Perfection
Wallace
Ummm, Wallace died in 1913. His opinions (provided you don't have a misconception of them, which could easily be the case) don't carry much weight. I am aware of serious modern biologist who would make that claim.
What matters for me are not the opinions of Wallace but the questions he put forward. Is there any modern biologist who can answer the question of Wallace if biological development is so slow, how can the emergence in a family of a genius be so quick? I would like to hear what the explanation would be.
Oh! GENIUS. I was wonderin' what the hell you meant by "
genies", I thought you were misspelling "genes" or "genus".
So, first off, you gotta realize, you're getting into a very complicated issue here. What makes someone a "genius" depends on social and genetic and environmental stuff here. It's not some simple characteristic; so any explanation I give is going to be incomplete. However that doesn't mean it's incompatible with evolutionary theory, it just means that we haven't figured out how exactly it works in this particular instance.
However, I'll give you an idea of how it probably works, with the intricate details left for the biologists.
There's nothing in biology that says that an inherited trait must be similar to your parents. Albinism is an inherited trait that can be traced to a single recessive gene. A person with only one copy of this recessive gene will have normal pigmentation, whereas one with two copies will have no pigmentation. So in a family of ordinary pigmented people, out can pop a surprise albino!
That trait was hidden in their genes, unseen to the outside world, waiting for the right combination of other genes. We could say the same for the capacity for high intelligence, though it would be a complex polygenic trait. The parents of the genius already had the genes for it in them, they just didn't exhibit it.
Near-death
Except for one problem: they don't actually happen.
The reports are mistaken, and no study with good research methodology has confirm their actual existence.
Yes they do happen. People can describe what happened to them, and eight million people in USA say they have experienced it according to Gallup, this is a fact. What may differ are the explanations of these experiences, some doctors say that these experiences are genuine, others are openminded, still others call it hallucinations.
I do not deny that near death experiences happen. That most certainly is a fact. People really do experience weird things under near death conditions. This of course stemming from the fact that your brain chemistry is severely altered in these states.
What doesn't happen though are "Near-death experiences where a person can see what is going on in the room while out of consciousness". No study with good research methodology has confirmed the existence of that.
What people in near-death experiences often say is that they can experience leaving their physical body and see the whole room as the doctors and nurses are working. They can in detail afterwards describe what happened in the room when they were out of consciousness or more or less clinical dead. How do we explain this?
Experiencing leaving one's body is a pretty common experience (I've personally experienced it), you of course don't leave your body, it's just a illusion and one that can be chemically induced. As for details attributed to people when they were unconscious/clinically dead, there are plenty of explanations that don't involve them actually leaving their body. They generally are:
1. Not actually being completely unconscious. I'm sure you can remember occasions where what you hear enters into your dreams. Same thing can happen in near death experiences, and note that people will often say they see things that they hear: one might hear a squeaky wheel and imagine oneself being wheeled around the hospital for example.
2. Filling in obvious details. Let's say I go in for open heart surgery. After the surgery I recall seeing them cutting my chest with a knife. Does that I actually saw them do that? Maybe not! Maybe at some point during the procedure, I imagined/dreamed that I saw it.
3. Distorted memory. Memories are not immutable, suggestions can implant details that the person might not have actually experienced? "Did you see me to the left of the surgeon" might be implanted into the memory as the NDE experiencer tries to recall his experience.
4. Outright lies. Certainly the majority of people who have NDEs are telling the truth to the best of their ability, but that doesn't mean that there those out there who would take us for fools!
25 UK and US hospitals are at the moment in a project examining near-death studies in 1,500 heart attack patients-survivors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_death_experience
NDEs should be studied! They're an interesting phenomenon. But, there's no reason to think that these have any particularly profound implications. The brain just does some weird stuff under the extreme conditions.
Healing
I'm not sure which brand of flim-flam this is, because there are so many variations on the idea, but they all are crap.
Have you done some research on this? How do you know that they are all crap?
Well, the one I've researched were debunked by an
11 year old girl. Now, I obviously can't go and debunk every version out there, but I can say that I've found no compelling evidence to support any of them. Plus, if any of these practitioners actually could do it, why haven't they proved it scientifically and earned their
cool million dollars?
And if they are crap, why are they working on hospitals in Britain?
Because they say that they work and some people believe them. There's an astronomical amount of therapies out there that have no scientific backing.
About ten years ago I had severe gall-stone attacks about every second months. The doctor wanted to make surgery, but instead I went to a healer (spiritual healing). After a couple of years the symptoms were gone, I can now eat all food such as boiled eggs as you normally can not with these problems and have not had any attack for several years.
Just because you got better doesn't mean that the healer made you better.
What I say is based upon facts, research and reasoning. My conclusions may be different from some other people. And I think that I have been met with much respect on this tread.
I certainly don't mean any disrespect to you personally, but I do believe that your beliefs are in conflict with scientific evidence.