It is now time for you to meet God. Here is God. |
Is there a God that stands and reaches to the sky? Who has power over all the universe? Who can build nuclear suns and tear apart planets and remake worlds? Who can fly through the air like Apollo's chariot; and reach out and touch the stars, the surface of Jupiter and probe the depths of the sea? Is there such a being? Then I say to you earthman, you have arrived. You have answered the riddle of existence. You are now deserving of heaven's blessings. It is now time for you to meet God. Here is God. That God is you.
Perhaps God did not exist at the beginning of the chain of evolution, but he may come into existence at the end. Evolution is the systematic and progressive development of life toward perfection. Evolution is the development of the energy of the universe in such a way that it has an increasing ability to consciously control itself and the universe around it. It is a progressive change from the unconscious to the conscious. We are the universe trying to comprehend itself. Man is the corporeal manifestation of the universe trying to control its own destiny. Man is God in the process of coming into existence.
The order of creation is exactly the opposite of that described by fundamental religion. We began millions of years ago as a spot of protoplasm on the bottom of a swamp and today we have powers that once were ascribed only to the Gods. And yet evolution has only begun. The human being is still evolving. We are like an amoeba or a dinosaur still in the early stages of evolution. We can only guess what evolution has in store for us in a million years.
God is usually described as a conscious being who purposely acts on and affects the universe. The human brain is the most powerful organizing and directing force in the universe. Since a tree or even a sun can not fulfill this destiny of directing the universe, the energy of the universe has invested itself in the human mind in order to accomplish what no other living thing is capable of doing.
The sun is a significant part of the energy of the universe, but even with all its power, it still can not think about itself or build a microscope to examine itself or build a telescope to examine the universe around it. The most powerful sun in the universe could not create so much as a table. A great power, like the sun, without direction, is worth less than a small power like man with more self direction. The highest mountain, a volcano and even the sun is nothing compared to the brain of man.
Man is far from being a subservient helpless pawn in the hands of insuperable forces as atheists and fundamental religionists suggest. The moral duty of man as the only consciousness in the universe is infinitely greater than it was under any fundamentalist religion because man is responsible for what the universe will become. Under fundamental religion, man could not even really destroy himself because his soul was in the hands of God. According to evolutionary ethics, if man commits a sin by harming himself or any other man he is literally killing God in himself.
Our first moral obligation to the universe is to maintain our own life because if we do not exist, we can have no effect on the universe. In the case of dysgenic decline or nuclear war we find that superstition and sectarian atheism both jeopardize the health, the well being and the very survival of the human race by denying or confusing ethical priorities and moral responsibilities. Remember good and evil are not myths, but the mathematics of survival. Evil is putting loyalty to politics or religion over loyalty to mankind. Since we are the most powerful thing in the universe, the only thing that can destroy us is if we destroy ourselves by refusing to accept the moral responsibility for our actions. Nuclear suicide and dysgenic suicide are only possible in a society that refuses to accept the moral responsibility for what it does. Since man is the intelligence an the consciousness of the universe, he is responsible for the destiny of the universe and hence has a moral responsibility to preserve and improve himself.
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