25 Feb 2009
Biologist discusses sacred nature of sustainability

Environmental concerns fit pretty neatly within the context of all Earth-based religions: it's the revealed religions that seem to have some difficulty with the idea. And the simple reason for that is that the revelations took place many hundreds of years ago, under different circumstances and conditions, yet they're supposed to be eternally relevant because "god" said it...

This is one theological thorn bush that heathenry lacks, and that's a good thing, because we have more than enough other bushes to trim.

The hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to being a renowned cell biologist, Goodenough is a religious naturalist and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature, a bestselling book on religious naturalism that was published in 1998.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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