I am sometimes asked, "Do you believe in Evolution, or in Creation?"

"Evolution" is usually meant, in the question, to mean that the universe just happened, and is how it is now purely by chance.

"Creation" is usually meant to mean that God made everything, and nothing happens by chance.

That's why people see a conflict. There are many people who see no conflict. God made everything, and the process of evolution is just how he made it. This view makes the answer to the question, "Yes!"

I see things yet another way.

I see a higher power, but not outside the universe. It's not so much that the power created the world, but that it IS the world. The changes over time described as evolution are its movements. It's making things up as it goes along. There is no ordained Master Plan. Galaxies spin, planets revolve, mountains rise and sink. It's a dance of joy. We can tune into it, and dance along, or we can resist, and spend our whole lives trying not to fall down.

This view makes the answer to the question, "No." There is no outside power, and it's not all chance, either.

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