Evolution or Devolution?

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The book cites as contradictions to evolutionary theory the facts that approximately 95% of the human genome is redundant, and that roughly the same percentage of the human brain is also dormant. If evolutionary theory were correct and development were based on adaptations to the present environment why would we have developed such a huge brain for potential use in the future!

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Also there had been some published work by Professor John Lorber, professor of paediatrics at Sheffield, England which looked at hydrocephalics who had merely a sliver of their cerebral cortex intact and yet had no demonstrable functional deficit. Some had even been high achievers academically. One of the students at Sheffield who had an IQ of 126 and was awarded a first class honours degree in mathematics for example was a hydrocephalic who had virtually no detectable cerebral cortex on a CT brain scan.

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Perhaps I have unwittingly given the wrong impression about what Kerner says about the redundancy of 95 percent of the human brain. He mentions this point in relation to the work of Professor John Lorber who identified several hundred people some of whom he describes as having 'almost no detectable brain' yet are still able to score up to 120 on IQ tests and in one case graduate with a degree in mathematics.

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Kerner simply makes the point that if it is possible for some people to manage with all human functions, including abstract thought,

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with a sliver of brain tissue then why do we have such a large brain capacity? He asks if this might indeed suggest that our large brains are a leftover from the past.

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The misunderstandings based on this one point presented out of context are I think based on the fact that it is not really possible to understand Kerner's theses from a few extracts or summaries. The book builds up a cohesive, inter-related set of ideas which cannot really be viewed in isolation from eachother. It is for obvious reasons impossible to present all these ideas in this forum. He provides copious evidence for his positions especially his surmise about alien interception of the human genome. I have chosen not to present that evidence here because it is firstly too voluminous and secondly not strictly necessary for the discussion of the topic that I have introduced.

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