Evolution versus Evolvement

Posted February 18, 2010

The ongoing debate between creation and evolution never appears to reach a logical conclusion. We can say that many notable intellectuals and religious leaders have concluded that the evolutionary process cannot be detached from the human experience. However, the one thing evolution cannot explain is the introduction of “matter” into the known universe.

Assuming we all believe in God then creation is an easy notion to swallow. Current science and anthropology are finding human remains which date back 60,000 years and more. But should human remains, if they have survived, not date back millions of years? We simply do not know the age of the universe or when God’s hand turned on the mixer. Putting all this aside could it not be possible that God implanted a “spiritual pill” in a human-like species at time of creation, only for it to take effect at a particular time in creation. After all, Adam and Eve appear to have been a suburban couple with a lot on the go and experienced many of today’s modern problems – lust, greed, murder, incest and a snake (symbol of Freemasonry). This could have been the first recorded soap opera. For all we know, Eve may have been the first battered wife and Adam the first alcoholic.

So where is all this going? I want to harp on the on the notion of evolvement and not evolution. Evolution might stress the physical change more so than the intellectual or spiritual change. Evolvement may be the one thing human beings have been challenged with since the time of Adam and Eve. Let me give you some examples. Peter Mansbridge, Larry King and Oprah Winfrey interview many notable people who have impacted the human experience and our planet. We listen in amazement at the words of the Aga Khan, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and so many others explain the human condition and the plight of the less fortunate. We bear witness to the attempt their foundations and efforts make to help curb hunger, poverty, war, disease and religious intolerance. There is only one real problem with all this – they are witnesses to the truth, not the body of it. All these human afflictions have evolved into a form of sensationalism and we have detached them from our natural reality.

When last did Peter Mansbridge interview a starving child from Haiti, a Palestinian mother who had lost most of her family, a homeless child in the slums of India, a child prostitute in Thailand, an AIDS victim in Africa, a Native-Indian living in poverty, a skeletal-like male suffering in Darfur or a soldier who has seen his body torn apart by needless war? Evolvement would mean that the faces of agony and despair would have a voice on the world stage. That voice must come from the victim and not those who profess to understand the victim. Dollars raised through charity must not chastise the victim and reward the organization. When will television produce the reality show that stars hunger, disease and non-biased suffering? Perhaps, if we transform pain and suffering into “celebrity”, we really will cure the woes of this planet. Perhaps if we deal with this matter, the other matter won’t matter.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede