4. The Topography of Flatland
1. L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (New York: Sterling Children’s Books, 2005), 3–4; original text published in 1900.
2. Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, no. 48.
3. Benedict XVI, Angelus, December 12, 2012.
4. Francis, Laudato Si, no. 44.
5. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, 2nd ed., edited by Christopher Tolkien (New York: Ballantine Books, 1999), 3–4.
6. Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans, Ents, Elves and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2011), 24.
7. Bob Tita, “Motorized Walking Gear Gets Approval,” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2016.
8. Ben Popper, “Understanding Calico: Larry Page, Google Ventures, and the Quest for Immortality: Radical Life Extension Is a Dream Shared by Many Top Googlers,” Verge, September 19, 2013.
9. Caritas in Veritate, no. 69.
10. Laudato Si, no. 131.
11. Caritas in Veritate, nos. 11, 29, 70.
12. Paul Newall, “Thomas Lessl: Science and Rhetoric,” Galilean, June 7, 2005; reposted June 15, 2010. See also Lessl’s Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution and the Scientific Identity (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012).
13. Jean-Marie Lustiger, The Promise (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), 100.
14. George Grant, Technology and Empire, 17.
15. Ibid., 25.
16. Ibid., 27.
17. Leon R. Kass, M.D., “A More Perfect Human: The Promise and the Peril of Modern Science,” presented for the “Insight” series at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, March 17, 2005.
18. Leszek Kolakowski, “The Idolatry of Politics,” collected in his Modernity on Endless Trial (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 146.
19. Kass, “A More Perfect Human.”
20. Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual, 352–53.
21. David Gelernter, “The Closing of the Scientific Mind,” Commentary, January 1, 2014.
22. Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
23. Andy Crouch, “Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet,” Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2011.
24. Edwin A. Abbot, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (New York: Penguin, 1998), originally published in 1884.