by David Maloy

Created on: March 23, 2010   Last Updated: March 25, 2010

When dealing with this issue, we have to take into account the myriad of different ways to look at and/or see God.  Not everybody believes in Abrahams' version of God and those that do are separated in beliefs to the point of having very many groups who believe different things about the way God was presented to and by Abraham.  But it isn't just Abrahams' God that is going through this.  Brahman is also looked at in various ways.  Some people believe God is a verb and others believe God is emotion. Some of us even believe that God is actually the Universe become self aware and that we are the infinite aspects of the Universe come to life.  That we have evolved to the point of developing higher levels of self awareness. That this world in which we explore is actually just an extension of ourselves and that you are just another aspect of me.  So to speak. 

Whether God is the creator of all or is the all self actualized, there is nothing to suggest that It couldn't use evolution as the vehicle in which life adapts and grows.  Everything is the result of information being shared in some degree.  Everything from your cells functioning to the bits of information on the screen.  The living brain has advanced to be able to process and share information...  Even to manipulate the information which allows us to make refined material out of the raw. 

 If God and evolution couldn't coexist, God would have to be playing some kind of game in which It manipulates us into a struggle between exploration and faith.  Evolution has been shown to be the best theory.  Why would evolution be the best scientific theory if God is all about truth and the Way and the Light?  To me, that would make God a deceiver and I cannot rightly accept that as truth. 

Could we have an unenlightened God?

We explore this world in which we live and the findings must be reflective of how God works if God works at all.  If God leaves no trace of evidence that would be one thing but to plant false evidence just to see who falls for it seems irrational and downright mean.  I always ask one question to those who take the Creation story in the Bible as literal truth over the scientific findings that conclude in favour of evolution.  "Wouldn't that make the tree of knowledge a lie?"

And so if asked if God can coexist with "Darwinism", I'd have to say that It pretty much has no choice.

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