This Sunday, September 8th, we'll explore the 3rd chapter in Painting the Stars: Getting Genesis Wrong.
The reference is to Genesis 1:28 --
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Sometimes we've abuse an interpretation of "subdue it."
The tone for our session is set in two verses:
An absence of a sense of the sacred, awe, is the basic flaw in many of
our efforts at ecologically or environmentally adjusting our human
presence to the natural world. It has been said ‘We will not save what we
do not love’. It is also true that we live neither love nor save what we do
not experience as sacred.” —Thomas Berry
and,
Earth’s crammed with heaven
And every common bush, afire with God
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Please be warmly invited to join us.
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Although you've already covered Chapter 1, Healing the Rift, of LTQ's wonderful "Painting the Stars" material, I offer my understanding of an apparent factual error in that theme:
ReplyDeletePart of the first theme, Healing the Rift, says "... a 2012 Angus Reid poll revealed that a mere 40% of Canadians believe in evolution ...". However, the Angus Reid website says about that poll "... three-in-five Canadians (61%) think human beings evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years ...". (From the Angus Read website page http://www.angusreidglobal.com/polls/46561/britons-and-canadians-more-likely-to-endorse-evolution-than-americans/ ).
So, the poll actually says that 60%, not 40%, of Canadian believe in evolution [by natural selection] of humans.
Could you pass this on to whomever is presenting this theme?