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Carl Safina, an environmental scientist and science writer of some note, spoke at the Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor two weeks ago.  Our first secular scientist as a speaker–a man who professes no Christian faith, but is an admirer of Jesus of Nazareth along with Charles Darwin.  He was nervous to be speaking to a congregation in the evangelical wing of American Christianity. He was nervous as one might be who is crossing a minefield without knowing where the mines are located.  Would he offend people without even intending to? Would he get me into trouble with congregants by what he might say?  I told him not to be nervous: we wanted to hear what he had to say about the oceans and science and the environment.  Tell us what you know.  But I was nervous too.
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