T.: Does that mean that you really did not
create earth and the heavens, then, G?
G.: Well, I will say this. I did not tell
anybody that I did that, but, yes, the ‘creationists’, as you called them, have
attributed that feat to me. I neither dispute it or accept it. Like the stars
and the Moon and the Sun which gives light and heat/warmth to the earth on
which you live, it is something some people have taken as a given. No human can
disprove my existence anymore that he/she can disprove the validity of those,
like you, T, the evolutionists, who have argued that what is the result of an
evolutionary process. It might, indeed, be the case that there is little or no
difference between me, the perceived creator, and evolution. It might even be
the case that I am a product of evolution, just as humans and other creatures
are themselves able to create life through the process of giving birth to or
incubating and hatching their young.
After all, T, you, as a sentient being is
here with me discussing the most obscure and profound of issues which are
grating on your intellect and consciousness. And, just as how you can
contemplate your existence as a consequence of your conscious state, why should
not I, whom they call god, also contemplate my own. Maybe the evolution of
which you speak is the god that ‘created or made me’, in much the same way as
the ‘creationists’ contend that I made you and the earth and all things within
and outside of it.
I speak hypothetically, considering that we
have having an imaginary conversation, and you with an entity you do not
believe in.
T.: So, G, I can see that you are not being
absolutely categorical in accepting or denying what humans have attributed to
you, but seeming to suggest that, if you wanted to propagate what they are
saying, you would have been able to do it directly, instead of having this and
that prophet and scribble putting themselves forward and claiming that you told
them this and that. Let us, however, for the sake of our conversation, take it
as a given that you did create all living creatures. Can I
then ask, did you plan which creatures you were going to create, and is there
any particular reason why you created these thousands of varieties of
creatures?
G.: Well, again, what I will say is this;
there are so many varieties of creatures, some of whose names and purpose I no
longer remember, if, indeed, I ever knew them. If I am being honest, I would
have to say to you, no; I did not plan or specifically create all of the
creatures on the earth. Some of them are what you would call hybrids.
Sub-species, if you like, of the basic species which I reputed to have created.
On the whole, pretty much all the living creatures are nothing more than a very
long ‘food chain’, although you humans have developed other purposes for them
and yourself. I mean, how and why could I possibly have thought up the idea of
identifying and making every creature, every little insect and animal which
inhabit the earth, and formulate a purpose for purpose for them? How would that
have benefited me?
I believe that the evolutionist would argue
that each creature either evolves in its own pecular habitat or environment, or
is introduced to and then inhabits it, if it is conducive to it thriving there.
That, in my view, seems to be a more logical explanation for the origins of
each specie, than that proposed by the creationist.
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