HKBH completed creation by saying DAI (DIE?). Thus creative activity ceased.
- RSR Hirsch, B'reisheet 2:1.
It seems a certain Creative Force reined during the six Days of Creation, until S-D-Y [the Almighty] terminated it. Yet it would appear that Creativity and even Evolution continues! So what, precisely, has stopped?
Here is a possible case of terminated creativity. As far as I know, no human has personally witnessed a species morph into a more evolved species. No one sees mice becoming rabbits or deer. (Microbes may be an exception.) Yet adaptation has been observed within a species...
My big "kasha" on Darwin has long been this: How did Darwin understand adaptation to apply regarding evolving from one species to another? This is, as far as I know, unknown!
Now, with RSR Hirsch's assistance, I can approach a reconciliation.
When HKBH made the world during the six days, such evolution from one species to the next, or its equivalent, may have indeed reigned upon the earth. As such, when Hashem created a certain species, He may have done so in such a way as to evolve X into species Y and Z, etc. This pattern is coded into the original Creation Process's "DNA".
Conceivably, Darwin may have detected a legacy of that process or its equivalent. However, once S-D-Y said "DIE", this aspect of the creative process was terminated and what had already been made - and was also making - became fixed, locked. No new species would ever emerge.
Still, a remnant, a legacy of the original creativity and adaption remains, but the species have been fixed and limited - as perhaps other aspects of Creation. Therefore, since Vayachulu, the Original Creative process was terminated. Only its shadow remains
Shalom,
RRW
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