Robert Landbeck
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The considerable friction between evolutionists and Creationism, while having may facets, might well boil down to a singe idea that includes most of monotheism. That is the idea that man is 'created' in the image and likeness of God. The assumptions attached to this 'idea' which is so primary to much of religious identity, and yet have little scriptural warrant in detail, stand in stark contradiction to Evolution. And has been unraveling for most of history.
For a species that is so dominated by materialism, which the just past holiday period makes so self evident, so excessive that the planets very capacity of maintaining life is coming under question, it is more and more difficult to even describe ourselves a 'spiritual'. As for morality, our species being the most destructive and self destructive on the planet have little claim to that title! We might honestly call ourselves 'Aspirational' but those aspirations remain unrealized. Those wishing for a more rational, more just, a greener and peaceful planet, who hoped for a sighting, even a glimpse of that dream coming to fruition, a reflection of human intellectual, moral and spiritual progress, have been disappointed. History continues to be written otherwise! That potential within the human condition would appear to be limited, like all species by the evolutionary root to which we are tied and unattainable by any means of measure of that of human understanding both scientific or religious. Thus the question is What is it to be and how are we are created 'in the image and likeness of God' ? For which there is no compelling and satisfying answer! And without that answer, I must presume that religion, in the truest sense of the word has yet to begin!
For a species that is so dominated by materialism, which the just past holiday period makes so self evident, so excessive that the planets very capacity of maintaining life is coming under question, it is more and more difficult to even describe ourselves a 'spiritual'. As for morality, our species being the most destructive and self destructive on the planet have little claim to that title! We might honestly call ourselves 'Aspirational' but those aspirations remain unrealized. Those wishing for a more rational, more just, a greener and peaceful planet, who hoped for a sighting, even a glimpse of that dream coming to fruition, a reflection of human intellectual, moral and spiritual progress, have been disappointed. History continues to be written otherwise! That potential within the human condition would appear to be limited, like all species by the evolutionary root to which we are tied and unattainable by any means of measure of that of human understanding both scientific or religious. Thus the question is What is it to be and how are we are created 'in the image and likeness of God' ? For which there is no compelling and satisfying answer! And without that answer, I must presume that religion, in the truest sense of the word has yet to begin!
