What are the limits of human creativity?  Today, from many standpoints, we might say that they are indefinite.  Until relatively recently, however, people in the West believed that they, of all the peoples on the earth, had developed the most valid pictures of human culture, the most true expressions of human growth and creativity.
     Thomas McEvilley, a long time professor of anthropology and cultural critic who died earlier this year, changed all that.  Using a great deal of research and study, he proved that contrary to prevailing Western conceptions, people in other parts of the world, indeed, peoples across the globe, were, in their own way, equally innovative and creative, and their cultural constructions therefore equally valid, even if they may have been radically different in their starting and ending points than those of the West.  The people of the West needed to change, as it were, the way they see.  They had to learn to look at cultures in a different way, not necessarily through their own preconceptions of what might be valid or true.
     Although there are limits to looking at cultures in this way, that is, most of us will likely draw a line at endorsing or accepting the validity of a culture whose chief value is murder, McEvilley's point remains true:  human creativity is not limited to the peoples of the West.
     For a person who is already convinced of the inexhaustibility of God, that God has no limits in how he gifts and endows the human being, this thesis makes perfect sense.  If humans--all humans--are created in the image of God, vested with gifts and talents of generativity and reflection and self-perception, why would humans--all humans--not be immensely creative, their cultures uniformly reflecting an innate capacity to grow and create?
     Because God exists, there are no limits to what people--all people--can, within the compass of their finite capacities and geographic limitations, do.  Humanity is a testimony to the presence of God.