The Urantia Book (UB) revelation^[ref] amplifies and accentuates the Adam & Eve (A&E) historical story consistent with the overall cosmic description throughout the UB, AND provides a sublime logical consistency for three very distinct worldviews thriving on our planet. The UB coordinates science and religion into a common-sense harmony; the A&E story is one solid example of how it delivers that harmony.

The UB A&E story affords: 1) For UB students, an authoritative rendition of how thirty seven thousand years ago from 1935 “Adam’s contribution to the biologic status of the races, notwithstanding the partial failure of the undertaking, enormously upstepped the people of Urantia” [78:1.1 (868.3)]; 2) for secular scientists and agnostics a basis for further predictions, avenues of study, and progressive hypotheses/theories, and 3) for atheists, materialists , and natural philosophers, a reflective constellation of facts and insights to render a palpable coordination for science and religion (COSAR).

The A&E UB cosmology exemplifies the coordination (congruence) of science and religion through revelation. [Person’s name] personal story makes claim that: "the meaningful integration of science and religion—the truth of both realities—can best be achieved by revelation" demonstrates the implied science related to the UB narrative of the infusion of “Adam’s plasm” into humanity thirty-seven thousand years ago is extraordinarily prescient for one made in1934.” There are similar stories of creation in other religions. (Interesting to note that religion is the first of these two domains to consider cosmology). And ironically, the book of Genesis in the Bible has two differently described creation events – two models if you will. (Ch 1 & 2). Even this is sensibly rectified!

A description of genesis (cosmogony) is a common theme in religions and creation philosophies throughout the planet. For example, in China , the goddess Nüwatook a walk among the majesties of creation, but she grew lonely, so she paused along the banks of a river and began to fashion creatures out of clay. After making a few animals, Nüwa got bored, and catching her beautiful reflection in the river, decided to create creatures in her own image and name them humans. In Ovid's "Metamorphosis," written in Ancient Rome , the gods first separated light from dark, then earth from sky, then created all of the animals before deciding to make "[a]n animal with higher intellect, more noble, able — one to rule the rest." Ovid states he borrowed from older mythological sources which credited Prometheus with making men "by mixing new-made earth with fresh rainwater; and when he fashioned man, his mold recalled the masters of all things, the gods." In one Egyptian creation myth, the god Amun commands the ram-headed god Khmun to create human beings "as a potter who molds clay on a potter's wheel." And according to Sumerian creation myths , which are some of the oldest known recorded, the primeval mother goddess Namma created mankind to do chores for the gods and birthed them by placing clay in her womb.

As a primary theme, The UB revelation demonstrates a coherent, rational, and self-consistent account of the origin and proliferation of reality. To a reflective thinker, it raises the truth in all of these universe/human creation stories by leavening anthropomorphic processes into ones befitting a scientific age. The revelation deftly develops an enlarged concept of God as the “I AM” presented as The Infinite, The Infinitude, The Initiator, and an ultimate Cosmic Delegator of reality. It is the concept of God as THE ultimate delegator that this revelation adds to the legends of creation existing throughout the planet.

In all respects, the revelation illustrates a chronological picture of the origins of reality for finite minds to understand non-time precedence as cardinal sequence. To our time-based finite minds, there must be a postulated theoretical moment of a “first” volitional expression and a subsequent causal reaction within the I AM as a repercussion of original causal Self-Will.

A Melchizedek of the local universe Urantia is within, portrays the genesis and generation of reality as the “self-differentiation of The Infinite One from The Infinitude.” (105:2.2 (1154.1)). In other words, the infinite will of the I AM separates the absolute, unqualified unity of infinity into the realities of The Infinite One of deified reality (e.g., sentient life) and The Infinitude of undeified reality (e.g., energy). The Infinity is also recognized as the I AM. The Infinity associates and unifies The Infinite One and The Infinitude. We will come back to this idea of Will in the expanded revelatory concept of personality. This particular set of terms related to infinity is necessary and sufficient, in our opinion, to stretch the mind of Urantians to accommodate the succeeding revelation supporting the previous two: Melchizedek and Jesus.

The revelation presents a novel and dynamic view of the one and of the many, Deity and Reality. It portrays a religious cosmology which is well-nigh limitless and a scientific cosmogony which can be verified as astronomic data becomes accessible and assessable. In fact, the Melchizedek of Nebadon author of Paper 105 recognizes the many difficulties inherent in the attempt to portray the totality of reality, all reality, to human finite minds. He says frankly: "reality totality IS infinity and therefore can never be fully comprehended by any mind that is subinifinite in concept capacity." (105:0.2 (1152.2). The UB revelation of the universe origin and structure provides the most comprehensive and rational model that bridges the gap between the finite and infinite, the personal and the impersonal.

What is patently obvious from an understanding of UB cosmology, is how it lays out an unbroken description beginning with The Infinite as The Infinitude separating into seven Absolutes of Infinity through a vast cosmic descent of celestial personalities. This unbroken intellectual synchrony reveals how humans evolve from a self-organizing creation event, not by God directly, but by specific universe personalities delegated to do that on every inhabitable sphere. The model introduces the human insight for a consistent and logical universe philosophy.

Through this infused cosmology, an assemblage of non-human authors seamlessly harmonize and depict a coordinated and unbroken explanation of both science and religion through an upstepped, revealed philosophy of reality. This logical model transcends the parochial concerns of either religious of scientific domains, but doesn’t diminish the accomplishments gained throughout their long history. It eliminates any basis for contention about which conception of the universe between science or religion is the singular "truth."

An expanded genesis depicts not God creating the universe and man out of nothing and clay respectively. Rather, the revelation illustrates an interesting inverse of process cosmogony resolving a number of paradoxes that have beleaguered mankind for all of known history. In the UB origin of the universe, God, as THE Infinite, creates partitioned reality from the Infinity of “everything” into Absolute potentials and actuals – three each. The revelation of infinite potentials is unique to this epochal revelation; we believe this is so because a tipping point of humans in the twentieth century were intellectually and spiritually ready to accept such expansion. It is inductively reasoned that as science arose in Western society as an expression of the Adam and Eve genetic upstep, the Urantian mind was becoming ready for a revelation to build upon the Jesusonian one.

This cosmic genesis concept is antithetically opposite to the well-nigh universal belief (except for atheists) that nothing of reality existed prior to some hypothetical energy explosion or a magical-like creation event by a transcendental omniscient being. Religious creation accounts all depict God as conjuring reality from “nothing.” Materialists ironically believe similarly; matter somehow exists with no beginning. If this is the case then either absolute time, eternity, is implied, or there is a domain of transcended time where matter has “descended” into the time domain. There is “nothing” attributed to the material universe’s origin. It would seem a strict materialist has to suspend disbelief in a logical religious premise to avoid serious cognitive dissonance.

It is the “out of nothing” hypothesis (excepting a finite condensed point) the Big Bang implies that atheists eschew. A finite beginning in time implies that a limited universe, by contrast, would force scientists to confront uncomfortable questions about the ultimate beginning of the material universe itself. It also raises the possibility that the universe began in something like a creation event produced by a cause that existed independently of matter, space, time, and energy. (Meyer)

As previously stated, the atheistic position is antithetical to a Big Bang and requires an infinite non-beginning universe to maintain consistency. What is oddly paradoxical with this premise (in order to avoid the God hypothesis) is that everything of material reality already existed existentially! The idea of an infinitely old universe is formulated under the materialist position for explicitly philosophical reasons by scientists and philosophers openly committed to a fully materialistic worldview, one that avoids a personality to make plans and execute upon them.

To an atheist or a strict materialist, a beginning is anathema to reason – even though philosophically humans logically require a beginning for everything in time. The obvious theistic implication is the reason for the materialistic theory of the steady-state model - and the subsequent oscillating model (which is proposed to clarify some of the inherent philosophical weaknesses in the steady state model). Ironically, both these models require some sort of an above or beyond time domain! They logically have to dismiss a beginning of the material universe. Everything else, especially consciousness/mind emerges out of matter. While the revelation points out materialism is an extreme philosophy, it does support the atheistic premise that ALL of energy (unedeified) reality existed primally to any objective reality actualizing as a result of some creation “event.”

There are essentially two overarching religious theistic models that deal with how God created and interacts with the universe: Deism and Theism. Fundamentally, with classical Deism, God creates the universe and then steps away from his creation to let it run its course.^[ref] With Theism, essentially God creates the universe and all its inhabitants similarly to Deism, but He keeps a providential hand in all matter’s material and spiritual. The story of Jonah is a reasonable depiction of how God interacts with his creation, especially with an individual person in relation to the duty and loyalty aspects of morality.^[ref]

The UB model integrates both of these two God-driven positions elegantly and sublimely; this has gone relatively unnoticed even among UB students. While Deism and Theism believe quite differently in how God maintains the universe after creation, both agree that God created the universe and humans at some time even though God is believed to be transcendent to the universe and therefore exists beyond time.

Thus, there is relative truth in both Deism and Theism that the UB model brings forward. God in fact does create, but He creates by segmenting His infinity initially into Absolutes. What is significant about this is the idea that even though the cosmic structure the Fifth Epochal Revelation promulgates - if one assesses the apparent “pure revelation” with an open mind - a unique universe architecture out of an apparent set of adverse models. A Divine Counselor weaves this renovating model into an intellectual and visceral foundation to set the stage that while much of the hard won evolutionary religious and scientific thinking is flawed factually to varying degrees, there is definite truth in all of the current conventional beliefs and their derivations. This, in our minds, sets the stage for the subsequent use of human thought to be used masterfully throughout the rest of the revelation. The pattern found throughout the papers is obvious and significant.

In a rare adverse rendition, both a Melchizedek and a Mighty Messenger assert that the extremes of both materialism and pantheism should be avoided as philosophies because neither recognizes the reality of personality—permanence in the presence of change. (103:8.6 (1140.6) / 118:6.8 (1300.4)). Pantheism is a “colossal [philosophic] error” because, it too, omits the existence of will; without will as a unifying and diversifying element, there is no logical value inherent in the reality of morality; in fact, there is no purpose for it! Pantheism would be a viable model of the universe if the I AM could not divest Himself from infinity by creating another absolute infinite personality besides Himself. There would be no personalities in the universe to hypothesize how the Infinite Infinitude created the universe.

The UB model newly reveals that at some paradoxical “moment in eternity” this diffusion of infinite reality segmented Itself into the six other Absolutes, all also infinite. It supports and raises the theistic position of God as a singularly transcendent personality as a focalized source of the universe (in both Deistic and Theistic positions) and as the source of that Absolute (Paradise) that is the origin of time and master pattern of finity. It logically reveals God at the center of all creation. (cf. Figure 1).

The concept of seven Absolutes of Infinity provides a coherent purpose of why God is at the center of all reality. The atheistic position that the universe is infinitely old (again in order to obviate a Supreme Being) is again buoyed in the concept of Absoluteness: beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. Absolute time is eternity. Materialism ironically posits absolutes.

The revelation also depicts that concepts of potential are important to understand in relation to the actuality of reality. The cosmic model denotes two Absolutes of potential as wellsprings for an infinite amount of either personal or impersonal components of the universe. A third Absolute coordinates and manages the tension between the dynamic infinity of the personal (designated as The Deity Absolute) and the static infinity of the impersonal (designated as The Unqualified Absolute). Current philosophy understands these basically as organic and inorganic respectively, or as life and energy alternatively. The revelation makes an extraordinary statement that on subinfinite levels (there are two: finite and ultimate/transcendental) the three potential Absolutes differentiate functionally in time (finity) as three, but in infinity they are ONE.

The reader is probably asking by now ‘What does this cosmogony and subsequent cosmology have to do with the Adam and Eve story?’ For those who are not strict materialists, atheists, or pantheists Adam and Eve (and other creation legends) link directly to a perspective of God’s creating the universe, which includes a cosmic genesis that sees God as a transcendent personality. The only difference between the Deist and Theist is how God acts after creation is “finished.” ^[ref] Panentheism comes closest to the Fifth Epochal Revelation’s cosmology and the concept of God’s personalness (not his personality), but positions God as a secondary actor to creation itself. ^[ref]

As stated above, the Urantia revelation clearly discloses that The First Source and Center – God – originates reality by partitioning His infinity while remaining the inexhaustible Infinitude, yet delegating subsequent creation functions to “celestial agents,” be they Absolute or finite. The revelation makes known there arises an almost limitless panoply of personalities between God and humans. A Secondary Lanonandek Son informs us in a paper called The Planetary Adams that the order of Adams and Eves “are the last and the indispensable link connecting God with man.” As immortal Material Sons and Daughters, Adam and Eve “[bridge] the almost infinite gulf between the eternal Creator and the lowest finite personalities of time [humans].” (51:6.5 (587.3)).

The reason for this close human connection to A&E points directly to the father concept. Over many centuries of service to the human population, the inhabitants eventually consider a planetary Adam as the “father of the realm.” To mark this revelatory consistency in the UB, the very last sentence in the very last paper in the revelation says: “When all is said and done, the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God.” (196:3.35 (2097.3). In fact, the midwayers write that the concept of God as a Father was not original with Jesus, (the Fourth Epochal Revelation) but he exalted and elevated the idea into a sublime experience by achieving a new revelation of God and by proclaiming that every mortal creature is a child of this Father of love, a son of God.

The fifth epochal Urantia revelation now extends the father concept in consonance with the revealed cosmology. Starting from a biologic father, the ascending father-steps an ascender achieves, culminates in the Universal Father with Jesus as the Creator Son and supreme ruler of his local creations two steps away from the seventh and last milestone – God, the Father-Infinite.

Much, very much, of Jesus’ gospel and his day-to-day ad-hoc statements about his (and the apostles’) father are made pointedly to allow first century humans to understand and appreciate the loving personality of the Universal Father. Jesus portrayed the personality of the Universal Father as an enlarged and truer concept of God. Jesus validated the father aspect of the personality of God through his life. A Divine Counselor acting on authority of the penultimate fathers (The Ancients of Days) reveals “… selflessness is inherent in parental love. God loves not like a father, but as a father. He is the Paradise Father of every universe personality.” (92:6.4 (41.2)).

The Adams & Eves have a specific joint mission on every planet inhabited by humans, that of biologic “accelerators” or “uplifters.” (31:5.2 (349.2) & 40:2.2 (444.2)/3:7.4 (827.3)). An Archangel of Nebadon reveals in describing the overall development of civilization that “… the Adamic blood did augment the inherent ability of the races and did accelerate the pace of economic development and industrial progression. Adam’s bestowal improved the brain power of the races, thereby greatly hastening the processes of natural evolution.” (81:5.1 (905.6)).

Theirs is to accelerate both culture and biology by augmenting evolution “naturally.” The key term is augment: to supplement, to boost, to reinforce. The A&Es are specifically instructed to augment evolution, not to revolutionize the natural and measured patterns of evolution. A Melchizedek acting by request of the Chief of the Seraphic Hosts of Nebadon, reveals that there is a peak to biologic evolution no matter what physical type of human is evolving on an inhabited planet.^[ref] An Adam and Eve pair augment further evolution of the races by an actual contribution of their DNA (in 1934 this was called “plasm”) as a “strong positive selection" in the human evolutionary lineage.^[ref]

When historians and archeologists examine protracted periods of human history, it is observed that eventually evolution and culture are respectively related as cause and effect. Evolution may continue to advance in the absence of culture, but cultural civilization does not flourish without an adequate background of antecedent racial progression. (Ibid). This is currently being proven out in the findings of the archeological site recently unearthed at Golbekli Tepi.^[ref] Halbert Katzen writes: “The Urantia revelation harmonizes perfectly well with the discoveries being made at Golbekli Tepi. The UB revelation presents an unbroken explanation of the mysteries prior to known history in terms of the Urantian Adam and Eve story which various UB authors assert is nonetheless the basis for many of our myths and religious traditions about the origins of humanity.” (Ibid). These accounts vary in factual detail from the Old Testament record, but it is noted again that the truth of the story is preserved.

Science appears to be catching up to the prescient coordination that the UB revelation made in 1934/35 regarding the purpose of A&E. Their mostly unsuccessful mission on this planet played out biologically and culturally in subsequent generations between ~37,000 BCE and ~5000 BCE when the Sumerians show up as the “beginning” of convention history. According to almost all historians and archeologists, the Sumerians appear to be the first civilization. Yet, “No one knows where the Sumerians came from.” (Ibid).

The revelation once again makes emphatic presaging statements as indicted by an Archangel of Nebadon who writes that the Sumerians appeared so suddenly and mysteriously on the stage of action in Mesopotamia because of a very long dispersion two hundred thousand years before A&E. She writes: “Without a trace of origin elsewhere in the world, these ancient tribes suddenly loom upon the horizon of civilization with a full-grown and superior culture, embracing temples, metalwork, agriculture, animals, pottery, weaving, commercial law, civil codes, religious ceremonial, and an old system of writing.” (77:4.7 (860.2)). How peculiar is that? Especially when conventional belief is that humans have been around between 2.0 to 2.5 million years ago.

The Archangel goes further to say that the Life Carriers had planned a new type of mortal embracing the union of the conjoint offspring of the Planetary Prince’s staff with the first-generation offspring of Adam and Eve. The plan projected a new order of planetary creatures whom they hoped would become the teacher-rulers of human society. Such beings were designed for social sovereignty, not civil sovereignty. We are told that “this project almost completely miscarried.” The key word is “almost;” this too is prescient. (77:2.2 (856.5));

We pause this narration here to discuss the fact that science is catching up to the revelation in many areas related to a number of disciplines, in particular, that of genome sequencing. With the advent of DNA profiling, some startling findings regarding two genes linked to brain size are theorized to continue to rapidly evolve in humans. According to Catherine Gianaro writing in the University of Chicago Chronical, the two genes that regulate brain size are microcephalin and ASPM (abnormal spindle-like microcephaly-associated) have led to some startling inferences. This probably wouldn’t excite too many non-geneticists, but the implications should gain the attention of those wondering where we came from.

The University of Chicago lead scientist Dr. Bruce Lahn reports in two related papers published in the Friday, Sept. 9 2005 issue of Science , that for microcephalin, the new variant class emerged about 37,000 years ago and now shows up in about 70 percent of present-day humans. For ASPM, the new variant class arose about 5,800 years ago and now shows up in approximately 30 percent of today’s humans. The dates and the types of gene are stunning to say the least.

To say the UB revelation regarding not only the A&E mission, but the actual disclosed unanticipated outcome of the aborted assignment, is supported by the emerging science is an understatement. Dr. Lahn is further quoted as saying “In a very short period of time, this class of variants arose from a single copy to many copies. That implies that this must have happened because of positive selection,” (Ibid). Lahn points out that it is statistically unlikely for a haplogroup this young to have such high frequency as a result of mere random genetic drift.

The single copy is defined by Lahn as “introgresssion.” In a subsequent article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) November 28, 2006, Dr. Lahn and his co-authors say this:

The gene microcephalin (MCPH1) regulates brain size during development and has experienced positive selection in the lineage leading to Homo sapiens. Within modern humans, a group of closely related haplotypes at this locus, known as haplogroup D, rose from a single copy ≈37,000 years ago and swept to exceptionally high frequency (≈70% worldwide today) because of positive selection. Here, we examine the origin of haplogroup D. By using the interhaplogroup divergence test, we show that haplogroup D likely originated from a lineage separated from modern humans ≈1.1 million years ago and introgressed into humans by ≈37,000 years ago.

There are two points to make here. 1) A new segment of genetic material, haplogroup D, was introduced into the Microcephalin gene in humans from a “single progenitor” “about 37,000” years ago. And 2) the gene has reached 70% of the human population by introgression and backcrossing, as opposed to “natural drift.” These are the factual findings of Dr. Lahn’s research.

Introgression is a long-term process; it may take many hybrid generations before significant backcrossing occurs. The introgression process is distinct from most forms of gene flow in that it occurs between two populations of different species, rather than two populations of the same species. It is a process that requires an agent to positively add the gene externally. With backcrossing, a hybrid crosses with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent, to achieve offspring with a genetic identity closer to that of the parent.

This is exactly what the revelation describes happened with the planet’s human biology after the miscarriage of the mission. In a section of paper seventy-five entitled The Urantia Problem Solonia, the seraphic “voice in the Garden” describes the condition of the planet when A&E arrived as nothing short of what the 1896 science fiction story “The Island of Doctor Moreau” portrays. Solonia notes that “defectives and degenerates from among the human strains … dismayed” A&E even though they were trained and advised for more than two hundred thousand years on Edentia. They were physically, mentally, and spiritually isolated due to the Lucifer rebellion cutting off communication to and from the planet; “they were day by day confronted with some new and complicated tangle, some problem that seemed to be unsolvable. … They could see no way out of the dilemma, and they could not take counsel with their superiors on either Jerusem or Edentia.” (Ibid).

There is some disagreement as to the best dates for the emergence of anatomically modern humans. However, according to Lahn fossil records indicate that anatomically modern humansfirst emerged ≈200,000 years ago in Africa and since then spread throughout the world. Katzen has said:

“… new discoveries about ancient human history, especial genetics research, lend support to The Urantia Book's statements about when four major genetic changes occurred in the development of civilization. The Urantia Book says that the first two major changes were mutations. The initial mutation evolved man out of the animal level of existence into a pre-civilizable expression of humanity. The second one gave human beings a genetic foundation that was civilizable, but still pre-modern. These occurred approximately 1,000,000 years ago and 500,000 years ago. The second two major changes involved superhuman additions to the gene pool. These occurred approximately 200,000 years ago and 38,000 yars [sic] ago."

It is the third superhuman addition that is described in the revelation in paper seventy-seven regarding the dispersion that took place regarding the Nodite race, who carried “powerful life-maintenance circuits of the Satania system.” (77:2.5 (857.2)). The Bible truthfully recalls the “land of Nod.” Similar to the A&E introgression, the corporeal one-hundred from the first epochal revelation, had children who were of “unexpected excellence characterized not only physical and intellectual qualities but also spiritual capacities.” This correlates with current science as to the emergence of anatomically modern humans. In fact, the Archangel reveals that “this explains how the Sumerians appeared so suddenly and mysteriously on the stage of action in Mesopotamia. … [which is] the beginning of the Sumerians, who had their origin two hundred thousand years ago.” (77:4.7 (860.2)).

These prescient claims found in the UB revelation have been noticed and acknowledged by some very astute scientists. The late Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis has a page that discusses in summary “Striking Coincidences Between The Urantia Book (Copyright 1955); three articles in Science: 309 (2005); and one in Nature, (2005).” Dr. Mullis received a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The process, which Mullis conceptualized in 1983, is hailed as one of the monumental scientific techniques of the twentieth century. The PCR is the foundation for the mRNA vaccines that put an end to the COVID pandemic. Dr. Mullis says:

Several scientific developments, unexpected in 1955, reported in 2005 in Science and Nature, and referenced below, were somehow, described rather precisely already in the Urantia Book. I have documented three cases here, but there are many contemporary scientific discoveries which were first posited as far as I can tell, in this rather large tome. There is much in here, the truth of which cannot be judged from the apparent truth of these several instances. The book claims a large number of authors. Much of it would be considered "politically incorrect" and might infuriate some people. I suggest that you not be shooting at the messenger; I am just reporting what I have observed.

Dr. Mullis maps the Urantia Book’s statements against contemporary science discoveries:

1) The age of the earth and moon at 4.5B years.

2) The earliest unequivocal presence of humans north of the Alps 800K years ago.

3) The Adamic uplifting of human genetic stock 37K years ago.

The accepted DNA research that provided positive selection in the human evolutionary lineage thirty-seven thousand years ago matches both current science and revelation dates. In other words, the scientific community did not know and accept the date as it relates to positive introgressive selection until 2005 – fifty years after the publication and seventy after the dates were indicted by the celestial authors to the contact commission. Except for the occurrence of the pre-science revelation disclosed in paper seventy-four, this timeline was not even hypothesized.

For the purposes of describing the totality of the consistency in the Urantia book, we sometimes use the non-sentient term “the revelation.” Obviously, the book itself is not sentient; the non-human authors are. Saying “the Urantia Book says …” is an oxymoron. Where it makes sense to present a particular thought or concept as a consistent and unbroken description, we use “the revelation.” For most of the quoted references, we use the identification of the author (usually a category, sometimes a particular name) to accentuate the fact that an individual sentient personality made the statement.

We put quotations around “finished” to draw attention to the fact that none of the conventional models truly accept the idea of creation as “terminated.” It is beyond the scope of this paper to cover all aspects of how deism/theism believe the universe progresses after genesis. By finished, the Deists believe God steps back and lets whatever is going to happen, happen, but whether or not creation is “finished” is a special subject itself.

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