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About the Site 

Independent, not-for-profit, free of sponsorship, and not trying to sell you anything! 

About the Photographs:

Selected to symbolise aspects of Creation and Creativity :

• Main Photo - raw Creation: icebergs, Narsarsuaq, Greenland
• Welcome - throwing light on the subject: Point of Ayre, Isle of Man
• About - ancient architecture: Weobley, Herefordshire, circa 1500
  
• In Depth - raw Creation: Svalbard
• Links - machine aesthetic: Brittany Ferries MV "Bretagne", Chantiers de l'Atlantique, 1989
• Books - modern architecture: the "Arctic Cathedral" Tromso, Architect Jan Inge Hovig, 1965
• Creation Quotes -  modern architecture:  Harpa Concert hall, Rekyavik - Henning Larson Architects with Olafur Eliasson, 2009
• Creativity Quotes - modern stained glass window at Goodrich Castle by Nichola Hopwood 2000

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version(R), NIrV(R) Copyright(c) 1995,1996,1998,2014 by Biblica Inc Tm. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The "NIV" and "New International Version" are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica Inc TM.

Some Chapter and Section headings have been borrowed or adapted from other people's titles:

"Why there is almost certainly a Creator" comes from Professor Keith Ward: "Why there is almost certainly a God" (Lion 2008)

"Designer Universe" and "All in the Mind" are titles respectively by Dr John Wright(Monarch, 1994) and Dr Peter Clarke (Lion, 2015)

"The Mind of our Maker" echoes "the Mind of the Maker" (Dorothy L Sayers, 1941)

"The Grand Designer" has evolved from Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow "The Grand Design" (Bantam, 2012)

"Seven Days that divide the World" is taken directly from the book by Professor John C Lennox (Zondervan, 2011)

"The nature of Genesis" and "The genesis of Nature" come from Norman Parker: "The genesis of Nature and the nature of Genesis" (New Generation, 2015)

"The Seven Lamps of Creativity" is inspired by John Ruskin: "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" (Reprint by Century,1988)

Important Footnote

I am very grateful to the many other writers referred to in the text, notes, and appendices you can find on this website - but that's not intended to imply that they necessarily agree with my views  - or vice versa!

News

2023 saw a 47.5 % increase in the number of visits to this website , and an 87 % increase in the number of page views, compared with 2022.I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to that.

About the Author

After study at what are now the Universities for the Creative Arts (Canterbury), Portsmouth and Oxford Brookes, I belonged to the Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Town Planning Institute, and Chartered Management Institute. Professional experience includes Local Government management, own consultancy, and Directorship of a firm of Architects, Urban Designers, Town Planners & Ecologists. Now commissioned as a Lay Worship Leader in a large Parish Church on the edge of the Bournemouth-Poole conurbation. 

Andrew Patrick, DiplArch(Portsmouth) DipTP