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8 Evilution

that enables and confirms our dominion over the animal world,
both within and without.
       In the animal world, the concept of injustice is unthinkable. Like
Popeye, the sailor man, the animal is what it is and justice has
nothing to do with it. How can we find fault with the fact that little
fishes are eaten by bigger fishes who are eaten in turn by still bigger
fishes? How else would they survive? They must surely be living in
accordance with God's plan for them. But when it comes to us
humans, surely you must see something wrong with our living like
animals. Having been graced with consciousness, we must live
from it, on a level that is inaccessible to the lower animals who
were born to die for the preservation of the natural order.
       Suffering and death convey a different meaning to the animals
than they do to us. We may see a mother duck with her flotilla of
ducklings swimming peacefully in a pond. Suddenly, plop! one of
the ducklings disappears, gobbled up by a big-mouth bass. Here,
we see the law of chance at work. One of the brood had to go in
order to feed a hungry fish, and nature allowed for it to happen.
Another may go to a hawk so that it might go on being a hawk,
and the survivors may go on being ducks for their allotted time on
earth, or they might not. The only certainty is that no creature will
be exempt from the law of chance insofar as its survival is
concerned. One creature eats another in an endless food chain.
With billions of them devoured daily, and billions more born to
replace them, the death of one contributes to the life of another.
Without overpopulation and the ongoing process of eating and
being eaten, the natural order would cease to exist in all its ever-
changing variety and renewal of life.
       Now ask yourself whether you think you and your offspring
should exist under the natural law of the animal. Are we not, with
our burden and blessing of consciousness, of greater significance
than the birds of the air and the fish of the sea? And if we are,
why does He let us suffer the "injustices" of "chance" events?
       Prepare yourself for a shock. The "unjust" jungle law will apply
to you for as long as you continue to exist in a fallen state of