Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science, Technology & Religion
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The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley has just released a report based on a survey of different religious (& non-religious) groups responding to whether extra-terrestrial intelligence would precipitate a crisis in their respective traditions. The general consensus from religious groups tended to assert there wouldn’t be, while non-religious groups thought there…
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Microclesia alerted me to the death this week of John Templeton, who has been hugely influential in the funding and support of science and religion discussion and dialogue. Scientific American carries an article on him over at John Templeton, Philanthropist of Science and Religion, Dead at 95: Scientific American. Related links: John Templeton Foundation :…
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Interesting series of quotes about what it means to be human from various scientists over at What Does It Mean to Be Human? | Wired Science from Wired.com. Often our attempts to define this tend to be linked to particular understandings of the essential core that defines human beings, sometimes called the locus humanus. Typically,…
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Hat tip to James at Exploring Our Matrix for a link through to an extensive interview How Our Brains are Wired for Belief with Andrew Newberg (hosted by the Pew Forum) on religion and neuroscience (neurotheology). He also notes this link to various related articles by Newberg and others. See also Greenflame · Search results…
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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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Love to share is a downloadable resource from the World Council of Churches that aims to give some direction and guidelines for churches when considering intellectual property rights and copyright and looking at alternatives to the current situation. At some point I’d like to have some students theologically investigate these ideas so I’ll be downloading…
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An interesting post about a set of interviews with US scientists about religious and spiritual beliefs and practices. Part of a follow-up to a larger survey and indicate that religious/spiritual inclination might be much higher than is commonly portrayed in a science vs. religion conflict model. See The Immanent Frame » Blog Archive » Beyond…
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The website Edge: The Third Culture recently asked the question “WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?” to a range of commentators. Martin Rees (President, The Royal Society; Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics; Master, Trinity College, University of Cambridge) responded with interesting short piece – We Should Take the ‘Posthuman’ Era Seriously. You can also…
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Firstly, a short summary piece from PBS Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly on recent developments in biotechnology and whether they change the ethical landscape. See Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PERSPECTIVES . Bioethics Update . January 25, 2008 | PBS And secondly, Rod Benson (who produces the weekly summary RELIGION & ETHICS AUSTRALIA) also has a…
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Mary over at Tensegrities points to this visually engaging project – Chris Harrison – Visualizing the Bible.