How Now Shall We live? By C. Colson and N. Pearcey p. 97.
In William Steig's Yellow & Pink. a delightfully whimsical picture book for children, two wooden figures wake up and ask, " Do you know what we're doing here?"
So begins the debate between two marionettes over the Origin of their existence.
Pink surveys their well formed features and concludes, "Someone must have made us."
Yellow disagrees. "I say that we're an accident," and he outlines the hypothetical scenario of how it might have happened. A branch might have broken off a tree and fallen on a sharp rock, splitting one end of the branch into two legs. Then the wind might have sent it tumbling down the a hill until it was chipped and shaped. Perhaps a flash of lightning struck in such a way as to splinter the wood into arms and fingers. Eyes might have been formed by woodpeckers boring in the wood.
"With enough time, a thousand, a million, maybe two million and a half a million years, lots of unusual things may have happened,"says Yellow. "Why not us?"
The two figures argue back and forth.
In the end, the discussion is cut off by the appearance of a man coming out of a house nearby. He strolls over to the marionettes, picks them up, and checks their paint. "Nice and Dry," he comments, and tucking them under his arm, he heads back towards the house.
Peering out from under the man's arm, Yellow whispers in Pink's ear, "Who is this Guy?"
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Beyond all the debates and the rhetoric, this is just the Question that we must all answer as it is at the heart of every Worldview and is intensely personal: "Who made me and why am I here?"
In William Steig's Yellow & Pink. a delightfully whimsical picture book for children, two wooden figures wake up and ask, " Do you know what we're doing here?"
So begins the debate between two marionettes over the Origin of their existence.
Pink surveys their well formed features and concludes, "Someone must have made us."
Yellow disagrees. "I say that we're an accident," and he outlines the hypothetical scenario of how it might have happened. A branch might have broken off a tree and fallen on a sharp rock, splitting one end of the branch into two legs. Then the wind might have sent it tumbling down the a hill until it was chipped and shaped. Perhaps a flash of lightning struck in such a way as to splinter the wood into arms and fingers. Eyes might have been formed by woodpeckers boring in the wood.
"With enough time, a thousand, a million, maybe two million and a half a million years, lots of unusual things may have happened,"says Yellow. "Why not us?"
The two figures argue back and forth.
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In the end, the discussion is cut off by the appearance of a man coming out of a house nearby. He strolls over to the marionettes, picks them up, and checks their paint. "Nice and Dry," he comments, and tucking them under his arm, he heads back towards the house.
Peering out from under the man's arm, Yellow whispers in Pink's ear, "Who is this Guy?"
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Beyond all the debates and the rhetoric, this is just the Question that we must all answer as it is at the heart of every Worldview and is intensely personal: "Who made me and why am I here?"
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