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By Ben-Peter Terpstra, published 17/5/2011To whom or what was Julia Gillard praying, since she tells us she has no god.
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Man-kind: Can this be the "Man" God created? This exceedingly fallible, weak, gullible, so easily led and misled creature? This creature subject to cancers, to neurological inconsistencies, delusions of grandeur and near-omnipotence, prone to greed, graft, corruption and inhumanity - to all of life, and not just towards mankind - and seemingly eager to risk all in pursuit of dubious improbable promises of global domination or of faith-based (religious) domination.
Might it be possible that God created not just one "Man" - as "Adam", as keeper, caretaker and maintainer of this unique paradise - but also a second, an "Invo-Man" - a counterbalance, a "Caine", determined to undermine, corrupt, demean and destroy - as possibly the supreme challenge, an ultimate test of survival of the fittest? Such an "unnatural" selection process would seem of course to undermine much of what most would understand of "Creation".
It would appear that "Invo-Man" may be winning the race, and may perhaps have used surreptitious cross-breeding and in-breeding to maximise advantage, and may not stop until Mankind is limited to a handful of "Masters of the Universe" surviving in an artificial environment, on artificially generated food, and in an artificially maintained atmosphere - surrounded only be a vast desolation of destruction and decay.
"Free-will" has been offered as an alternative justification for Man's abominable history, divisiveness and conflicted persona. May in fact the Theory of Evolution be a better fit, than any Hypothesis of Creation - to explain such broad inconsistencies? Why Hypothesis? Because the revealed nature of "Man" appears to deny compliance with any comprehensible Creational "plan".
Is Man to blame for inherent "weaknesses", or perhaps mere evolutionary "chance"?