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The Soul As If Treasured

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The Soul As If Treasured

Not in certainty, but in a species of hope.

Steven L. Peck
May 2, 2023
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When seeking to unearth a bird-like Cretaceous tyrannosauroid, you can’t tell whether you’ll stumble onto beautiful rock bones, silenced long ago in ancient alluvium, or find only the dry grist of weathered rock, piled high, nothing more than sand and grit whisked and piled thick into a matrix of mud. And yet you press on. Not in certainty, but in a spe…

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A guest post by
Steven L. Peck
Steven L. Peck is an ecologist at BYU and a fellow of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. In addition to his scientific work, he has published four award-winning literary novels, poetry, short stories, and essays.
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