Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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The following applies in relation to supervisors. Pick your translation carefully. Job 13:15 (NIV) Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face. Job 13:15 (NRSV) See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face. (In…
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Just finished reading Rocks of Ages : Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould as part of an ongoing project evaluating models of science and religion interaction. It was one of those books where after the preface and the next 8 pages you knew pretty much all you needed to…
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Temporal shifting (time travel) is the name of the game over the last few days. One minute I’m reading about science and religion interaction in the 19th century, then the 20th and then the 21st. Catching up on cyberculture and post/humanism too and the flicking back to looking at the etymology of “selem” (image) and…
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Interesting interview here with Elaine Graham: Finding humanity’s place on the Starship Enterprise. Again more stuff directly related to my research – definitely agree with her comment that “theologians must remember that technologies have to be considered within a wider political economy, as well as the broader ontological and philosophical issues.”
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Dropped by the Science and Theology News web site today and saw the article on Robot helpers: How close to human should they look? which fits right in with my own research. “Most people doing social robots believe that human faces will turn people off and will disturb them. I think that’s ridiculous,” Hanson said.…
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Just looking through my bookmarks collection and came across Heidi Campbell’s Web Page: Research in New Media and Religious Online Communities. She’s “investigating the nature of community, religion and the social through an analysis of new media technologies.” Intriguing stuff. There are some links to things she’s written including online versions of some of them.
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Just started reading Nancey Murphy’s book Reconciling Theology and Science: A Radical Reformation Perspective and I’ve been enjoying it so far. I notice that in the section on Theology and the Social Sciences there is a section on the New Zealand experience of Restorative Justice. Quite unusual for a US book to notice something down…
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For all you interested in cyberculture I found this today: The Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview It is a large collection of materials drawn together by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University.
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Maggi Dawn posted a comment on my blog entry about “Darwin and Fundamentalism” with a reference to book on Victorian times and how that related to Darwin. I’ve gathered some links to web sites with Darwin and Victoriana information so I thought I’d add them here for those who are interested. The Victorian Web: An…
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Just whipped through John Polkinghorne’s little book Traffic in Truth: Exchanges between Science and Theology which, like the Darwin book I blogged about earlier, provides an easy entrance to thinking about the relationship between science and religion. It reads like the combination of an introduction and conclusion from one of his other more lengthy books…