Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. Its not about deposing all the other wisdom stories about creation that humanity has gathered, but it certainly supplements it. It offers a real universal view because its beyond any particular religion, ethnicity, nation and so forth. As were struggling as a species to come together as a tribe, it provides us our basic framework, because its from creation stories that ethics derive. Todays creation story from science is that we come from 14 billion years of an organic unfolding of the universe and are connected physiologically with every being in the universe. We all share the same atoms and the same molecules. Thats truly significant and important at this time in history. Were all kin, were all interdependent. And thats the basis of compassion, which was Jesuss ultimate teaching.
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