I was thinking through the Theory of Evolution recently and pondered how impossible it is to learn anything about our identity as a child of God through its conclusions.

According to my understanding of the theory, the universe began mega-eons ago with a Big Bang that spewed atoms and particles and such in all directions. Chaos reigned, but somehow order evolved and organized those atoms into larger items like planets. A planet earth appeared along the way, then water. Algae made a debut and eventually turned into creatures that could move up the bank of a pond and continue evolving into bigger animals, including apes, which then evolved into ape-human, then became more like humans than apes, and voila, us today—humans!

That’s nice.

But then I wondered, what will humans look like 1 million years from today? Are we the “algae” of tomorrow? I guess so…but I don’t feel like an algae! It gave me a perspective that left me hungering for more satisfying answers.

I find answers in Christian Science.

Christian Science explains that the ultimate reality of the universe lies in divine Mind. What the human mind calls material things, animals, etc., are but temporary beliefs, mortal finite views, of what ultimately exists in the divine Mind as idea.

To understand the substance of a thing, you have to think beyond the material to the spiritual, to the idea in divine Mind. So to understand man, studying algae to apes to humans may be of interest to physical scientists, but it doesn’t reveal the true nature of man as God’s idea, as divine image. To learn the truth about our identity and origin, thought must go much deeper than the study of atom-evolution. It must go into divine Mind. That’s where we came from and take up eternal residence…and it’s worth a deeper study.

“Evolution describes the gradations of human belief, but it does not acknowledge the method of divine Mind, nor see that material methods are impossible in divine Science and that all Science is of God, not of man.” Mary Baker Eddy