“As Larry Rasmussen said, science offers us “the stunning portrayal of a common creation in which we are radically united with all things living and non-living, here and into endless reaches of space, and at the same time radically diverse and individuated. . . . And all of it is not only profoundly inter-related and inseparably interdependent but highly fine-tuned so as to evolve together. We are all—the living and not living, organic and inorganic—the outcome of the same primal explosion and same evolutionary history. All internally related from the very beginning, we are the varied forms of stardust in the hands of the creator God. This reality is the most basic text and context of life—and a theology of life.”[from Larry Rasmussen, “Theology of Life and Ecumenical Ethics,” Ecotheology: Voices from North and South, ed. David G. Hallman (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009), 120.]