Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
-
Just read Darwin and Fundamentalism by Merryl Wyn Davies. It’s a short book in the Icon series “Postmodern Encounters”. If you’re looking for a brief (80 pages) introduction on the subject of Darwin, Darwinism, religious responses (positive and negative) and scientific engagement (again postive and negative responses) then this provides a good entry point. It’s…
-
Trying to finish a paper for a conference in about a weeks time (4-5 Dec) on the spiritual nature of technology and in particular the spiritual narratives that are found in technological agendas. Here’s the abstract. This paper focuses on the religious and spiritual narratives that are interacting with emergent technologies and in particular with…
-
I’m still thinking and reading about religion, technology and the nature of human identity in cyberspace. (I’ll be thinking about this for at least another 2 years until my thesis is finished) One book I find my self continually dipping into is Brenda Brasher’s Give Me That Online Religion. It’s easy to read, contains people’s…
-
One of the highlights of my working career was being paid for a week to play computer games (we were setting up gaming servers for an internet company). It can take “days” to get those things right. Now I read you can study computer gaming as part of a degree – we had to pretend…
-
When I wrote up my masters thesis (a long time ago) I had a JRR Tolkien calendar on the wall. The picture for the hardest and darkest month was of Frodo and Sam at the top of the cliff in the dark wondering how to get down. Recently I’ve found Dave Pritchard’s Lord of the…
-
Ted Peters raises some good questions about stem cell research and Christian bioethics in his brief editorial on the CTNS (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences) web site: CTNS–Embryos from Stem Cells?. Poses a few questions for those who follow the Augustinian view of linking the transmission of original sin with the sexual reproductive…
-
I’m giving a lecture on science, technology and faith in the contemporary world at BCNZ in a few weeks time and I’ve added the bibliography I’m giving to the class to the web site. Like all these things it started off small and grew (and is still very incomplete) – hence the “Quick Start” section…
-
I was looking for information on stem cells today for some lectures on Christian anthropology (including bioethics) and found that Guardian Unlimited had the following special section on this and other things running today. Guardian Unlimited Special report: ethics of genetics Damaris International also has a brief study guide for a house group type discussion…