--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Irmeli Mattsson wrote: > > > It is just the observation that evolving in nature happens > > through errors and in animals also by avoiding the mistakes > > and as even in a more advanced form humans can sometimes > > also learn from mistakes. I consider the manifest creation > > to be expression of God or one aspect of God. > > Ah, a Creator God. Yeah, they screw up all the time, esp. > at the start. :-)
LOL. Being essentially a Buddhist w.r.t. to "creation" (that is, believing that there never *was* one, and that the universe has always been, is now, and will always be) I've always been interested in how much of theology seems to be based on linear thinking. If one begins with the assumption that there was a creation (a start), and that things evolve towards dissolution (an end), then the need to posulate a Creator intellectually arises. If you further assume that there have been multiple creations, with a 'gap' between the dissolution of one and the creation of the next, *again* the need to postulate a Creator arises. (Because if the 'next' creation actually is 'created,' then some Creator energy or intelligence must have been present during the 'gap' between creations to create the next one. On the other hand, if one starts with the assumption that the universe is eternal, and that there has never been a moment in which it was not manifest, and never will be, then there is no intellectual need to postu- ate a Creator. The need for a Creator is very much dependent on the assumption that there was once a creation. ------------------------ 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/
