AN
EVOLUTIONARY BIAS
The struggle between
natural determinism and free will, that which stems from the Father and that
which aspires towards the Holy Spirit, continues unabated in this world of
atomic relativities, and no less so in the guise of the controversial
Creationist/Evolutionist dichotomy in certain American schools ... than in the
older and better-known struggles between, for example, man and woman, or Church
and State. On the one side, those who
uphold the theory of Creation, as recorded in the Old Testament, and on the
other side those who reject it in favour of evolution, as derived from
To my mind, Creationism is simply Pagan/Judaic theology, that's
to say, an attempt to explain, in fairly basic mythical terms, the extremely
complex phenomenon of existent life on a ready-made planet. Theology is the fiction abstracted from the
fact, or what is assumed to be the fact, and it endeavours, for the benefit of
simple minds, to put a kind of sugar-coating over the bitter pill of factual
reality. It is easier to believe that
the Father created the world and all the life forms in it, including man, than
to attempt an understanding of the extremely complex, longwinded process of a
gradual evolution, which proceeded at a considerable remove, both in space and
time, from the central (first-cause) star of the Galaxy - the type of star from
which, we may suppose, such stars as the sun originally exploded out ('fell'),
though only as a flaming star, not as a cooling or already cooled one (planet),
which would presuppose a great elapse of time ... prior to which only flaming
stars existed, to diverge and contract, one against another, in an everywhichway context of anarchic hell, no move towards the
rudimentary formation of galaxies apparent on account of the absolutist
constitution of a starry universe, the lack, at that early time, of
cooling/cooled stars to establish galactic patterns on the basis of a magnetic
reciprocity.
Of course, such patterns eventually emerged, and, following
several millennia, life began to appear on the earth and, we may confidently
assume, on earth-equivalent planets in other solar systems throughout both the
Galaxy and the universe of galaxies of which this galaxy is but a tiny
fragment. Science can tell us quite a
lot, these days, about emergent life, both in the ocean, where it seems to have
begun, and, later, on land ... in the forms of plants, reptiles, and
mammals. If God (the Father) created
man, he must also have created, at a much earlier date, the fierce dinosaurs
and brontosauruses and other large reptiles that inhabited, on extremely
barbarous terms, a jungle-infested and lava-ridden planet. Not to mention the fierce mammals -
sabre-toothed tigers and huge-tusked mammoths - that superseded them during and
after the Ice Age. Horrible creatures
all! And early man himself,
not a very pretty or polite picture!
Beastly, ghastly, extremely narrow-minded, like everything that
appertains to an early phase of evolution.
More abominable than words can describe!
But man, that paragon of the animals, had more intelligence and
resilience than other creatures, and this not only enabled him to thrive at
their expense, but to evolve away from his ape-like condition, to become, over
the course of many millennia, civilized, which is to say, partial to an aesthetico-religious dimension in fixed communities and
capable, in consequence, of inventing myths to explain away the complexity of
the world and the extraordinary phenomenon of his presence in it. Hitherto, as an animal, he would have been
content merely to live in it, like Adam in the Garden of Eden. Now, with an emerging superconscious
and the glimmer of an analytical spirit, he sought to explain it and himself
also. He had come down from the trees,
left 'the Garden' for the wilderness, or the jungle for the clearing, having
secured the possibility of building in and on it a world of his own that would
- as we now know only too well - eventually rival and supplant nature. He had become civilized, aspirant, in some
faint or indirect way, towards an Other World, a world the antithesis to the
natural one, a supernatural world which could not be glimpsed without an
artificial, or civilized, world coming in-between. And he progressed and, willy-nilly, is still
progressing towards this higher world, one owing nothing to nature and less
than nothing to its subnatural forerunner, with the
cosmic inception of the Universe.
Ah, Creationism indeed!
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