The world, for all its vaunted celebration of sensuality, is relentlessly anaesthetic, obliterating feeling by ugliness and noise, draining the beauty out of people and things so that they are functionally efficient, scornful of the aesthetic except as it can be contained in a museum or flower garden. (Eugene Peterson, Subversive Spirituality, p. 14)
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Eugene Peterson
Posted in Beauty, Creation, Faith, World on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carl Sagan
Posted in Creation, Humanity, Mankind, Meaning, Science, Searching on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. (Carl Sagan [1934-1996], was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and [...]
Lewis Mumford
Posted in Creation, Humanity, Mankind on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings of the intuition, whose rationalized expression amounts to a new vision of the cosmos and the nature of the human. (Lewis Mumford, American writer: 1895-1990)
James Jordan
Posted in Bible, Creation, Imagery, Imagination, Science, Story on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bible is not written in terms of modern science or philosophy. To a great extent, the Bible is written in the pregnant language of imagery. (James Jordan, Through New Eyes)
Herman Bavinck
Posted in Creation, Creator, Humanity, Image of God, Mankind on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The essence of human nature is its being [created in] the image of God. The entire world is a revelation of God, a mirror of his attributes and perfections. Every creature in its own way and degree is the embodiment of a divine thought. But among creatures, only man is the image of God, God’s [...]
Herman Bavinck
Posted in Autonomy, Creation, Creator, Darwin, Evolution, Mankind, Science on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The arguments against Darwinism in general are weighty, with the problem of human origins and transitions from one species to another particularly insoluble. The theory of evolution also clashes with Scripture with regard to the age, the unity, and the original abode of humanity. Above all, it is essential to maintain the fundamental unity of [...]
G.K. Chesterton
Posted in Belief, Creation, Creator, Faith, God, Materialism on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption: … it is supposed that if a thing goes on repeating itself it is probably dead; a piece of clockwork. People feel that if the universe was personal it would vary; if the sun were alive it would dance…
Grown-up people are [...]
Richard Dawkins
Posted in Atheism, Creation, Science on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To be sure, we do need some kind of explanation for the origin of all things. Physicists and cosmologists are hard at work on the problem. But whatever the answer – a random quantum fluctuation or a Hawking/Penrose singularity or whatever we end up calling it – it will be simple. … The first cause [...]
National Geographic
Posted in Autonomy, Creation, Science on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New DNA studies suggest that all humans descended from a single African ancestor who lived some 60,000 years ago. (National Geographic News, April 2005)
Mahatma Gandhi
Posted in Creation, Worship on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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