Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00123)

----- Original Message -----
> From: Bart Lidofsky <bartl@sprynet.com>
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 1:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Randy to anyone: physical evolution

> WLR7D@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Does theosophy espouse physical evolution in the neo-Darwinian
sense?  If so,
> > what is the evidence used to support this?
>
> The apes were a failed experiment (recent scientific
> findings have found that Neanderthal Man is another failed experiment;
> they were our cousins, not our anscestors); good, but not quite good
> enough.

Whoah!  Assuming that some form of "creation" occurs, may it not be that
this process looked at Neanderthal Man and thought that it was good?
Why should apes be a "failed experiemnt" any more than turkeys or
rabbits?  If there is a deity, maybe she likes apes, turkeys, and
rabbits?  On the evidence to date, a case could seriously be made that
we ourselves are a "failed" experiment.  But this begs the question -
who or what is doing the experimenting?
>
> Now, mind you, this is just one interpretation, and one made on the
> basis of current science.

Doesn't look good for current science, IMO.
>
Alan

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