一個禮拜前，在網誌內讀到一篇標題為「虛虛實實：漫話月球撞地球」的文章，進而談論到「進化論」、「創造論」等話題。溰禕多事寫下了自己的看法。沒想到受版主青睞，不但以私訊回覆，還邀我加入他的城邦，他網誌內許多文章都吸引我的興趣，從他那兒可學到不少新知。他回我的私訊是英文寫作，而我英文連半調子都不如。不過想了半天還是也來試著寫寫看，就當作練習好了。

因未徵求原作者同意，暫不將原文及相關回應轉載過來，不過，我寫下文時，已儘量敘述清楚，希望讓讀者不看前文也能知道所云何事。我的破英文還請大家見諒，不吝指導。

I agreed that the nature selection and evolutionism continued to influence the modern science.  By mentioning law of nature I had no intention to neglect the scientific research and its contribution.  However, when the scientific discussion touched upon life, life and death, and the livelihood （生命、生死、生活）, religious philosophy would quickly creep into the thought.  An obvious reason for such connection is that those topics are the main focus of all religions.

As soon as a discussion of any subjects begins, it depends entirely on communication skills whether through spoken, written or sign languages, symbols, mathematical functions, and so on.  All these communication methods have their own limit.   The language barrier among people from different part of the world could further hinder the discussion.

Many parents faced the same endless question from their children, such as “Where did I (you, grandpa, grandma, great grandpa…) come from?”   Even grown-ups have the same doubt.  How did the first human being appear on earth?  Which one comes to existence first, egg or chicken?  If we can answer these kinds of questions by saying there was a mighty creator who created everything, the scientist would have a lot less job to research about.  Not only some Christian believe in this kind of saying, I also heard some scientists who were amazed by the wonder of the universe also believe that only God has such power to create it.  Had someone dare to ask “If everything needs to be created, then, who created the creator?” he is very likely been regarded as a blasphemous renegade.

I am not a scientist; so I am not sure if there is a specific definition for the word Nature when it is referred to Nature Selection. However, the law of nature that I mentioned earlier was nothing more than what is defined in the Webster’s Dictionary which says ”the essential characters of a thing, quality or qualities that make something what it is, essence”.   This law of nature is always there that is no need to be created.  For example: the water freezes when the temperature drops and vapors when it is heated.  Scientists do various research to discover all kind of reasons for the phenomena which were once unknown to human being.  And there are many more to be discovered.

When discussion focused on nature selection, evolutionism, and creationism, I would prefer to go with a scientific way of explanation.  Just like the scientist took what is exist and looking backward to find the reason for such existence, Buddhism traced backward to find how things came about like the way it really is.  The resulting finding is called dependent origination, which forms the basics of all Buddha Dharma.

Dependent origination is a fundamental Buddhist doctrine of the interdependence of things.   All beings and phenomena exist or occur only because of their relationship with other beings or phenomena.  Therefore, nothing can exist in absolute independent of other things, or arise of its own accord.  Since all things in the phenomenal world are brought into being by the combination of various causes and conditions, they are relative and without substantiality or self entity.