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          Guest Editorial 
 

Evolution as Manifestation of Cosmic Order 
 

Robert Campbell * 
 

ABSTRACT 
During Darwin’s time the biblical Genesis account was considered by many scholars to be 
allegorical and various ideas about the transmutation of species were already in circulation, 
Influenced by findings on the Beagle trip that embarked in 1831 and by communications with 
others, including A.R. Wallace who had a nearly identical theory, Darwin eventually published 
his famous book On the Origin of Species. His idea was that small heritable changes over a long 
period of time can endow a survival advantage in a process of natural selection that can lead to 
new species. However, the process was regarded as random without plan or purpose. It met with 
opposition and various amendments until it became generally accepted scientific dogma in the 
1930’s and 1940’s. Work on genetics was believed to solidly confirm the theory, however very 
recent DNA findings, small RNAs and heritable epigenetic factors are currently beginning to call 
it into question again, quite apart from arguments for creationism or intelligent design. The views 
of an ardent proponent of the Darwinian paradigm will be critically assessed in detail followed by 
a review of compelling evidence for hierarchical organization as a pervasive feature of the 
cosmic order, from the physical evolution of the cosmos to biological evolution on the planet 
Earth.    
 
Key Words: Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Theory of Evolution, Cosmic Order, intellegent 
direction, spirituality, atheist, Richard Dawkins.  
 
When Charles Darwin published his famous book The Origin of Species in 1859, he began a 
debate that has, if anything, gained in intensity over the years. With modern techniques of 
probing genes the debate has taken on new proportions. A new breed of biologist, armed with a 
genetic arsenal, is attempting to reduce the whole of life to the mindless perpetuation of DNA 
sequences. It is intended to be consistent with cosmological implications of the physical sciences. 
In its passion for unity science reduces life to a meaningless enterprise, an accident without 
pattern, plan or purpose. This is the grand vision that science offers to lend humanity a sense of 
cohesion and lead us through the new millennium inspired with hope and direction.    
  
On close examination it becomes apparent that there is no hard evidence to support the exclusive 
interpretations that many biologists place on their findings and new discoveries are exposing 
flaws in their logic. The mindless claim for the evolutionary mechanism is itself a blind belief 
lacking in substance. At the same time many of us sympathize with Darwin’s disenchantment 
with the Biblical interpretation of the creative process. In the context of his time one can 
understand his need to reinterpret the evidence that he found in a new, more coherent and 
intelligent way. So he came up with the idea of accidental mutations which may, in some cases, 
                                                 
* Correspondence: Rober Campbell,  Independent Researcher. Website: http://www.cosmic-mindreach.com  

   E-mail: bob@cosmic-mindreach.com  

Note: The articles presented in this issue are based on my book “Downsizing Darwin: An Intelligent Face for Evolution” self-published in 1996 

[3]. More information  is available at my website [2].  



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endow a greater survival advantage leading to a natural selection of those mutations, and 
consequently to the emergence and adaptation of new species according to environmental 
pressures.  
  
There is abundant evidence to indicate that life has evolved up through the lower species, and 
adaptation according to natural selection is surely a part of it. But there is also abundant evidence 
to indicate that there is intelligent direction implicit in the evolutionary process, unfortunately all 
of it ignored by science. Such questions are forbidden in the halls of science. It seems that 
mainstream science insists on placing itself in opposition to anything remotely suggesting 
spiritual overtones. And yet science openly strives to close the book on the whole story of 
creation, to create a belief system with itself as the only authority, a book it believes must 
ultimately be accepted by all people for all time. It’s a grand dream that many scientists have. 
One might even call it an open conspiracy. They would deny us all a spiritual reality, deny there 
is any transcending basis to values, deny there are any moral issues implicit in experience, and 
consign us all to oblivion. It is a truly strange phenomenon. To any intelligent impartial observer 
something is off the rails. We are destroying ourselves through dogma, either the dogma of 
science or that of religion, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to turn.  
  
With these thoughts in mind the following articles are written in two parts. Part 1 is a critical 
review of the most outspoken hard line Darwinist’s thinking, as expressed in one of his books 
(Not required reading). Richard Dawkins is a very high profile figure in the academic 
community. But it is not enough to ferret out the countless flaws in the thinking that pervades 
evolutionary biology. One must offer a more credible alternative mechanism consistent with the 
evidence. It is to this end that Part 2 is devoted to An Intelligent Face for Evolution. To simply 
call it intelligent design is not enough. We must understand how intelligent processes work if an 
alternate methodology is to find practical scientific application.  
 
In short, Richard Dawkins [4-7] proudly defends Darwinism in his popular book River Out of 
Eden. A river of genes springing from the blind fortuitous survival of DNA sequences is the sole 
determining factor in the evolutionary process. Only DNA sequences he insists. But his 
supporting arguments are riddled with flaws. How strange that the whole of evolutionary biology 
should be infected with contradictions. Blind belief without foundation is flaunted as vigorously 
as any repressive religion. Nor is creationism the only option. The evidence across the broad 
sweep of time and space confirms that the evolutionary process unfolds in an ordered way that is 
implicitly intelligent. 
 
Further, intelligence by its nature spans time and space. It integrates history. It is a living process 
that may learn by trial and error but reinvests that learning up through hierarchical levels in the 
long climb toward sentient awareness. Left exclusively to genetic linkages, lessons from whole 
lineages of extinct species spanning eons would be lost forever. Even plants display some 
sentience, from vascular systems that reach for the sky, to flowers that attract pollinating insects, 
anticipating processes extended in space and time. The invertebrates from flatworms to flies 
explore an array of sensory-motor systems spanning space and time at accelerated rates. The 
vertebrates from crocodiles and cows to chimpanzees add conscious reflection of emotional 
patterns, providing ever higher discretionary capacities to span space and time. Lastly, language 
empowers humans to integrate the whole of space and time through extended ideas. But this left-



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ISSN: 2159-046X DNA Decipher Journal 

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brain capacity invites a right-brain spiritual sense of propriety. And both brains are fueled by an 
emotional apparatus harnessed to the ancient brains of the crocodile and horse integrated into our 
cerebral anatomy. We three-brained creatures are specifically structured to span space and time. 
With anciently rooted aspirations fueled by our animal brothers we are obliged to reach for 
another rung in evolution’s ladder and grasp the essence of intelligence implicit in the cosmic 
order. 
 
 
References 
 
1. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray (1859)  
 
2. Alfred R. Wallace, On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species, Annals and 

Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology 16: 184–196 (1855), 
 
3. Robert Campbell, Downsizing Darwin: An Intelligent Face for Evolution. MindReach Library (1996). 
 
4. http://www.cosmic-mindreach.com  
 
5. Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. Basic Books (1996). 
 
6. Richard Dawkins, the Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without 

Design. W. W. Norton & Company (1996). 
 
7. Richard Dawkins, the Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press (1990). 
   


