[AntonioLao]

Less than 50% of all original ‘how to’ books of math, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and philosophy, both of in science and in religion, can be accounted for. Searching them would require over a lifetime of specialization and investigation. The percentages of unaccountability increase as one go farther back in time and deeper into archeological dig. For some stolen documents, even the responsible thieves were now found missing and both nuts and bones tell no tales as would squirrels and dogs hide and bury them.

One of the oldest records is a truly simple natural one. It is a soot line known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary or K-T boundary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Tertiary_extinction_event. It is geologically dated about 65 000 000 years ago. This soot line told about the wholesale demise and extinction of the age of the dinosaurs and the rise of warm blooded mammals. Some of the oldest mathematical records are Euclid’s 13 books of the Elements. They survived simply through repeated copies and translation since 500 B.C. They were books on the axiomatic bases of geometry. On algebra, one of the oldest records is Diophantus treatise Arithmetic dated since A.D. 250 but only six volumes were preserved out of the many original ones. Concerning authorship for the rules of democratic government, The Federalist is a collection of 85 documents supposedly written within a year, 1787 to 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. However, the author or authors for 73 of these still cannot be determined. These put in doubt the true author(s) of the Constitution of the U.S. The biblical scriptures as rules for all Christians are still being newly translated since the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Gnostic Gospels of Nag Hammadi. The recent translation of the Gospel of Judas placed a new question on the crook rook who took the true original Christian cook book for everlasting life.