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Holy Holotype
Holotype (noun): the single specimen designated by an author as the type of a species or lesser taxon at the time of establishing the group (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
I remember my first time holding a holotype. It was that of a Scleractinian, a hard-calcified coral, lump-shaped and brainy, patterned with meandering avenues of ridged polyps. “Be careful,” the museum curator whispered. And I nodde
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“Science and faith may do different things along their search for Truth, but like the water that flows between low and high tide, we need them both. To judge one without the other is to forsake half the wonders we are meant to experience.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“We can be assured that if God has called us to something, he goes with us. He jumps off the boat beside us... He goes to the depths of his ocean with us.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“Just as a well-aimed telescope can clarify that what appears to be empty space is actually filled with heavenly glory, science has the power to uncover bits and pieces of the workmanship of God. Science enlightens the heats of those who love its creator.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“Just as science without faith is landlocked, faith without science floats on the surface.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“When I went about my work as usual and expected to experience nothing else, my day was filled with the mundane... But when I entered the water determined to keep my eyes peeled, to see the underwater world for all its God-created splendor, then my day was filled with beauty.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“In hard moments, beauty still abounds, like being surrounded by unique creatures and sunlit silhouettes in an underwater canyon... The darkness is where we see the streams of light pour in, making the true shapes of things clear.”
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“Knowing and loving God functions for a Christian the way that good training functions for a scuba diver. It teaches us. It trains how we see and respond to the world. It is represented in the decisions we make-- even the smallest ones.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“We can be assured that if God has called us to something, he goes with us. He jumps off the boat beside us... He goes to the depths of his ocean with us.”
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
― If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
