Suppose that a civilization of superior beings wanted to send a teacher to us to tell us what we need to know, teach us scientific truths about how intelligent beings, or technological animals, can survive and thrive in the real, physical universe, not for the purpose of "going to heaven," a heaven that may or may not be real, but to endure indefinitely in the one physical universe? What if I followed the advice of Erich von Daniken, who wrote Chariots of the Gods? and I reviewed the scriptures of my religion looking for evidence of hard science, evidence of accurate information about life in the universe as opposed to ancient moral philosophy or meditations on the "inner life"? The result would be and is this book: The Primacy of Stewardship