Module 4 - The Basic Plan
The principles of evolution were developed by
Nature several aeons before Darwin stumbled on them. Using a brilliant
method of non-degrading duplication, Nature proposed
starting
with Aries, which would be the first living
cell, a bacterium, and given sufficient
time, about 4 billion years, and the
laws of statistics,
a wealth of species could proliferate though the universe from the
base near Cygnus A. These new living cells were dependent upon the conditions of the universe for their origin. They could not have arisen without a particular initiatory sequence ultimately carried out by other beings. In today's world, an analogy might be the computer virus. It vigourously replicates itself, but was originally created by an initiatory sequence designed by thinking (if criminal) beings.
Successive viruses need the active involvement of intelligence.
In one second Cygnus A produces more energy than the sun does in
40,000 years, a sufficient source of the stuff of life - once this
could be defined. By starting small, the universe could be populated
with progressively more advanced lifeforms, each "learning" how to
survive and prosper. And these elemental lifeforms could be petrified
for space travel.
Nature's duplication coding system, called "Do Not Attempt" enabled cells
to carry out self maintenance during a single lifetime, and with myriads of randomly triggerable "hooks" on it arranged
in a spiral as a kind of mating matrix for combining with other cells, to replicate themselves over multiple lifetimes.
Nature envisaged a statistical system that combined two
similar but not identical organisms (created by genetic mutation) to produce a third with shared characteristics,
but like snowflakes (an earlier project) there would be an infinite number of
ways for the combination to take place. Some of the combinations would be
startlingly effective and somewhat different from their "parents." One of Nature's objectives was to introduce the element of conflict necessary for the development of species. This would tend
to generate healthy breakaway lines, eventually forming whole new species. Some breakaways would
survive better than others, and in this way not only would the quality
of the created beings improve, but eventually they would tend physically
to resemble the ultimate design: God himself. Significant maintenance would be needed by God throughout the process, much as a chief executive officer watches over and nudges his company even if all the systems are in place for automatic dead reckoning. Even the best dead reckoning needs calibration by GPS from time to time. This "human" species would only evolve once many others had developed, providing a large spectrum of species for human enjoyment (and food). At this, Nature felt she had a workable
system, and reported to God that the creation of species
problem was solved, but a miracle would be needed for the "stuff of life." Nature
registered the laws of statistics and the Do Not Attempt spiral with the central bureau on Cygnus A.
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Module 5 - The Stuff of Life
A self improving delivery system, a universe-wide
delivery vehicle, but as yet no stuff of life. God paused - for a moment.
Here a happening was necessary without any precedent. It was as if
everything was in place, but nothing was happening. No life: the capability
for physical, mental and emotional activity, independent from him.
To say that God brought life into his first created being would be
to trivialize a concept that cannot be understood by any who were given life. Only God had the
capacity to do this, and to understand what was done. Then he gave life to a second, different, so that the combination of the two could result in an infinite variety of versions of their "parents". The laws of chemistry
that supported the genetic codes that Nature had devised a while before operated
perfectly. It was an awsome moment in the
history of the universe. Only God's powers were capable of it. The creation
of an animate being with the tendency to differ just a little from its parents would have tremendous repercussions
for the future. And God felt an overwhelming surge of
love for his creation, which was now launched on a huge journey across
time and space, towards the eventual evolution of a creature like him: to
be called "human".
Should he make his supreme creation subservient to him, incapable of
countering him, of working against him, of ignoring him? No!
His creation must have the power for good, from its own resources, not acting as his puppets.
But that meant
it would also have the power for evil, and the knowledge to distinguish evil from good. This implied the need for a source of evil in his universe. So be it. There was no compromise. He know the one for this job - Lucifer, who had fallen.
And he also knew at that moment that Lucifer would so bedazzle the hearts of his creation
that he himself would have to come down and live physically with them to defeat Lucifer.
Good would triumph over evil when the whole of mankind would recognize with love the supreme power of the creator. Oh, how he wanted his
creations to have the closest possible personal relationship with him! Yet he would not force them...
At this moment, the greatest miracle of creation was needed. Humans would need "spirit,"
to allow them the desire and capability of communicating with and through his own Spirit.
God breathed "spirit" into his first humans, whom we call Adam and Eve. Their predecessors
in the evolutionary chain had no spirit and knew no God. The Hebrew words for "breath" and "spirit" are the same.
Flesh gives birth to flesh, and spirit gives birth to spirit. And from that moment on, he tends his creations with
the love that only a father-creator is capable, nudging us here, leading us there as
we enjoy this sublime existence that he gave us.
But then our God is an awsome God.
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