Quote Originally Posted by C4nn4Bliss
Yeah ive heard people that were for both evolution and religion(oddly enough) to say that a creator use evolution and natural selection as a fine tuning method but im not all for that idea unless i could find more information on it, sounds sketchy but like i said you really have to keep an open mind
Woah! I never said "religion". I said "God of sorts" which could be "higher power", but not "religion". Religion is man made and is a pile of crap. It's not really what our Creator had in mind for us. Religion is used to subjegate and control the masses. For me to believe in some higher power does not mean I am religious. I could be wrong, but under my belief, religion is what people do every Sunday in church and that's not the same as believing in some sort of Higher power. I don't need to prescribe to some church doctrine to believe that there is some sort of Higer Power that created us and the universe (call it "faith" or gut instinct) and in so doing, realized that for long term sustainability, that Higher Power was smart enough to build in evolution.

After all, if we are to take the Bible as Gospel, that Higher power was smart enough to realize the we would be sinners always and the way our species is f****** up the planet with our consumptive ways and wasteful unenvironmentally friendly attitudes, there had better be some kind of evolution to take care of our mess because we are sinning something awful on this planet.

One more point. There is an album by Orb, called "Orblivion". Listen to track 7, called S.A.L.T. At -55 seconds of that track, the narrator begins to talk about evolution. The interesting point he raises is what death is. He states that evolution is itself evolving and that our death (the apocolypse) is just a natural step in that process (leap) of evolution. "By the very definition of apocolypse, mankind must cease to exist, at least in a material form. Well, it will evolve into something that transcends matter. Into a species of pure thought."

That's some pretty heavy s*** to be considering, but let the idea sink in, keep an open mind and you will realize as I have, that this makes perfect sense. If you have to, smoke a couple of real good joints.

I think the other part worth some thought was when the narrator was talking about the frog never considering or imagining that his simple croak would evolve into all the diffrerent speach patterns we now know (for those of you who believe we evolved from reptiles). So too, can we not comprehend or consider our destiny. I'm not so sure about this. I think our minds can consider and imagine our evolutionary future and that's what separates us from most animals. I believe in some ways, dolphins are smarter than us. They know stuff we don't. We either don't know it or repressed it over time.

That's enough for now.:thumbsup:
mfactor420 Reviewed by mfactor420 on . People are from outer space? Would really like to know what other potheads think about this: Do you believe we evolved from apes or are we clones of an alien race? Rating: 5