:"We were never individual atoms. I think this is a faulty
scientific analogy characteristic of Abdul-Baha's time,"
and i think that's a brilliant answer.
i would take it one step further towards the issue materialist/spiritualist:
we are likweise not the result of the actions of those atoms.
the materialist fundamentally says we are.
itr is my own vain imagining, which looks enuff like reality for me, that
evolution as witnessed in the physical records is a like a map of where
creatures fell of the train. an entrainment model, if u know fluid dynamics.
that there was/is an "Impulse" "Will", What have you, driving thru the
material plane, and patterns of matter fall off based on their intertia,
vector, etc.
a long time ago, speaking directly metaphorically, but, imho likwiese
literally of a process, Muhammed (pbuH) Said:
:"But when they forgot what they had been reminded of, we saved those who
forbade evil, but we overtook those who did wrong with punishment;- evil was
the abomination that they did, but when they rebelled against what they were
forbidden, we said to them, 'Become ye apes, despised and spurned!'
(The Qur'an (E.H. Palmer tr), Sura 7 - Al Aaraf)
this would produce exactly the same taxonomic tree as materialists draw.
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