Our responsibility for creation Week for Life from 02. 08. May 1999 with an ecumenical service in D sseldorf conducted by the EKD-Chairman, Pr ses Manfred Kock, and the Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Bishop Dr. Karl Lehmann. It looks into the inseparable association of preservation of human life and non-human life on earth. No one can credibly speak out for increasing environmental conservation if the protection of the unborn child or the approaching death of a person is not treated with the same seriousness and vice versa. Many biblical texts speak of God's act of creation.
Man exists as a creature in a complex interacting community with all other life forms.
Astonished, he perceives the variety and beauty of God's creation. It fills him with pleasure and thankfulness. This is expressed in praise of God and in reverence for all living things. In contrast to this is the experience that man in his dealings is interfering to a previously unknown extent with the growing biosphere and the basic fundament of life, and is thus endangering considerably the life of following generations. This fills many with concern, as well as sorrow, about the often irreparable loss in variety and beauty of creation.