Another view of creation
One night, we had a visitor at the Affinity Circle at our center who read some poetry about the creation of good and evil, light and darkness. When the young poet was through, he asked for some feedback, and in one of those 'inspirational moments' I responded. "My favorite creation story only has three words:
...It's still happening."
Even though I never saw the young man again, the words have had significant impact on me and my views.
It's still happening. Creation is a PROCESS, not a single act. This process, where intelligence creates more of itself, is a natural expression of itself. It is, in fact, an observable characteristic of intelligence, part of the very definition of intelligence. And we cannot separate intelligence from its creative process.
And the process continues. With every tick of an atomic clock, the Universe is a new expression.
Even in the few seconds that you’ve been reading this, there have been thousands of new cells created in your body. This is intelligence —written as DNA codewithin each of us expressing naturally. Oxygen has been transformed into energy within you, creating electrical impulses that have allowed you to read and understand the words written here. New stars are coming together, electron energy patterns in atoms are shifting depending on their energetic environment. New bacterial species are evolving out of old patterns of life.
Creation is happening within the minds and experiences of humans as well. New music is being written and recorded. New products and processes are being discovered. New art is being dreamed in oil, acrylic, stone and video.
What does it mean that creation is still happening? It means that, as conscious beings, we are part of it. The intelligence inherent within us is part of the creative process.
There are two things that we cannot deny from the observable universe:
1) that there is some level of intelligence observable even in the smallest particles and
2) that there is an inherent creative impulse that increases as consciousness increases.
This Universally Distributed Intelligence expresses as this manifest reality. The pattern of Intelligence, consistently expressing itself, is what we see AND is the act of seeing it at the same time.
This view is not meant to step into the fray between creationists and science, but is a bridge between the two. This is not the pseudoscience of Intelligent Design, or the religion of science, but is the logical, observable center point, where we can SEE Intelligence at work in this moment, everywhere we look.
(I personally believe in God, but not as the Tinkerer out there someplace in the sky who went AWOL after 6 days of work. I personally believe in this observable Creative Process, as a Principle that works now, as it always has. This eternal Principle, eternally expressing, is Life, is Love, is Intelligence and Beauty, which I might append as God but it is so much more than any story written for an adolescent human understanding.)
This Creative Process is evolution in expression, the manifestation of continued response to new environments and new stimuli, in nature and in the human experience.
The ultimate question therefore becomes, not what happened thousands or billions of years ago, but what is happening now? Since I cannot separate myself from the intelligence within and all around me, what part am I playing in this continuous process, as a conscious being? As a center of some intelligence in the Universe that itself is Intelligent, what am I creating?
The Creative Process continues.