William Fix

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'''William Fix''' is a [[paranormal]] author and disciple of [[Edgar Cayce]].

==Biography==
Fix has an M.A. degree in behavioral science from Simon Fraser University and is the author of several books promoting the [[paranormal]].  He has also written books about Edgar Cayce and has translated some of his works.

==Evolution==
Fix is most well known for his book ''The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution'' (1984) in which he proposed the concept of "psychogenesis," which posits that humans started off as [[spirits]] but slowly descended into [[matter]]. This [[occult]] idea was first put forward by the psychic [[Edgar Cayce]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDeBSAO-b60 Psychogenesis &mdash; Edgar Cayce's Cosmology]</ref> 

Fix described the theory as a form of [[spiritual]] evolution; however, it is actually a [[creationist]] idea as it rejects [[evolution]] and naturalistic processes. The first half of ''Bone Peddlers'' rejected [[common descent]] and evolution based on the [[fossil record]] and the back half discussed psychogenesis from paranormal and [[parapsychology]] studies. Fix believed that humans obtained their material bodies through [[psychokinesis]]. He also claimed that humans can cause objects to materialise just by thinking about them.

===Fix and creationists===
''Bone Peddlers'' has been [[quote mined]] and lied about by hundreds of [[creationist]]s who have tried to use Fix to prove that evolution is a "theory in crisis" that even secular non-Christian scientists are turning away from. Fix, however, is not a scientist nor a secularist but an occultist, and the back half of his book discusses [[reincarnation]], [[out-of-body experience]]s, [[psychokinesis]], [[spirit]]s, and [[extrasensory perception]]. All of these are things that are deemed "[[Heresy|heretical]]" by orthodox Christianity and "[[woo]]" by scientists and secularists, yet Fix believes that all of them are real.<ref>[http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/bonepeddlers.html Review: The Bone Peddlers]</ref> The fact that creationists quote Fix and use him as a "secular" ally, while remaining silent on the paranormal and occult ideas that ''actually'' informed his rejection of evolution, speaks volumes about their total lack of scientific and moral integrity.

In an article titled ''The Evolution Deceit'', [[Muslim]] creationist [[Harun Yahya]] quote mined Fix's book, lying about Fix by calling him an "[[evolutionist]] biologist".<ref>[http://harunyahya.com/en/books/974/The_Evolution_Deceit/chapter/3694 Creationist lying about Fix]</ref> Yahya might want to look up the definition of [[deceit]], as he fits it very well.

Interestingly, Fix's ideas about human origins are exactly the same as those found in [[Hare Krishna creationism]].<ref>[[Michael Cremo]] (2003). ''Human Devolution: A Vedic alternative to Darwin's theory.'' Bhaktivedanta Book Publishing.</ref>

==Publications==
*''Star Maps: Astonishing New Evidence from Ancient Civilizations and Modern Scientific Research of Man's Origins and Return to the Stars'' (1979)
*''Pyramid Odyssey'' (1984)
*''The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution'' (1984)
*''Lake of Memory Rising: Return of the Five Ancient Truths at the Heart of Religion'' (2000)
*''Edgar Cayce'' (2006)

==References==
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