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“To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.”

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Book:The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

Source: The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

“God's active delight in creation only heightens human agency in behalf of creation, for it all comes down to this: to feed the flame of biophilia, both God's and ours, we must preserve and sustain creation's biodiversity. If Leviathan falls, then so do we all.”

Religion Creation Evolution Bible Ecology Genesis

Book:The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

Source: The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

“The God of Job exhibits biophilia: an 'innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity' [Edward O. Wilson] .... God chooses to approach wildlife not with a sword, but with a word of admiration and an open hand.”

Religion Creation Evolution Bible Ecology Genesis

Book:The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

Source: The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

“From Job's perspective, God's answer is tantamount to a Copernican revolution. Job comes to realize that the world does not revolve around himself, not even around humanity. Creation is polycentric.”

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Book:The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

Source: The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

“Job, behold the Snout: Even when the pond dries up, it is not alarmed. It remains confident, even above the face of the waters. Do not mock the Snout, Job, for in three hundred and seventy-five million years, its face would be your own.”

Religion Creation Evolution Bible Ecology Genesis

Book:The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

Source: The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder