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West's Awe at Night Sky
- John West recounts a clear night at Mount Rainier viewing the Milky Way with his children, inspiring awe of being part of something greater.
- He parallels this with young Darwin's initial awe in the Brazilian rainforest in 1831.
Darwin's Lost Awe
- Darwin initially felt nature revealed purpose but later rejected design due to natural selection's blind process.
- This shift meant nature had no inherent purpose or intentional creation, altering views of human uniqueness.
Darwin's Two Prongs
- Darwin's theory proposed all life, humans included, descends from a simple organism and evolves by blind, unguided natural selection.
- This rejects any notion of humans' special intentional creation or design by a loving creator.