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139. BioLogos Book Club | Transcendent Kingdom

Language of God

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What Happens in Brains When Something Like That Happens?

Marilyn Robinson wrote a whole book about this called absence of mind where she takes on the Daniel Dennett's. She says if you don't come away with a real sense that the brain is not a machine, I don't know what it's going to take for you. So let me read this short passage to that I alluded to earlier about when Gifty lost her faith. One minute there was a God with the whole world in his hands, the next minute the world was plummeting ceaselessly toward an ever shifting bottom. Do we know Rachel at all?

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