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65:6 Evolutionary Techniques of Life (view source)
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65:6.1 It is impossible accurately to [[determine]], [[simultaneously]], the exact location and the [[velocity]] of a moving object; any attempt at [[measurement]] of either [[inevitably]] involves [[change]] in the other. The same sort of a [[paradox]] confronts [[mortal]] [[man]] when he undertakes the [[chemical]] [[analysis]] of [[protoplasm]]. The chemist can elucidate the [[chemistry]] of dead [[protoplasm]], but he cannot [[discern]] either the [[physical]] [[organization]] or the [[dynamic]] [[performance]] of living [[protoplasm]]. Ever will the [[scientist]] come nearer and nearer the [[secrets]] of life, but never will he find them and for no other reason than that he must kill [[protoplasm]] in order to [[analyze]] it. Dead [[protoplasm]] weighs the same as living protoplasm, but it is not the same.
65:6.2 There is [[original]] [[endowment]] of [[adaptation]] in living [[things]] and [[beings]]. In every living [[plant]] or [[animal]] [[cell]], in every living [[organism]]—[[material]] or [[spiritual]]—there is an insatiable craving for the [[attainment]] of ever-increasing [[perfection]] of [[environmental]] [[adjustment]], organismal adaptation, and augmented life [[realization]]. These interminable [[efforts]] of all living [[things]] [[evidence]] the [[existence]] within them of an innate [[striving]] for [[perfection]].
65:6.3 The most important step in [[plant]] [[evolution]] was the [[development]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll chlorophyll]-making [[ability]], and the second greatest advance was the [[evolution]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore spore] into the [[complex]] [[seed]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore spore] is most [[efficient]] as a [[reproductive]] [[agent]], but it lacks the [[potentials]] of variety and [[versatility]] [[inherent]] in the [[seed]].
65:6.4 One of the most serviceable and [[complex]] [[episodes]] in the [[evolution]] of the higher [[types]] of [[animals]] consisted in the [[development]] of the [[ability]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron iron] in the circulating [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_cells blood cells] to [[perform]] in the double role of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen oxygen] carrier and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide carbon dioxide] remover. And this [[performance]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cells red blood cells] [[illustrates]] how [[evolving]] [[organisms]] are able to [[adapt]] their [[functions]] to varying or changing [[environment]]. The higher [[animals]], including [[man]], oxygenate their tissues by the [[action]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron iron] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cells red blood cells], which carries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen oxygen] to the living [[cells]] and just as [[efficiently]] removes the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide carbon dioxide]. But other metals can be made to serve the same [[purpose]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish cuttlefish] employs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper copper] for this [[function]], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_squirt sea squirt] utilizes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium vanadium].
65:6.5 The [[continuation]] of such [[biologic]] [[adjustments]] is [[illustrated]] by the [[evolution]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth teeth] in the higher [[Urantia]] [[mammals]]; these [[attained]] to thirty-six in [[man]]'s remote [[ancestors]], and then began an [[adaptative]] readjustment toward thirty-two in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62 dawn man] and his near relatives. Now the [[human]] [[species]] is slowly gravitating toward twenty-eight. The [[process]] of [[evolution]] is still [[actively]] and adaptatively in [[progress]] on this [[planet]].
65:6.6 But many seemingly [[mysterious]] [[adjustments]] of living [[organisms]] are [[purely]] [[chemical]], wholly [[physical]]. At any [[moment]] of [[time]], in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood blood stream] of any [[human being]] there exists the [[possibility]] of upward of 15,000,000 [[chemical]] [[reactions]] between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone hormone] output of a dozen ductless glands.
65:6.7 The lower [[forms]] of [[plant]] life are wholly [[responsive]] to [[physical]], [[chemical]], and [[electrical]] [[environment]]. But as the [[scale]] of life [[ascends]], one by one the [[mind]] ministries of the [[seven adjutant spirits]] become operative, and the [[mind]] becomes increasingly adjustive, [[creative]], co-ordinative, and dominative. The [[ability]] of [[animals]] to adapt themselves to [[air]], [[water]], and [[land]] is not a [[supernatural]] [[endowment]], but it is a superphysical [[adjustment]].
65:6.8 [[Physics]] and [[chemistry]] alone cannot explain how a [[human being]] evolved out of the primeval [[protoplasm]] of the early [[seas]]. The [[ability]] to [[learn]], [[memory]] and [[differential]] [[response]] to [[environment]], is the [[endowment]] of [[mind]]. The [[laws]] of [[physics]] are not [[responsive]] to [[training]]; they are immutable and unchanging. The [[reactions]] of [[chemistry]] are not [[modified]] by [[education]]; they are [[uniform]] and dependable. Aside from the [[presence]] of the [[Unqualified Absolute]], [[electrical]] and [[chemical]] [[reactions]] are [[predictable]]. But [[mind]] can [[profit]] from [[experience]], can learn from reactive [[habits]] of [[behavior]] in [[response]] to repetition of [[stimuli]].
65:6.9 Preintelligent [[organisms]] react to [[environmental]] [[stimuli]], but those [[organisms]] which are [[reactive]] to [[mind]] [[ministry]] can [[adjust]] and [[manipulate]] the [[environment]] itself.
65:6.10 The [[physical]] [[brain]] with its [[associated]] [[nervous system]] [[possesses]] [[innate]] [[capacity]] for [[response]] to [[mind]] [[ministry]] just as the [[developing]] [[mind]] of a [[personality]] [[possesses]] a certain [[innate]] [[capacity]] for [[spirit]] [[receptivity]] and therefore contains the [[potentials]] of [[spiritual]] [[progress]] and [[attainment]]. [[Intellectual]], [[social]], [[moral]], and [[spiritual]] [[evolution]] are dependent on the [[mind]] [[ministry]] of the [[seven adjutant spirits]] and their superphysical [[associates]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65 Go to Paper 65]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 65 - The Overcontrol of Evolution]]
65:6.1 It is impossible accurately to [[determine]], [[simultaneously]], the exact location and the [[velocity]] of a moving object; any attempt at [[measurement]] of either [[inevitably]] involves [[change]] in the other. The same sort of a [[paradox]] confronts [[mortal]] [[man]] when he undertakes the [[chemical]] [[analysis]] of [[protoplasm]]. The chemist can elucidate the [[chemistry]] of dead [[protoplasm]], but he cannot [[discern]] either the [[physical]] [[organization]] or the [[dynamic]] [[performance]] of living [[protoplasm]]. Ever will the [[scientist]] come nearer and nearer the [[secrets]] of life, but never will he find them and for no other reason than that he must kill [[protoplasm]] in order to [[analyze]] it. Dead [[protoplasm]] weighs the same as living protoplasm, but it is not the same.
65:6.2 There is [[original]] [[endowment]] of [[adaptation]] in living [[things]] and [[beings]]. In every living [[plant]] or [[animal]] [[cell]], in every living [[organism]]—[[material]] or [[spiritual]]—there is an insatiable craving for the [[attainment]] of ever-increasing [[perfection]] of [[environmental]] [[adjustment]], organismal adaptation, and augmented life [[realization]]. These interminable [[efforts]] of all living [[things]] [[evidence]] the [[existence]] within them of an innate [[striving]] for [[perfection]].
65:6.3 The most important step in [[plant]] [[evolution]] was the [[development]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll chlorophyll]-making [[ability]], and the second greatest advance was the [[evolution]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore spore] into the [[complex]] [[seed]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore spore] is most [[efficient]] as a [[reproductive]] [[agent]], but it lacks the [[potentials]] of variety and [[versatility]] [[inherent]] in the [[seed]].
65:6.4 One of the most serviceable and [[complex]] [[episodes]] in the [[evolution]] of the higher [[types]] of [[animals]] consisted in the [[development]] of the [[ability]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron iron] in the circulating [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_cells blood cells] to [[perform]] in the double role of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen oxygen] carrier and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide carbon dioxide] remover. And this [[performance]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cells red blood cells] [[illustrates]] how [[evolving]] [[organisms]] are able to [[adapt]] their [[functions]] to varying or changing [[environment]]. The higher [[animals]], including [[man]], oxygenate their tissues by the [[action]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron iron] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cells red blood cells], which carries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen oxygen] to the living [[cells]] and just as [[efficiently]] removes the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide carbon dioxide]. But other metals can be made to serve the same [[purpose]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlefish cuttlefish] employs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper copper] for this [[function]], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_squirt sea squirt] utilizes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium vanadium].
65:6.5 The [[continuation]] of such [[biologic]] [[adjustments]] is [[illustrated]] by the [[evolution]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth teeth] in the higher [[Urantia]] [[mammals]]; these [[attained]] to thirty-six in [[man]]'s remote [[ancestors]], and then began an [[adaptative]] readjustment toward thirty-two in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62 dawn man] and his near relatives. Now the [[human]] [[species]] is slowly gravitating toward twenty-eight. The [[process]] of [[evolution]] is still [[actively]] and adaptatively in [[progress]] on this [[planet]].
65:6.6 But many seemingly [[mysterious]] [[adjustments]] of living [[organisms]] are [[purely]] [[chemical]], wholly [[physical]]. At any [[moment]] of [[time]], in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood blood stream] of any [[human being]] there exists the [[possibility]] of upward of 15,000,000 [[chemical]] [[reactions]] between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone hormone] output of a dozen ductless glands.
65:6.7 The lower [[forms]] of [[plant]] life are wholly [[responsive]] to [[physical]], [[chemical]], and [[electrical]] [[environment]]. But as the [[scale]] of life [[ascends]], one by one the [[mind]] ministries of the [[seven adjutant spirits]] become operative, and the [[mind]] becomes increasingly adjustive, [[creative]], co-ordinative, and dominative. The [[ability]] of [[animals]] to adapt themselves to [[air]], [[water]], and [[land]] is not a [[supernatural]] [[endowment]], but it is a superphysical [[adjustment]].
65:6.8 [[Physics]] and [[chemistry]] alone cannot explain how a [[human being]] evolved out of the primeval [[protoplasm]] of the early [[seas]]. The [[ability]] to [[learn]], [[memory]] and [[differential]] [[response]] to [[environment]], is the [[endowment]] of [[mind]]. The [[laws]] of [[physics]] are not [[responsive]] to [[training]]; they are immutable and unchanging. The [[reactions]] of [[chemistry]] are not [[modified]] by [[education]]; they are [[uniform]] and dependable. Aside from the [[presence]] of the [[Unqualified Absolute]], [[electrical]] and [[chemical]] [[reactions]] are [[predictable]]. But [[mind]] can [[profit]] from [[experience]], can learn from reactive [[habits]] of [[behavior]] in [[response]] to repetition of [[stimuli]].
65:6.9 Preintelligent [[organisms]] react to [[environmental]] [[stimuli]], but those [[organisms]] which are [[reactive]] to [[mind]] [[ministry]] can [[adjust]] and [[manipulate]] the [[environment]] itself.
65:6.10 The [[physical]] [[brain]] with its [[associated]] [[nervous system]] [[possesses]] [[innate]] [[capacity]] for [[response]] to [[mind]] [[ministry]] just as the [[developing]] [[mind]] of a [[personality]] [[possesses]] a certain [[innate]] [[capacity]] for [[spirit]] [[receptivity]] and therefore contains the [[potentials]] of [[spiritual]] [[progress]] and [[attainment]]. [[Intellectual]], [[social]], [[moral]], and [[spiritual]] [[evolution]] are dependent on the [[mind]] [[ministry]] of the [[seven adjutant spirits]] and their superphysical [[associates]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_65 Go to Paper 65]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 65 - The Overcontrol of Evolution]]