Why did you call your blog Tracing the Shapes?
I like the metaphor of tracing when compared to drawing. Drawing is, in a sense, creating from scratch, while tracing is attempting to recreate something already created. I believe that in our understanding the best we can do is recreate what God has already created - think God's thoughts after him, as Cornelius Van Til would say - and even when we do our best, ours is a representation that lacks full clarity, precision and dimension. A good trace contains enough information to understand what the thing is, but confesses and testifies to a reality far greater than is shown in the trace itself.
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Van Til? Johannes Kepler: "I was merely thinking God's thoughts after him. Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."
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