Charles Darwin and a Contemplation on the Whys of Life: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Albert Einstein famously said, “God does not play dice with the universe.” Einstein’s concept of God was not the finger wagging “Do this/Don’t do that” scold from on high, but a God of the entire universe in its mathematical and physical complete perfection and order. This God has absolutely nothing to do with human morality, but a universe as a whole that “works” in harmony and beauty. Ultimately, Einstein thought that if we could just find out all the “information that has gone into its creation,” then everything could be understood. The universe “makes sense”. It is not just random, “crazy”, happenstance. Charles Darwin, the sadly misunderstood British botanist, said that EVERYTHING LIVING in the world has been a progression of mutation and adaptation. The “universe” dictates to a species what it needs to survive, and the species biologically needs to respond in order to do so. Also, completely morality free in its emphasis on DNA (a concept Darwin didn’t know at the time, but what
