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date: 18 January 2021

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Earth is proving to be a remarkable planet, and humans have deep roots in and entwined destinies with this wonderland Earth. Simultaneously, however, humans are remarkable on this remarkable planet, a wonder on wonderland Earth. But the foreboding challenge is that these spectacular humans, the sole moral agents on Earth, now jeopardize both themselves and their planet. Science and religion are equally needed, and strained, to bring salvation, to keep life on Earth sustainable. In the midst of its struggles, life has been ever ‘conserved’, as biologists find; life has been perpetually ‘redeemed’, as theologians find. This article holds that science and religion join to celebrate this saga of life, perennially generated and regenerated on this planet.

Keywords: Earth, home planet, science, religion, biology, theology

Holmes Rolston III

Holmes Rolston III is university distinguished professor and professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. He has written seven books, most recently Genes, Genesis, and God; Science and Religion: A Critical Survey; Philosophy Gone Wild; Environmental Ethics; and Conserving Natural Value. He gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1997–98. Rolston has spoken as distinguished lecturer on seven continents. He is featured in Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (edited by Joy A. Palmer). He received the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2003, in amount about $1.3 million, greater than a Nobel Prize, and the largest such award in the world. The award was given by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace.

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