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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

God enough

We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
By Steve Paulson

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 02:52 PM

    You might stare for hours at a sunset . . .

    . . . and suddenly disappear into the World Soul, and feel yourself at one with all of nature. This is well and good. But nature is not the source of that intuition. Worms and rats and weasels do not stare for hours at sunset, and marvel at it's beauty, and transcend themselves in that release--even though their senses are in many cases much sharper than ours, even though they see nature more clearly than we do! No, nature is not the source of this Beauty; nature is the destination. The source is transcendental Spirit, of which nature is a radiant expression.

    Ken Wilber --

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