The importance of the doctrine of creation

I believe the doctrine of creation has a vital importance to every area of thought and life. Today I'm going to post a long quote by the Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck that shows how broad this influence is.

Quotation;

A. 'The doctrine of creation maintains the divinity, the goodness and sacredness of all created things. In this world man now receives his own independent place. He is of kin to all the world, formed out of matter, earthy of the earth ; nothing natural is strange to him. But in one respect he is different from all creatures ; he
is the son, the image, the similitude of God, his offspring. Thereby he is elevated above animal and angel, and destined and fitted for dominion over all the world.

'In this relation of man to God and to the world is the foundation laid and the origin given of all science and art. For how can it be explained that man through his senses can observe the world, and through his intelligence can know and understand it ? Whence this wonderful correspondence of knowing and being? What is the basis of the belief that the conception and the thought in the human brain are no imagination and no hallucination, but correspond with the reality ? What is the ground for the harmony between subject and object, the ego and the non-ego ?

'What is the root from which springs the unity of the laws of existence, the ideas of our thinking, the norms of
our actions ? In what do physis, gnosis, and ethos find their common systema? What is the foundation of the
symbolism of nature, not in the sense of an unfounded nature-theosophy, but in the sense in which Christ saw in the world a parable of the kingdom of heaven ; in the sense in which Goethe said that " all transitory things
are but a parable " ; in the sense in which Drummond in " the natural law " detected an analogy of the law of the spirit?

'On what, in a word, are founded comparison, metaphor, poetry, art, and all science and all culture ? On what else do they rest but on the confession that one word, one spirit, one divine intelligence lies at the foundation of all things and maintains their unity and mutual relations ?

Notes;
1. The philosophy of Revelation - Herman Bavinck/p. 107
- I found the book available free online. As I remember it, I found it at Archive.org
- Although the lectures that compose the book were given in 1908, I find them as interesting as anything written in our day. Reading them gives you a good feel for how the debate was being handled a century ago. (Bavinck was a contemporary of Ernst Haeckel for example.)