“The story started in a garden. The Bible is not artistically symmetrical: it ends its story in a city. Since Eden there has been progress. Important things have happened. The object is not simply to restore Eden. The plan is more exciting than that...
God loves his creation. He loves matter. Despite all the trouble it has given him, he has not thrown it away and started again, and he never will...
The plan is not to scrap the earth, but to unite it with heaven in a way so intimate that the only metaphor the Bible can think of is marriage - one-fleshness... There is a vital continuity between this world and the next which is one reason why being here is useful preparation for what is to come, and one reason why it matters what we do to the planet.”
From The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin by Charles Foster, 2010 (Paperback, p186-7)
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