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Celebration of Evolution

What and why "evolution"

Scientific story of evolution

Religious perspectives on the scientific story

A particular religious perspective

Schedule

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Here is a particular religious perspective by one of us who grew up in and tries to follow the Christian tradition:

Intricately beautiful, inspiring awe and wonder, the glory of God: God is my name for whatever creates and sustains our amazing world; the heavens and all the world tell the glory of God.

Mathematically intelligible, revealing lawfulness and the faithfulness of God: God is not capricious

Vastly various, inspiring humility, revealing tthe sovereignty of God: we are not God, nor are idols we may choose

Made of stardust, assuring belonging, revealing God's grace: everything we are and have comes as gift

Responsive, revealing responsibility and judgment: what we do has eternal consequences

Unpredicatble, revealing contingency:only God is worthy of ultimate trust

Relational, inspiring community, calling us to be a people of God: we develop spiritually within communities

Interdependent, inspiring compassion, calling us to mission: we are called to compassion as religious opportunity

Ultimately futile, revealing the need to look beyond the material world for ultimate meaning and hope, inspiring faith: science is a way of seeing; faith is a way of seeing beyond such seeing