Creation. So how can we pursue spiritual enlightenment on one hand and contribute to the destruction of the teaching place, Nungeena-tya, our mother, on the other? Who would stand by and watch their mother be bludgeoned and raped? We come from the Earth, Nungeena-tya, and she feeds us on her breast milk from the day we are born until the day we die

God, we may say, sings us into being. He breathes forth a poem, and the poem is us: galaxies, planets, molecules, continents, animals, people. It is a beautiful poem, a glorious song, and somehow we are alive and in the middle of it.

His chosen vehicle for his matchless opening statement, the logos, draws not so much on Platonic or Stoic ideas as on the living Word of the Old Testament, as, for instance, in Isaiah 55, where the word goes out like rain or snow and accomplishes God’s work (55:10–11). This work, God’s great act of rescue, rooted in the accomplishment of the “serva

The biblical concept of a lawful world operating as the creation of God, by fixed and reliable principles, was the fundamental assumption needed to conceive the laws of nature and utilize them for human benefit.