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CHAPTER 8. GOD IS NOT A SOLUTION BUT A PROBLEM
Evolution implies that creation is not complete, hence the possibility of evolving. But God cannot
create an incomplete world; that will be going against God’s nature. He is perfect, and whatsoever
He does is perfect, neither He is evolving, nor is the world evolving: everything is at a standstill, dead.
This is the reason why the popes were against Charles Darwin, because that man was bringing in
an idea which is going to kill God sooner or later. Those popes were perceptive in a way: they could
see the faraway implications of the idea of evolution.
Ordinarily you would not connect creation and evolution. What connection is there between God and
Charles Darwin? There is a connection. Charles Darwin is saying that the creation is an ongoing
process, that existence is always imperfect, that it is never going to be perfect; only then can it go
on evolving, reaching new peaks, new dimensions, opening new doors, new possibilities.
God had finished His work in six days and not long ago: four thousand and four years before Jesus
Christ was born. It must have been the first of January, a Monday, because we manage to fit God
into everything that we have created. He has to follow our calendar. If you ask me, I will say it
must have been Monday, the first of April, April Fools’ Day, because that day seems to be absolutely
suitable for doing such an act of creating a complete ready-made existence.
If evolution becomes impossible, life loses all meaning, life loses all future; then it has only a past.
It is not unnatural that religious people are constantly past-oriented – they have only the past.
Everything has been already done; there is nothing to be done in the future, the future is empty,
blank, and yet you have to live in that future. Everything that had to happen happened four thousand
and four years before Jesus was born. After that there has been no addition, no evolution, no
development.
God created the world just as a potter creates a pot, a dead thing out of mud. But you have to
remember, the potter can destroy the pot any moment. If you give the power of creation to God, you
are simultaneously giving Him the power of un-creation too. These are the implications that have
not been looked into. God can un-create. April Fools’ Day comes every year; any year on the first
of April He can un-create. At the very most it may take six days again.
The very idea that you have been created makes you a thing, it takes away your being.
You can be a being only if there is no God.
God and you as a being, cannot coexist.
That’s why I say I am sure God does not exist, because I see beings everywhere.
The presence of beings is enough proof that God does not exist, cannot exist. Either you can exist or
God can exist; you both cannot exist. The person who starts believing in God, unknowingly is losing
his beinghood; he is becoming a thing. So there are Christian things, Hindu things, Mohammedan
things, but not beings. They have dropped their being of their own accord; they have given their
being to God.
The fiction has become alive, and the alive has become a fiction. I am simply putting things right
side up.
From Ignorance to Innocence 100 Osho