--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, defenders_of_bhakti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think there is a big confusion of what evolution actually means. > Here some biological definitions: > > Evolution: The long-term process through which a population of > organisms accumulates genetic changes that enable its members to > successfully adapt to environmental conditions and to better exploit > food resources. > www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1994/glossary.html > > The change in life over time by adaptation, variation, > over-reproduction, and differential survival/reproduction, a process > referred to by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace as natural selection. > http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookglossE.html > > In this sense evolution is not the development to a certain > pre-existent goal, but rather the successful adaptaion to a given > environment by a certain organism. Thhis is what trial and error and > natural selection is all about. This makes the idea of an evolving > Creator-God fairly upsurd: How could a Creator adapt to an > environment, he has created himself? It is even more absurd if you > assume an all-knowing God going through trial and error. Pretty much > trial and error can be done by machines, and doesn't require a creator > at all. That is why evolution, the theory of natural selection is so > much opposed by the creationists. > > Now one can of course try to transfer the idea of evolution to a sort > of teleological argument, and that is what many New Agers do. There is > a goal, a pre-existent ideal to which nature develops. But if God > himself develops, who established the ideal, was it already there or > did he create it? And if he created the ideal, why didn't s/he create > the ideal creation right away? > > I think one gets into a big muddle if one tries to combine > evolutionary theories which really don't need any God (like trial and > error) with creationist ideas. Why should a God evolve, unless he has > fallen, and is now involved in his own creation? Of course one could > argue, we are all God, and we are all evolving to finally realize this > potential of ours. > > Otherwise its a really absurd idea, with the sort of populistic > appeal, the same as that we are all co-creators. It just makes some > people feel more important. > +++ Haven't you observed that you do some creating yourself? N. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
