Is God the Creator - Or the Creation of Mankind?

From his earliest days, mankind sought understandingnot need "God" for either life or morality - that
of his world and origins. First were prayers to"Science" had now proven the Bible to be only a
"unknown" forces of nature in fear or hope; then"story" - that animals were not "created by God and
worship of a hierarchy of gods, inhabiting theman in his image", but that all had evolved by
heavens or mountains and controlling thunder,accidental mutation over eons of time - and man
lightning, sun and rain. Mankind's well-being clearly atfrom ape! As scientific data also accumulated
the mercy of powers beyond his control, or even hisregarding the multi-billions-of-years as the age of
understanding, he fell naturally into a role ofEarth - versus six days of Genesis - that seemed to
supplicant, the powers to whom he appealedclinch the matter "scientifically". To the most intelligent
becoming embodied as gods, the appeals soonand educated of mankind, the leaders of society -
becoming worship, with rationalized justification ofgod had certainly been the creation of mankind.
special treatment through sacrifice - of what wouldThe philosophical controversy over the Bible is as old
be considered desirable to humanized gods. Godsas mankind's ability to observe and think - whether it
thus, became the creation of mankind.contains the "divine" words of "God", creator of the
Then came the Hebraic monotheism: one God (theUniverse - or whether inspired mankind itself had
Creator) and Ten Commandments for morality; thenconceived an omnipotent, omniscient power (with the
derivative religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc.Bible therefore being humanly written). The
One God became the widespread Creator ofknowledgeable public's belief in God has waxed and
mankind.waned throughout history, with a strong negative
Although content with his theological beliefs, man'spersuasion during recent centuries. This was a natural
curiosity and intelligence caused pursuit ofresult from the teachings of Copernicus, Galileo,
understanding of his world. Aristotle, 350 years BC,Newton and Darwin, and while a great majority of
was first to visualize a sun-centered universe, but hisAmericans still are faith-ful believers in God and Bible,
seasonal calculations based upon circular planetarythe most literate and educated, the leaders in all
orbits were at odds with reality. Ptolemy'sbranches of society (excepting theology) are solid in
Earth-centered solar system, four centuries later wastheir belief in Evolution - and that it has been proven
favored by philosophers, however, it wasn't until theas scientific fact, thus that Bible stories are fictional -
17th century, when Kepler and Brache conceived ofand god was the creation of mankind.
elliptical planetary orbits, that our sun-centered solarThe present situation regarding God as the Creator
system was finally proven to be accurate andor the creation of mankind has become intellectually
accepted by philosopher-scientists. God was still thefascinating: on the one hand is the positive mind-set
Creator of mankind, but the scientific foundations forof all the leaders of society: judges, writers, school
understanding our world were beginning to beboards, legislators - riding the wave of
established.secular-progressiveness, with atheistic zeal and
Before the 16th century, with education generallyconfidence that Darwin-Evolutionism has been
limited to church and royalty, the biblical story offactually proven (teachers who dare to teach
creation was a mandatory view by all intelligentanything but Darwinism are expelled from their
mankind - often at peril of death. But then came theclassrooms); on the other hand there is a growing
scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo andbody of scientists who dare to challenge this cultural
Newton, which progressively demoted "Man" andwisdom with the conclusions of their research.
"Earth" from the "biblical centers of the universe" to aHowever, as scientific knowledge has broadened and
speck of life, on a speck of a planet, orbiting a minordeepened in recent decades, it has become evident
sun. And with the invention of the printing press, suchthat neither case can be proved or disproved (neither
secular thinking became widespread. That set theDarwin-Evolutionism nor Intelligent Design). But with
stage for Darwin with his (very creative and plausible)detailed scientific research has come knowledge of
theories: first, a preliminary life form from lightningthe make-up of life, of Amino Acids, of proteins, of
striking a pool of inanimate pre-biotic chemical "soup"DNA and RNA - and with them has come probabilistic
on newly formed Earth (four billion years ago); thenanalyses and calculations (Ref, Ezine Article:
by accidental, but progressive mutations, theDarwin-Evolutionism - The More We Learn (Amino
evolution from simple life forms to vegetable andAcids, Proteins, DNA), the more Imp(roba/ossi)ble!).
animal phyla - along with his theory of "survival of theThis struggle between Darwin-Evolutionism (the
fittest" via "natural selection", and his "Descent ofconvinced mind-set and cultural wisdom of the
Man" - life as we know it today. God was still theleaders of society) vs Intelligent Design - with a
Creator of mankind for the great majority of people,growing number of courageous scientists daring to
however, to the scholarly elite, secular-atheism waschallenge, risking their careers - from the standpoint
re-establishing the firm belief that - god had been theof probabilistic logic, the scientific astronomical odds
creation of mankind.should eventually win out - that a Supreme Being (or
Darwin-Evolutionism was pounced upon byForce) had to have created mankind!
secular-atheists, delighted to proclaim that "Man" did