Letters to the Editor
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Everything changes
Always.
Including not only our interpretation of who/what God is but God also changes. When a conscious entity stops changing, it's because it's dead. In the Christian tradition, wasn't the birth of Christ a change for God? For me God is not dead, even though I interpret the concept of God Huckabee entertains as being dead.
Whether we came from monkeys is a stupid ass question. We are animals, we poop, pee, eat, mate, have miscellaneous desirable and undesirable bodily fluids, breath, and die and decay like any another mammal. What seperates us more then high IQ from the rest of mammals, is our self awareness. A cat eating a mouse does not think. "Look I am eating a mouse, I think I am doing a good thing with this mouse, but what about the mouses feelings? Actually, why am I eating a mouse, should I eat a Chipmunk instead? I'm a killer and gosh darn I am ok with that or maybe I'm not. What does God think? Good bye little mouse. Sorry about you being my lunch and all".
This self-awareness makes us so unique on the planet that to the faithful or spiritual only God could grant such a gift. So while self-awareness allows us to contemplate God, it does not preclude us from being of the animal family and evolving from it.