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A must read book: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (Editors: Denis R. Alexander, Ronald L. Numbers, The University of Chicago Press, 2010) Contents Introduction Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers chapter 1. The cultural authority of natural history in early modern Europe Peter Harrison chapter 2. Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century
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Dorothy Sayers has said that God underwent three great humiliations in his efforts to rescue the human race. The first was the Incarnation, when he took on the confines of a physical body. The second was the Cross, when he suffered the ignominy of public execution. The third humiliation, Sayers suggested, is the church. In
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The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Poor Old Shakespeare. The Book of Job, in On Lying in Bed and other Essays, Bayeux Arts, Calgary, 2000, p. 172) Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not
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