How's this for a hypothetical, working theory about life:
We are spirits in the process of developing our concious minds. Our ability to choose, our ability to think, to remember, to percieve to become more aware of our own true nature.
That which created us, above all supports free will, and allows us to screw up as much as we want, and pay the price for it.
I see no evidence of his/her/it's active hand in the world. Injustice of all kinds prevails in the world. And, I'm not talking about storms like Katrina. Katrina occured according to the laws of physics. The world is constantly bombarded by energy from the sun, which it dissipates through kinetic action, wind, water currents and storms. Eathquakes too, are part of the process of the earth. It isn't perfect, nothing in the physical universe is pemanent or stable, all things are subject to decay and change.
No, I'm talking about man's injustice to man, Stalin murdering millions, Hitler doing the same. The same wealthy families controlling the world's economy, causing wars and starvatrion, supporting evil men, anything as long as it futhers their ability to gain control. America is being destroyed from the inside out, as they take away our freedoms, our property rights, and our self-determination. Ingonrance about basic economic theory is so lacking the talking heads on CNBC talk about the hurricane having a postive effect on the economy, and no one even calls to tell them they are idiots!
If there was a god and he was concerned about fair play, he wouldn't allow any of this to happen. So if he does exist, he's pretty much hands-off in terms of how the world develops.
The law of opposition: all things are kept in a natural balance. If a species becomes too successful, it poisons it's environment and dies out. Most of the time species are balanced between plant eaters and predators. The only creature not oppossed is man, since he is able to understand and overcome obstacles. But man doesn't regulate himself properly. He consumes his environment poisons it, fight against himself and drowns in sense pleasure, not realizing that such things are illusion.
A truly self regulating species would really make progress, never going overboard with one method of growth, but adapting on the fly, not making the same mistakes over and over again, rememebering the past and using it to inform the future.
Oh, and you can see evidence of this when contrasting the lower forms with the higher ones. The higher up the evolutionary ladder you go, you observe greater choice exhibited by some species, whereas others rely totally on instinct. Man is the least constrained by instinct, his survival is primarily based on his ability to make proper choices. But even lower down the ladder you obseve predators making choices learning the best way to hunt and in some cases, working together in groups to achieve aims. Even lower forms like ants and bees live in collective societies, able to survive together, when on their own they would perish.
