The Theological Meaning of Evolution

7pm Thursday 25 June – 5pm Saturday 27 June

Laidlaw College

Auckland Campus

80 Central Park Drive

Henderson, Waitakere

A conference to celebrate and interact with Darwinism, on the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary
of On the Origin of Species.

What impact has evolution had on the world and on belief? How does Darwinism challenge traditional Christian faith? What does evolution really mean in a theological sense? How has evolution changed and challenged theology and what can theology contribute to the conversation surrounding human origins and meaning.

Flyer with more details (PDF)

• Registration Form
• Timetable

The gospel according to Darwin (Richard Dawkins) is an interesting article by Richard Dawkins on responses to Jerry Coyne’s book Why Evolution Is True.

Kim Fabricius over at Faith and Theology posts Ten propositions on Darwin and the deity.

And so, I capitulate and create a Darwin category.

A symposium on Science and religion in the 21st century: faith in science, science in faith.
Programme

Prof Jeff Tallon FRSNZ

Truth or true? – faith and science rubbing shoulders

Prof Bob White FRS

Natural disasters: acts of God or results of human folly?

Dr Graeme Finlay

The story in our genes

Rev Dr Graham O’Brien

Evolving evolution

Prof Gareth Jones CNZM

Manufacturing humans: the borderlands between human and divine control

Prof John McClure

Psychology and religion: is there a ghost in the machine?

Dr Stephen Garner/ Dr Nicola Hoggard-Creegan

The view from theology

When: 8.30am-6pm, Saturday 14 March 2009

Where: Theatre 401-439, ‘Neon Foyer’, Engineering School, Symonds Street, The University of Auckland

Please register for the symposium by Wednesday 11 March, with p.medhora@auckland.ac.nz
Cost $20, non-waged people $10 (refreshments and lunch provided)
Parking under Owen G Glenn building, $5 flat rate

For more details click on the picture or on the links below:

Bob White – Lecture and Symposium – Leaflet.pdf

Bob White – Lecture and Symposium – Poster.pdf

Via Sze Zeng: ‘Rescuing Darwin’ Report we come to Does Darwinism need rescuing? | Religious Debate | Theos think tank -> Does Darwinism need rescuing?.

Another reason for the Darwin subcategory.

Short article & video over at February 6, 2009 ~ Darwin at 200 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.

I really am going to have to create a Darwin subcategory this year.

Science Magazine have started a new blog called “Origins” as part of their response to the 200/150 year Darwin anniversaries. You can read the introduction at Welcome to the Origins Blog – Origins.

Similarly, Nature has come out with their ‘Evolution Gems’ resource here (PDF). (Announcement: Evolutionary gems : Article : Nature)

And over here at BBC Focus there’s also a 12 page special on Darwin 200.

Around the blogosphere I’ve noticed various people pointing out that the ten Darwin’s Legacy lectures from Stanford Continuing Studies are available via YouTube. (See Videos from Darwin’s Legacy course at Standford « The Dispersal of Darwin and ’10 Lectures on Darwin’s Legacy’ by Stanford University – RichardDawkins.net)

But they’re also available for iTunes (as part of the iTunesU section), so I might have a bash at downloading a few to watch on the train. Link here.

Firstly, 12 Elegant Examples of Evolution | Wired Science from Wired.com.

Secondly, Creation Lens: Exploring the World, Discovering God (EWDG) with the related Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) DVD resources. (Hat tip to Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Creation lens).

At some point soon I hope to watch this video clip (Science & Religion Today: Watch an Atheist & a Jesuit Astronomer Chat) that comes from unused material from The Genius of Charles Darwin – FameLab from channel4.com. I don’t know whether we’ll ever get the documentary here in NZ so the web video might have to do. (A review is at: Science & Religion Today: Richard Dawkins on Darwin’s Genius)

I do have a copy of the following DVD ($5 in a sale bin a while back) which I will be watching soon.

"Genius – Charles Darwin" (Kultur Video)

And hopefully I’ll get my hands on this one too.

"Paradise Lost: The Religious Life of Charles Darwin" (David Wollert)

Related links – see Greenflame · Search results for darwin.