The conflict between creationism and evolution is not necessary. Both are true.
The first thing is:what do we mean by creating? We do not know what creating means. We do not know how God acts. If we know that then we are higher than God and God ceases to be God and we become God. We can only say that God's action is not like a human action. We do not create things we make things, we invent things. Only God creates.
There are two levels that belong to the process of evolution. Evolution means complex beings coming from the simple beings: one is material and the other is psychological.
Material evolution begins with the bag bang and it takes billions of years to arrive to the physical reality we have to day. The second level is the psychological evolution to find the meaning of our life in this world. All religions, all scriptures, all philosophies and belief systems belong to this level. They also evolve from the simple beliefs to the complex beliefs.
These two levels of evolution are still part of the creative work of God. They manifest the aspirations of the human consciousness to discover its true destiny or source.
There is another level in us that does not belong to the process of evolution. It is the reflection of the divine within us. Biblical tradition calls it the image and likeness of God. Symbolically God, after making human beings, breathed his breath into the nostrils of human being. It means there is something in us which does not belong either to the process of material evolution and psychological evolution. It belongs to the timeless reality. It was there before the big bang began and the search for meaning of life began. All great religions affirm this truth.
The creation stories we find in the Bible do not refer to the process of material evolution. These stories tell us who we are why we are here. The story of the six days of creation is not scientifically true. it is true theologically. The people who wrote these stories were not physicists or scientists but theologians and mystics. There were not aware of the evolution of the matter. It was reserved to our generations to know that.
Evolutionary theory seems to say that our consciousness is the projection of the matter. It is the product of evolution. But the mystics tell us that our consciousness is the reflection is the eternal in us. Like the Sun reflecting in a mirror.
We have four levels in us:
1. Material evolution: It began with the big bang which produced our physical bodies. Modern science explains this process beautifully. Material evolution might say that only matter exists and God does not exist.
2. Psychological evolution: It seeks the meaning of life. It produced many sacred scriptures ,religions and philosophies and still continues to produce new philosophies and religions. The creation stories in this level try communicate the meaning and purpose of our life in this world and our life after this earthly life. It may not know the scientific view of creation. It presents God as the creator and creation as the creature of God. It tries to tell what is the place and the purpose of human beings in this world. Their relationship with the creator and with the fellow human beings.
3. The third level is the manifestation of eternity. It is like the ray of the Sun. It comes from the Sun and dependent on the Sun. It manifests eternity and does not go through the process of time and evolution. It is like the Moon which receives the light from the Sun and its reflects the divine light. It says 'I am in God and God is in me'. I am the manifestation of God. My origin is not in time and space but I come from eternity. Jesus Christ said, 'I am in the Father and the Father in me'.
4. The fourth fourth level is the divine level, the infinite. It is like the Sun. It is like Higgs Boson, that gives mass to the lower three levels. The lower three levels have no independent existence. In this level a person says, God and I are one. Jesus Christ said, 'the Father and I are one'.
The Evolutionists focus too much on the first level and deny the other three levels and think that the so called higher levels are the projections of the mere brain. they are illusions.
The creationists focus on the second level and deny the conclusions of the first level, and some might deny the third level also.
These both live in an endless conflict.
We need to go beyond the first level and the second level and discover the third and the fourth level which gives the wisdom to integrate the the first level and the second level without denying their truth. All the great mystics and sages like the Upanishad sages, Jesus Christ, the Buddha, the Prophet Mohammed and all the others have done that.
The conflict between the evolutionists and the creationists is unnecessary and unwanted.
The Evolutionist view without the creationist view reduces human beings into mere animals, or thinking animals whose purpose is just eat, drink,involve in sex, propagate and die without belief in life after.
The creationist view or religions, without scientific view, can be blind and superstitious. It can also confine people to the second level only, not opening the door to the third level and the fourth level.
Religions that are rooted in the mystical wisdom and oneness with God open the door to the third level and the fourth level and integrate the lower two levels. The way we can resolve the conflict between creationism and evolutionism is to discover the eternal spark, the image and likeness of God, with in us. Repentance is the process which Jesus Christ proposed to this transition. He said, 'the kingdom of God is at hand, repent. The eternity is within us, discover it.
