Posts tagged “Creation

Sermo Dei: Trinity 9, on the Parable of the Unjust Steward

Posted on August 6th, 2012

God made man to give him gifts. All that exists was made by God, and it was made for man. Man is the crown of God’s creation, and to him God gave everything in the creation, for the man’s enjoyment, but also that he should be steward of the earth. As God’s steward, or chief manager, the man would exercise dominion, Godly rule in the earth. As God’s steward the man would exercise dominion, Godly rule in the earth. Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, have dominion over every living creature. One thing alone was held back from the man: the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Why? Because God wished the man to know good alone, and…

Thanksgiving Divine Service sermon

Posted on November 23rd, 2011

I broke the line. I am disconnected from the earth. My mother’s side of the family are Minnesota farmers, and though my mother moved to Minneapolis while still a teenager, she still is rooted in the earth, working her garden, growing food and flowers. In my memories, my grandparents’ farm is a place of wonder, so very different from my own childhood home, just sixty miles away. There on the farm were cows and chickens, corn and peas. Sometimes my grandpa would have me take a little pail and dig for worms, collecting them until we had enough for fishing. My father, like his father before him, is an arborist, which is a fancy way of saying he deals with trees for a living.…

The probability of a random origin of life is negligible, says Oxford mathematician

Posted on June 5th, 2011

John Lennox, a mathematician at Oxford, says a “super intellect” having designed the world is the best inference from the data. “He points out that the probability of a purely random origin for any sequence of even the most basic biological significance is ‘so small as to be negligible.’” From an article by William West assessing Lennox’s work: So, what if you take all of the probabilities unearthed by science together? What are the chances of life developing without a super-mind to guide it? The answer, clearly, is as close to zero as anyone could imagine. In fact, the figures involved are so profound, so enormous, that no human mind could possibly imagine them in any real sense. You can find the summary and…