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Thread #26054   Message #311103
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
03-Oct-00 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Creation v Evolution Part II
Subject: RE: BS: Creation v Evolution Part II
Nice poem Praise.

I would never say that God has created this universe just for humans.But we were given a gift to perceive the wonder of it.And we were given the ability to understand that the universe is not a mechanical construct,but an integral manifestation of its creator,wherein its physical laws demonstrate purpose,and not random event.We were also given Free Will to believe otherwise,if we wish.

Allen Watts recalls an old Hindu story says that at first God was all.But in the passing eons of time He grew lonely,and decided to play a hiding game.He hid himself in the forms he created as stars,planets,trees,animals and men.He hid himself so well that He could no longer find Himself,and in time men knew only the guise of their own existence.

But it is still the quest of each man to understand that he is an individual manifestation of the Creator,and that evrything else is as well.In the final assessment,the Hindu story is not so different than the Creation story told in Genesis.