{"id":9867,"date":"2012-10-06T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2012-10-06T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T04:30:15","slug":"spiritual-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/10\/spiritual-evolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-6-2012-1217-AM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2012\/10\/wpid-Photo-Oct-6-2012-1217-AM.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook friend made the image above and shared it in the Facebook group Celebrating Evolving Creation. What do you think of it? It seems to me to encapsulate nicely the idea emphasized in Karl Giberson's book, <em>Seven Glorious Days<\/em>, about evolution having reached a stage where it has brought <em>love <\/em>into existence. But I confess that I can't hear the phrase \u201cspiritual evolution\u201d without thinking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QQeW7lItTHo&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Level 42 song \u201cWorld Machine\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A Facebook friend made the image above and shared it in the Facebook group Celebrating Evolving Creation. What do you think of it? It seems to me to encapsulate nicely the idea emphasized in Karl Giberson&#8217;s book, Seven Glorious Days, about evolution having reached a stage where it has brought love into existence. 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