[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

[Ham Priday]

[Ham to Krimel, previously]:
> Thanks for giving me credit for the one statement you understand, Krimel.
> As I said to Ron, I'll be happy to answer any questions that will help you
> "make sense" of my metaphysics.

> [Krimel]:
> Ok, lets stick with the statement that I might actually understand: "From
> the perspective of Essence evolution is a fait accompli." I take this to
> mean that you think time is fixed and absolute. Then you say the source is
> timeless as through time does not exist at all.  Which is it?

When I wrote that "evolution is a fait accompli" from the absolute 
perspective, I was not referring specifically to biological or social 
history on this planet, but to cosmic intention, process, and entelechy in 
general.  There is no time without change, just as there is no locus without 
finitude.  Absolute Essence is both "spaceless" and "timeless" because it is 
without dimension, change, or differentiation of any kind.  Creation 
(actualization) only appears to be a sequence of events because of our 
serialized, "incremental" mode of experience.

Space/time, like being/nothing, beginning/end, large/small, good/bad, 
pleasure/pain, male/female, birth/death, is a manifestation of the 
existential dichotomy, which I have defined as subjective awareness versus 
objective beingness.  In other words, everything in existence is 
characterized by difference and contrariety.  The primary difference is 
actualized by the negation of "oneness".  This introduces nothingness as the 
difference between self and other which, of course, is S/O reality.

Is my answer acceptable...or, at least, understandable?.

--Ham