Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science, Technology & Religion
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Beyond Paley: Renewing the Vision for Natural Theology is an interdisciplinary event being held at the University Museum, Oxford in June. The line up of speakers looks engaging, but given my chances of actually getting there as very slim (as in non-existent) I’ll wait for the downloads from the web site. Related links from the…
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Interesting article by Real Live Preacher over at Christian Century on the enquiring mind and faith. Some people see the boundary between mystery and science as a battleground with barbed wire and trenches on either side. But I think that the place where our searching and empirical minds meet the mysteries of the world is…
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Interesting articles that popped up on young-earth ‘creationist’ geology, and the problems it causes, not for secular geologists, but rather for old-earth Christian geologists. Original NYT article at: Rock of Ages, Ages of Rock by Hanna Rosin (Nov 25, 2007). (Login needed). Commentary on the article here at Young Earth Creationism Makes Life Difficult for…
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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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Related to the post a couple of days ago, here’s an article about religious orders using the Internet to attract people into a religious vocation. See Monasteries enter the Internet Age – New Zealand’s source for technology news on Stuff.co.nz
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Well, obviously I think the answer is yes 🙂 Anyway, that’s the title that the editors of sPanz (the quarterly magazine of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa-New Zealand) put on the editorial I wrote for this quarter’s issue. You can read it at Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand // Media: Should we have a…
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ABC radio programme The Spirit of Things – 26August2007 – Space, Genes, Evolution and Religion interviews four thinkers in the area of science and religion: Ted Peters, Martinez Hewlett, Antje Jackelen and Jacques Arnould. It’s a fairly low key engagement with the topic, but worth a listen (and the web page has links to both…
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A few years back I heard a sermon from a guest preacher that used the example of Jupiter’s presence in the solar system decreasing the number of comets etc. that might hit the Earth catastrophically as a ‘proof’ of the intelligent design (by God) of the solar system (and by implication the whole universe). (For…
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Melbourne newspaper “The Age” has this brief article on neuroscientists analyzing what the brain does when an person is altruistic – see Warm as charity: why giving feels good. Related links: Books and articles by Antonio Damasio including: “Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain” (Antonio Damasio) “Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the…
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New Perspectives In Science and Theology Conference will be held 27-28 July 2007 at the Bible College of New Zealand in Auckland. It’s being organized by TANSAA (Theology and the Natural Sciences in Aotearoa Auckland) and Tyndale-Carey Graduate School, and is a Metanexus initiative. The conference speakers cover a range of specialties: Physics & Origins…