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A narrator for The Urantia Book reads its account of the earliest people as a report from life carriers. They placed the first living matter here long before anyone walked, then stood back. The book puts the first pair a little under a million years before the papers were written. These two had feet for walking and running, a change presented as a mutation, so the narrator argues there is no missing step between animal and human. New feelings arrive with the twins, above all awe, reverence, humility, and a gratitude animals are said to lack. Fear plus ignorance of storms is the start of early religion. By about age ten they had a small language their primate parents could barely learn. They later left those associates and turned north, not knowing they would begin the human family. The carriers say they could not override that choice. A gibbon attack killed the mother as she defended them, and the father died of grief. Those losses are told as part of a long plan from animal life toward spiritual experience.
Key points
- The narrator presents the book’s story, including life carriers who planted the first living matter and then withdrew.
- The first humans are two twins, placed a little under a million years ago and marked by human feet after one mutation.
- What sets them apart, in the reading, is a worshipful range of feeling that animals do not share.
- They build a modest language, fail to teach most of it to their primate parents, and choose to migrate north.
- The life carriers claim they could watch and arrange circumstances but could not control the twins’ minds.
- Their mother’s death defending them, and their father’s grief, are told as the cost of that beginning.
Short quotes
they say that the first two human beings appeared on the planet
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The reading places that first pair here a little under a million years ago. Watch at 4:09
fear joined with ignorance of natural phenomena is about to give birth to primitive religion
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Early religion, in the book, starts where fear meets not knowing storms and other natural events. Watch at 6:36
she fearlessly gave her life in the attempt to save the wonderful pair
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Their mother, as the narrator reads it, died trying to shield the twins. Watch at 13:41
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