The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.Ursula Goodenough, The Sacred Depths of Nature, p. 30
I do not agree with any of this. But, it does show our innate religious nature, particularly our yearning to worship something in response to the wonder that science reveals.
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