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Intelligent Design - Science vs. Religion |
by
Judi Thomases
INTELLIGENT DESIGN - SCIENCE VS.
RELIGION...OR IS THERE A THIRD APPROACH?
Should we approach this debate only as
Science versus Religion,
or can we look at it from a completely
different angle?
AN ASTROLOGER DISCUSSES A DIFFERENT WAY
One's natal horoscope is a picture of the
soul's choices. It describes a perfect flow
of events that some would call "fate".
Anyone who studies astrology sees this. If
you are skeptical, consider Sir Isaac
Newton's response to such:
Mr. Halley: But I don't believe in
astrology."
Sir Isaac Newton: I have studied the
subject, Mr. Halley, you have not."
Events do not happen randomly, but are
predetermined in the life (while, however,
allowing for free will to react to their
encounters).
For instance, when two people meet and
immediately "click", a pattern for this
event is shown in the horoscope ahead of
time. Is this coincidence? An astrologer
would hardly say so.
There is design at work. But let's
distinguish between the design of nature,
and another type of design that works for a
different end.
The fossil record certainly shows the design
of nature at work. Even so, there are gaps.
And that leads to a big question: how did
certain creatures arise from what had
previously existed? Furthermore, the fossil
record raises another good question: why did
big creatures give up the strategy of
bigness, when it seemed to be working quite
well for large predators? Was it merely
because an asteroid hit and caused the
environment to become poisonous or
ill-nourishing to these huge beasts? Or
could something else altogether have been at
work?
Here's a message from the spiritual teaching
entities called The Brotherhood of Light
Workers, regarding that:
Now, you can understand about the Age of
Dinosaurs. The reason why they grew so large
was that their idea of life included the
idea of expansion of form. But at their
stage of evolutionary development, expansion
was understood to mean hugeness, immensity,
or grossness. The larger they grew
themselves, the more cumbersome life became
until finally they realized that life no
longer felt like fun. Largeness per se was
understood by living creatures to mean
difficulty, not enjoyment, nor fulfillment
of the very purpose of life, [that] being
constant experience. So, having nowhere else
to go with that particular path of creation,
dinosaurs realized their error and decided
to terminate that path or road of creation.
You who are in form today may have been one
of those who tried partaking of form in that
type of excellent large state! Can you
remember lumbering about? Having immensity?
Experiencing hugeness in the biggest degree
available for life (that is, experience) on
planet Earth? No? Well, it's so anyway. You
were probably there!
This message seems to be telling us that we
are the Intelligent Designer! Inventor,
scientist, and early pioneer in the research
of consciousness, Itzhak Bentov has been
quoted as saying:
"Existence is a game the Universe plays with
itself in order to know itself.... The
Universe is a learning and teaching
'machine' or process. Its purpose is to
raise consciousness to higher and higher
levels, thereby enabling it to know itself."
-- Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum
This brings us to an important point: There
are two kinds of evolution - physical (i.e.,
of nature), and soul (i.e., of the wheel;
spiritual). While nature evolves form, we
are the part of nature that's evolving
consciousness, ultimately recognizing that
consciousness creates the world through mind
and thus partakes of god-ness.
So who's doing the evolving? How can it be
measured?
The truth of Intelligent Design resides
neither "merely" within science (the natural
world), nor altogether apart from the world
(an external God), but actually within
humankind as the function of consciousness
playing in the arena of form. Consciousness
is playing its game with parameters that are
co-created (created in a shared way) between
its spiritual essence and its
physical-emotional experience - that's the
Design part. Then, as consciousness goes
along and plays out its game, it makes
moment-by-moment choices that impact and
alter physical reality. Consciousness,
holding its intelligence within, is learning
its role in the evolution of Earth. So
consciousness is participating in nature
both as co-designer and experiencer. It is
The Dancer that dances itself!
You are Nature and God together, playing
this eternal game. The eternal part of you
chooses the experience in order to evolve,
knowing that the physical part of you will
be thus subject to the Laws of Nature. Your
choices during the cycles of history are
determined by your karma on the wheel of
existence (but that's another article!), and
the whole game-plan is seen in your
horoscope from the moment you take your
first breath.
From this vantage point, Science and
Religion are not at odds, but are two
completely integrated truths expressing the
majestic wonder of Life on Earth.
About the Author
Author-channeler, astrologer, and spiritual
consultant Judi Thomases offers monthly
messages from her spirit guides, The
Brotherhood of Light Workers, on her website
www.WisdomPath.com, and a powerful
message for the New Human in a book of these
teachings called "Wisdom's Game",
www.WisdomsGame.com. Look for Judi's
latest article called "Karmic Waves" in the
May 2006 issue of Dell Horoscope magazine.
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