One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger. When this sort of thing occurs, people often say that there was some power greater than themselves at work. This sounds reasonable. I am just suggesting that it is not necessary to equate "greater than ourselves" with "stretched across the heavenly vault." It could mean "just slightly greater." A cocoon of energy that we carry with us, that is capable, under some conditions, of affecting physicality. Furthermore, I conjecture that the totality of all these souls is what constitutes the Godhead. I mean this in the same sense as the "Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, whereby man, that is everyone together, creates "that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater statute and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defense it was created." And that leads me to my Insight: God was not there at the beginning of evolution; God is what lies at the end of it.Paul Quarrington
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The phrase, "God was not there at the beginning of evolution; God is what lies at the end of it," is quite profound. It alludes to the idea that God did not create humans, even though He might be considered to be our creator. Rather, humans evolved through the process of natural selection. Humans are one of many species that have come into existence.
The fact that humans were able to evolve through natural selection proves that there is a higher power involved in our existence. The phrase, "God is what lies at the end of it," implies that there is something greater or greater power that concluded evolution in favor of man.
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