Evolution and Entropy

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The story of Noah signifies that God did not want evil to spread, evil is decay, destruction, entropy. Evolution is love, it is compassion, kindness and joy, evolution is Godliness. When we talk about good and evil, we talk about evolution and entropy, evolution is everything which goes in harmony with nature and evil is everything which goes against the laws of nature like greed, passion, lust, gluttony, addiction, or anything which degrades evolution and leads to physical decay or entropy. Religions have identified with good and evil, and two kinds of religions emerged in the world: the heart religion and the mind religion. Christians, Hindus, Mohammads, Jews, etc. follow the religion of the heart, where it is believed that we must be passionate about God, euphoric about God so much so that we dissolve ourselves in God. The word sin has a beautiful meaning, it means to have missed the target, to have veered off the right path and we have sinned when God is not the center of our universe. The goal of this religion is the Kingdom of Heaven, Moksha, a state of bliss through truth. The mind religion is a logical religion and followed by Buddhists and Jains. Here it is believed that the mind is the cause of all evil as the mind is either in the past (problems) or future (dreams) but never in the present. Present means gift and when you live life in the present, life becomes a gift. The goal of this religion is enlightenment.   

Today we live in a world of science and thanks to science we have a good understanding of how the mind and body work. For example, if you look at the first time you learnt to drive a car, you had the gear shift, the clutch, brake, accelerator and a host of other controls to move and control the car. The first time you learn to drive a car, the brain takes enormous amount of energy, and the body cannot afford to supply this energy to the brain every time you drive a car and hence the brain learns any complex task you may teach it. But unfortunately, the brain does not distinguish between good or bad but just to master a task. Take the case of road rage, the brain can become aware much before you do that a condition exists for anger and it gets the body ready for you to unleash anger and when we react, we give in to the raw power of genes and that makes us no different from the animals from which we evolved. It is not a degradation but the missed opportunity to use our consciousness and to be human.   

If you believe in God, then you must believe that God created the universe. Science is not a law unto itself or an invention of scientists but a means to decode creation. Just as religion is the word of God, creation is his science, and we must embrace science just as we embrace religion. As scientists unravel the mysteries of this universe we see more and more of this magical and mystical universe we live in and just as we have used science to better our living conditions, so also must we use the discoveries of science to get us closer to the Creator. As you will see, creation is sheer awe and the love you will have for creation and the Creator will be a different kind of love, a spontaneous love like nothing else.   

 

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