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Sparky Brown and I wrote a little funny song that contains a lot of spiritual truth; It's called Hotrod Monkeys and goes like this: We're hotrod monkeys sitting on a
flat rock It has always disappointed me that people who believe in God think it is an affront to God to believe in evolution. I see no problem at all in believing in God and believing that God built evolutionary forces into the laws and life cycles of the Universe. Evolution is one of the fundamental teachings of the Bible. In several places we are told to go from glory to glory, clearly showing that spiritual evolution is our destiny. If spiritual evolution is going on, other kinds of evolution are sure to follow because the material and psychological always follows in the train of the spiritual. It is actually through God that we evolve. Growth and positive change (evolution) does not take place outside of God because nothing can be outside omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence. So we use God to evolve out souls. We tap into that Spirit. Some evolutionists have thought that man came from a long line of beings and that some of them resembled a monkey. The anti-evolutionists get great PR mileage making fun of the idea that we came from monkeys. Why should I mind coming from a monkey-like creature if it is a divinely instituted process. Coming from a monkey would be more of a miracle than coming from an angel. We clearly have some monkey-like ways as well as touches of angel-like behavior. I personally would like to think that we came from squirrels. I have mentally battled and been baffled by them for many years in my bird-watching area. I am here to tell you they are craftier than most humans. They exercise more and have enough sense to store food for the hard times. And I've never seen one with his britches down to his knees. I've never seen one beat his wife or abuse his child. I've never even seen one lay out drunk for days and days. There's you something to be proud you may have once been. We make more fuss over mysterious things than we should. We team up and square often as evolutionists and creationists, and fight over something that we have absolutely no way of ascertaining in this life. In our current realm of consciousness, we will never know how we were created. We were not there. That's how simple it is. We were not there. So why not enjoy thinking about all the ways it could have happened and admire God for making such an interesting world full of beautiful mysteries. Einstein said the wonder and glory is in the mysteries. He said if we miss the mystery, we miss it all. Whether God hocus-pocused us at one moment or built us over a long period of time is really none of my business and it's fine with me however God did it. I think he did a perfect job of creating an interesting place with some fascinating critters. He certainly demonstrated a keen sense of humor.
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