Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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How odd. Somehow I never thought I’d come across Rick Warren while reading a science and religion editorial. See: Science & Theology News – Editorial: The universe, and our lives, on purpose. So far the most surprising thing today.
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Following up the last posting these are a couple of responses to Ted Peter’s perspective. Clarifying Christian Concerns – Randy Maddox, Ph.D.: In Response to Ted Peters. Science and Beneficence – Cynthia Fitch, Ph.D.: In Response to Ted Peters.
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Came across this today while trawling some blogs I visit on an irregular basis. Paradoxology: Is Our DNA Sacred? has some commentary and some interesting third party comments on Lutheran theologian Ted Peter’s perspective on cloning and stem cell research. (See Response: The Seattle Pacific University Magazine – Summer 2004 | Volume 26, Number 7…
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Science & Theology News – News: Dembski to head seminary’s faith-and-science center The man who has become both figurehead and lightning rod for the intelligent design movement in America recently agreed to direct a science-and-religion center at one of the nation’s most conservative Protestant seminaries. William Dembski, a philosopher of science, was hired in September…
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Interesting interview with one of the proponents of transhumanism. Here Kurzweil sketches some of his hopes – human/machine integration, longevity, denial of death – in an easy to read interview: Machine Dreams – Interview – CIO Magazine Oct 15,2004 I think it’s important to understand that technology and human civilization are deeply integrated and that…
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Following up on the post from the other week (Greenflame: Emergent systems & the church) here’s a primer on emergence written by Philip Clayton – Science & Theology News – Features: Emergence. In it he looks at some of the different views on emergence, science and religion. (And for those of you who were looking…
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Meanwhile, over at MIT… Robotic Life – sociable robots The Sociable Robots project aims to build capable and appealing robots that can physically interact, communicate with, and learn from people in familiar human-oriented terms.
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Doing a bit of transhumanist web surfing today while pondering writing a paper on the transhuman agenda and Christian social justice and came across the article below over at Betterhumans.com. In Betterhumans > Ending Aging to Help the Poor author Simon Smith argues, Rather than hinder the fight against poverty, funding life extension research is…
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Jonathan’s post zone de confluence has some interesting refections on a French art exposition on technology’s effects on our perceptions on time and space. He also had a link to this movie (WeAccept_H.mov) produced by one of the artists – D-Fuse – as a response to the commercialisation of the Internet.
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Some days it seems just like this – Calvin and Hobbes — 21-09-1993.