The project went on until an unforeseen situation compelled the gods to interfere: the explosive growth of the dinosaurs. At the top of the food chain, the dinosaurs not only had an insatiable appetite but also a fierce character that harmed every species of the sea, air, and land. The dinosaurs eventually reached a point beyond which they would have threatened the survival of other species on Earth. So the gods discussed the problem and voted unanimously to rid the Earth of the dinosaurs. Therefore, they loosed a virus that selectively destroyed only the dinosaurs, and then they were no more.
Prof Ilchi Lee says after this incident, the life forms on Earth went on their evolutionary way again. Some became extinct and some prospered, but none presented a threat to the whole. When the life forms reached a certain evolutionary stage, gods decided it was time to unlock the powers of creativity. The human was the most ideal candidate, for it had developed bipedalism, a trait that was conducive to the expression of creativity, through an evolutionary accident. Another consideration in humanity’s favor was that the human was a relatively shy and unassuming creature, who, even with the powers of divine creativity, would not pose a threat to other species on Earth. In contrast, imagine a lion with a human’s powers of intellect.
A grand controversy ensued. One side argued that following the original intent of the experiment, they had to unlock the divine creative potential in humans to see if one created could develop into a creator and establish a peaceful and harmonious community among diverse life forms. The other side argued that such a power, once unleashed, would tempt the humans to lord it over other species and eventually to destroy themselves and the Earth because their intellectual capacities would not be able to deal with their divine creativity.