Epstein Secrets

ence Foundation's Tree of Life project, there are anywhere between 5 million and 100 million species on EFTA_R1_01522104 EFTA02444867 Page 120 Earth, only 2 million of which have been identified thus far. Most of the species identified arc either born with the capacity to find sustenance and av

yond other individuals. In the next chapter, theologian Don Browning also embraces the concept of inclusive fitness and, through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, shows how religion serves the human need for meaning and connection through the ethics they advocate, the congregations they form, the instituti

become inattentive to a presence so pervasive, just as people can become inattentive to the forces of gravity holding them to the surface of the Earth as they go about their everyday life. In more extreme versions of this inattention, the person understands humanity as "alone" in the universe, a

al importance of belief for such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. See Luhrmann in this volume. Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: "creation ... is the very dependency of the created act of being

stations of having had a mystical experience, such as an increase in compassion, forgiveness and more respectful and reverential attitudes toward the Earth and all its creatures (currently taking the forms of deep ecology, ecofeminism, herbal medicine, organic farming and the like), these times bring mor

e public consideration of the nature of reality itself, apart from its material manifestations. The theme of the life’s work of the Dominican priest, Thomas Aquinas, made master of theology by papal dispensation in 1259, involved the existential recognition of this dichotomy of existence, esse, and essence, natur

may become inattentive to a presence so pervasive, just as people can become inattentive to the forces of gravity holding them to the surface of the Earth as they go about their everyday life. In more extreme versions of this inattention, the person understands humanity as “alone” in the universe, a sor

such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. Pa at Q »e |127 ¢ 1 . . See Luhrmann in this volume. * Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: “creation... is the very dependency of the created act of being upon