Time is Eternity; and we live in Eternity now. Throughout all eternity, the parts of the past are but parts of the future reversed. Darwin explained the evolutionary process by supposing that in every population of organisms there occur random variations that have different degrees of adaptive value. Excesses carry with them the principles of their own destruction. The variations having maximum value for the survival and reproduction of the organisms are naturally selected; that is, they are preserved and transmitted to subsequent generations, while the other variations are eliminated. However, this explanation fails to account for a number of facts. A multicellular animal, or an organ like the vertebrate eye, is a functional whole made up of coordinated parts. If just one or a few parts happened to vary independently of the rest, the functioning of the whole would be impaired. Since evolution has occurred, we must suppose that each stage all the parts of an animal and of its complex organs have varied contemporaneously so that effective functioning was preserved.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6

However, it is utterly implausible to suppose, as Darwin did, that such coadapted variations could have been random, for then their coadaptation would remain a mystery. Some agency other than natural selection must have been at work to maintain continuity of functioning through successive alterations of form. Another fact that Darwinism failed to explain is why living things have evolved in the direction of greater and greater complexity. The earliest living things were simple in character and well adapted to their environments. Why did the evolutionary process not stop at this stage? Why did life continue to complicate itself more and more dangerously? To appeal to the mechanism of selection for an answer is insufficient. Something must have driven life on to higher and higher levels of organization, despite the risk involved. Darwin’s predecessor Lamarck avoided the idea of random variations by supposing that variations were caused by the effort exerted by individuals in adapting to the environment. I consider this a more a more adequate explanation than the Darwinian. Yet, it involves accepting the principle that acquired characteristics are transmitted from one generation to the next, and empirical evidence is heavily against this.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 6

Furthermore, the Lamarckain notion of a conscious effort is too limited to serve as an explanatory device. It could perhaps operate in the case of animals, but hardly in the case of plats or microorganisms. To make the notion work, it must be broadened and deepened. Similarly, orthogenesis; that is, to an inner principle that directs the course of evolution, has merit if interpreted nonmechanistically, but not if interpreted in physico-chemical terms. Evolution could be due to combinations of matter and motion. However, to obtain a true understanding of the evolutionary process, the findings of biology must be supplemented by the findings of metaphysics. The chief clue is found in what intuition reveals of our own inner nature as living beings; we are typical constituents of the Universe, and the forces that work in us also work in all things. When we focus upon what intuition discloses of ourselves, we find not only continuous becoming and real duration, but also a consciousness of a vital impetus (elan vital), of our own evolution in time. We are thus led to the idea of an original impetus life (un elan original de la vie) that pervades the whole evolutionary process and accounts for its dominant features. Accordingly, the history of life is to be understood in creative, not mechanistic terms.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6

Infantile amnesia is a remarkable negligence and a psychic phenomenon which thus far has remained unexplained. I refer to the peculiar amnesia which veils from most people (not from all) the first years of their childhood, usually the first six or eight years. So far, it is has not occurred to us that this amnesia should surprise us, though we have good reasons for it. For we are informed that during those years which have left nothing except a few incomprehensible memory fragments, we have vividly reacted to impressions, that we have manifested human pain and pleasure and that we have expressed love, jealousy, and other passions as they then affected us. Indeed, we are told that we have uttered remarks which proved to grownups that we possessed understanding and a building power of judgment. Still we know nothing of all this when we become older. Why does our memory lag behind all other psychic activities? We really have reason to believe that at no time of life are we more capable of impressions and reproductions than during the years of childhood.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

On the other hand we must assume, or we may convince ourselves through psychological observations on others, that the very impressions which we have forgotten have nevertheless, left the deepest traces in our psychic life, and acted as determinants for our whole future development. We conclude therefore that we do not deal with a real forgetting of infantile impressions but rather with an amnesia similar to that observed in neurotics for later experiences, the nature of which consists in their being kept away from consciousness (repression). However, what forces bring about this repression of the infantile impression? One who can solve this riddle will also explain hysterical amnesia. The connection between infantile ad hysterical amnesias is really more than a mere play of wit. Hysterical amnesia which serves the repression can only be explained by the fact that the individual already possess a sum of memories which were withdrawn from conscious disposal and which by associative connection now seize that which is acted upon by the repelling forces of the repression emanating from consciousness. We may say that without infantile amnesia there would be no hysterical amnesia.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6

I therefore believe that the infantile amnesia which cases the individual to look upon one’s childhood as if it were prehistoric time and conceals from one the beginning of one’s own life—that this amnesia, is responsible for the fact that one does not usually attribute any value to the infantile period in the development of the life. One single observer cannot fill the gap which has been thus produced in our knowledge. No eyes have seen, no ears have heard, no mind has imagined the amazing things God has in store for those who love the Lord. Father, thank You for Your goodness, protection, provisions, and favor. You have been awesome in my life and I thank You for it. However, I believe this is only temporary provision. Where You are taking me is to a land of abundance, a place like I have never experienced before. I believe that something out of the ordinary is coming my way; new levels of favor, unprecedented opportunities, or divine connection. I am pulling up my stakes and moving forward with God. God opens wide the doors of the treasure house of God’s promise, and bids us go in and take with the boldness the riches that are ours.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6