Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Darwin
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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).
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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…
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Science & Religion Today highlights a recent article in Science that sketches some of the some of the potential dimensions that creationism might take in a Muslim context. Worth a look at if you’re interested in how religious perspectives on things like evolution might happen in a non-Christian religious context.
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With the 200th and 150th anniversaries in 2009 of the birth of Darwin and the publication of Origin of the Species respectively there are all sorts of things happening around the place to mark that. Here’s a couple coming up in Auckland in the first few months of next year. Charles Darwin celebrations – The…
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If you have an interest in science and religion or history you will probably be interested to know that Cambridge University has digitized and published on the internet its collection Darwin material (30,000 odd items and 90,000 images, as well as audio material). From the web site: This site contains Darwin’s complete publications, thousands of…
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A few recent Charles Darwin links. David Wollert, whom you may remember from Greenflame · Emergent systems & the church and Greenflame · Emergent systems & the church (revisited), has produced a documentary about Charles Darwin’s religious life. You can find it at: Blank Slate Studios – PARADISE LOST: The Religious Life of Charles Darwin…
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The stuff of Darwin Awards. See Good book drives doctor to distraction.
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Speaking of Faith (from American Public Media) has a very interesting podcast (and additional web content) on Charles Darwin and his relationship to religion. I listened to half of it this morning and it was intriguing. The relationship is far more complicated and nuanced that the oft-proclaimed Darwin vs. God conflict. See SOF: Evolution and…
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Yesterday I did my two (mini-)lectures for the bioethics block course at Carey. The first lecture “Theology and Science : where are we today?” looked at the current state of science and religion/theology interaction. Alerted by Jason I tracked down Time Magazine for 15 August with its cover story “Evolution Wars” (& related story “Face-Off:…
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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…