EVOLUTION IS CREATION IN ACTION

Watching a documentary on chimpanzees and I couldn’t help but be fascinated about the striking resemblance we have with them. How the look, and also how they communicate with each other especially in showing affection, I saw them kissing. A mother kissing her new born offspring something very similar and symbolic of how we show love to each other. This led me to thinking about evolution.

Yes I know it has been debated so many times yet it never seems to reach an end. Maybe because there isn’t really a firm beginning that each side can begin from, only suspicions and assumptions. Often the debate starts off by asking, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Creationist will tell you that the chicken was created first in order to lay an egg. Evolutionists will argue that no it is the egg that gave existence to the chicken. Which of these is right? Who has it twisted and their head not screwed on straight?

This debate can go on and on for centuries and it has. It has turned violent at other instances and not only with sour words being exchanged but military action even been sought after. The likes of the church wanting to wipe out anyone who opposes the idea of creation as the beginning of all things. Creationists firmly argue that divine providence is what gave birth to all existence, that all things were created within seven days. Evolutionists argue that all things, all matter is a progression of a process where things evolve from a simple form to one which is more complex. From a cell dividing via mitosis and meiosis to form a system of tissues. From one cell organism to a system of multicellular organism. Which of this is true?

Well it is my own opinion and observation that both these viewpoints are debating different sides of the same coin. “No heads is the truth” the one will say. “No tail is!” the other would argue. This is where the circle begins they both say, however both completely oblivious to the truth of the other because they are so busy trying to prove how wrong the other is, and also of the fact that really a circle hasn’t really a starting point or an ending. The cycle of life. No beginning and no ending. I personally see both these sides as true. Evolution makes sense to me that things evolve/progress from one form to another. You don’t really have to have an extensive and detailed study on this, you simply have to observe nature. A seed evolves from being a seed into being a sprout up until it becomes a plant that can grow to being a tree or a beautiful flower. A toddler evolves from infancy to childhood into adult hood. That is evolution in my simplest explanation and observation of the phenomenon.

And this process and progression to fuller expression of live cannot be anything short of divine order or splendid intelligence that continues to create a flower and trees till this day through the process of evolution. The world and planetary systems appears to have been created with such intelligence that it is nothing short of imagining that a splendid being laid its own hands to crafting this masterpiece.

Of course the most common debate that creationists and evolutionists have is, if the world was created by a god within a specific number of days and that just two people to populate the earth, how do you explain the dinosaur fossils and the multitudes of cultures and beliefs? Well I don’t really have an answer to all of those points however on one point it is my opinion that the reason why many creationist believe that the world was formed in 7 days is because man only got consciousness long after  the evolutionary process of creating trees, rivers and mountains had already taken place. The very process brought about his very existence so as to now revel in the masterpiece of this evolution process of the creation of the garden of Eden.

It may seem as if I’m siding with evolutionary theorists that the world is a result of chance chemical soup combination that led to life, but I don’t believe this was by chance. Life is too great and too magnificent to be trivialised as simple a result of an insignificant moment of chance. There is very great design behind every occurrence. From the oscillations of the electrons in an atom, to the rearrangement of the climate and environmental conditions for expanded life expressions. There is a Divine and Infinite Intelligence that is guiding and directing everything that is happening. And this Divine Intelligence is in perfect harmony with all things and works in divine order for the progression and evolution of all things to fuller life expression. We are from this Intelligence that directed the radioactivity that led to creation of a variety of atoms and elements to give a playground for life of fuller expression. You see it all around.

It is in all in nature. Observing and studying nature leads us to not simply think that we are special species evolved from a lesser intelligent one, but rather that our design is that of intelligence as that of our brothers who share this earth with us. Our animal kingdom relatives and cohabiters are just of an intelligent design of nature as that of ours. We all come from the same source and are of the same Divine and biological makeup.

Evolution is creation in action. All things were and are still created by the divine mind of nature through evolution. I think the understanding of this fact is the beginning of the understanding of one’s true origin and interconnectedness with all things natural, from trees and water to the chimpanzee. We are creative being in the evolutionary process; revolving in the circle of life which we are very much a part of and a result of. And just to conclude I thought I would include this picture by the father of evolution theory. Think this one creationist may agree with?