Intro to The Awe and Awry

We don't just eat— we create. This unique quality that can make any biological organism into a human one, makes for the perch to experience the awe of creation; it also makes for the milieu where creation, along with our creating, sometimes goes awry.

If we all we wanted was relief from the difficulty innate to this human ability to create, we could take a "scientific" route and somehow revert to a life style of natural metabolism where we jettison this profound power of creating, opting instead for an awareness that can't trespass the boundaries made literal by an organism's genetic demarcation.

Or, we could take an Evangelical route. Here, the awry is shunned as a sign of imperfection and awe is reserved for the perfection that is their God— and for the true human residence where perfection reigns that they call heaven. The word they employ for things going awry is "sin"; they then equate "sinning" with evil. For such evangelical thinking, it follows that heaven will be a place where "sin", the very source of human frustration, will be merely a thing of the past when life took place on earth rather than in heaven.

Here's the route I want to take into the awe and awry.

First of all, I consider myself an ardent follower of Jesus. I'm equally ardent about science. So when I don't feel compelled to confine myself to neither Evangelical nor scientific orthodoxy, it's simply because neither orthodoxy has situated itself to see what is perhaps the most astonishing thing to ever be witnessed by means of being human: Creativity.

What's funny is that science is eminently a creative endeavor, while Creationist's identify themselves with the word "create" in its midst: neither properly sees what's going on when "creativity" takes its place in the warp and weft of reality's fabric.

To truly see creativity, is to truly see awe and its sidekick, the awry.