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Standard Reference Text (SRT) SRT Committee Considerations and Changes to the Urantia Text
Purpose of the Standard Reference Text Committee:
Excerpt from the Standard Reference Text Committee Draft Report, December 2008: Since the first edition of The Urantia Book, published in 1955, a number of changes have been made over the years. At this time, Urantia Foundation is on its 19th printing of The Urantia Book and the Urantia Book Fellowship on its 4th printing. Each version has been revised, creating the need to review the changes made, including changes in the:
Text; Formatting; Table of contents; and Referencing system
In the winter of 2007, a joint committee was formed by Urantia Foundation and the Urantia Book Fellowship to undertake this review. This detail oriented committee initially reviewed over 300 suggested changes. Members of the initial 2007-2009 SRT Committee were: Seppo Kanerva, President, Urantia Foundation, Chair Marvin Gawryn, Urantia Book Fellowship, Liaison Chair Merritt Horn, Urantia Book Fellowship Nancy Johnson, Urantia Book Fellowship Marilynn Kulieke, Trustee, Urantia Foundation Jay Peregrine, Executive Director, Urantia Foundation
Members of the 2014-2015 SRT Committee were: Marilynn Kulieke, Urantia Foundation Rep, Co-Chair David Kulieke, Urantia Book Fellowship Merritt Horn, Urantia Book Fellowship, Co-Chair Ken Keyser, Urantia Book Fellowship Jay Peregrine, Urantia Foundation Rep Larry Watkins, Urantia Foundation Rep
Along with correcting the printer errors that had crept into the text, the Committee reviewed nearly all of the 300 recommendations for alteration that had been submitted by students of the book over the years. This document records the Committee’s review of those suggestions and queries. It also includes the recommendations of the second SRT Committee which was reconvened in 2014.
The adopted recommendations of this Committee have been incorporated into the English Urantia text. In the online text, paragraphs containing variation from the first printing or where considerations for changes were discussed, are marked with an asterisk linking to this Committee’s Considerations and Changes to the Original 1955 Urantia Text document. The Final Report of the Standard Reference Committee is available here. The Standard Reference Text Committee Summary Report is available here.
General: The only changes in the 1955 original text of The Urantia Book have been those recommended by the Standard Reference Text Committee and approved by the Trustees of Urantia Foundation. The committee issued its first report in November of 2008 and the Board accepted the Committee's recommendations. Unless otherwise noted, the changes were made in 2009.
A second set of recommendations was reviewed by the SRT Committee and presented to the Board at the April, 2015 meeting; six additional changes were accepted/approved by the Board; they are noted as 2015 changes.
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1955 text: ...an electron weighs a little less than 1/2,000th of the smallest atom,... Review: ...an electron weighs a little more than 1/2,000th of the smallest atom... - - - - - - 1955 text: The positive proton... weighs from two to three thousand times more... Review: The positive proton... weighs almost two thousand times more...
Adopted: The revised wording is consistent with the paragraph following the subject paragraph ( 42:6. , where the author states that a proton is eighteen hundred times as heavy as an electron, and is also in general agreement with current scientific opinion which places the ratio at about 1:1836. This item and the related following item are the only changes recommended by the SRT committee that do not have a straightforward typographical explanation. - - - - - - Adopted: [For historical reference, the first discussion of the relative masses of the structural elements of atoms in the Encyclopaedia Britannica is found in its 11th Edition (1910 / 1911) with revisions in the 12th (1922). The calculation of the relative masses of the electron and the hydrogen atom was undergoing a rapid evolution just prior to the writing of The Urantia Book, the ratio being 1:1700 in 1897; 1:2000 in 1904; and 1:1845 by 1922. This last ratio is also the one quoted in the 1934 Websters.] The revised wording is consistent with the statement in the paragraph following the subject paragraph
42:6.8, in the text where the author states that a proton is “eighteen hundred times as heavy as an electron;" and is also in general agreement with current scientific opinion which places the ratio at about 1:1836. After the committee’s work, this item, plus the closely-related following item, are the only recommended changes that do not have a straightforward typographical explanation. Phraseology mathematically equivalent to the revised wording is necessary to be consistent with the revision at the beginning of the paragraph; both changes being required for the same internal and external reasons.]
42:6.7 (477.1) 1955 text: Each atom is a trifle over 1/100,000,000th of an inch in diameter,
Review: Each atom is a trifle over 1/100,000, 000th of an inch in diameter, [space after last comma in number] No action required: Unintentional error. Has existed in all Uversa Press printings to the present.

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