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“Every attempt to find a fixed point within the created order apart from the triune God is idolatry. But it is also idolatry to try to pretend that He hasn’t spoken His certainties into our world . . . So are there fixed points in the created world? Yes, when God speaks them. When He creates all the species according to their kinds, that’s the way it is. When He put the Rocky Mountains there, that’s where they stayed. But the world is only stable because there is no foundation for stability within it. But once you introduce the Words of God, how gloriously stable it becomes! Every hair is numbered, every sparrow noted, and every atom superglued in place” (Against the Church, pp. 138-139).

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Ken Miller
Ken Miller
9 years ago

Hey Doug, This is totally off topic, but I don’t see anyway to contact you on your blog. I think you should do an post on “Why Skinny-Jeaned Wearing Hipsters are in Rebellion Against Their Maker.” I’ve been trying to find online tips for improving my professional wardrobe, and I’ve been rather disgusted at the countless examples of how male clothing is not just becoming androgynous, but outright feminine. Men wearing skinny jeans to highlight their slender legs and skinny waist-lines!?! I’m sorry, but that’s perverse. Old-skool feminism made women more masculine. Today’s political correctness and the LGBT dominated fashion… Read more »