Understanding
the central role of consciousness resolves these issues. Although the argument has been driven by
those with a naïve understanding of both science and GOD and the concept of
intelligent design, we have now reached a point where we can understand the
salient role of consciousness itself throughout all aspects of the physical.
We also now
understand or at least I understand that we are profoundly biased to act in a
conservative manner and that we are also profoundly informed at a sub brain
level with access to that knowledge and response systems. For that reason everyone of us is able to
explode up a tree if confronted by a charging grizzly.
Understanding the
reasl depth of our access dispels all these issues.
A
Unified Theory of Evolution – How Karma & Reincarnation Complete Darwinism
& Intelligent Design
April 23, 2014
In 1859, when Charles Darwin published his
landmark manuscript on the theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species, the book generated a firestorm of
controversy and still today the debate between scientists and Creationists
seems to be more contentious as ever. According to Darwin’s theory, the basic
mechanism of evolution consists of two major components; random mutations and
natural selections. And we’re led to believe that all of the magnificent beauty
and wonder we see in nature is due to random mutations. The platypus notwithstanding, Mother Nature’s exquisite precision and diversity
would appear to be too fine and too staggeringly perfect to be simply relegated
to random chance and survival of the fittest.
On the other hand, the original proponents
of the Intelligent Design theory were typically theologians who understood
that The Book of Genesis couldn’t be considered a
scientifically viable explanation for the vast amount of life forms on Earth,
but wanted to posit a viable Creationist’s alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution.
And while Darwinists use science to
discredit the story of Adam and Eve and how God created the Universe six
thousand years ago, Creationists also have a great deal of scientific evidence that
discredits many of the main tenets of Darwin’s original theory. Debunkers of
Darwin’s theories are quick to point out mistakes in his overall concept
without taking into account that he was a pioneer in his field 165 years ago
when he published his book, and, that advances in science have filled in some
of those mistakes. But what if both theories are correct, and both are
incorrect? In other words, what if there was a unifying theory of evolution
that satisfied both camps of thought?
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, which was
published as an entire book under the title of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life is significantly more comprehensive
than just a discourse on natural selection and random mutations. Amongst the
many chapters are theories on how microbial life originated on the planet
billions of years ago, how land mammals could become whales and dolphins and
discussions of a Universal power behind the marriage between science and
religion and how The mystery of Mysteries, evolution, follows some
sort of cosmic laws.
Of the many controversies surrounding both
theories, one of the biggest lingering mysteries is something that neither
theory adequately addresses, which is how does the mechanism of animal and
plant instincts actually work? From the smallest single celled organism to
human beings, there is obviously an incredible amount of intelligence passed
along from one generation to the next. Is it possible that this is something
that is simply stored in the life form’s DNA or is there something beyond the
physical realm that is communicating information to the plant or animal?
One of the most amazing stories about animal
instincts is the 7 generation lifespan of a Monarch Butterfly family. Each spring, Monarchs begin the
annual migration pattern away from a small mountain range in Mexico and begin
their journey up north. Each successive generation flies 400-500 miles, lays
eggs and dies. The eggs are hatched, the caterpillars mature and become
butterflies, only to carry on the northward flight. Approximately the
7th generation however, eats differently and saves all of it’s energy for
the 2500 mile flight back to the very exact same tree their great, great,
great, great grandfather left many months earlier. How can this much
information, with the precision of a GPS device, be retained after 7
generations of insects no larger than the size of a leaf?
Neither Darwinists nor Intelligent Design
proponents can begin to explain the answer to this question using their
respective theories. However, researchers like Bruce
Lipton in the field of epigenetics and Rupert Sheldrake and
his theory of morphogenic
fields and many others are beginning to postulate that a component of
consciousness is at play here. However, neither of these theories really begins
to provide an explanation for how plants and animals have evolved on this
planet. And Andre Linde, whose theories regarding the Big Bang were recently validated, has stated that he believes that consciousness will become part of
Scientific Law within the next 100 years, paving the way for a unification
between science and spirituality.
The bridge between Darwin’s theory of
Evolution and the theory of Intelligent Design begins to be constructed when
you incorporate the concepts of karma and reincarnation into
the overall equation of evolution. Even if you are a non-believer in either
karma or reincarnation, the inclusion of the two ideas into the overall
mechanism for either theory of how life developed on this planet automatically
begins to resolve the question marks. The mystery of how such an incredible
amount of diverse and perfect life forms developed on this planet from
primitive microbial life starts to be revealed.
According to the science of Vedanta, when a person is conceived, 50% of the
impressions on their consciousness come from their parents and 50% come from
their previous birth. This explains why children from the same mother and
father can have such radically different physical and psychological traits. Of
course, this type of equation could never be proven (or more to the point,
disproven) using the Modern Scientific Method and so it’s difficult for westerners
to move on from here. This intellectual obstacle could also be compared to the
square root of negative one, otherwise known as an imaginary number: since no
number multiplied by itself can result in a negative number, the square root of
any negative number can’t exist, so they are called ‘imaginary’.
However, mathematicians and scientists
commonly use imaginary numbers and irrational numbers to solve complex
equations which couldn’t possibly be solved any other way.
Coincidentally, Schrödinger’s famousWave Function, which is a centerpiece of Quantum Mechanics, was resolved using the
square root of negative one. In much the same way, karma and reincarnation
(which some scientists would argue as being irrational) can be used to resolve
the complexity of the mechanism behind evolution. Operating under the
assumption that half of an organism’s instincts (or karma) comes from their
parents and half comes from their previous birth, you can begin to formulate a
model that explains how all of brilliantly diverse plant and animal species on
Earth has come into existence.
When you stop to consider that it wasn’t
random mutations that drove evolutionary change, but rather programmed DNA
modifications coming from an epigenetic blueprint based on information stored
in the consciousness of the organism from both its previous birth and its
parents, you mold a new paradigm of evolution that incorporates some of the
Intelligent Design concepts along with Darwin’s theories.
According to Vedanta, the design, the designer and the designed are all one, which implies
that there is merit to the Intelligent Design theory but what advocates for the
Intelligent Design theory are not factoring in to their position is the idea
that the entire cosmic dance has not been an overall design created billions of
years ago, but a vibrant and dynamic river of change that is an everlasting
intermingling of the seen and the unseen. Between the manifest and the
un-manifest.
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