every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. —Genesis 1:1–31 SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS I have never run the Boston Marathon but at this moment I think I know what it feels like to stand at the starting line knowing over twenty-six miles of grueling