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Spiritual Evolution |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND SPIRIT |
| Author: Birney Dibble |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,906 Words, 17,025 Characters |
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In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin constructed a theory that explained why we have so many different kinds of animals and plants on this earth. To his satisfaction and that of many others, his theory of evolution explained how species come and go, why some thrive and others perish. He used now-familiar terms like natural selection and survival of the fittest.
There are striking similarities between biological and spiritual evolution. Many of the same principles apply. But before we go ahead with that concept, perhaps we should refresh our memories about Darwin's theories of natural selection.
He observed three facts and made two deductions:
Fact 1. All organisms increase in geometric ratio.
Fact 2. Yet, numbers of a given species remain more or less constant.
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...way. He may "mutate" first in one direction and then another, exploring many possibilities, ending up in a few cul-de-sacs, but always retracing his steps to the original track and starting off in another direction.
Only in this way will man find his God, who of course was right there all the time, deep within him, the very "ground of his being." For God is nowhere if he is not there. vbcrlf
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