Even though Wholeness does not have a beginning or an end, because it ultimately transcends the categories, humans do experience the Origin of Life as Stillness or Presence, that which exists prior to the emergence of the relativistic world of form.

It is pertinent to note that Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species does not mention the Divine Origin of the species. For, as Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan point out in Acquiring Genomes: The Theory of the Origins of the Species, “in 500 pages of closely spaced type the title question—on the origin of species—[was] entirely circumvented—abandoned, ignored, or coyly forgotten.” Quoting the Australian biologist George Miklos, “The ‘struggle for existence’ has been accepted uncritically for generations by evolutionary biologists with the Origin of Species quoted like so much Holy Writ, yet the origin of species was precisely what Darwin’s book was not about.”