Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Natural Selection in the Spiritual Realm
I went to the zoo over the weekend. Looking at all the animals with hooves, I wondered, as I have i the past with all the different kinds of birds, what's the point? I know the diversity argument. Better odds of life itself surviving. What was God thinking on the whole mosquito thing? Or flies? Or smallpox virus?
Of course it wasn't made to my or "our" liking. And maybe no conscious deliberation at all. No intelligent design. Small case intended. I don't rule out something more than blind evolution, but it may be in fact true.
But what if the so-called spiritual or astral or metaphysical or whatever you want to call it realm is the same way? I think of such realms, if they exist, as not a blind evolution. But why not? Various spirits, demons, angels and even gods are dying out and evolving. The Hebrew god died? Or evolved? Had a change of heart with the whole Jesus thing? Or got bored and moved on?
Or I'm just engaged in mental mastrubation. I have this strong sense we are not looking at this whole universe the best way. The far realms of big and small are so twisted, it seems clear our perspective is based and limited by a neurology suited for our Paleolithic survival.
Of course it wasn't made to my or "our" liking. And maybe no conscious deliberation at all. No intelligent design. Small case intended. I don't rule out something more than blind evolution, but it may be in fact true.
But what if the so-called spiritual or astral or metaphysical or whatever you want to call it realm is the same way? I think of such realms, if they exist, as not a blind evolution. But why not? Various spirits, demons, angels and even gods are dying out and evolving. The Hebrew god died? Or evolved? Had a change of heart with the whole Jesus thing? Or got bored and moved on?
Or I'm just engaged in mental mastrubation. I have this strong sense we are not looking at this whole universe the best way. The far realms of big and small are so twisted, it seems clear our perspective is based and limited by a neurology suited for our Paleolithic survival.
