Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00127)

ambain wrote:
> > 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?

	WE are. Consciousness pushes forward evolution. The etheric body forms
the mold for the physical.

	Bart Lidofsky