EVOLUTION
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
1. While reason demands monotheistic unity, experience requires diversity of Absolutes—even differentials, variables, modifiers, and qualifiers. (1146.6) 104:3.4 [2]
2. The analysis of dead protoplasm does not disclose the true nature of living protoplasm. (737.1) 65:6.1 [3]
3. Pulsating stars give origin to solar systems. (465.6) 41:10.1 [4]
4. Both mental and spiritual transformations may occur suddenly. (740.2) 65:8.6 [5]
5. In the evolutionary universes energy-matter is dominant, except in personality, where spirit, through the mediation of mind, is struggling for the mastery. (1275.1) 116:6.1 [6]
6. Land is the stage of society; men are the actors. (768.1) 68:5.1 [7]
II. MIND SYSTEMS
1. The potential to learn from experience marks the functioning of the adjutant spirits. (739.2) 65:7.6 [8]
2. The universe is mind planned, mind made, and mind administered. (481.6) 42:11.2 [9]
3. Mind levels:
- Preadjutant spirit minds.
- Adjutant spirit minds.
- Morontia minds.
- Cosmic mind. (480.5) 42:10.2 [10]
4. Physics and chemistry alone cannot explain how a human being evolves out of primeval protoplasm. (738.1) 65:6.8 [11]
III. UNIVERSE MECHANISMS
1. The evolution of universe mechanisms indicates the presence and dominance of creative mind. (483.1) 42:12.1 [12]
2. The higher the mind associated with a universe phenomenon, the more difficult is its detection. (482.6) 42:11.8 [13]
3. The controlling mind of the universe is infinite and therefore beyond the full discernment of the finite mind. (482.6) 42:11.8 [13]
IV. LIFE CARRIERS
1. Life Carriers are the living catalyzers who initiate material life; they are the instigators of the energy circuits. (560.1) 49:1.2 [14]
2. The Universe Mother Spirit actually vitalizes the lifeless patterns. (404.5) 36:6.7 [15]
3. In the human blood stream there exists the possibility of upward of 15,000,000 chemical reactions. (737.6) 65:6.6 [16]
V. THE URANTIA ADVENTURE
1. The midwayers have assembled over 50,000 facts of physics and chemistry which are incompatible with the theory of chance in human evolution. (665.6) 58:2.3 [17]
2. Evolution can be delayed but it cannot be stopped. (900.1) 81:0.1 [18]
3. The frog finally culminated in man himself. (732.4) 65:2.6 [19]
4. The human race has no surviving ancestry between the frog and the Eskimo. (732.5) 65:2.7 [20]
5. Remember that Urantia was a life-experiment world. (734.5) 65:4.1 [21]
6. More than a hundred thousand facts prove the presence of mind in the planning of the cosmos. (665.6) 58:2.3 [17]
7. Many bacteria and fungi represent retrograde movement in evolution and explain disease-causing proclivities. (732.1) 65:2.3 [22]
8. There were two unique features in the Urantia experiment:
- The Andonic race appearing before the colored races.
- The simultaneous appearance of the six Sangik colored races. (735.6) 65:4.7 [23]
9. Failure to obtain more of the Adamic life plasm predisposed the human race to many diseases. (736.5) 65:5.2 [24]
10. From A.D. 1934 the birth of the first two human beings occurred 993,419 years ago. (707.7) 62:5.1 [25]
11. The color of the amalgamated human race is an olive shade of violet-the racial “white.” (593.6) 52:3.7 [26]
12. Man’s ascent from seaweed to lordship of the earth is a romance of biologic survival. (731.5) 65:2.1 [27]
13. Evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities:
- Courage.
- Altruism.
- Hope.
- Faith.
- Love of truth.
- Idealism.
- Loyalty.
- Unselfishness.
- Pleasure. (51.4) 3:5.5 [28]
VI. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION
1. The two great influences contributing to early associations were hunger and sex love. (765.1) 68:2.4 [29]
2. Primitive man only thought when he was hungry. (765.2) 68:2.5 [30]
3. Man transcends animals in his ability to appreciate humor, art, and religion. (772.1) 69:0.1 [31]
4. Society rose through the stages of collection, hunting, pastoral, and agriculture. (768.2) 68:5.2 [32]
5. It is not altruism to bestow sympathy upon degenerate human beings. (592.5) 52:2.12 [33]
6. Modern man suffers from the overgrowth of supposed needs, desires, and longings. (765.2) 68:2.5 [30]
7. Evolution may be slow, but it is effective. (900.5) 81:1.3 [34]
VII. CIVILIZATION
1. The Jews taught: He who does not work shall not eat. (773.6) 69:2.5 [35]
2. There were no distinct periods, such as Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. (903.6) 81:3.4 [36]
3. Modern writing originated in the early trade records. (775.6) 69:4.6 [37]
4. Fire building forever separated man from the animal world. (777.5) 69:6.2 [38]
5. The dog was the first animal to be domesticated. (778.7) 69:7.4 [39]
6. Civilization is a racial acquirement; it is not biologically inherent. (763.2) 68:0.2 [40]
7. Society is concerned with self-perpetuation, self-maintenance, and self-gratification. (764.6) 68:2.3 [41]
8. Hunger and love drove men together; vanity and ghost fear held them together. (766.5) 68:3.4 [42]
VIII. OVERCONTROL OF EVOLUTION
1. Evolution is always purposeful and never accidental. (730.7) 65:0.7 [43]
2. All mortal-inhabited worlds are evolutionary in origin and nature. (559.1) 49:0.1 [44]
3. Life is both mechanistic and vitalistic—material and spiritual. (403.6) 36:6.1 [45]
4. Since mind co-ordinates the universe, fixity of mechanisms is nonexistent. (482.5) 42:11.7 [46]
5. Never will scientists be able to produce living organisms; life is not inherent in matter. (403.6) 36:6.1 [45]