From Animal to Man
From nature to culture
The theory of evolution is not incompatible with God. Evolutionism can be perfectly reconciled with a religious vision and the presence of a creative principle at the origin of the universe — what monotheistic religions call God, Allah, YHWH, and oriental philosophies call the process of creation itself (Brahman, Dharma, Tao, etc.)
Our theory offers a logical refutation of the myth of the original fall, highlighting the incoherence between an initial perfection and the persistence of our primitive behaviours inherited from primates.
We maintain that humanity is not declining from a lost Eden, but emerging from nature towards a higher state of consciousness.
This passage from animal instinct to culture allows the human being to transform his impulses into an inner work necessary for his elevation.
Thus, evolution is not a divine punishment, but a movement towards a future perfection where matter rejoins spirit.
Human history is presented as a spiritual apprenticeship aimed at mastering our biological nature to reach a universal consciousness.
The evolution of the human species — its humanisation
Welcome to Universal Mechanics. You have arrived at the starting point of the first chapter of our philosophy. I hope you have a good pair of shoes. This chapter is entitled From Animal to Man. We will try to understand why our species left the kingdom of nature for that of culture.
According to us, this departure from nature is not yet complete. The full chrysalis of the human phenomenon has not yet been realised. A great number of our negative impulses of natural origin (predation, domination, aggression) frequently overflow our will to act in accordance with human ethics. We can nevertheless detect a meaning in this uprooting from the natural environment.
It is this meaning that I would like to speak about throughout this chapter. Good reading.
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