The Principle of Evolution

2007-4-6 06:15:00

Principle 50: Evolution

The Question:

How would you define evolution and what is the true principle behind it?

Thanks for your answers. I have been short of time the past couple days and do not have much of it to comment on your answers but they were all good and filled with seed thoughts.

Science recognizes evolution as that process which takes us from a simple to a more complex state. I would add this. It is that process by which intelligence is applied to matter and form. In the beginning this intelligence organizes simple forms which combine or fuse into more complex forms. The increased complexity demonstrates intelligence in a number of ways. Among them are:

  1. Movement in form is increased and limitations are decreased.
  2. Beauty is increased.
  3. Usefulness is increased.
  4. Power to benefit the whole is increased.
  5. Power to manifest intelligence is increased.
  6. Stability is increased as long as the usefulness of the form is required.
  7. Relationship of the parts is enhanced.

We could continue here but Dan said it well when he said it was a manifestation of the Law of Dominating Good and this points to the principle behind it.

We could describe the principle of evolution as follows:

It is a force stimulated by intelligence that leads the organization of form toward a dominating good.

The cycle of evolution and entropy repeats endlessly. Life incarnates into form and intelligently evolves and improves until all desired experience is gained. Then the life withdraws and entropy takes over. But the fruits of evolution remain and the best of it will be used in the next cycle.

The next principle we will look at is Experience.

Question:

What is experience and what is its purpose? Is anything more real than experience?

  

Global Warming Enlightenment:

We have all heard the scare tactics used when activists warn us that the arctic is melting and this will make sea levels rise. The truth is that the whole arctic could melt and this would have very little effect on sea levels.

Why?

The book "Meltdown" explains:

"...the North Polar ice cap is a floating mass, and melting that will have absolutely no effect on sea level; a glass of ice water does not rise when the cubes have melted. With regard to that other polar ice-Antarctica-most climate models predict little or no change. Greenland, as shown in Chapter 3, is also pretty neutral for ice, and in those places where ice is melting, temperatures have been observed to be cooling."

"Meltdown" by Patrick J. Michaels, Page 201