Evolution Will Not Take God into His Grave

Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair,
Such splendid purpose in his eyes,
Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies,
Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,

Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law —
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed —

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. (1849)

It is beyond my physical and intellectual powers to disprove God's existence either through science, mathematics or philosophy. I myself grew up a lover of science, and I have observed that the greatest misunderstanding which has endured to this day is the hypothesis of pedants claiming that modern and post-modern scientific discoveries make evolution irreconcilable with the idea that God exists.

Men are entrenched between two types of credulities; one is bigotry to bodies proclaiming a stiff adherence to the unreasonable and superstitious, while the other is credulity to the raw (and sometimes shallow) understanding of ultra-liberal “intellectuals.” The latter went on to an inchoate but radical conclusion that God does not exist, without springing out of their little wilderness to find the crucial link to correct Creationism and Darwinism's vehement discrepancy.

Darwin's theory of evolution has convinced me as much as it has convinced many a resident of Reason, but it does not necessarily reverse my equal belief in the existence of the Creator. The basis of my belief does not rest in the biblical creationist passages; the dictates of Reason bring a striking similarity to the story underlying the biblical genesis - that God created the universe.

One usual confusion surrounding the identity of God is His appearance. In my opinion it is not necessary for God to be human-like; he might be another form of matter, a stone, fire, water, or something mankind never saw nor knew. If it be true that we humans were cast after His “image” such should not be taken on the literal and physical aspect. We have no way to determine what His own “image” is because humans, however powerful our minds can be according to the measurements of our history, are still powerless and ignorant compared to the inimitable scale of God's vast genius. Despite the coming of an age when man is supposed to learn everything, he is still unable to learn everything.

With incomplete tools he cannot generalize upon such inquiries of the greatest magnitude. Otherwise everything is but utter conceit, as what is often displayed by atheists. Atheists do not belong to just one classification; they have as well a diversity of species. There are atheists who refuse to believe in God merely as a protest against the conservatism of the Church, and there are those who, after an indefinite period of meditation, temporarily accept the absence of a Creator, during which time his unsettled inquiry is still in search of answers. There are atheists who are just gullible enough so as to be convinced to retract their faith without venturing into deeper investigations of their own (truly it is easier to destroy than to construct), and bloggers and writers of the atheist robe belong to this classification, which in evolution we call proselyting. Some merely expresses the weariness of an age that long hoped and waited for an evidence of His presence. In this crisis-stricken epoch when the depressed turns to God for help, the impatient quickly gives in to reneging his faith after a grim bout with disappointment.

Men of science and some others with similar illustrious capacity are the principal proponents of the non-existence theory, stemming from their various empiricisms and calculations. They are reluctant to accept the romantic story at Eden; of Adam and Eve and the snake of mortality. They question the truth behind the assertions of the Christian Bible. They ask, if its authors had the extraordinary privilege of knowing the most ancient of histories by direct an actual virtue of Divine Providence. The literal meaning of the Genesis outraged rationalists, giving them the “reason” to convert themselves away from the abstractions of the Church and breaking God down into genes and memes, and then calling this campaign Atheism.

But let us suppose that God watches while the universe expands from the beginning. He watches as its bodies form, and in the Earth, a couple of marine microorganisms called Adam and Eve take shape, and in a short period spanning to millions of years one of them transformed into the various hominid species, the lone survivor of which we are today. Hence He has watched, all throughout those times sprinkling Reason until the developed man finally caught it in his grasp and used it to know his past; that by this revelation man was able to write grudgingly in codified tablets or transmit them through word of mouth (as the case may be). Of course he was then completely ignorant of microbiology and any kind of complex science, thus he designated as actors in his history things known in his day. He made his kind a generic symbol to describe the origin of his specie (of course he was ignorant of his being an evolved creature, thus it never occurred to him to involve apes or earlier hominids in the process), naming it Adam. However, in spite of such primitive ignorance he was still aware of the requisite for propagation, therefore from Adam's side he depicted the birth of Eve. He now had a symbol for what was to be known as mankind. This was what God, through reason understandable in his day, revealed to him.

This is why I find the war between the fundamentalist factions in the Roman Catholic Church and atheists very humorous. The former limits themselves within the confines of what was assumed in the past, rejecting any notions outside its realm fearing they would bring about the religious institution's collapse. The latter, on the other hand, are equally stubborn and repugnant against the literal biblical genesis that such repugnance has grown into a severe allergy to everything which involves the idea of a God.

Yet in our universe/multiverse's definite history, can we find out who really is that Maker who caused the bang that are now us? A most supreme thing or being must be responsible to this, who triggered that primeval fireball and threw open a beautiful supersymmetrical order of fields filled with particles, bodies and energies, and the invisible dimensions which may lie hidden in between. Who was their Creator, who has remained passive for too long, observing all these commotions from a distance, and who might have been laughing at the various follies we human beings call intelligence? What was the reason he left Nature red in tooth and claw? Is this the Great Test which determines the true purpose of the Grand Design? Will he be silent even though in the delusions of many, they think what they are digging is His very grave?