Is God a solution, or perhaps the ultimate problem? According to the author, the very notion of a perfect God might create such overwhelming paradoxes that life itself would lose all vitality. In fact, the author confidently asserts that they know such a being does not exist—and find gratitude in that awareness.
This radical viewpoint invites us to question the traditional concept of God by examining the critical clash between creation myths and the evolutionary reality that defines existence.
The Full Stop: Why Creation Means the End of Everything
The need for a creator often comes from the human desire to explain existence. The logic goes: "The world is here; therefore, someone must have made it." That “someone” becomes God.
But accepting the idea of divine creation—as in the belief that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh—leads to a profound crisis of meaning.
If the world was truly created and completed, then evolution cannot exist. Creation, by its very nature, implies a full stop. God, defined as perfect, cannot create something imperfect or unfinished. A perfect being producing an incomplete world would go against that very perfection.
Thus, if creation was completed and perfected on the sixth day, neither God nor the world could evolve. Everything would remain frozen in divine completion—still, static, and lifeless.
Darwin’s Insight: Imperfection as the Engine of Life
This is why religious authorities historically opposed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. They perceived, far more clearly than ordinary believers, the devastating implications of evolution for the concept of a perfect creator.
Darwin revealed that existence is an ongoing process, not a finished act. Evolution means that creation is never done—it is continuously unfolding. For life to progress, to reach new possibilities and dimensions, it must always remain imperfect, always in motion.
Imperfection, then, is not a flaw but the very pulse of existence. Perfection is death; imperfection is life’s engine.
A Complete, Ready-Made Existence
The author humorously points out the absurdity of an exact timeline that places the world’s creation at 4004 BCE, supposedly on a Monday—the first of January.
But perhaps, the author muses, a more fitting date for such a grand illusion would be Monday, the first of April—Fools’ Day—since a "ready-made existence" denies the essence of life itself.
Once evolution stops, meaning dies. The world becomes mechanical and complete, leaving no space for wonder, curiosity, or growth.