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There might be a middleground with respect to Evolution and Creationism--a wierd, but a possible middle-ground. I once did research for one of my professors in college on different ideas about the nature of time, from religious to mystical to philosophical to the to the psychological to the scientific. One interesting conclusion was that linear time could be represented as a line--to the left is the past and to the right is the future. The present is a point on the line that bisects it into past and future, and the past and future are determined only by our position on the line. The point is like our mind or consciousness. It was decided that this nonexistent point we call the present is illusory because the clock is always ticking, and the imaginary dividing lines between one moment are the next are impossible to capture. In fact, at any given moment we do not see the world as it is NOW, but as it was only a fleeting moment ago--light traveling at 186,000 miles per second. It was concluded, then, that the present is illusion and the past and future exist NOW beyond this illusory point we call the present.
Since it was determined that time-experience, the flow of time, is perceived differently at different times and for different people, it was decided that different beings might experience time differently and, thus, a squirrel, a fly, and a human being might see the world as moving faster or slower than each other. Time-experience, then, might be an altogether subjective experience.
The whole point to this was that it was regarded as possible that there may be beings that have what may be called an expanded experience of the NOW, called the Eternal Now in Hindu philosophy, whereby they experience an expanded point, mind or consciousness, on the line of time to include more time of the past and future simultaneously, constituting what may be regarded as an expanded present. Pretty wierd so far, huh?
Anyway, the idea was that a god, or God, may experience hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of years, in what may be experienced as only a matter of moments. Therefore, individual entities, like living beings, would no longer be substantial because they would be born, grow, die and disappear in such a minute amount of time as to be completely unnoticeable in a perceptible sense. Taken together as a whole, individual living entities might constitute microscopic cells of some greater organism, just like individual cells in our bodies, although acting independently and carrying out primary functions, constitute us as a whole human being. In a sense, we may say that metaphysical concepts, like Man, become the objective substance of a god, or God, with such an expanded experience of time (which is a return to Plato’s Forms).
Anyway, we concluded that it might be possible that what we call evolution is only apparent to us because of our extremely limited time-experience. For a god, or God, on the other hand, evolution might represent the development of one being, the metaphysical concept Man, from conception to adulthood over a period of millions of years, and the individual life-forms marked by this process are like individual developing cells. Therefore, evolution is evolution only to us, but not to a god, or God. I told you this viewpoint was weird.
"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"
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