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From the Fathers of the Church
“For just as though some musician, having tuned a lyre, and by his art adjusted the high notes to the low, and the intermediate notes to the rest, were to produce a single tune as the result, so also the Wisdom of God, handling the Universe as a lyre, and adjusting things in the air to things on the earth, and things in the heaven to things in the air, and combining parts into wholes and moving them all by His beck and will, produces well and fittingly, as the result, the unity of the universe and of its order.”
St. Athanasius
QUOTE ON EVOLUTION
“As to the Divine Design, is it not an instance of incomprehensibly and infinitely marvelous Wisdom and Design to have given certain laws to matter millions of ages ago, which have surely and precisely worked out, in the long course of those ages, those effects which He from the first proposed. Mr. Darwin’s theory need not then to be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescence and Skill. Perhaps your friend has got a surer clue to guide him than I have, who have never studied the question, and I do not [see] that ‘the accidental evolution of organic beings’ is inconsistent with divine design—It is accidental to us, not to God.”
John Henry Newman, Letter to J. Walker of Scarborough, May 22, 1868
FROM LIFE: Observing Nature: Peter The Bird
For three weeks a woman watches a small bird grow and learn to fly in her garden...
Today I have not seen him yet. He may not come, but, however it is, I shall always be thankful for his stay. I must say I find it all unfathomable: the loving care the mother bird takes of her nestling as long as he needs her; the clever way she does it; her offspring’s innate call to fly as soon as he is ready for it; the little bird’s instinctive ability to return again and again to where he grew up call to my mind the fine tuning of the universe academics who are also believers talk about, when debating atheists. This fine tuning, Nature’s “surprising precision”, they maintain, is a pointer to a Designer we call God. To me, so is Peter’s story.
POEM: CREATIVE EVOLUTION
Edmund Pace
When God created us we really knoweth not.
We know, for sure, He took five long days to make
Sun, moon, Earth and seas, plants, animals… the lot
Oak trees, thrushes, tigers, crabs, hill, desert, lake.
One other day spent to craft: a puzzle solved?
His best creation, Man. Ruler of the world.
But man is ape. It can be seen; nay, proved.
Darwin’s dogma so ordains; a helix curl’d.
From primordial soup amino acid; how?
Twenty, more perhaps; to shape the blocks of life
Deoxyribonucleic acid, wow.
Piecemeal revolution rock and roll and jive.
Could both these sculptures of the universe be?
Dilate the days in one: Let it unto He.