I was an outdoor enviornmental educator at one point in my life, and I learned a few things about evolution. One points clearly to the idea that we are really only evolving as a result of stimulus in our envionrment. We have curly hair for example, because we needed to be able to survive cold weather, and curls will hold heat better. We have wisdom teeth because our ansestors didn't have good dental hygene and they lost teeth, so now we have a few extra as a result.
That said, I think of squirrels. Squirrels have a bad memory, and they will only remember, on average, about twenty five percent of the nuts that they hide. The other seventy five percent will become trees. So when you look at that, you realize that squirrels aren't forgetting as a result of something in their enviornment, but there is something bigger at play.
With all of this, I point to intelligent design. In science, that's the idea that there is something bigger that has designed all of this and put everything together. You could almost call it a science God. So, to think of squirrels this way, this is apart of intelligent design. They aren't forgetting the nuts as a result of something in their environment, they are forgetting because this is the design of something greater, something bigger than the squirrels.
I think of our own personal spiritual evolution in this manner. While I may be evolving as a response to something in my enviornment, I believe all of that is pushing me to a bigger and greater evolution. I can see personally how my own spiritual evolution has been in response to stimulus in my enviornment, but also, it has been moving me towards something greater. Something I can't see where I am at, but I feel as I move forward.
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