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It is generally conceived by Scientologists if there had been in fact evolution. Referred then is to the book publication ‘Scientology: A History of Man’. Subtitled: ‘A list and Description of the Principal Incidents to be Found in a Human Being’. Chapter 4 of the book runs of evolution-like incidents. One should keep in mind however that this was a handbook of some sort to be used by auditors*. Its original release title was ‘What to Audit’*. The reissue title is a kind of misleading in that respect. Anyway the quotations below may shed some some light on the matter and hopefully will clarify some things.

It is advised while going through this to have some basic understanding about evolutionary theory. This information is provided here for those Scientologists interested in this matter, but also for evolutionists and creationists.

About the ‘Theory of Natural Selection’

“One must see this continual necessity of the organism to be in advance of the environment before one can appreciate the value of reason. The organism cannot discover how the environment is going to evolve test species to see if they survive. This is Darwin's natural selection. But it is only a small part of the process of evolution. There are too many data about the development of various species that just do not fit into natural selection. In order to put forth the theory of natural selection, all the data which points to direction and planning in evolution has to be hidden and disregarded. It has long been known to paleontologists that the horn of the rhinoceros cannot be accounted for by natural selection. There are many things in evolution which evolved slowly and smoothly for no apparent reason unless it is admitted that planning and experimentation was going on as a part of the life process. All of life is a process of thought. There is every reason to think that theta*, at least, is capable of planning. Man is on the highest level of reason known, but every life organism is using reason. The idea that ‘man thinks but all the rest of the universe just happened’ is absurd.”

“The effort to explain life in terms of organisms adjusting to their environment leads to hopeless confusion. But when it is assumed that the organism is adjusting the environment to it, everything falls into place with great ease. In order to survive an organism must be theta, not MEST*. It must be a causative agent. The individual who can change his environment can reason. If he cannot reason, he cannot change his environment. The wide-open case low on the Tone Scale will only be able to change the environment by destroying it, but he is still trying to change the environment. One way or another the organism will go on changing the environment until death.”          LRH*
         (printed in ‘Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin, Vol 2, No 3’, Sept 51 “Basic Reason - Basic Principles”, taken from a lecture)

About the ‘Darwinian Theory’

“Now the Darwinian theory—now, I'll give you some idea of the influence of false track upon this society. The Darwinian theory, which probably influenced Pavlov to the greatest degree, is just an implant*. That is an implant from man to mud.”

Sound snippet 1 (0:14)

“Now this incident—this incident, now with a wheel dating device which gives you a series of numbers that gives you—gives you the time of these events, shows you being implanted, shows you finished implanting ... , shows you being dumped in the sea, and shows you start from the sea and become seaweed and become this—and to work up stage by stage—giving the millions of years which elapse on each step, see? And you go on and on up the line, each step—each step—each step on an evolutionary channel and you run all the way through on these evolutionary channels. ... and shows you eventually arriving at the state of being a man. ... some of the incidents of 'What to Audit' are actually out of that. Some of the incidents of 'What to Audit' are actual, some are out of that Darwinian implant, see?”

	Sound snippet 2 (1:52)
	[The sound snippet is longer and fills in the not quoted parts (...) in the above printed text.]

“A lot of characters around here got this [implant], most of them become scientists. That actually is the sole foundation of the Darwinian theory. That's the lot. Evolution: there's no such thing. Bodies don't evolve. They deteriorate, but they don't evolve. You can trace all kinds of reasons how they evolve, and why they evolve, and you can figure it all out, but the truth of the matter is when you get horses on a planet, somebody came along and mocked up some horses! Now, they also mocked up these horses with the capability of growing hair or not growing hair. You've got adjustment factors, but not evolution factors. So you confuse the adjustment factors and prove the whole theory of evolution. And now you know man came from mud, and you can write a book like Pavlov and get the whole world poisoned. You see how this one goes? All of this is based on what? It's based on errors in time. Errors in time. Because an individual has this incident: It's a wrong time, wrong place, going wrong the whole way, and it took up two hours and actually looks like it takes up seven million, see? There are such incidents.”          LRH

Sound snippet 3 (1:26)

About ‘Phenomena of perception’

“The basic assumption of modern biology is that there was a bunch and one day a piece of it ‘unmudded’ and we had man. This is a most unreasonable assumption, since older and more searching thought had, many years before Darwin, consistently speculated that space, energy and matter were phenomena of perception. There is energy because we perceive energy. There is matter because we agree that something is solid and sitting there in that space ... .”          LRH
         (quoted in ‘Advance! 59’, Jul-Aug 79 in article: “Man: The Animal or God?”, source unknown)

Vocabulary:

     audit, auditing, auditor:
The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor (listener). The goal of the auditor is to make the receiver of the auditing look at incidents and reduce the mental charge which may lay upon them. The auditor may not evaluate and has to adhere to the Auditor's code.
     HCOB:
‘Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin’: issue-type since Jan 74 reserved for L. Ron Hubbard only, these address technical issues, having to do with auditing procedures and courses. 
     implant:
A painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial of false concepts in a malicious attempt to control and suppress him. An unwilling and unknowing receipt of a thought. An intentional installation of fixed ideas.
     LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
     MEST:
A coined word, meaning matter, energy, space and time, the physical universe. All physical phenomena may be considered as energy operating in space and time. The movement of matter or energy in time is the measure of space. All things are mest except theta.
     SHSBC:
‘Saint Hill Special Briefing Course’: This is a course delivered by L. Ron Hubbard at Saint Hill, England during 1961-66 and comprising of 447 lectures, its result is an adept auditor and thorough know-how of Scientology itself.
     theta:
Thought, life force, the spirit or the soul.
     ‘What to Audit’:
Title of a book first published in 1952 in limited quantity. Meant to be a guide for auditors. When it was reissued in England the title was changed to ‘Scientology: History of Man’.