Creationism and Intelligent Design
- Campaigns of darkness

On other pages on this site I have remarked on the incompatibility of holding belief and being open to truth. Generally speaking, religions fall down as supposed true and full spiritual paths because they are based on the holding of beliefs rather than having fully open minds and allowing oneself to see, and understand from one's deepest wisdom, what is actually there.

The problem about the public debate on the issue of whether life and Humanity have arrived here on Earth through evolution or some form of Divine creation is that we have a slanging match between belief systems which obscures the underlying truth. The religious factions are seeking to suppress even the most basic openness to truth, claiming that their beliefs represent Truth. Their campaigns are thus ones of ignorance and 'darkness'. 

On the other hand the science faction, although they are rightly pointing to the commonsense of a rational, physical explanation based on the data in the geological record and observed evolutionary processes, fail to take into account a form of 'intelligent design' which actually has been working through the evolutionary process and which has brought humans to Earth - probably not as physical alien beings but as consciousnesses incarnating here in extant pre-humans.

I have no truck with the extant 'Intelligent Design' faction, who, as far as I can tell so far are just a variant of the 'creationist' lobby, also seeking to discount evolution and uphold scriptural writings as more or less literal truth. On the other hand the form of 'intelligent design' which I do recognise does not negate any of our scientific data, but that recognition does require the acceptance of a broader, non-physical context within which the physical Universe operates.

Let us be clear that, provided we are prepared to take the wording in religious scriptures as commonly being imagery rather than literal, physical truth, then we can say that there is no conflict between the notion of a creator God (I would prefer to say 'Creator consciousness') and the process of evolution, and even devoutly religious people should have no problem about this - for the evolutionary processes can be seen to be the physical means by which the creator God works. And on the other hand any scientist with a healthily open mind (i.e. not hamstrung by the materialist-reductionist belief system) should be at least open to the possibility of some sort of creator consciousness that is working through the evolutionary process.

The science faction has an important part of the picture, but they foul their own pitch by considering the physical dimension in isolation from its context among the other dimensions of the Cosmos (and, indeed, of experience). This deficiency arises because of their materialist-reductionist belief system, which I demolish on my page On the Nature of Reality and Truth. We need to understand that consciousness or awareness is our primary experience or truth - NOT an external, physical Universe, which latter actually is secondary and arises within the 'space' of consciousness. Once we take that on board, then we can begin to understand that cause and effect work through many dimensions or levels of the Cosmos - all within consciousness - and because consciousness itself is the ultimate reality, NO process in the Universe is operating independently of at least the highest levels of consciousness. Thus the room for all manner of 'intelligent design' is huge and beyond the imagination of most humans, and can operate through what scientists are calling random or chance processes.

There has been a lot of debate as to whether evolution occurs through a gradual process of adaptation or whether it occurs in big steps, and also about whether Darwinism has got it wrong. Such arguments are pointless, because it is clear that many processes have played a part in evolution, and there is no one process that accounts for all of how life on Earth has arrived at how it is today. Also, you cannot go back 'there' and observe what actually did happen, so you can never absolutely know how evolution occurred.

Some people have channelled information to the effect that advanced extra-terrestrial civilizations have been assisting and guiding the evolutionary progress of life and indeed humans here on Earth - in particular a civilization based in the star system NGC 584. This latter civilization allegedly specializes in genetic manipulation for positive purposes and at various times has seeded Earth life forms with modified DNA to bring particular life forms to a state where what we recognise as human consciousnesses could start incarnating in them. Okay, all channelled 'information' comes to us with a pernicious usually unseen agenda, as I explain in Better Without Channelling, and I think most likely the morsel of channelled 'information' which I've repeated here is untrue, but nonetheless we are being plain stupid when we keep out minds closed to possible unseen influences on evolution here on Earth or indeed anywhere.

I personally hold no belief one way or the other about such influences, but I do keep a healthily open mind about it - and in particular I bear in mind that it has so far been a mystery to the scientific community as to how humans could have such large brains, and have such abundance of aesthetic / 'deep' experiences, without any obvious biological selective pressures to cause these to come about. I wonder how much longer scientists are going to keep saying "Go away, I'm looking for the truth!" each time truth comes knocking on their door, or indeed staring them in the face!

As long as scientists maintain such a narrow, belief-bound outlook on the origin of life and of Humanity, they unwittingly ally themselves with, and give much support to, the forces of 'darkness' and ignorance which they are publicly opposing.