At one point Dr. Marty spoke of the reductionist understandings of humanity with which we are confronted. You know, the computer scientist who says, Humanity is nothing but a sophisticated computer. Or the biologist who says, Humanity is nothing but the collection of genes we have now decoded in the human genome. Or the behaviorist who says, Humanity is nothing but a seeker of pleasure and an avoider of pain. Obviously if one puts all those reductionist understandings together, humanity gets pretty complicated.
Reductionist views have a valid insight, but there is always more to be said.
And the church does a strange thing on this day. There is nothing pretty about dust. My grandmother lived in the country on an unpaved road. I remember driving behind other cars on dusty roads. That was pretty miserable.