God and Nature Winter 2022
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By Zachary Ardern
To take God seriously
we just ask something to touch.
A taste in reality;
asking this surely ain’t much?
Not half-hearted metaphor
of fig’rative illusion.
But something from God, for real;
replacing all confusion.
Some light in the darkness;
disinfectant in the mess.
Our most urgent need, we confess:
an encounter with wholeness.
We have been given contact points!
Nature’s contingent regularity,
with dashes of awe-inspiring beauty;
through the math’s comprehensibility,
and finely-tuned particularity.
The special nature of humanity;
the prescriptive call of morality,
and Scriptures’ coherent testimony,
embodied in Christ-like community.
But lastly and most superlatively
divinity-in-flesh; humility
reaches out, down to us so lovingly
with the soft chubby hand of a baby.
Zachary Ardern is a postdoctoral researcher in microbial evolutionary genetics, based in Cambridge, UK. His undergraduate studies included majors in biology and philosophy, and his main interests are in evolutionary theory and its interactions with natural theology.
To take God seriously
we just ask something to touch.
A taste in reality;
asking this surely ain’t much?
Not half-hearted metaphor
of fig’rative illusion.
But something from God, for real;
replacing all confusion.
Some light in the darkness;
disinfectant in the mess.
Our most urgent need, we confess:
an encounter with wholeness.
We have been given contact points!
Nature’s contingent regularity,
with dashes of awe-inspiring beauty;
through the math’s comprehensibility,
and finely-tuned particularity.
The special nature of humanity;
the prescriptive call of morality,
and Scriptures’ coherent testimony,
embodied in Christ-like community.
But lastly and most superlatively
divinity-in-flesh; humility
reaches out, down to us so lovingly
with the soft chubby hand of a baby.
Zachary Ardern is a postdoctoral researcher in microbial evolutionary genetics, based in Cambridge, UK. His undergraduate studies included majors in biology and philosophy, and his main interests are in evolutionary theory and its interactions with natural theology.