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 WAYOne’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:
The True History of the Dinosaurs
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.
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.
