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MAN’S HUBRIS LETS HIM THINK HE IS GOD

August 29, 2019

Is man bigger, greater, more important than nature, earth, the universe in which he finds himself? I don’t see how he can be, since nature evolved man. What reason do we have—can there possibly be—to think that nature evolved man so that he could replace nature, earth, the universe? This is exponential arrogance, the ultimate … More MAN’S HUBRIS LETS HIM THINK HE IS GOD

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JONATHAN EDWARDS’S LEGACY

July 30, 2019

IN HIS 1949 BIOGRAPHY of Jonathan Edwards (republished in 2005 as a University of Nebraska Press Bison paperback edition), Miller went as far as to claim: “He was one of America’s five or six major artists, who happened to work with ideas instead of with poems or novels. He was much more a psychologist and … More JONATHAN EDWARDS’S LEGACY

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