![]() ![]() It’s all right, though this book is plenty safe for atheists she’s not preaching. He’ll stop at nothing.” She takes the strange and prolific nature of our world to be proof of a creator – “no claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe” – and I don’t. “Look… at practically anything… and see that not only did the creator create everything, but that he is apt to create anything. She uses this phenomenon to explore the idea of a creator – and here Dillard and I will disagree a little, but that’s okay. Tiny, infinitely complex things that make our world so strange. Dillard relates statistics that are mind-boggling: “the average size of all living animals, including man, is almost that of a housefly.” “There are… two hundred twenty-eight separate and distinct muscles in the head of an ordinary caterpillar.” “Six million leaves on a big elm.” She writes about the Henle’s loop in the human kidney, the lower lip of the dragonfly nymph. And then, remember how I said that chapter 7 blew me away? Well, chapter 8 is even better.Ĭhapter 8 is entitled “Intricacy,” and addresses the amazing, extraordinary intricacy, complexity, tiny detail and huge scale and huge scale of tininess in the natural world. ![]() As I wrote, the early bits were difficult for me, a little too metaphysical and spiritual. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, for me, comes in sections, or in three parts. I’m afraid I am continuing with my mixed feelings here, as in my first review. ![]()
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