Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher, 200 years ago, explored the possibility that all religions and mythical traditions, with their general agreement on the unity of God and the immortality of the soul, sprang from a universal life consciousness, which was expressed particularly through the phenomena of human genius.

Such a possibility could also be explored and expressed through the phenomena of evolution by scientists and Thomases doubting the existence of God. Just consider the wonders of the natural world revealed to discoverers over the ages.

Pierre Teilhard de Chard in, the philosopher, thought no conflict exists between religion and science, writing in 1950 that he is both "a child of heaven" and a "child of earth" meaning that he can believe in spirt as God simultaneously with believing in the material, natural world. Faith for de Chardin melded scientific and eternal truth.

Take your pick - human genius or the genius of nature as referenced by Coleridge when he penned:

"...so shalt thou see and hear
The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible
Of that eternal language, which thy God
Utters, who from eternity doth teach
Himself in all, and all things in himself."

But only sub-human intelligence or a super intelligent stone could have penned the lyrics to a song I heard over the radio waves this morning: "Hold on to the night’ hold onto the memory. Love that is real but in disguise. Hold on to the night." Right? Wrong!

Coleridge, philosophers, scientists, nature lovers and even I, holding onto the memory of my 4th viewing of the film THE BLACK STALLION last night, can distinguish the light of reason and creativity from the darkness of unmeaningness and unintelligibility.