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SUMMARY: An Introduction to the Universal Model: A New Millennial Science
An Introduction to the Universal Model, a New Millennial Science serves as a handheld guide to a 2,000 page 3-volume college-level textbook. The UM is a breakaway scientific text that seeks to reweave the entire fabric of science. This book is a brief and succinct summary of the claims, purposes and scope covered by the much larger Universal Model textbook. In its short 90 pages the SUMMARY gives the reader a 30K foot overview of the main themes and claims of the UM which was released (in digital form) in October of 2016. Coming in April 2017, this book and the UM textbook will be available in print for the first time.
The central purpose of the UM To restore truth and order in science by identifying new natural laws."
This book will point the reader to where he or she can find verifiable scientific evidence All this and much more is summarized in this small book which directs its readers to explore the complete story of the Universal a New Millennial Science.
Volume 1 (The Earth System) can be found at www.universalmodel.com.
20 UM Extraordinary Claims & 1. The entire world has been in a Scientific Dark Age for more than a century during which not even one significant new natural law has been discovered.. 2. The idea that our Earth is not a magmaplanet, and that magma itself is a pseudotheory. 3. The modern-science Rock Cycle is a pseudotheory. 4. Many mysteries exist in geology today because the true origin of rocks is not understood. 5. Major catastrophic events occurred in the past which affected and have shaped the Earth in ways never observed by modern science. 6. More scientific evidence exists about the Universal Flood than any other global geologic event in Earth’s history. 7. The Hydroplanet Model explains the origin of the volume of water necessary for the Universal Flood. 8. Modern Science does not understand the true origin of weather, including the true origin of lightning, auroras and the Earth’s energy field. 9. The modern science dating system is fatally flawed and its faulty dates must be replaced with verifiable dates before we can understand when natural events actually occurred. 10. Because the Earth’s age has been based on the dating of allegedly magmatic (igneous) rocks, the Earth’s age estimates are incorrect. 11. Active, in-process fossils do not exist anywhere in Nature. 12. The fossil layers that supposedly succeed one another in the same evolutionary order do not exist anywhere in Nature. 13. The Evolution Pseudotheory is a belief, not science, which denies natural laws and mingles truth with error. 14. Without measurement, there can be no science and some of the most fundamental measurements in modern science are incorrect. 15. Modern science does not have the correct definitions for mass, weight, length, time, energy or matter. 16. The Theory of Relativity is a pseudotheory. 17. The true nature of the atom and its structure is delineated. 18. The origin of the dual nature of light is explained for the first time. 19. A new Revolutionary Universe Model is shown to replace the Big Bang Pseudotheory which has contributed to the current Scientific Dark Age. 20. The true origin of most meteors, meteorites, and craters are set forth and demonstrated to be different than currently taught in modern science.
The central purpose of the UM To restore truth and order in science by identifying new natural laws."
This book will point the reader to where he or she can find verifiable scientific evidence All this and much more is summarized in this small book which directs its readers to explore the complete story of the Universal a New Millennial Science.
Volume 1 (The Earth System) can be found at www.universalmodel.com.
20 UM Extraordinary Claims & 1. The entire world has been in a Scientific Dark Age for more than a century during which not even one significant new natural law has been discovered.. 2. The idea that our Earth is not a magmaplanet, and that magma itself is a pseudotheory. 3. The modern-science Rock Cycle is a pseudotheory. 4. Many mysteries exist in geology today because the true origin of rocks is not understood. 5. Major catastrophic events occurred in the past which affected and have shaped the Earth in ways never observed by modern science. 6. More scientific evidence exists about the Universal Flood than any other global geologic event in Earth’s history. 7. The Hydroplanet Model explains the origin of the volume of water necessary for the Universal Flood. 8. Modern Science does not understand the true origin of weather, including the true origin of lightning, auroras and the Earth’s energy field. 9. The modern science dating system is fatally flawed and its faulty dates must be replaced with verifiable dates before we can understand when natural events actually occurred. 10. Because the Earth’s age has been based on the dating of allegedly magmatic (igneous) rocks, the Earth’s age estimates are incorrect. 11. Active, in-process fossils do not exist anywhere in Nature. 12. The fossil layers that supposedly succeed one another in the same evolutionary order do not exist anywhere in Nature. 13. The Evolution Pseudotheory is a belief, not science, which denies natural laws and mingles truth with error. 14. Without measurement, there can be no science and some of the most fundamental measurements in modern science are incorrect. 15. Modern science does not have the correct definitions for mass, weight, length, time, energy or matter. 16. The Theory of Relativity is a pseudotheory. 17. The true nature of the atom and its structure is delineated. 18. The origin of the dual nature of light is explained for the first time. 19. A new Revolutionary Universe Model is shown to replace the Big Bang Pseudotheory which has contributed to the current Scientific Dark Age. 20. The true origin of most meteors, meteorites, and craters are set forth and demonstrated to be different than currently taught in modern science.
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"[I]n all these volumes there is nothing but chimerical systems . . ." —Volatire, Candide
Ironically, one of the suggested “similar titles” on Amazon was Astronomy for Dummies. Anyone would do much better buying any of the Dummies titles (which are written by actual experts) than they would this hogwashed claptrap packaged as “science” and heavily perfumed with B.S. I don’t mean any disparity against the authors personally—I’m sure they’re nice, decent people who mow their lawns and give their neighbors potato salads. But when an argument is bathed in baloney and propagated as “discoveries” that “will gradually replace modern science” (yes, it really says that), someone needs to raise their hand and say, “Um, most of your conclusions are a pile of wet pants.” So I guess I’ll pick up the (metaphorical) pen and try what my credit on Goodreads can do.
DISCLAIMER. My understanding of the Universal Drivel . . . I mean, Model . . . is based on this summary and what I can discern from the interwebz. The UM website is under lock and key to people who want to surrender their email address and receive (likely) a flood of marketing emails. And the full thousand-page, Gish-galloping, UM three-volume set, as other reviewers have noted, are as expensive as any regular college textbook, despite the fact that the UM decries science textbooks in general as misguided and manipulative. The $3.95 I paid for the Kindle version of this summary is almost a higher amount than I’m willing to line the pockets of the creators with. However, if the creators would like to DM me to ship a free copy of the full books for an honest review, I’d be more than happy to comply.
MYSTICISM. Like so much religion disguised as science, the Universal Model makes itself out to be the “Key to All Mythologies,” à la George Eliot’s Edward Causabon, and is nothing more than another relatively sophisticated attempt at Christian syncretism. The book claims that its publicly available secrets (oxymoron intended) will clear up all the confusion about Life, the Universe, and Everything that scientists are willfully blind to—and may even be conspiring against. Some of these revelations include:
There is no such thing as magma. Magma is a lie.
The Earth’s core is water. Anyone with a brain knows that.
The Periodic Table of Elements is hooey.
Scientists are too stupid to measure mass, length, and time accurately.
Hydrogen is not the most common element in the universe; water is.
Fossils are made in days, not weeks. The Global Flood proves this.
Earth’s magnetic field isn’t really a thing; it’s an energy field.
And of course, evolution, relativity, the Big Bang, and all of that is utter nonsense. Let’s face it, we’ve been living in a scientific “dark age” at least since Darwin. This is obvious because no normal person understands modern science. If your average Joe can’t conduct an experiment in his garage or backyard to prove a scientific theory and see the results with his own eyes, then it mustn’t be true. Duh.
So it goes. For being a people of faith, the UM creators sure put a lot of certainty on “seeing is believing,” or what rhetoricians call the fallacy of personal incredulity. That giant crater in Arizona? It can’t be from a meteor, because if it had been, “[w]hy has there never been one single confirmed, recorded instance . . . of a human seeing, with their own eyes, a very, very hot meteorite fall out of the sky and form a crater?” Exactly. If no one has ever seen it happen, it can’t be true. Which is fortunate for we theists, as we get to see God all the time. I mean, if we couldn’t see God for ourselves, how could we be sure he exists?
CREATIONISM. The writers are careful to distance themselves from run-of-the-mill creationism. You know, the ordinary, boring kind. UM is a cut above, giving “new truths” proven by “scientific evidence in support of beliefs expressed by creationist groups and other religious organizations.” So don’t expect your garden-variety creationism here. This is creationism backed by science!
This train of thought is in fact nothing new. It’s been called Intelligent Design, which like “creationism,” is a term the authors here are careful to avoid. However, the text is infused with loaded terms like “intentional order,” “intuitive order,” “inherent order,” “organized matter,” and “orderly way.” To inexpertly paraphrase Shakespeare, “B.S. by any other name would still smell as rank.” This is a creationist, intelligent design argument however its creators want to spin it.
MORMONISM. And the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the Mormon Jell-O. The prophet of the Universal Model is Dean Sessions, who is a noted presenter in conservative Latter-day Saint circles. (The author of this summary of UM, Brooke McKay, is Sessions’s daughter.) Not an official representative of the church, nor officially endorsed, but a sort of extracurricular guru who presents his hypotheses as being compatible and congruent with the Word of God. If you’re not a Mormon yourself, you’ll likely miss some of the subtext that the book evades expressing in the light of day for fear of being dismissed: THIS IS A MORMON BOOK.
Not the Book of Mormon, clearly, although there are hints at a pre-Columbian Christian archaeology that UM historico-scientifically validates. (There’s a bit about Sessions investigating a pair of arrowheads and his musing about the ancient people who produced it—no doubt he had a Jaredite in mind.) One of Sessions’s colleagues is none other than the indefatigable Rod Meldrum, head of the FIRM Foundation, which is dedicated to archaeologically proving the existence of Book of Mormon peoples, and who contributed to UM as a “researcher.” Neither of them are scientists or archaeologists or historians. But we all know that college degrees are worthless, anyways. Eyes are enough to see what is plainly in front of us.
The Book-of-Mormon-as-verifiable-truth is all but hidden in plain sight. A discerning Mormon wouldn’t fail to catch what is meant by this set of questions, presented as cautious inquiry: “Who were the first Americans? Where did they come from? How did they get there? Chapter 15 answers these questions and discusses the first 1600 years of human existence. Geographically it focuses on the North American continent, explaining the First World Model as the place where humans began.” For the unenlightened, the Native American / First Nations peoples came from Mesopotamia—DNA evidence can go to spirit prison. But not only that, the Garden of Eden was located in what would become the state of Missouri, the continents taking shape after that indisputable event recorded in the Book of Genesis, the Global Flood. The First World Model of UM proves this, which along with everything else in this book, is a plain and precious truth that only the ignorant will reject.
Mormon cosmology rears its unassailable head in the main premise of UM, which follows the model of an obsessive-compulsive-level ordered universe (though the Orderer is suspiciously unnamed). This accords with Mormon theology in the sense that Mormons do not believe in an ex nihilo creation: God didn’t create matter out of nothing. All matter is preexistent, and God’s omnipotence is limited to organizing that matter, not creating it. (Which stretches the definition of “omnipotence,” but that’s a different discussion.) So any idea that the universe and life came from “nothing” is for a Mormon both irreligious and unscientific. Even God is a Being of organized matter, put together from some other Deity somewhere else in the infinite cosmos. (See Joseph Smith’s King Follett Discourse.)
The UM stems from this premise, which leads it to interesting conclusions that some “external energy” source keeps the Earth spinning at the same speed. The summary doesn’t specify what that energy is, and I imagine neither does any of the UM tomes, but it’s not hard to see Priesthood power as that source (Priesthood = God’s power in Mormonism). Or the revolutions of the star / planet Kolob, which according to the totally ancient and not-at-all pseudepigraphical Book of Abraham governs the rotations of all the other celestial bodies in the universe. You can’t make this stuff up, folks! Oh, wait . . .
And if I haven’t made my case clear enough of the Mormon origins of this book, prick your attention every time you come across the word “restoration” and “truth.” The UM is the long-awaited modern complement to the ministry of Joseph Smith, who revealed “a religion for the space age” (Truman G. Madsen). UM is the most correct science on the face of the Earth, and the Keystone of True Inquiry. How do we know that? The book itself says so: “The new models in this chapter are just as revolutionary as when science learned the Earth was not flat, or when we learned the Earth revolved around the Sun.”
And just as everyone will know when the Second Coming happens, and everyone will at some day acknowledge Joseph Smith as a true prophet, so every tongue will eventually confess that UM is the truth: “The new discoveries found within the UM, which are true, will have a lasting impact on everyone in society whether they choose to learn them now or later.” Cue the archetypal Mormon testimony: “I know that the Universal Model is true . . .” UM is here to usher in the Millennium. (It uses that word a lot.)
CONSPIRACISM. The two things Mormons love most (from a Jell-O Belt cultural perspective) are conspiracy theories and gimmicky marketing schemes. This book taps into both. As everyone suspects, modern science is a conspiracy. The book talks about “daring” scientists cowed by funding committees and subversive “agendas other than teaching truth.” And don’t forget to “follow the money-trail,” which will show you a network of evil behind those innocent-looking textbooks your kids are brainwashed by in public schools. And that’s putting it in a best-case scenario. At its core, modern science, particularly physics, is the “author of confusion.” In Mormon parlance, the original Author of Confusion is of course Satan. Yes, you heard it here first: modern physics can only be inspired by the Devil himself! UM must be God’s One True and Living Science!
GIMMICKY MARKETING. As other reviewers have noted, this summary teases the reader with paragraph after paragraph of how the secrets to true science can all be found in the full multivolume UM series. It says how modern science has gotten things wrong (like those hoaxes about magma and fossils more than 5,000 years old) and also says that most people can figure out the truth with easy at-home experiments. But then it leaves you hanging. McKay is clear from the get-go that UM’s “extraordinary evidence” can be “found in the UM [full series], but which I omit here in order to keep this book brief.” Brief, but also expensive, to the tune of $90-ish dollars for each of the three thick volumes. You can hear the sales pitch: “If you subscribe to our PLATINUM plan, you can get the secrets of the universe for only 90 bucks!”
My personal opinion: If the secrets to the universe can only be found by forking over Grants and Hamiltons, and are not freely available to the public, then it’s a scam. Prove me wrong, UM people—publish ALL your findings online for free. I know printing a textbook full of diagrams and photos (most of which were created by Sessions himself) can be pricey, but why hide this essential knowledge behind a paywall? People need this Gospel, so offer it freely, without money and without price.
I’ll make no bones about it: the Universal Model IS a Gospel, the “good news” that teaches us how to understand our true relationship to Nature (code: relationship to God). “Gaining a true understanding of your own history and origin will allow you to view Life within a new paradigm,” the book announces, which will “broaden our understanding of our origin, our destiny, and the world around us.” This goes along exactly with what any Mormon missionary will tell you: We have the answers to where we came from, why we’re here, and where we’re going. All we need is an eternal commitment to our Celestial Plan (TM) and ten percent of your income annually.
CONCLUSION. I know this review is snarky. But to paraphrase the book, “Extraordinary B.S. requires extraordinary criticism.” Few credible scientists would touch this book with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole, not because they’re scared of it or scared of being a scientific outcast, but because it’s utter nonsense. It makes Gish-galloping a full-color, diagrammed art form. I, however, am a sucker for this kind of stuff. I have a morbid fascination with bunk and the “bunkies” who peddle it. The UM is on the level of any “answer to the mysteries of the universe” found in a Jehovah’s Witness Awake!, and just as kooky. If you want to flirt with Ptolemaic, Hermetic, Alchemical approaches to “natural law,” then UM is for you. If, however, you’re interested in the basics of geology, biology, astronomy, and the rest, I recommend any volume from the Dummies series. Even Amazon seems to agree with me.
Ironically, one of the suggested “similar titles” on Amazon was Astronomy for Dummies. Anyone would do much better buying any of the Dummies titles (which are written by actual experts) than they would this hogwashed claptrap packaged as “science” and heavily perfumed with B.S. I don’t mean any disparity against the authors personally—I’m sure they’re nice, decent people who mow their lawns and give their neighbors potato salads. But when an argument is bathed in baloney and propagated as “discoveries” that “will gradually replace modern science” (yes, it really says that), someone needs to raise their hand and say, “Um, most of your conclusions are a pile of wet pants.” So I guess I’ll pick up the (metaphorical) pen and try what my credit on Goodreads can do.
DISCLAIMER. My understanding of the Universal Drivel . . . I mean, Model . . . is based on this summary and what I can discern from the interwebz. The UM website is under lock and key to people who want to surrender their email address and receive (likely) a flood of marketing emails. And the full thousand-page, Gish-galloping, UM three-volume set, as other reviewers have noted, are as expensive as any regular college textbook, despite the fact that the UM decries science textbooks in general as misguided and manipulative. The $3.95 I paid for the Kindle version of this summary is almost a higher amount than I’m willing to line the pockets of the creators with. However, if the creators would like to DM me to ship a free copy of the full books for an honest review, I’d be more than happy to comply.
MYSTICISM. Like so much religion disguised as science, the Universal Model makes itself out to be the “Key to All Mythologies,” à la George Eliot’s Edward Causabon, and is nothing more than another relatively sophisticated attempt at Christian syncretism. The book claims that its publicly available secrets (oxymoron intended) will clear up all the confusion about Life, the Universe, and Everything that scientists are willfully blind to—and may even be conspiring against. Some of these revelations include:
There is no such thing as magma. Magma is a lie.
The Earth’s core is water. Anyone with a brain knows that.
The Periodic Table of Elements is hooey.
Scientists are too stupid to measure mass, length, and time accurately.
Hydrogen is not the most common element in the universe; water is.
Fossils are made in days, not weeks. The Global Flood proves this.
Earth’s magnetic field isn’t really a thing; it’s an energy field.
And of course, evolution, relativity, the Big Bang, and all of that is utter nonsense. Let’s face it, we’ve been living in a scientific “dark age” at least since Darwin. This is obvious because no normal person understands modern science. If your average Joe can’t conduct an experiment in his garage or backyard to prove a scientific theory and see the results with his own eyes, then it mustn’t be true. Duh.
So it goes. For being a people of faith, the UM creators sure put a lot of certainty on “seeing is believing,” or what rhetoricians call the fallacy of personal incredulity. That giant crater in Arizona? It can’t be from a meteor, because if it had been, “[w]hy has there never been one single confirmed, recorded instance . . . of a human seeing, with their own eyes, a very, very hot meteorite fall out of the sky and form a crater?” Exactly. If no one has ever seen it happen, it can’t be true. Which is fortunate for we theists, as we get to see God all the time. I mean, if we couldn’t see God for ourselves, how could we be sure he exists?
CREATIONISM. The writers are careful to distance themselves from run-of-the-mill creationism. You know, the ordinary, boring kind. UM is a cut above, giving “new truths” proven by “scientific evidence in support of beliefs expressed by creationist groups and other religious organizations.” So don’t expect your garden-variety creationism here. This is creationism backed by science!
This train of thought is in fact nothing new. It’s been called Intelligent Design, which like “creationism,” is a term the authors here are careful to avoid. However, the text is infused with loaded terms like “intentional order,” “intuitive order,” “inherent order,” “organized matter,” and “orderly way.” To inexpertly paraphrase Shakespeare, “B.S. by any other name would still smell as rank.” This is a creationist, intelligent design argument however its creators want to spin it.
MORMONISM. And the proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the Mormon Jell-O. The prophet of the Universal Model is Dean Sessions, who is a noted presenter in conservative Latter-day Saint circles. (The author of this summary of UM, Brooke McKay, is Sessions’s daughter.) Not an official representative of the church, nor officially endorsed, but a sort of extracurricular guru who presents his hypotheses as being compatible and congruent with the Word of God. If you’re not a Mormon yourself, you’ll likely miss some of the subtext that the book evades expressing in the light of day for fear of being dismissed: THIS IS A MORMON BOOK.
Not the Book of Mormon, clearly, although there are hints at a pre-Columbian Christian archaeology that UM historico-scientifically validates. (There’s a bit about Sessions investigating a pair of arrowheads and his musing about the ancient people who produced it—no doubt he had a Jaredite in mind.) One of Sessions’s colleagues is none other than the indefatigable Rod Meldrum, head of the FIRM Foundation, which is dedicated to archaeologically proving the existence of Book of Mormon peoples, and who contributed to UM as a “researcher.” Neither of them are scientists or archaeologists or historians. But we all know that college degrees are worthless, anyways. Eyes are enough to see what is plainly in front of us.
The Book-of-Mormon-as-verifiable-truth is all but hidden in plain sight. A discerning Mormon wouldn’t fail to catch what is meant by this set of questions, presented as cautious inquiry: “Who were the first Americans? Where did they come from? How did they get there? Chapter 15 answers these questions and discusses the first 1600 years of human existence. Geographically it focuses on the North American continent, explaining the First World Model as the place where humans began.” For the unenlightened, the Native American / First Nations peoples came from Mesopotamia—DNA evidence can go to spirit prison. But not only that, the Garden of Eden was located in what would become the state of Missouri, the continents taking shape after that indisputable event recorded in the Book of Genesis, the Global Flood. The First World Model of UM proves this, which along with everything else in this book, is a plain and precious truth that only the ignorant will reject.
Mormon cosmology rears its unassailable head in the main premise of UM, which follows the model of an obsessive-compulsive-level ordered universe (though the Orderer is suspiciously unnamed). This accords with Mormon theology in the sense that Mormons do not believe in an ex nihilo creation: God didn’t create matter out of nothing. All matter is preexistent, and God’s omnipotence is limited to organizing that matter, not creating it. (Which stretches the definition of “omnipotence,” but that’s a different discussion.) So any idea that the universe and life came from “nothing” is for a Mormon both irreligious and unscientific. Even God is a Being of organized matter, put together from some other Deity somewhere else in the infinite cosmos. (See Joseph Smith’s King Follett Discourse.)
The UM stems from this premise, which leads it to interesting conclusions that some “external energy” source keeps the Earth spinning at the same speed. The summary doesn’t specify what that energy is, and I imagine neither does any of the UM tomes, but it’s not hard to see Priesthood power as that source (Priesthood = God’s power in Mormonism). Or the revolutions of the star / planet Kolob, which according to the totally ancient and not-at-all pseudepigraphical Book of Abraham governs the rotations of all the other celestial bodies in the universe. You can’t make this stuff up, folks! Oh, wait . . .
And if I haven’t made my case clear enough of the Mormon origins of this book, prick your attention every time you come across the word “restoration” and “truth.” The UM is the long-awaited modern complement to the ministry of Joseph Smith, who revealed “a religion for the space age” (Truman G. Madsen). UM is the most correct science on the face of the Earth, and the Keystone of True Inquiry. How do we know that? The book itself says so: “The new models in this chapter are just as revolutionary as when science learned the Earth was not flat, or when we learned the Earth revolved around the Sun.”
And just as everyone will know when the Second Coming happens, and everyone will at some day acknowledge Joseph Smith as a true prophet, so every tongue will eventually confess that UM is the truth: “The new discoveries found within the UM, which are true, will have a lasting impact on everyone in society whether they choose to learn them now or later.” Cue the archetypal Mormon testimony: “I know that the Universal Model is true . . .” UM is here to usher in the Millennium. (It uses that word a lot.)
CONSPIRACISM. The two things Mormons love most (from a Jell-O Belt cultural perspective) are conspiracy theories and gimmicky marketing schemes. This book taps into both. As everyone suspects, modern science is a conspiracy. The book talks about “daring” scientists cowed by funding committees and subversive “agendas other than teaching truth.” And don’t forget to “follow the money-trail,” which will show you a network of evil behind those innocent-looking textbooks your kids are brainwashed by in public schools. And that’s putting it in a best-case scenario. At its core, modern science, particularly physics, is the “author of confusion.” In Mormon parlance, the original Author of Confusion is of course Satan. Yes, you heard it here first: modern physics can only be inspired by the Devil himself! UM must be God’s One True and Living Science!
GIMMICKY MARKETING. As other reviewers have noted, this summary teases the reader with paragraph after paragraph of how the secrets to true science can all be found in the full multivolume UM series. It says how modern science has gotten things wrong (like those hoaxes about magma and fossils more than 5,000 years old) and also says that most people can figure out the truth with easy at-home experiments. But then it leaves you hanging. McKay is clear from the get-go that UM’s “extraordinary evidence” can be “found in the UM [full series], but which I omit here in order to keep this book brief.” Brief, but also expensive, to the tune of $90-ish dollars for each of the three thick volumes. You can hear the sales pitch: “If you subscribe to our PLATINUM plan, you can get the secrets of the universe for only 90 bucks!”
My personal opinion: If the secrets to the universe can only be found by forking over Grants and Hamiltons, and are not freely available to the public, then it’s a scam. Prove me wrong, UM people—publish ALL your findings online for free. I know printing a textbook full of diagrams and photos (most of which were created by Sessions himself) can be pricey, but why hide this essential knowledge behind a paywall? People need this Gospel, so offer it freely, without money and without price.
I’ll make no bones about it: the Universal Model IS a Gospel, the “good news” that teaches us how to understand our true relationship to Nature (code: relationship to God). “Gaining a true understanding of your own history and origin will allow you to view Life within a new paradigm,” the book announces, which will “broaden our understanding of our origin, our destiny, and the world around us.” This goes along exactly with what any Mormon missionary will tell you: We have the answers to where we came from, why we’re here, and where we’re going. All we need is an eternal commitment to our Celestial Plan (TM) and ten percent of your income annually.
CONCLUSION. I know this review is snarky. But to paraphrase the book, “Extraordinary B.S. requires extraordinary criticism.” Few credible scientists would touch this book with a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole, not because they’re scared of it or scared of being a scientific outcast, but because it’s utter nonsense. It makes Gish-galloping a full-color, diagrammed art form. I, however, am a sucker for this kind of stuff. I have a morbid fascination with bunk and the “bunkies” who peddle it. The UM is on the level of any “answer to the mysteries of the universe” found in a Jehovah’s Witness Awake!, and just as kooky. If you want to flirt with Ptolemaic, Hermetic, Alchemical approaches to “natural law,” then UM is for you. If, however, you’re interested in the basics of geology, biology, astronomy, and the rest, I recommend any volume from the Dummies series. Even Amazon seems to agree with me.
April 8, 2018
Please not that my criticism of this short book is not a criticism of the Universal Model. Unfortunately, after reading this book I still have no idea what the Universal Model is, so I'm not in a position to even comment on it.
I went to a conference where a one-hour dis-jointed presentation on a portion of the universal model was presented (fossils). I piqued my interest so I went out to the book seller set up in the hallway and looked for book on the universal model so I could learn more. Well, volume 1 of the UM book was about $90. It was a beautiful book, but I wasn't ready to dive in that deep. I just wanted to understand a little more about what the UM model is. Then I saw this little book sitting next to it and I picked up a copy for $7. I thought it would be a great place to start. I was wrong. It is not a great place to start. It is not even a good place to start. This book is not a summary of the UM. It reads more like a sales brochure for the $90 book.
Basically this pamphlet is laid out like this:
- Here is the title of the chapter along with a short description of the topic.
- Everything science has concluded about this subject is wrong
- The truth is in the other book.
There was not summary of the chapter. It is very thin on actually summary-type content. I was hoping that after reading the book/pamphlet that I could at least provide an intelligent description of what the UM is, but I can't. I'm still not sure what the UM is. All I know is that someone thinks everything I have learned about science is wrong and it I want to know the truth I'm going to have to fork over the $90.
$7 wasted.
I went to a conference where a one-hour dis-jointed presentation on a portion of the universal model was presented (fossils). I piqued my interest so I went out to the book seller set up in the hallway and looked for book on the universal model so I could learn more. Well, volume 1 of the UM book was about $90. It was a beautiful book, but I wasn't ready to dive in that deep. I just wanted to understand a little more about what the UM model is. Then I saw this little book sitting next to it and I picked up a copy for $7. I thought it would be a great place to start. I was wrong. It is not a great place to start. It is not even a good place to start. This book is not a summary of the UM. It reads more like a sales brochure for the $90 book.
Basically this pamphlet is laid out like this:
- Here is the title of the chapter along with a short description of the topic.
- Everything science has concluded about this subject is wrong
- The truth is in the other book.
There was not summary of the chapter. It is very thin on actually summary-type content. I was hoping that after reading the book/pamphlet that I could at least provide an intelligent description of what the UM is, but I can't. I'm still not sure what the UM is. All I know is that someone thinks everything I have learned about science is wrong and it I want to know the truth I'm going to have to fork over the $90.
$7 wasted.
May 24, 2022
I'd like to think that the author(s) MIGHT have something to contribute to science, but this book mostly made me think otherwise. The authors generally look down on scientists as closed-minded, gatekeeping, and unconcerned with discovering how nature actually works, and they argue that experiments are only valid if they don't require expensive equipment or expertise to conduct them. Perhaps most frustrating is that they view science as a collection of proven theories, i.e. "natural laws", rather than a collection of theories that have yet to be disproved. Since, of course, no scientific theory can be conclusively proved true, each one is discarded by the authors (and allegedly replaced by another that IS provable - whatever that means).
The book mostly just questions/ridicules current scientific consensus. Alternate theories are stated in some cases, but they aren't supported by any substantive arguments or explanations. You'd have to buy the textbook to get any justifications for the ideas mentioned here.
The book mostly just questions/ridicules current scientific consensus. Alternate theories are stated in some cases, but they aren't supported by any substantive arguments or explanations. You'd have to buy the textbook to get any justifications for the ideas mentioned here.
August 12, 2024
Pseudo-Scientific horse hockey.
That's all I can say about this book.
This group, the Universal Model... Group (Who ever they are), are so intent on proving the Bible's 4000 BCE creation date that they are doing pseudo-scientific backflips to get it done.
Paleontologists are using Potassium-Argon dating techniques on ancient magma flows to approximate the date of ancient fossils? Well then... let's get rid of magma. So if the Earth has no magma in its mantle, what can we fill it with? How about water?
What!?! I'm speechless. I am without speech. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAGMA? THEN WHAT THE HELL IS SPEWING OUT OF HAWAII RIGHT NOW????
I can't believe that anyone actually believes this stuff. They ought to get together with the Flat Earth guys and go bowling.
That's all I can say about this book.
This group, the Universal Model... Group (Who ever they are), are so intent on proving the Bible's 4000 BCE creation date that they are doing pseudo-scientific backflips to get it done.
Paleontologists are using Potassium-Argon dating techniques on ancient magma flows to approximate the date of ancient fossils? Well then... let's get rid of magma. So if the Earth has no magma in its mantle, what can we fill it with? How about water?
What!?! I'm speechless. I am without speech. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MAGMA? THEN WHAT THE HELL IS SPEWING OUT OF HAWAII RIGHT NOW????
I can't believe that anyone actually believes this stuff. They ought to get together with the Flat Earth guys and go bowling.
March 15, 2017
Intriguing...
I am really intrigued by this new science model, however this summary reads more like an ad pamphlet rather than a summary. It however did accomplish it's job; I am excited to read the full textbook- and who is ever excited to read a textbook? Lol
I am really intrigued by this new science model, however this summary reads more like an ad pamphlet rather than a summary. It however did accomplish it's job; I am excited to read the full textbook- and who is ever excited to read a textbook? Lol
August 20, 2025
A college-level textbook? That's a joke. The authors of this book missed several important lessons in college, such as critical thinking, testing hypotheses, not seeking to prove a foregone conclusion, etc. It's a mockery of science, pandering to religious fundamentalists and conspiracy theorists. Their message is a bit muddled though, because they can't quite decide if the entire scientific community is just stupid for missing obvious truths about our world, or if all scientists are part of a malevolent cabal conspiring to suppress the truth.
June 22, 2018
I love how well it eases the reader into understanding The Universal Model Volume I.
I recommend anyone read it! It is a good preview of the amazing book!
I recommend anyone read it! It is a good preview of the amazing book!
October 14, 2019
Wets your appitite
This book does not go in-depth, but it is a place to get started if you really want to go more in-depth with the UM. Most everything that is claimed in the UM is experimentally verifiable.
This book does not go in-depth, but it is a place to get started if you really want to go more in-depth with the UM. Most everything that is claimed in the UM is experimentally verifiable.
April 30, 2017
Very Interesting! I am excited for what I am going to learn in the book that is not the summary. :)
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