A Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
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I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
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All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.
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From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
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