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Summary of Question:	Creationism Vs. Darwinism
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Monday, 8/11/2003 3:45 PM MDT

At the inception of the earth, and after God said "Let there be light".. were people just created out of thin air?... Did God just create the first used car salesman? Or did humans, start off as primitive single celled organisms (such as a paramecium) that slowly evolved into homosapiens? In the SGGS, it says that everything was created at once, yet I can hardly envision a baby fending for itself in the harsh elements, (unless, a mother and father were also created, which I highly doubt) as it doesn't have physical capabilities nor the mental capacity to. I also do not think that humans came as middle aged adults.

(REPLY) Sat Nam. One Creator created all of Creation, including all creatures, but they may not have been in full form at that moment of creation (which moment no one can determine!) The oak tree is inherent in the acord, the plant exists within the seed. From micro-organisms, things can evolve. Everything comes from God -- there is no such thing as anything coming out of "nothing" -- the human intellect cannot possible grasp the reality of God, so we meditate, and we pray, and we read the sacred Words of our Guru so that we can ultimately EXPERIENCE union with God, and then we will KNOW, rather than conjecture about life! Inherent in "life" is growth and change. All human beings are still evolving and changing, and we go through the cycle of birth, life, and death until ultimately, by the Grace of God, we merge into the Infinity of G O D and are no longer limited by outer forms.