On Jul 22, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Susan Maneck wrote:
>> I'm curious. What do you see wrong with this, is it that the
>> im****tant link
>> is absent or that it will never be found?
>
> It is not even clear what Abdu'l-Baha meant by a 'missing link. ' Our
> evolution is a series of links.
>
> warmest, Susan
The quote said --
"The lost link of Darwinian theory is itself a proof that man is not
an animal. How is it possible to have all the links present and that
im****tant link absent? Its absence is an indication that man has never
been an animal. It will never be found."
(Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 359)
So it seems the Master was referring to the "lost link of the Darwinian
Theory". Was there no such thing as the "lost link"?
My understanding is that we are created a distinctly human even if our
shape has changed from what may have appeared as a lower specie to what
we are now.
"The first answer to this argument is the fact that the animal having
preceded man is not a proof of the evolution, change and alteration of
the species, nor that man was raised from the animal world to the human
world. For while the individual appearance of these different beings is
certain, it is possible that man came into existence after the animal.
So when we examine the vegetable kingdom, we see that the fruits of the
different trees do not arrive at maturity at one time; on the contrary,
some come first and others afterward. This priority does not prove that
the later fruit of one tree was produced from the earlier fruit of
another tree." SAQ 192
regards,
doug
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