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Article: Worldly wonder: religions enter an ecological phase.
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Over the past century, science has begun to weave together the story of a historical cosmos that emerged some 12 billion years ago. The magnitude of this universe story is beginning to dawn on us, as we awaken to a new realization of its vastness and complexity. At the same time, we are becoming conscious of the growing environmental crisis and of the rapid destruction of species and habitat. Just as we become conscious that the Earth took more than four billion years to bring forth this abundance of life, it is dawning on us how quickly we are foreshortening its future.
We need, then, to step back to assimilate what might be called "our cosmological context." As ...