Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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Wish I’d been there. Sounds fascinating. Science & Theology News – News: Sci-fi conference removes fiction from fact.
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Something I was thinking about the other day. With all the heated discussion on embryonic stem cell use what about stem cells that can be gathered and cultured from adults? This article starts to answer my question. Science & Theology News – News: Focus on embryos neglects adult cell possibilities There’s line in there that…
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A brief editorial pondering the US debates over origins, separation of church and state, and spiritual question asking in schools. Science & Theology News – Editorial: Questions we cannot ask. It raises a good point – where are the safe places for people to ask questions about faith, science and other stuff?
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Opened the latest copy of the ATF (Australian Theological Forum) journal Interface yesterday and was met by a violent, hot pink cover (the photo does not do it justice). Once I got past that though I found that the issue (Vol.7 No.2 Oct 2004) was entitled “Stem Cell Research and Cloning : Contemporary Challenges to…
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Another from the Auckland Festival catalogue that intersects with my research – excellent! Gina Czarnecki: Infected Moving Image Centre presents a selection of new video works by artist Gina Czarnecki. Infected is a hybrid melting point of dance and digital imagery that confronts issues surrounding the convergence of biology and technology and possible corruption of…
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Ordered God In The Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity And God today. Always good to find a book directly related to your thesis topic. Hollywood to the halls of NASA, robots loom large in the popular imagination. But what feelings do these lifelike machines really provoke in us? In God in the Machine,…
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Article due tomorrow. All the ideas are in my head and most of them are on paper. 400 words of the 5000-odd left to put on the page and then some more proof reading. In the words of the Holsoms(?) bread ad it’s time to “let it go.” Today’s Calvin and Hobbes seemed somewhat apt…
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From Technology and Human Becoming by Philip Hefner. If the techno-human, the cyborg, is created in the image of God, what does that tell us about God? Hefner uses the term ‘created, co-creators’ to describe human beings. Created in the sense the we are finite (stands against hubris) but capable of being part of God’s…
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Just working through Elaine Graham’s paper Bioethics after Posthumanism: Natural Law, Communicative Action and the Problem of Self-Design for a second time. Some good, thought provoking material there. For example, Socio-economic inequalities may thus represent as profound a threat to human dignity as biotechnologies. I think this gets forgotten in all the heated discussions. That…
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It’s getting pretty crowded in here. Barbour, Ian G. Ethics in an Age of Technology: The Gifford Lectures 1989-1991. Vol. 2. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Bostrom, Nick. The Transhumanist FAQ : A General Introduction. Version 2.1. World Transhumanist Association, October 2003. Accessed 1 November 2004. Available from http://transhumanism.org/resources/FAQv21.pdf. Forrester, Duncan B. "The Scope of Public…