Why God would get so detailed with the creations rather than just roughing them in is the great mystery of the universe-after all, stuff doesn't need to look pretty, it just needs to work.Here's her basic definition: Intricacy is decoration over nothingness.She can't deal with the enormity of the question of how it all started, so she's decided to concern herself with how it all works.(She's going to assume for this chapter that there's a creator.) No individual tree or fish or water bug is crucial to the world or its creator. The more Dillard thinks about the Roanoke Valley, the more she realizes nature is gratuitous.In other words, stuff is made of other, infinitely smaller stuff. Chloroplasts, magnesium atoms, nuclei, subatomic particles, neutrinos, etc.
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