EVOLUTION
The lineages of humans and
chimpanzees, our closest relatives, diverged from one another about 4.1 million
years ago.
The
human race, according to some scientists, is between 1 and 2 million years old.
Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa
about 200,000 years ago.
Evolution
from a single celled organism into human being is truly amazing. It happened
over 3.5 Billion years. Human beings are still evolving into better looking
more intelligent ones. Millions of years down the line, the worst looking human
being may look better than the best looking ones today! Human beings are now in
the beginning stages of evolution. The first human evolved on earth
about…….years ago. As the earth is likely to survive another………years before the
Sun burns out and shrink into a black hole, human beings have as many years of
evolution left.
What was
the path of evolution? As we can see, the monkeys were the predecessors of
humans. The picture prior to that is not clear. The water borne organism may
have multiplied absorbing water, air, heat and light into primitive life forms
in water. They evolved into weeds and fish. Weeds might have migrated to land
to become plants and trees. The fish may have evolved into an amphibian which
can live both in water and land. These developments would have been careful and
slow with absolutely no trace of any hurry. It appears like a pleasurable
experience than an overnight mad rush to reach some destination as early as
possible.
Evolution
was slow, dead slow to be precise and steady. Growing changing and evolving
according to the circumstances taking care of the pros and cons, overcoming the
small hindrances, going round the bigger obstacles… the evolution was a long
journey indeed with extreme patience and attention. Someone used some invisible
rod or means to nudge the amoeba from outside to develop in a particular way?
TEN INCARNATIONS OF GOD IN HINDUISM AND DARWIN’S THEORY OF
EVOLUTION
In Hindu scriptures there is the description of
dasavatar (dasa - ten; avatar - incarnation of God). This actually refers to
the evolution of life and is fully compatible with the theory of evolution of
Sir Charles Darwin 5000 years later !
The first avatar (incarnation) is called MATSYA (Fish)
- Life appeared on earth in water as a
water borne single cell organism (and finally evolves into a human being).
The second avatar is called Koorma (Tortoise) – Life
graduated into an amphibian from water dependent organisms to those who can
live both in water and land.
The third avatar is called Varaham (Pig) – Pig can
live in wet land – fully out of water. (See the progression !)
The fourth avatar is called Narasimham (Half man half
lion) – The evolution to man continues and now we have a half man - half animal
creature, may be referring to hunters.
The fifth avatar is called Vaman (Small man) – the
animal part is discarded now and a small man like shape has evolved.
The sixth Avatar is called Balram (Farmer) – Man gets
into farming to make food.
The seventh Avatar is Parashuram (Angry saint who
killed Brahmins) – This may be referring to social reformations and stern
action against wrong doers.
The eighth Avatar is called Sri Ram – The perfect
human is finally evolved.
The ninth Avatar is called Krishna – Krishna
is not a human being but is above it. He is the direct incarnation of God
without any weaknesses or desires; and does magical things capable only by him.
His posture of playing a flute besides a cow (representing the world or nature
or maya) is the ultimate meaning about God and its creation.
The tenth avatar is called Kalki – In this state,
there is nothing more to evolve. Kalki is the state of God when it reacts to
situations in the world by thoughts to avoid catastrophe. It is not a physical
existence but a state of active dialogue with this world.
Wonder why the Indian philosophers were not considered
for Nobel Prize for the theory of evolution as it understood 5000 years ago.
For that matter even Mahatma Gandhi did not get Nobel prize for peace. May be
he was not peaceful enough!
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