Evolution of Creationism
Language
and custom change unpredictably; therefore scriptural text and interpretation
change at random. Some of these random re-writings and re-readings are more fit
to their society than others; those which are tend to replicate themselves in
the next generation better. Over generations, the most-fit random change
prevails.
This
is a form of Darwinian evolution by variation, inheritance, and natural
selection. Or, as the evolving religions prefer to call these forces; individuality,
tradition, and the free market.
Creationism
has clearly evolved in just this fashion, and within recent history. Its denial
of the evolutionary process that brought it into being is a paradoxical part of
what makes it fit. But for what?
For
survival; that is the one constant in any evolutionary process. Adaptation is
eternal; but any particular adaptation is negotiable. Thus a species can go
from water to land, or from four feet to two; and a faith can go from
pro-slavery to civil rights, or from anti-usury to pro-capitalism.
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