It's odd that so many consider evolution and divine creation to be mutually exclusive. What they need is a sense of perspective.
Certain insects literally live a few months and die. Imagine if we could talk to them and they found out that we lived around 75 years. It would seem an eon to them. Remember how long the year between Christmases was when you were a kid? Makes sense. A year when you're eight is one eighth of your life. As your life rolls on a year becomes "shorter" in that it takes up less and less a percentage of your time here on Earth.
We human beings apply our own lifespan to the age of the universe when science finds it billions of years "old." But that's just old to us. Imagine that you're a consciousness working at what we would consider a divine level. You've existed forever and you've always existed forever. A couple of billion years is a weekend in your life. What we see as a gradual, creeping creation of galaxies, evolution of life and then intelligent life, is just a snap of a an eternal finger. To we short-lived humans, though, it's thousands and thousands of years. The pattern of development only seems potentially happenstance because of the great seeming distance between events. Imagine how a day in our life would seem to creature who only lived a couple of weeks.
As I said, it's just a matter of perspective.
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"It's odd that so many consider evolution and divine creation to be mutually exclusive."
This has amazed me, too.
What could be more God-like than to
create all life through evolution?
That's FAR more difficult than to have brought every single thing
into existence fully formed in
one great Act of Creation.
Well said. And to bad people don't love and value the special
creation and the animals and other creatures contained within and see that we are only the caretakers like the original inhabitants of California the Native Americans understood. Not that I'm advocating we abandon science and
medicine.
Watch it Preston, you're starting to sound a bit religious.
Maybe old age is setting in?
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