Evolution and God

In early time in the Earth billions of years ago chemical molecules through millions of years at a time flocculated into larger chemicals, some of which if broken apart, would grow into larger molecules of the same chemicals. These persisted, because the mere fragments were the seeds that grew into their progeny.

Immense stretches of time passed, millions of years at a time. Certain molecules grew tougher, and more persistent. They became virus-like, and did not break randomly, but at distinct places in distinct sizes, because by doing that, they lasted longer and were more likely to reproduce in the same way. They did not magically intend that; their eventual progeny were the result of those which, randomly, were the more stable survivors among myriad other kinds were not so stable, and which disappeared rapidly.

Stability is survival. God was substantial in the emergence of order from randomness and chance. God emerged from among the very molecules which were the ultimate precursors of life. God was with life all the way since molecules. To a molecule, God was manifested in at least the protective environment sustained by other molecules like oneself. Survival was improved with others like oneself; survival is good. Since ancient times when all life was still only molecules, God is good. The primitive origins of dreams emerged as the field of resonance around the particular spectra of molecules, perceptible, that is influential, in the quietest of times, when the most sensitive flexibility of a molecule could respond to the collection of resonance which surrounded itself.

Entropy, the randomness into which energy could be lost, was an important principle. Molecules which could conserve the energy of their forms, and not lose it to randomness, were among those more likely to reproduce to form.

Gradually, viruses as centers of activity accreted outer membranes a quarter or half wavelength of light away from themselves because at those distances certain resonance favored the accumulation of materials like themselves, and these were the precursors of the membranes which define cells. And so God became formally visible.

Collective dreams emerged. An organism among other organisms like itself, in quiet circumstances, would resonate with the field created by all its neighbors.

For billions of years, single celled organisms were all there were. They are called monera, now that the word exists, the word with which this is written.

Then the monera learned not to break apart completely, but to remain together. For a time, there were two-celled organisms. Then there were three-celled organisms, then four-celled organisms and suddenly many-celled organisms began to emerged, and still God was with organisms. Always, an organism itself faintly represented God in self- resonance, and harmony would be assuring.

Monera began to reproduce as multicelled organisms, called metazoa, from three to perhaps eight galactic cycles ago.

Most importantly, when organisms of a kind were numerous, their collective resonance would be most assuring to an individual organism that had lost the Way.

Species emerged, because some organisms had one resonance spectrum, and other species had a different resonance spectrum. Yet they were never infinitely different; there were superficial differences, and somewhat deeper differences, then more substantial differences, and fundamental differences, and finally such fundamental differences that the two organisms were of greatly different sizes and shapes.

Superficial differences could be tolerated.

Somewhat deeper differences could lead to distinct aversion.

More substantial differences could lead to competition for resources and mating.

Fundamental differences could lead to predator-and-prey relationships.

Extremely substantial, fundamental differences could lead to parasite-host, or organism-disease relationships.

Some organisms, which were plants, were not motile, but simply grew where they happened, or floated and only drawn by the ancient waters. They dream, though faintly, because they cannot move in response to their dreams.

Some of these survived at the water's edge, and gradually became able to survive being dry briefly. They were able to endure being dry briefly, because they were the ones who persisted in reproducing after they had been dry for a time. It is difficult to say, whether success was or was not entirely planned. Perhaps it just happened, that some succeeded, and so it looks like it was planned, but they just accidentally succeeded in surviving, and the very survival itself was the selection rule by which those that would survive would be more likely to survive again.

Animals in the seas dreamed, in that their resonance with themselves and with each other enhanced their survival.

Many things came to pass. Organisms developed eyes, and nerves, feelers, fins, claws and shells in the oceans. Organisms crawled out of the shallows onto the land, first by being stranded there by the tides. Their survival was possible, and those that became most adept at surviving the varied circumstances caused by tides learned to emerge from the waters of the seas for a moment, then for a time, then for days and finally forever, to spend all their lives on the land.

Eventually both plants and animals literally infested the land as well as the seas. Myriad kinds of life, from molecules - which were still abundant and varied and notoriously persistent, to single celled creatures, to plants and walking creatures, gradually became established all over the Earth.

These events spanned many tours around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, at 250 million years each cycle. Actually the duration of time was somewhat longer in the beginning, but just how much is not yet measured. Perhaps when life began, it was 350 million years, and the cycle became shorter as time passed, so that now it is 220 million years according to the best available measurements now.

Animals dream, sometimes deliberately and intensely, seeking resonance from others, or carefully rearranging the resonance which remain from the day. One seeking the resonant fields of others may seek only those of one's own kind of animal.

In prehistoric times, after the dinosaurs had fallen and the mammals which had emerged under them began to dominate the earth, there emerged early monkeys.

The early monkeys were not human beings, not people, not men. They did not use particularly articulated words; like modern monkeys, they screamed and hooted, cried and called, but these were not words. There was no written language, only a few different kinds of scent markings, and he evidence of their feeding from broken plants, and their passing by spoor.

All animals dreamed. The myriad animals dreamed dreams of monkeys. Some dreamed that monkeys should be smart, so that went into the stew. Some dreamed that monkeys should have pincers, yet others dreamed of claws, and still others of prehensile appendages. The distinct emerged in dreams, and so monkeys have fingers, and claws. Some animals contributed hearing and others vision. Animals which had tails dreamed monkeys should have tails, and so monkeys have tails. Connecting intelligence to fingers was difficult, and for along time it was not known which way signals moved from brains to limbs, so for a long time the tail was prehensile. It was somehow related to the spoor but just how was for a very long time not clear.

And then Man was dreamed, for monkeys began to understand how to signal at a thought which finger should move where, and their fingers became connected with more than their mere stomachs and digestion. The monkeys dreamed dreams of Man, and so, rooting that dreams in the dreams of all life, Man became inevitable.

Thought was connected to the hand. And so God, which was the sum of all dreaming, planning, hoping and believing, made Man, the money with his mind connected to his hands.

Now just imagine what chance your dreams have, after you have killed all the other animals that would have helped you substantiate your fleeting dreams of flying to the stars.

In the early days before Men, wild animals were the chorus of dreamers, who provided the vague but powerful basis for dreams and thoughts of progeny to be. Just so, Native Peoples in every continent know stories about Fox, and Buffalo, and Crow, and Eagle, Elephant and Giraffe because these stories came to them in dreams shared by all life with Men.

Go back to the small farms with the domesticated animals such as sheep and goats have contributed dreams to families since animals were first kept. Nowadays, the cat and dog often appear in dreams, and some say they share the dreams of their masters. But you won't go to the stars with only the dreams of a few chosen pets, if all the wild animal beings of the Earth, and many of the Plants of the Earth that support the animals, is destroyed.

Hard Times and Deeply Distressing Fundamental Issues

I believe the economic downturn is a sign of a massive global devolution of technological industries in the manufacturing and construction sectors. This devolution is because the whole development reached a critical stage in its size and connectivity, and can no longer avoid eternal factors such as the exterior celestial firmament of distant galaxies, the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy, the annual orbit of the Earth around the Sun, and of course the Earth's rotation.

During most of the opening two or three centuries of technological development, most of the time daily and annual concepts of right were absolutely sufficient to undertake huge constructions such as cities, bridges, tunnels, and highways. Newer technologies such as communications, including television, internet and portable telephone systems, were able to make do with greater use of the annual concepts of right. But in almost no case was it necessary, except occasionally on a local scale, for an industry to check itself against galactic right, and then it was only for a technical detail such as in the sciences where quantum spin is a factor.

By now, the concentration of problems has also become urgent and simply stark. Overpopulation, emphasis on employment that does not deal with such mundane things as food, shelter and clothing, the relentless machine-driven slaughter of wildlife that does the same thing to wild things now as machine guns and mustard gas did in the First World War, and other factors conspire to create a resounding rejection of certain excesses in the human construction.

These agonizingly intense raw factors are masked by spending time carefully examining secondary problems like tax rates and economic soundness of mortgage and manufacturing industries. The simple fact is that life is turning away from several factors that consume much that is of value, despoil much other that is of value, and produce a remarkable large quantity of inessential things such as extremely sophisticated consumer goods, lavish entertainment budgets, and exceedingly expensive skyscrapers, while not placing a completely dedicated concern onto the security of production of necessary, essential things like food and housing and making certain these essentials are available in the necessary and sufficient quantities whatever else comes to pass.

The upshot is that this economic recession could continue as collapse for another decade, while people muddle around trying to create works that fit the concept which is to eventually become stable throughout the earth as the planet's destiny. If it is in the future that, for instance, lavish consumer goods are simply neglected much, much more than is now anticipated, then that kind of industry is simply destined to fail utterly. Of course that may not be; it is known that lavish consumer goods existed during the Roman Empire. On the other hand there were long periods of relatively mundane, essential existence and its concomitant dedicated to fundamental necessities, throughout extensive regions in the world, and lavish consumer goods were simply not in vogue, not even as popular as they had been among those who could afford them. Tastes change.

In tastes at the present time certain flavors are almost unmentionable, though decency compels they be declared increasingly often. Two of these are bitterness and hunger. The bitterness comes from unnecessary death, both human and animal, and the hunger is among its causes. So also are the slaughter of both domesticated animals and wildlife. Overpopulation is a bitter mistake, and so are the worst standards of living. There may be no way for ANY of the world's people to avoid any of these stark simple realities, with the terrible implications of the truth they comprise.

It seems likely that the vast glut of motor vehicles is to be eventually also understood as a serious, great, evolutionary mistake, a misconstruction of almost immense magnitude. If it may be thought that the present economic downturn presents some hard questions, just consider what kind of questions may emerge from a serious reduction in automobile traffic. How will people combine the necessity of working close to home, with the existing separation of work locations from house, shelter and home? We don't know.

Telecommuting was greeted with great enthusiasm, and rightly so. Telecommuting provides part of the real answer, the real solution, to exactly that problem. The only difficulty is that it is being ignored, and it is only part of the solution. The other part of the solution is to find ways with which human beings can secure food, clothing and other income, while remaining generally close to their homes, and without creating a huge transportation glut on the roads each day just because engines make it callously possible.

So the problem is, that telecommuting provides too little, too late, of only a small part of exactly the kind of solutions necessary. That small part is exceptionally new stuff, new capabilities, but it is almost inevitable that considerable amounts of other new stuff and new capabilities will be necessary before the world reaches a state of sufferable stability in which periodic catastrophic economic collapse does not recur too often for dignity. Telecommuting is absolutely wonderful new stuff wherever it is sufficient, but it's only sufficient in a relatively small part of the economy, and in almost no case is it close the fundamental production of food, clothing and housing.

Another idea that was too little, too late, of exactly something right, is the pea-patch garden patches created under some city jurisdictions. These are an important attempt to create an agricultural base that is distributed throughout populous regions. Much more development of this approach is vital.

Bicycling is considered a valuable and viable form of transportation primarily among those who bicycle. Very few who depend on cars for most or all of their transportation are willing to admit there may be good reason for 'suffering' bike riding.

This is like dieting. If one does not diet or fast occasionally, then one is constantly replenishing current activity supplies by eating food, and this prevents a person from drawing on deep stores of energy and fat. The result is that the person who does not savor any hunger is usually sick with decomposing old fat.

The present construction is somewhat like that. Modern constructions last a long time, and they become corrupt within before they are past their useful lifetimes if they were completely flushed of old occupancy and renewed or replaced. Old buildings are things that cannot be adapted to when they become stale or insufferable. They depend on renewing superficial aspects, such as shops and stores, while retaining sometimes increasingly obsolete frame, foundation, utility connections and energy technology.

Some of the approaches to the economic downturn include renovating or replacing old constructions. Yet if it is not taken into account how important this is, the result will be that not enough old structures are replaced.

There is one other terrible danger which can emerge from an economic collapse: violence as frustrated, often hungry or homeless persons who identify or misidentify some particular group as the cause of their plights, and gain enough power to cause a nation real grief.

The consequence of not dealing with the hard and difficult questions correctly is that often very wrong solutions emerge from the earth as random or sporadic violence.

So what does "correctly" mean? At the very least, a modern sophisticated look at what worked and what did not work in the 1930's depression must be undertaken. The solutions that worked must be made into extensively distributed information on the internet, and new equivalent solutions that work must be devised, proposed, and tried.

Television, the internet, portable telephones and other technology has a good role to play in communicating facts as they appear.

Another possible solution that is only beginning to surface, though many are repulsed by it, is that millions of houses were constructed which are very large for the single family dwellings for which they are zoned. On television are shown people facing eviction from their homes, because they cannot remain in them when their income falls, yet they cannot take in boarders, share their house with another family, or share the house of a family next door because of zoning. This is likely to come to a head sometime down the road if the downturn continues; it has already resulted in people refusing to leave, and some action to help prevent the necessity, while in other cases they are forced to.

Questions like this need deep good judgement that is not always best in the hands of persons who profit by less effective but more lucrative capital aggression.