And my answer is that viewing the history of evolution as a phenomenon of interpenetrating minds does reduce it to simplicity, because everything falls into place. I mean the mind of God seeking and gradually finding an interpenetration with the slowly dawning consciousness of man. “Guilt” is then seen as a rupture of that communication, which arises when man does something of which God disapproves. And forgiveness is the re-establishment of that communication and communion. As I say, everything falls into place. William of Occam would have approved!
Religion Rewritten, a religious view of nature and the universe.
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