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CREATION OR EVOLUTION |
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Cedomil Vugrincic, M.D, Ph.D. |
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INTRODUCTION The question about
creation or evolution of life has been entertained for as long as man has
known himself, and this is today also the topic of many discussions within
religious, philosophical and scientific circles. However, at the
beginning of a new millennium, humanity is still perplexed and uncertain of
its origin and destination. Mankind, overwhelmed by its material achievements
is today mostly secular and has lost its spiritual insights and direction. For these reasons the
universal cosmic brotherhood has again made a great effort, in the past
hundred years or more, publishing a large body of educational material, in
order to heighten human awareness and understanding of its becoming and its
future direction. This article
integrates some of these teachings about the fundamentals of creation and
evolution, both being manifestations of life within Universal God. SCIENCE, RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY Secular science
postulates its theories about life origin by observing nature’s phenomena and
then tries to reproduce them, hoping to develop better understanding of the
material life and its evolution. Secular science rejects creation by God and
calls it a myth and postulates that life has originated from an unknown
source which then progressed through evolution. Most religions today
are predominantly secular, ritualistic and ceremonial and, in spite of the
variety of spiritual texts, do not offer any new insights about the creation
of life. Religions generally reject scientific theory about evolution of life
and believe in creation by God. Philosophy is trying
to correlate secular scientific postulates about evolution with religious
beliefs in creation and has not offered itself any new insights about the
origin of life. ***** Basic scientific beliefs about origin
of life Science in its theory
of Big Bang teaches that the universe evolved about 13 billion years ago,
after an unexplained accidental explosion, which created space. Before Big Bang,
according to secular science, nothing existed and without presence of space
there was no time. Once space came into existence and inflated, time appeared
and the cosmic clock started ticking. Space expansion has caused space
cooling, energy concentration and its materialization into subatomic and then
atomic particles. Gigantic gas clouds formed galaxies which gave birth to
suns, planets and consequently planetary life. Astronomers today follow
universe phenomena and interpret them on a basis of Big Bang theory. There
are various scientific theories about what incident has initiated planetary life
such as: Besides postulates
regarding the origin of planetary life, there are also various theories about
life’s propagation and differentiation, such as: recapitulation theory, neoteny theory, Basic Theosophical beliefs about life origin Theosophy in Greek
means Divine Wisdom and these teachings are based on ancient records of
teachings by sages of east and west. These texts today represent the core of
esoteric teaching of the Theosophical Society. According to
theosophical concepts, the beginning of life has its roots far beyond the
scientific concepts of Big Bang or the Darwinian theory of evolutionary
adaptation. Theosophy considers
life to be a two stage process of progression of consciousness and energy. First stage of process
is the descent or involution of undifferentiated conscious energy-matter from
the Absolute Reality into more restrictive matter forms. Second stage is the
ascent or evolution of the restricted conscious matter into more
differentiated and complex life forms returning back to the Absolute Reality. Theosophy considers
those two stages to be the outbreath and inbreath of Divine Being which would
make scientific Big Bang theory and space expansion and contraction of
unsettled universe only the manifestation of continuous life process within
God. For Theosophy,
energy-matter is not dead but represents the vehicle for conscious life
completing their specific stages of development according to the plans of
Divine Reality. The Absolute Reality
is the source of all life from which everything comes forth and to which
everything eventually must return. From the Divine Mind
of the Absolute Reality three life waves of Logos emerge bringing the Universe into its
being. These three life waves are also known as the Three Great Breaths or
‘Outpourings’ of life symbolized in various religions as the Trinities such
as: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Brahman, Vishnu and Shiva etc. Urantia’s view about the origin of life The Urantia ( Earth ) book teaches about the origin of life from a celestial
perspective as revealed by the Cosmic Brotherhood. Urantia indicates that
the Universal Absolute Father is the original First Source and Center of all
that exists and from the spiritual Trinity of Universal Father, Eternal Son
and Infinite Spirit and Isle of Paradise of central universe of Havona, all life plans come forth. Paradise God is
outpicturing spiritual plans with energies into the Grand Universe, where
energy-matter becomes actualized into life forms, with ascending eternal
potential and from the central universe, spiritualized energy constantly radiates
into seven orbiting super-universes of time and space. The central and seven
peripheral super-universes are also known as the Grand Universe. Urantia’s super-universe is
number seven and is called Orvonton and its capital
is Uversa. Local Universes are
building blocks of super-universes and ours is called Nebadon,
with its capital Salvington as the central abode of
our local universe with it’s Sovereign Christ
Michael and his consort Divine Minister. The Grand Universe is
still presently actualizing according to the architectural plan for the
purpose of progression and expansion of celestial and terrestrial life and is
inhabited with life creatures. Physical worlds are
all evolutionary in origin and serve as the spawning cradles for evolution of
mortal races of time and space, and each serves as the veritable training
school, in the staged volitional ascent of mortals, toward their The myriads of
planetary systems were created this way all with the purpose to be inhabited
by many different types of intelligent beings, who would all strive to know
God and love him and receive his divine affection. All enlightened worlds recognize and worship
God, and most of evolutionary life is embarking upon the long journey toward
the central universe, to find God at his central abode in Evolutionary planetary life is therefore only
the initial stage from which mortals embark upon the long journey of their
eternal ascent. |
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CONCLUSION Secular science has
established its theories on a basis of observed astronomical and planetary
phenomena which it then tries to support in a by laboratory through in-vitro
experiments. Science only accepts
its own “scientific facts”, which often are proven to be false and
unacceptable as society evolves in time. Science at present
rejects the theory of creation by God and does not accept God’s spiritual
virtues as the creative motivating force in the evolution of the human mind,
and would only accept the theories based on the matter-energy evolution of
life. Material science, not accepting the spiritual insights of the human
mind, also does not accept the concept of “life after death”. Orthodox religions
believe in God and creation but being ceremonial, ritualistic and under heavy
material burdens imposed by a dominating material society, have lost
spiritual insights. Philosophy that should
have the wisdom of correlating the spiritual advancements of science and
religion, now both spiritually dormant, is itself not offering any new
spiritual insights. Theosophy and Urantia
on the other hand teach that the origin of life is based on a spiritual
dialog with higher planetary and cosmic life. Theosophy and Urantia
both accept creation, involution and evolution of life, within the Absolute
Reality of God and consider the mortal stage of life to be only the beginning
phase of man’s ascent to eternity in his Being. Both Theosophy and
Urantia share many similarities of views considering the significant time gap
between recorded teachings, which could only mean that secular science base
its theories only on the observed fragments of the universe phenomena of the
infinite and eternal process within Absolute Reality of God. The material prosperity of any society or
world depends upon spiritual creativity and spiritual insights that
precipitate the advancements of science, religion, philosophy and art through
the evolving
human mind. In future articles we
will review the
teachings about creation, involution and evolution processes, as taught
by the cosmic brotherhood, because without human acceptance of God
and his creative spirits in time, life becomes dormant and decadent and the collapses
of godless societies have been well documented in our planetary history. |
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References: Big Bang; The story of the universe, H.Couper
and N.Henbast |
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