“a deliberate part of the design”
Most of us have been taught that evolution refers to organisms developing and diversifying from earlier forms over a long, long period of time. We grew up with the phrase “survival of the fittest” to mean that only the powerful and strong “win,” and that the struggle to survive will go on forever all over the planet.
Darwin’s theory of evolution has generated a great deal of hostility between science and religion. Perhaps someday they will come together on this, as David Foster says in his book The Philosophical Scientists (1985): “I have found few, from Einstein to Schrodinger, who at some stage or another did not have to introduce God.”[i]
Once we wake up and realize the perfection in the “design” of Creation, we will have transcended the machinations of our anxiety-producing intellect beyond the need for any scientific theories of evolution. A perfect design by a perfect Creator!
Tony Schwartz in his book What Really Matters (1995) says: “Evolution is a reflection of the stupendous drama of divinity unfolding within us.”[ii] It’s an inside job!
Insight # 18 comes to us from Kevin Lind, Ph.D. who trained and worked as an astrophysicist and computational scientist but is currently a teacher and Messianic Jewish rabbi.
“If the random evolution of one’s life seems implausible, the random evolution of an entire interdependent system appears ludicrous. The development of the universe … could have only arisen under precise conditions and is therefore a deliberate part of the design.”[iii]
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Additional Reading:
- Evolution, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
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[i] Foster, David. The Philosophical Scientists. New York: Dorset Press, 1985, p. 172.
[ii] Schwartz, Tony. What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America. New York: Bantam, 1995, p. 80.
[iii] Lind, Kevin. “Faith, Science, and Life: Toward a Coherent Cosmology.” Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness. Petaluma, California, June-August 2006, pp. 28-31.
