Are we more than bodies? How about stars?
Posted by tom | Jul 6, 2010Recently read and discussed the below passage of C.S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with the twins. I was still thinking about the section when I was clearing out the reader, "Are We More Than Bodies?" (Commentary written by the BioLogos editorial staff. 7/4/2010. http://biologos.org/blog/are-we-more-than-bodies/).
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace declares, “In our world a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.” The fallen star Ramandu replies, “Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of” (emphasis added).
Are we more than bodies? How about stars? A question for living, for fiction, for theology, for Hubble, for all of the above? I'll bring it with me to the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation: Science, Faith, & Public Policy (July 30 – August 2, Washington D.C.) when I visit NASA: Goddard Space Flight Center with Jennifer Wiseman, Chief of the Laboratory for Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics.
