Subject: Surprises
Date: 1 August 2007
From: Flash Light
To: Dr. Sophronius
Dear Dr. Sophronius,
Your question reveals (as I've suspected) that you never read the report, nor apparently have you read, "Modern Metaphysics," my discourse on this astonishing scientific revelation.
No, they didn't "excavate" the mummy; that had been done long before. The exact scientific term used in the report for what they did was, "resurrected." That is, they found the ancient DNA of the mummy to have been preserved intact by the embalming process just as the ancient priests of Anubis intended, and most astonishingly were able to restore "life" to that DNA just as those ancient priests predicted.
Here's the exact quote, "Human genetic material, largely undamaged after 2,400 years, has been extracted from an Egyptian mummy and has been grown in the laboratory. The achievement is the most dramatic in a series of recent accomplishments using molecular biology to study links between modern and ancient life. . .
"The achievement by Dr. Svante Psabo, of the University of Uppsala in Sweden is believed to be the first in which DNA, the genetic material in all forms of life, has been resurrected and duplicated from an ancient human, or from any other specimen of such antiquity." (Emphasis added.)
At the time of the report, April 16, 1985, it was possible to grow DNA, that is turn the ancient DNA into living DNA and duplicate it, but it was not possible to clone mammals. However, genetic science has now reached that point, so the actual resurrection of the dead by genetic engineering is at hand. Pets are already being genetically resurrected. For merely tens of thousands of dollars, you can have a dead cat restored to life.
You wrote, "Anyway what draw does this have for you?" If Jesus had begun raising the dead in 1985, what "draw" would it have for you? Silly question, right? You'd be jumping up and down proclaiming the resurrection had begun, that it was no longer a matter of faith, but a reality for all to see. However, it was not Lord Jesus who succeeded in raising the first of the Christian dead, but Lord Anubis who succeeded in raising the first of the ancient Egyptian dead. After 2,400 years of being preserved as a mummy, this was no small feat.
When death was an inpenetrable barrier, Wittgenstein had famously said, "Whereof we cannot know, thereof we should not speak." Now that genetic science can raise the dead, I believe the mantra of metaphysics becomes: Whereof we can now know, thereof we must now speak. This was my primary motivation in establishing this website for what I call Logical Pantheism, wherein our correspondence is recorded.
So for years I've been writing patiently hoping you would finally "get" the significance of the fact that the resurrection of the dead has already begun, and it is Lord Anubis who began it. Or to put it colloquially, "Wake up and smell the tanna leaves, dear: metaphysics will never be the same."