From: rodhemsell@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Evolution, Intelligent Design & Integral Yoga
Date: August 4, 2005 5:43:48 PM EDT
To: rjon@vzavenue.net
Reply-To: postaum2005@sriaurobindocenter-la.com

Perhaps we could distinguish our position by

1) helping to clarify the difference between creationism and intelligent design thories; and

2) by defining and elaborating the relationship between design and process and its "more than intelligent" nature.

"...we
can no longer suppose that God or some Demiurge has manufactured each
genus and species ready made in body and in consciousness and left the
matter there, having looked upon his work and seen that it was good. It
has become evident that a secretly conscious or an inconscient Energy
of creation has effected the transition (from principle to principle)."

- LD p. 709

"An original creative or evolutionary POwer
there must be: but although Matter is the first substance, the original
and ultimate Power is not an inconscient material energy; for then life
and consciousness would be absent, since Inconscience cannot evolve
consciousness nor an inanimate force evolve life."
- LD 705