps returned to [[Urantia]]. In [[co-operation]] with [[spiritual]] [[powers]] and superphysical [[forces]] we [[organized]] and [[initiated]] the [[original]] life [[patterns]] of this world and planted them in the [[hospitable]] [[waters]] of the realm. All [[planetary]] life (aside from extraplanetary [[personalities]]) down to the days of [[Caligastia]], the [[Planetary Prince]], had its [[origin]] in our [[three]] [[original]], [[identical]], and [[simultaneous]] [[marine]]-life implantations. These three life implantations have been designated as: the ''central'' or ''Eurasian-African'', the ''eastern'' or ''Australasian'', and the ''western'', embracing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland Greenland] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas Americas].

58:4.2 550,000,000 years ago the [[Life Carrier]] corps returned to [[Urantia]]. In [[co-operation]] with [[spiritual]] [[powers]] and superphysical [[forces]] we [[organized]] and [[initiated]] the [[original]] life [[patterns]] of this world and planted them in the [[hospitable]] [[waters]] of the realm. All [[planetary]] life (aside from extraplanetary [[personalities]]) down to the days of [[Caligastia]], the [[Planetary Prince]], had its [[origin]] in our [[three]] [[original]], [[identical]], and [[simultaneous]] [[marine]]-life implantations. These three life implantations have been designated as: the ''central'' or ''Eurasian-African'', the ''eastern'' or ''Australasian'', and the ''western'', embracing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland Greenland] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas Americas].

58:6.1 450,000,000 years ago the [[transition]] from [[Plant|vegetable]] to [[animal]] life occurred. This [[metamorphosis]] took place in the shallow waters of the sheltered tropic bays and lagoons of the extensive shore lines of the separating [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents continents]. And this [[development]], all of which was [[inherent]] in the [[original]] life [[patterns]], came about [[gradually]]. There were many [[transitional]] [[stages]] between the early [[primitive]] [[Plant|vegetable]] [[forms]] of life and the later well-defined [[animal]] [[organisms]]. Even today the [[transition]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold slime molds] [[persist]], and they can hardly be [[classified]] either as [[plants]] or as [[animals]].

58:6.1 450,000,000 years ago the [[transition]] from [[Plant|vegetable]] to [[animal]] life occurred. This [[metamorphosis]] took place in the shallow waters of the sheltered tropic bays and lagoons of the extensive shore lines of the separating [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents continents]. And this [[development]], all of which was [[inherent]] in the [[original]] life [[patterns]], came about [[gradually]]. There were many [[transitional]] [[stages]] between the early [[primitive]] [[Plant|vegetable]] [[forms]] of life and the later well-defined [[animal]] [[organisms]]. Even today the [[transition]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold slime molds] [[persist]], and they can hardly be [[classified]] either as [[plants]] or as [[animals]].

58:6.2 Although the [[evolution]] of [[Plant|vegetable]] life can be traced into [[animal]] life, and though there have been found [[graduated]] series of [[plants]] and [[animals]] which [[progressively]] lead up from the most [[simple]] to the most [[complex]] and advanced [[organisms]], you will not be able to find such [[connecting]] links between the great divisions of the [[animal]] kingdom nor between the highest of the prehuman animal types and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62 dawn men] of the [[human]] [[races]]. These so-called "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil missing links]" will forever remain missing, for the simple reason that they never existed.

58:6.2 Although the [[evolution]] of [[Plant|vegetable]] life can be traced into [[animal]] life, and though there have been found [[graduated]] series of [[plants]] and [[animals]] which [[progressively]] lead up from the most [[simple]] to the most [[complex]] and advanced [[organisms]], you will not be able to find such [[connecting]] links between the great divisions of the [[animal]] kingdom nor between the highest of the prehuman animal types and the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62 dawn men] of the [[human]] [[races]]. These so-called "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil missing links]" will forever remain missing, for the simple reason that they never existed.

58:6.3 From [[era]] to era [[radically]] new [[species]] of [[animal]] life arise. They do not [[evolve]] as the result of the [[gradual]] accumulation of small variations; they appear as full-fledged and new orders of life, and they appear suddenly.

58:6.3 From [[era]] to era [[radically]] new [[species]] of [[animal]] life arise. They do not [[evolve]] as the result of the [[gradual]] accumulation of small variations; they appear as full-fledged and new orders of life, and they appear suddenly.

==58:7. THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY BOOK==   

==58:7. THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY BOOK==   

58:7.1 The vast [[group]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29 rock] systems which [[constituted]] the outer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crust crust] of the world during the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life-dawn] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterozoic Proterozoic era] does not now appear at many points on the [[earth]]'s [[surface]]. And when it does [[emerge]] from below all the accumulations of subsequent [[ages]], there will be found only the [[fossil]] remains of [[Plant|vegetable]] and early [[primitive]] [[animal]] life. Some of these older [[water]]-deposited rocks are commingled with subsequent layers, and sometimes they yield [[fossil]] remains of some of the earlier [[forms]] of [[Plant|vegetable]] life, while on the topmost layers occasionally may be found some of the more [[primitive]] [[forms]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59 early marine-animal] [[organisms]]. In many places these oldest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy stratified rock layers], bearing the [[fossils]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59 early marine life], both [[animal]] and [[Plant|vegetable]], may be found directly on top of the older undifferentiated stone.

58:7.1 The vast [[group]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29 rock] systems which [[constituted]] the outer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crust crust] of the world during the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#58:4._THE_LIFE-DAWN_ERA life-dawn] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterozoic Proterozoic era] does not now appear at many points on the [[earth]]'s [[surface]]. And when it does [[emerge]] from below all the accumulations of subsequent [[ages]], there will be found only the [[fossil]] remains of [[Plant|vegetable]] and early [[primitive]] [[animal]] life. Some of these older [[water]]-deposited rocks are commingled with subsequent layers, and sometimes they yield [[fossil]] remains of some of the earlier [[forms]] of [[Plant|vegetable]] life, while on the topmost layers occasionally may be found some of the more [[primitive]] [[forms]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59 early marine-animal] [[organisms]]. In many places these oldest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy stratified rock layers], bearing the [[fossils]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_59 early marine life], both [[animal]] and [[Plant|vegetable]], may be found directly on top of the older undifferentiated stone.

58:7.2 [[Fossils]] of this era yield [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae algae], corallike [[plants]], primitive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozoa Protozoa], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge spongelike] [[transition]] [[organisms]]. But the [[absence]] of such [[fossils]] in the early rock layers does not necessarily [[prove]] that living [[things]] were not elsewhere in [[existence]] at the time of their deposition. Life was sparse throughout these early times and only slowly made its way over the [[Surface|face]] of the [[earth]].

58:7.2 [[Fossils]] of this era yield [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae algae], corallike [[plants]], primitive [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protozoa Protozoa], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge spongelike] [[transition]] [[organisms]]. But the [[absence]] of such [[fossils]] in the early rock layers does not necessarily [[prove]] that living [[things]] were not elsewhere in [[existence]] at the time of their deposition. Life was sparse throughout these early times and only slowly made its way over the [[Surface|face]] of the [[earth]].

58:7.8 In these early ages when much [[land]] was near sea level, there occurred many [[successive]] submergences and emergences. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crus earth's crust] was just entering upon its later period of [[comparative]] [[stabilization]]. The undulations, rises and dips, of the earlier [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift continental drift] [[contributed]] to the [[frequency]] of the periodic submergence of the great [[land]] masses.

58:7.8 In these early ages when much [[land]] was near sea level, there occurred many [[successive]] submergences and emergences. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crus earth's crust] was just entering upon its later period of [[comparative]] [[stabilization]]. The undulations, rises and dips, of the earlier [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift continental drift] [[contributed]] to the [[frequency]] of the periodic submergence of the great [[land]] masses.

58:7.9 During these times of [[primitive]] [[marine]] life, extensive areas of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents continental] shores sank beneath the seas from a few feet to half a mile. Much of the older [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstone sandstone] and conglomerates [[represents]] the sedimentary accumulations of these ancient shores. The sedimentary rocks belonging to this early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy stratification] rest directly upon those layers which date back far beyond the [[origin]] of life, back to the early [[appearance]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:8._CRUSTAL_STABILIZATION-THE_AGE_OF_EARTHQUAKES-THE_WORLD_OCEAN_AND_THE_FIRST_CONTINENT world-wide ocean].

58:7.9 During these times of [[primitive]] [[marine]] life, extensive areas of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continents continental] shores sank beneath the seas from a few feet to half a mile. Much of the older [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstone sandstone] and conglomerates [[represents]] the sedimentary accumulations of these ancient shores. The sedimentary rocks belonging to this early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy stratification] rest directly upon those layers which date back far beyond the [[origin]] of life, back to the early [[appearance]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_57#57:8._CRUSTAL_STABILIZATION-THE_AGE_OF_EARTHQUAKES-THE_WORLD_OCEAN_AND_THE_FIRST_CONTINENT world-wide ocean].

58:7.10 Some of the upper layers of these [[transition]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29 rock] deposits contain small amounts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale shale] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate slate] of dark [[colors]], indicating the [[presence]] of organic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon carbon] and testifying to the [[existence]] of the [[ancestors]] of those [[forms]] of [[plant]] life which overran the [[earth]] during the succeeding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous Carboniferous] or coal age. Much of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper copper] in these rock layers results from [[water]] deposition. Some is found in the cracks of the older rocks and is the [[concentrate]] of the sluggish swamp water of some ancient sheltered shore line. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron iron] mines of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] are located in deposits and extrusions lying partly in the older unstratified rocks and partly in these later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy stratified rocks] of the [[transition]] periods of life formation.

58:7.10 Some of the upper layers of these [[transition]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%28geology%29 rock] deposits contain small amounts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale shale] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate slate] of dark [[colors]], indicating the [[presence]] of organic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon carbon] and testifying to the [[existence]] of the [[ancestors]] of those [[forms]] of [[plant]] life which overran the [[earth]] during the succeeding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous Carboniferous] or coal age. Much of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper copper] in these rock layers results from [[water]] deposition. Some is found in the cracks of the older rocks and is the [[concentrate]] of the sluggish swamp water of some ancient sheltered shore line. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron iron] mines of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] are located in deposits and extrusions lying partly in the older unstratified rocks and partly in these later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy stratified rocks] of the [[transition]] periods of life formation.

58:7.13 Presented by a member of the Urantia [[Life Carrier]] Corps now resident on the [[planet]].

58:7.13 Presented by a member of the Urantia [[Life Carrier]] Corps now resident on the [[planet]].

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[[Category: PART III: The History of Urantia]]

[[Category: PART III: The History of Urantia]]