The universe evolved from a superdense singularity through a quark-gluon plasma radiation stage to a proton neutron stage to an atom stage and formation of stars and galaxies and solar systems.
Energy underwent transmutation into atoms and molecular evolution to produce our Planet Earth and probably many others like it. The atoms on this planet then evolved forming molecules and created nucleotides which organized into the genes which then went on to create self replicating mutating evolving life and these diverged by mutation and natural selection into the biodiversity we have today. Science has borne all of this out.
For this reason, I say that evolution is a physical, chemical, biochemical inorganic and organic universal process of change and natural selection and it is the creator, a complex process of endless change and ongoing creation of new forms. Gravity and cosmic radiation and the forces of atoms, the electro-weak and strong of quarks and perhaps superstrings binds all of this together and we are all connected to the whole universe by the same forces. We share genes in common with all living things on Earth and they are our kin.
If one wants to refute this scenario, one must write a peer reviewed scientific article to all of the science journals of the world showing refuting data and references and demonstrate why this view is wrong and classical magical creation views are right.
It is because of the overwhelming evidence of science which cannot possibly be refuted that I am led overwhelmingly to the inexorable conclusion that evolution is the prime creator and and if we agree that the creator is god, therefore evolution is god and all other gods therefore must not exist except in our collective minds.
Having said that, a parrot has created sentences, a chimp has created tools, and we Hominoid primates have created cyberspace. If creative ability is the prime requisite to be a god, then all creative creatures are also gods wherever they be in the universe.
The primary underlying substance of creation is energy. The kind that permeates the universe. This energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only altered in form, from potential to kinetic, from localized into particles and atoms, or radiant such as in electrons, plasma and the cosmic radiation, and more familiar nuclear alpha, beta and gamma radiation, as seen in the elctromagnetic spectrum, and so has never needed a creator. It has always existed if the laws of physics apply in pre-singularity universes as they must though perhaps differently than we know them. Energy therefore undergoes evolution and transitions back and forth into particles as we have seen since the singularity.
Is this where the notion of god has evolved to? It seems so if we look at the facts. From gods created in the human mind to fill our need for mentorship, explanation and solace, there were many; RA the sun god past the polytheistic Bull God era and the multitudinous Celtic and Greek managerie of Gods, the Nordic Pantheon of viking Gods, Montag, Tyrstag, Wodenstag, Thorstag, Freyastag, Saturnstag, Sontag for which the days of the week are named, to the Christian monotheistic God to this evolution god, a process oriented god to a parrot that conceptualizes and speaks over 900 words, a tool using chimp and us, the naked creator/destroyer ape god with 'Bird of Paradise-like' behaviour.
Copyright 2007 Jorma Jyrkkanen
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Well, you say this "energy" can neither be created nor destroyed...but energy can be counted, quantified, therefore it was somehow created. My beliefs are that G-D is infinite, he does not exist in time or space and most deffinetly cant be quantified.
"If creative ability is the prime requisite to be a god, then all creative creatures are also gods wherever they be in the universe." ....well no... creative ability is not the prerequisite to be G-D becouse got created something out of nothing and when we create, we take stuff thats already there and just make it into other things.
You gotta think of where everything came from, how did something exist from nothing. Time wasnt always around, and neither was energy...
Let me know what you think. Im not trying to attack you or anything just interesting to see another persons perspective.
um.... you were attacking, in the pacifist manner that christians generally do.
e.g."If creative ability is the prime requisite to be a god, then all creative creatures are also gods wherever they be in the universe." ....well no... creative ability is not the prerequisite to be G-D
what you said there was stated as a fact. GOD IS NOT A FACT. Facts need proof, and last time I checked, there was NO PROOF OF GOD. And until you find proof, case closed.