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    Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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    Let science extend the domain of actual knowledge, and lay bare as it may the secrets of the material world. It only exposes more and more the proportions of the great cathedral, and shows us the lamp...

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    Tertullian
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    Colossians 1:16-17, Proverbs 3:19-20, Jeremiah 10:12, Isaiah 45:18, Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalm 89:14
    From the very first the Creator was both good and also just. And both His attributes advanced together. His goodness created; His justice arranged, the world; and in this process it even then decreed ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Genesis 1:1, Job 38:4-7, Psalm 24:1-2
    Among the hills a meteorite Lies huge; and moss has overgrown And wind and rain with touches light Made soft, the contours of the stone. Thus easily can Earth digest A cinder of sidereal fire, And ...

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    Henry David Thoreau
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    In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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    Norman Wirzba
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    Gardening is never simply about gardens. It is work that reveals the meaning and character of humanity, and is an exercise and demonstration of who we take ourselves and creation to be. It is the most...

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    Timothy Keller
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    If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the at...

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    Nancy Pearcey
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    The first phrase, “be fruitful and multiply,” means to develop the social world: build families, churches, schools, cities, governments, laws. The second phrase, “subdue the earth,” means to harness t...

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    Richard Dawkins
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    The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. . . . In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt,...

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    Geert Hofstede
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    Our natural tendency is to watch the world from behind the windows of [our] cultural home and to act as if people from other countries, ethnicities, or categories have something special about them, . ...

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    Richard Rohr
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    The physical world is the doorway to the spiritual world.

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    Sergei Bulgakov
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    The boundary between living and nonliving is actually removed in food. Food is natural communion – partaking of the flesh of the world. When I take food, I am eating world matter in general, and in so...

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    Richard Florida
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    All these technologies have carried the promise of a boundless world. They would free us from geography, allowing us to move out of crowded cities and into lives of our own bucolic choosing. Forget th...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventual...

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    Wendell Berry
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    Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so th...

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    The world is an example of the workings of God, because while we observe the work, the Worker is brought before us.

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    Alexander MacLaren
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    The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine ene...

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    Richard Dawkins
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    Events that we commonly call miracles are not supernatural, but are part of a spectrum of more-or-less improbable natural events. A miracle, in other words, if it occurs at all, is a tremendous stroke...

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    Ludwig Feurbach (For Contrast)
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    Psalm 24:1, Mark 4:35-41, Colossians 1:16-17, Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1-2
    Nature, the world, has no value, no interest for Christians. The Christian thinks only of himself and the salvation of his soul.

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    Frank Tipler
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    When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the centr...

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    Nicolaus Copernicus
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    To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of...

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    Stephen Hawking
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    A scientific law is not a scientific law if it holds only when some supernatural being decides not to intervene.

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Psalm 51:17, Romans 7:18, Matthew 5:3, Romans 3:10
    Feel your sinfulness. Let it humble you. Let it sober you. Beware of so filling your life with talk shows and phone calls that you don’t regularly stop and consider the ruinous condition of your life ...

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    Deuteronomy 15:7, 11, Psalm 9:18, Psalm 41:21, 31, Proverbs 19:17, Proverbs 22:16, Mark 10:21, James 2:14-17, Matthew 19:21, Mark 12:43, Luke 18:22, Luke 21:1-3
    Hence, whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor.

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    Edward Casey
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    In the past three centuries in the West—the period of “modernity”—place has come to be not only neglected but actively suppressed. Owing to the triumph of the natural and social sciences in this same ...

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    Werner Heisenberg
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    The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. (this quote is attributed to Heisenberg, but questioned for it’s...

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    James Joule
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    It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these ru...

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    Skye Jethani
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    Fear and control are the basis for all human religions. From this common beginning the paths diverge dramatically, splinter, multiply, and finally terminate in different places. But each one is an att...

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    George Washington Carver
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    I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. Quoted in John Hudson Tiner, Exploring the World of Biology: From Mus...
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