November 9th, 2009
Why should human beings care about whether the population of blue fin tuna is decimated by overfishing? Its pretty unusual in the realm of living things for one species to care about the fortunes of another, even though we live in a delicate balance of competition and cooperation with all other living things. So far as I know, human beings are the only species capable of caring whether or not another species flourishes or declines. Which alone makes me think perhaps we are meant to care, or that in our caring we are expressing our uniqueness.
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Tags: blue fin tuna, environmentalists, extinction, Jesus Freaks, overfishing, species
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February 12th, 2009
Today marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, a man whose name has been much maligned by many in my own American evangelical tribe.
My friend, Carl Safina, an ocean conservationist and author of the acclaimed Song for the Blue Ocean told me that his two heroes are Charles Darwin and Jesus; Darwin for revealing the unity of all living things, and Jesus for teaching us to love our enemies. Would that my fellow believers understood as well the rule of Jesus, a rule which demands that we bother to understand each other.
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Tags: Anglicanism, annie darwin, apologies, asa gray, b.b. warfield, biology, carl safina, charles darwin, creation, culture war, emma darwin, evolution, gallileo, Jesus, jonathan edwards, natural selection, natural theology, religion, science, sorry, species
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