Creation And EvolutionEssay Preview: Creation And EvolutionReport this essayCREATION AND EVOLUTIONSome say the world came into existence by the thought of God. Some say it never came into existence. It is there, as it was, and nobody created it. It is there. Existence is not created by anybody. Who will create existence? To create existence, somebody else has to exist, prior to this existence, and existence is a general principle, so nobody can create existence. Existence is a word which does not require any further explanation. It has been there, and it is there. It is what it is. Nobody created it. That is one view — some kind of scientific view, we may say — the view of modern scientists, to some extent.
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This is the first time (a few years ago,) I have seen any evidence as to anything of a god. It is impossible to know just what is going on. We would have to go to many other places, I believe.
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The Bible also contains verses that contradict God.
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Some people, you might say, believe the Bible. You know you need to ask many more questions about creation and what it says, if you are able to.
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Here is the question; how did one start having some sort of idea about other people’s religion, or how did you become aware of other religions that were also something like that, that also had some kind of an impact on you, and was there any kind of a reason why you got into that religion, or what the causes were, or any other questions. Did there, or was there something that made you believe some kind of a god? I believe that if you go to the Bible, your answers will be those of other people.
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When I started out reading the Bible I was fascinated for those of us who knew the Bible or knew the religion who thought there was some sort of a supernatural being that existed, that told me if there wasn’t something that did just seem like something they wanted others to think about just so they would be interested in that religion but also to get in their way. The questions that I was asked by most people when I started out reading the Bible, were, “What are you searching for?” I was thinking about God, his work, his world, His meaning to the world, other faiths, etc, all of that I had been meaning to read into. What can I say to you if you are thinking of religion, how should I act about it or about other religions? I’ve been thinking about this a lot and it is not something that I am ever sure about, but I do not think religion is the only religion to be. I would certainly say it is not God. The first day upon which I had been doing this I read something about the great God. There were different kinds of gods on different kinds of planets. I can’t remember what kind of god those were, but it was certainly divine. As I began to discover more and more and more the God that I had been reading about, my thinking was that I was never going to see God, but in the beginning of time there was a great war between the gods over
But the religious view is that the Absolute Supreme Being, God, willed, “Let there be heaven and earth,” and immediately, space manifested itself. Then, vibrations started moving inside space, and it became air. Friction started after that, which is heat, fire. Then condensation took place, which is water. Then solidity appeared, which is earth. Here is the beginning of creation, according to descriptions in religious scriptures.
And, inasmuch as God willed this creation, His consciousness is present in every little part of creation, — this space, this air, this fire, this water, this earth , which are the five physical elements that you see before you. And, then, emerges a group of little, little individualities, which is the beginning of what you call the evolutionary process. There is, in the beginning, inanimate matter, which is described in the form of these five elements I mentioned just now. Then, there is animation starting — like fungi, amphibians, fish and so on. Then, you know the whole story of evolution; some small creatures, insects, and animals, — but animals come later. In the beginning there is only fungus-type plant kingdom, and all that. Even in the scriptures you will find that God created not man first; He created only this plantation, — trees, etc., because trees are the first creation. Higher than plantation kingdom is the animal kingdom; higher than that is the human kingdom. So, we have come like that, by gradual evolutionary process, in the act of creation.
According to the traditional Indian concept, these created species of beings run to eighty-four lakhs (8,400,000) in number, in which series the human being is said to occupy the topmost position, almost completing the purpose of Nature in its scheme of evolution. The general arrangement of things in the evolutionary process is considered to be a gradual ascent from mineral to plant, from plant to animal, and from animal to man. This does not, however, mean that there are five categories separated as if in watertight compartments, for there is a countless variety even in this five fold classification, –varieties in the mineral constitution, varieties in the plant and vegetable kingdom, varieties in the animal kingdom and in the different kinds of subhuman species, and varieties even at the human level. The number, eighty-four lakhs perhaps, would give a good picture of the tremendous specifications in almost unthinkable types of differentiation in the structure of individuality. From mineral to the Absolute is indeed a great sequential procedure of graduated ascent, involving millions of mutations,