True Science Teaches Doubt
Highlights of article in Hernando Today Edition of The
Tampa Tribune
The severe high school football injury he sustained when he was 15 years old
ended his pursuit of a formal academic career. But the drive and desire to
find out what was beyond has led him on an insatiable path of knowledge and busy
writing career.
Harold W. G. Allen, a
Spring Hill, Florida cosmologist and writer, has just published his latest work,
Cosmic Perspective
- a book he said "kills the big bang theory."
Get Allen on a roll talking about his theory on the formation of the
universe and he becomes a man with a mission: to dispel traditional views
on how the universe was formed.
Allen has spent much of his adult life writing and lecturing on what
he calls the flaws in the traditional view of creation. As well as
detailed scientific data and research, he has also penned fact-based fiction
books, his most recent - The
Face on Mars - last year.
Sitting in his Spring Hill home where he's resided since 1980, Allen talks
with fervor about his favorite subject, Cosmology - the branch of metaphysics
dealing with the nature of the universe. In the roughly 30 years he's
researched the process, he's convinced the traditional view of the big bang -
that the universe originated billions of years ago in an explosion from a single
point of nearly infinite energy - isn't right.
In Cosmic
Perspective, Allen asserts that evolution, gravitation, the rate of
expansion of the universe and the destiny of creation are all linked
mathematically by what he would define as a truly dynamic theory of "universal
reincarnation."
"I've always been puzzled on how to reconcile the idea of God as creator
within the world we find ourselves in," he said. "I realized that the only
way to reconcile God with evolution is to postulate a form of universal
reincarnation, since there is no way that a line may be drawn as to when an
evolving life form is capable of rebirth to the exclusion of all others."
Allen speaks like a seasoned astronomer and mathematician. His books
are laced with illustrations and formulae dealing with such phenomena as the
efficiency of gravitation with relative motion, quasar distribution in terms of
luminosity and redshift, and the time of radiation propagation.
For Allen, it's information that needs to be disseminated - a task that is
rendered difficult by reason of what he describes as an inherent bias on the
part of most scientists to preserve their pet theories and credibility.
Allen holds that Einstein's basic Theory of Relativity is a mixture of
truths, half truths and fallacy. Based on a misinterpretation of the
Michelson-Morley light experiments of 1887, physicists hypothesized an
unexplained break in the fundamental law known as the "law of additional
speeds." But Allen asserts that whatever field a bundle of radiation
enters, it must partake of the motion of that field, and will be forced to
propagate at the velocity of light relative to this field - even if it should be
the tenuous medium of space, which is postulated to be anything but a total
vacuum. Such a simple assumption, he maintains, is capable of resolving a
host of astronomical mysteries.
The second half of "Cosmic
Perspective" focuses on a critical analysis of biblical literature.
"For ages," he says, "theologians have sought to preach a literal interpretation
where such was never justified or even intended."
It is also stated that information contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls has
been withheld and discounted by a monopoly of religious scholars - information
which, he asserts, "seriously undermines a multitude of traditional Christian
beliefs."
"The very notion that a mere human being could ever be a recipient of an
actual manifestation of God can only be described a childish and has all the
aspects of a story based on sheer fantasy and fairy tale magic. It simply
does not afford a realistic picture of the dynamic cosmos now revealed by modern
science," he writes.
Rodney Charles, managing editor of Sunstar Publishing in Fairfield, Iowa,
calls Allen a "hidden genius." However, he said Allen would have
been better off with two books rather than one. "I think Cosmic Perspective is the
crown jewel of his works. It's fascinating and we really care about it,"
said Charles. "But I couldn't persuade him to publish two separate
books." (Allen stated his reason for this decision was because "I was reluctant
to destroy a popular belief without replacing it with a superior
philosophy.")
Born and raised in Toronto, Allen excelled in the classroom and was poised
to graduate from high school in record time. However, ill health and need
to earn a living compelled him to pursue his education through reading and
attending a prodigious number of lectures. This led to the acquisition of
knowledge, but without an academic degree. "There was to be one
advantage to this," he states. "I became free to reject whatever I deemed to be
in error."
Before finding a publisher, he sank his own money into an earlier book, The Eternal
Universe, in order to put his revolutionary gravitational formula into
print. (A prestigious English astronomy journal praised it as "a startling
book to treasure.")
"After I came up with my theories, I thought if I don't publish it myself,
someone might beat me to it," he said. "I've always had an
interest in the universe. It dwarfs the mind. I mean, what is it all
doing there?"