Question: Behind the creation can’t we see an intelligent design?
Answer- Cause and effect sequence always appears in that way. If you want to reach a place you have to pass through every single metre or centimetre, and each one is a different place! Thus, cause and effect sequence cannot be considered a new theory. My dear brother, what do we really mean by all such spiritual designs and principles? People think these things are relevant for God and religious concepts. Unfortunately, people are taught in such a way that the real core of religion and God concepts should miss totally from them! Now, for confirmation I explain some points separately.
- Religion and its God concept speak more about human life, and it also speaks about the better way of human coexistence. This is called exclusively the religion.
- Religion speaks about the better life after death or about salvation as well. This is called as spirituality.
Now, the belief in the creator God, the theoretical understanding of God principles, the intelligent design, etc., play only in the second point that is in the spiritual part! Unfortunately, all these religious myths and other theories cannot make any difference in the first part! This is because there the expectation of religion is ‘better human quality for human’s better earthly life’, and not the salvation or heaven-dwelling. If human’s better quality comes directly from God’s or God-principle’s spontaneous grace, then, no doubt, we would have lived today in a permanent peaceful world. Unfortunately, that did not happen so far. Now, the only possibility for better human quality is our own effort for that purpose. This means, putting maximum effort to attain a better human quality can only produce a better and peaceful mind, home, and even the society. In brief, every religion tells us to increase this effort first. Unfortunately, here, people totally miss the religion by following mere beliefs and rituals for that purpose! This negligence of essential part of religion is a horrible misguidance from the side of religious scholars, and it caused hatred and fanatic wars on this planet! Punishment system in any religion cannot be considered as an important part of religion because it is a mere method of maintenance of law and order in the society. In fact, Law and order maintenance is nothing to do with the real demand of any religion because even the “no-religion society” does that job with great reverence!! Now, it is obvious that every religion indeed depends exclusively on the process of human quality purification. Thus, we can conclude that creator God, god-principle, intelligent design theory etc., are nothing to do with the first part of religion! Now, in the spiritual part of religion also we need an all-perfect [ideal] God concept or the concept of divine principle, and less than that we get only a lesser human’s quality! Satan cannot reach the heaven or get the salvation because he is not pure at heart. Thus, to reach such a pure place like heaven or to the mental state of salvation, spirituality really demands human effort for purity of one’s mind!!
Now, the conclusion is that we badly need in both parts of the religion, not the rituals, but only the mind purification. This shows that the religion totally deals with the ‘human quality betterment’ side alone. Now, finally, we can say that all such arguments and debates regarding existence of ‘creator God’, ‘God with form’, ‘God without form’, ‘God principle’, ‘intelligent design’ etc., are unwanted and irrelevant in a religion.
Different contradicting mythical stories and their different beliefs and rituals became an easy ‘mechanical religion’ for all kinds of human beings!! This type of easy religion suits even to a thief or a killer because it never strictly demands any great quality from human beings! Also, we know very well about these easy religions’ terrible contributions in the form of fanatic violence and bloodshed.
Now, just one sensible and sincere change from earlier meaningless belief-God concept to a sensible quality-God concept will make this world a great heaven of peace and an ocean of hearty love! This can be done even without changing the existing belief and ritual side of any religion as well.
If there is a will there is a way to heavenly world!