THE SCIENTIFIC REPTILE


                   ' When Pasteur discovered that the fermentation is a process of life rather than death and that life does not create spontaneously,  he did not know he was preparing himself to understand the diseases in animals and men, result from microorganisms within the host....' Profesor Goldman related to the members of the closed session of independent, liberated scientists, who had gathered to foment possibilities toward a panacea for all bacterial plagues, including the current virus, which was causing epidemic proportions on a global level.

                  ' In other words professor, the present bacterial virus could have evolved from a previous experiment in creating the same thing...' Dr. Dawson mentioned, as though giving voice to his thoughts, rather than posing a question.

                ' The error of probability remains in that theater of thought,' professor Goldman replied, to which the others shared a unanimous concordance determined through not only scientific experiment, rather historical repetition of similar plagues.

                 ' Then the real question here rests not so much under mathematical solutions, although that is paramount, but it seems to lead to the possibility that it was humanly created. If that is so, then the reason must be explained.' Dr Lee presented verbally, what the rest determined by sifting mental priorities, without a voice.

                ' I think we all agree that there is enough  evidence to claim it was humanly created,' Dr Shaw stated, while all heads nodded in wordless concession,' and further that it began in China, so it would be logical that it was created there. Using that as a tentative base, can anyone offer a reason why?'

                 ' All wars are based on economics, Professor Garcia declared, ' and in this case, it was a reaction to the western world and in particular the United States' domination over the world economies because of the dollar. It is known that China wanted to create its own economic center, using the Chinese currency, for the Far East. This would eliminate the dollar threat and perhaps make the United States a second class trading partner. That might be the reason, to create the virus.'

                 Dr Ilich, who was the oldest one present, at seventy five, smiled to himself before saying..'Napoleon said..Don't wake the sleeping dragon..but now that it's fully awake, it is aware of the same thing, while content that it cannot be proven. It is sufficiently pleased that the western world has suffered enormous economic setbacks. I wonder if any of this will ever be exposed?' he asked and  pregnant silence ensued.

                   ' It is already exposed, which is part of the reason we have met here,' Dr Goldman volunteered.

                  ' In order to dictate a sentence of annihilation, for the ofender, coupled with a rapid reaction from the other side,' Dr Brandt enunciated, while an impenetrable silence inferred concurrence. ' Then it has all been worked out scientifically and is well known to those who need to know. We will survive, but the planet will be a different place in a different time. This much we know, following that....exactly why are we here Dr Goldman? Do we stand a chance of survival as a human species?'

                    The answer was not immediate nor spontaneous, for Dr Goldman was composed of weighty wisdom. When he did speak, it was to no one in particular, which was understood as verbal contemplation. His tone was equally separate from a mundane treble, as he began...

                     ' Unless we are merged with some kind of mutation, I believe we will remain in our reptilian and savage way. In a sense, we are gripped by instinct for survival and competition. It has made our species constructive as well as destructive and this destroys us and our planet. We are still basically the same element we were forty thousands years ago, when Cro-Magnon displaced the Neanderthal...and so, in our quest for survival, we have fostered a greed, like something so vile, as to resemble a human beast!' he said, almost without taking a breath, while they all knew it was impossible to add to or take away from what Dr Goldman had said, After a time, one of them asked...
                   '' What can we do Dr Goldman?'
                 
                  ' Wait...even this will pass.'