https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/08/10/dangerous-dissection/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/08/10/dangerous-dissection/#comment-2858 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:41:04 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/08/10/dangerous-dissection/#comment-2858 Thanks for expanding this thought so helpfully, Charlie.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/08/10/dangerous-dissection/#comment-2857 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:06:28 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2010/08/10/dangerous-dissection/#comment-2857 This is SO powerful, David. I’ve always struggled with Darwin (and not because of evolution) but for the reasons you expressed so well. There’s a big difference between dissecting and discerning. Maybe it’s about motivation. We dissect something to know the extents and limits of our own ability to control it – like when a child takes apart a toy just to see if they can. In the end, it’s an empty gesture with the hollowness of heart that comes with it. But when we disassemble something in order to discern God’s hand – as we do when we do when we explore nature or unpack a rich Bible passage it becomes a glory-filled process of revelation, with the swelling fullness of heart that brings joy. I see no sin or disconnection from God in Darwin’s act of trying to discover the workings of living creation. But he stopped at merely depicting the mechanics of it without revealing the miraculous energy that fuels it. Turning one’s back on one’s Creator robs the world of joy.

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