Tuesday, February 14, 2006

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

What combination of dumb matter could generate intelligence? Intelligence can only arise because it is already there in every part of the universe?
Before the Big Bang - or however the universe was created - there must have been something with the potential and the intelligence to create a universe. This mysterious creator – let me call it the Great Spirit – could not take the material for creation out of somewhere other than its own potential. Therefore all energy and matter manifest in the universe must essentially consist of Spirit. Not only the evolvement of the humans but all of creation shows intelligent design. Evolution is intelligent design! Where is the argument?
The argument is about the designer. The promoters of intelligent design want it to be an alternative to evolution and they want the designer to be their God, some kind of entity, separate from creation, whose will they know.


To illustrate the infinite intelligence of nature we construct mandalas. The mandala illustrates some aspect of the intelligent design by arranging a limited amount of elements in their mutual relations. Above is an example of sacred geometry: seven circles touching each other and expanding from the center in repetitions of the same pattern.
The next is an arrangement of the Zodiac with their governing planets:


A horoscope is a form of mandala giving the astrological aspects of one person. This one I painted for a friend with the sun in Capricorn, the moon in Scorpio and Cancer rising:


This last one is a Body-Mind Mandala built over the Chinese concepts of Yin and Yang:


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2 comments:

Merlin said...

Profound! You have a lot to say, and what seems like a great wealth of wisdom to back it up.
You move here on earth pretending to be a mere mortal, but I'm on to the enlightenment in you, you little sneak.

A Bear in the Woods said...

When I was in my first years, I had a kaleidoscope, with which I spent many contented hours, simply absorbing the beautifully symmetrical images it created.
Later I realized, of course, that it was producing extremely sophisticated and marvellous mandalas.
I love me a good mandala.