Are Humans Still Evolving? 

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An anthropologist breaks it down. “We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can’t see…” Like other living creatures, humans have been shaped by evolution. Over time, we have developed — and continue to develop — the traits that help us survive and flourish in the environments where we live. Read More

The Urantia Book teaches: The process of evolution is still actively and adaptatively in progress on this planet. Mankind on Urantia must solve its problems of mortal development with the human stocks it has — no more races will evolve from prehuman sources throughout all future time. But this fact does not preclude the possibility of the attainment of vastly higher levels of human development through the intelligent fostering of the evolutionary potentials still resident in the mortal races. Paper:65:3.6 

Read the study of evolution in the Urantia Book  You can read its teachings about many different kinds of human evolution: mindal, religious, moral, governmental, and spiritual. Evolution is a cosmic technique of growth.

Spiritual Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day is a day to show extra special love to your beloveds but it might also be a day to consider getting in touch with your spiritual self. It can also be a day to honor the divine—God. You can also create magic by getting in touch with your heart center—that is, spend time by yourself and engage in self-love while honoring our wonderful universe. Read How

Love is more than a feeling. All true love comes from God, and the decision to love is the means by which we can actually share that love – let it flow through us to our world. The Urantia Book actually defines love as the “desire to do good to others. Read More 

Here is one example from The Urantia Book Papers: “If each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious.” Read More 

James Webb Spots Baby ‘Platypus’ Galaxies, — or something entirely new

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Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd observations show features of both stars and galaxies, leading to researchers referring to them as “platypuses” after the animal with a mishmash of parts. The features may provide hints to how galaxies formed billions of years ago, in the early life of the universe. Read More

From the Urantia Book, “In the not-distant future, new telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of Urantian astronomers no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer space.” Read More