News Release - Yellow Sky Book, alternative perspective of the creation and evolution of Man based on Biblical and geological evidence of nuclear war

Author's book is out of this world

Vallejoan takes a look at human nature, purpose
By Richard Freedman
Times-Herald staff writer

Humans aren't alone. Well, they are on Earth. But out there somewhere exists another civilization.
     Evolution? Hogwash. Adam and Eve? You gotta be kidding. Sodom and Gomorrah? Destroyed by a nuclear blast, definitely.
     Ken Lipton, Vallejo plumber turned author, has some radical ideas about the origin of mankind and how the heck we're destined to destroy ourselves unless population growth is thwarted.
     "If people want to call me nuts, that's fine, Lipton said. "As long as they discuss it with me. That's the important thing.

     Lipton outlines his unusual theories about the human condition and history in "Yellow Sky," a 173 page paperback by Medicine Bear Publishing in Blue Hill, Maine.
     It's an effort nearly 10 years in the making after Lipton, a Unitarian, didn't like what he got out ot the Bible or scientific theories about why and how man exists.
     "I'm sure the response to my work will initially be that I am crazy, said the 74 year old former Navy man. "However, there is no escaping the logic of my arguments. All of our educational efforts to date have been to reinforce one concept more that any other: that our history is a simple line of progression."
     Lipton ridicules what he seen as the arrogance of science.
     "We believe we are unique. We don't know how we came to be as we are and we don't care," Lipton said. "We are the

superior species and it does not matter how we came to be and so to all the problems confronting us -- overpopulation, crime, lack of fuel, running out of food, fouling the air -- we will figure out an answer."
     Bottom line: Lipton believes humans were sent here by "creators" specifically to explore space in our galaxy. Through humans' propensity to overpopulate, horrid events occurred, wiping out civilization on more than one occasion by nuclear power.
     The only way to derail the next train towards doom is by limiting the population and changing the cyclic nature of our existence, Lipton said.
     "We need to learn to live with one another as one family of mankind -- instead of living out the Bible account of what happened to the last civilization that existed thousands of centuries ago."

     It's Lipton's theory that many of modern man's inventions -- from medicine to industrial -- occurred as a way to adapt to overpopulation. And sever population -- Lipton believes the world needs to be limited to 3 billion -- must be curtailed before the next nuclear explosion.
     "The population is doubling every 50 years. That's scary," Lipton said. "What will happen is that we will blow ourselves up. That's why we built atom bombs in the first place."
     Lipton "got into the business of reading the Bible" and said too many questions were left unanswered. The same with evolution, which Lipton completely deplores. The author believes man has always been "pre-packaged" for intellectual potential and the only difference between man now and thousands, if not millions, of years ago is education.

     "I've thrown out the theory of evolution completely," Lipton said. "It does not take into account our intellectual capacity and it doesn't take into account population pressures."
     Human being "creators" have approached mankind as humans approach a car. Lipton said.
     "You build a car and don't let it sit there and say, 'That's it," he said. "You're constantly upgrading and improving. Why couldn't 'they' be doing that with us?"
     Mankind's purpose, reiterated Lipton, "is to explore the quadrant of our galaxy. I think if we go out beyond the stars, we will find people like us out there."

"Yellow Sky" is available at Bookshop Benicia, Annie's Books in Vallejo, Bookends in Napa, or by the author at yellowskybook.com