Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science, Technology & Religion
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Last month Metanexus held their annual science and religion conference on the theme of “Continuity and Change“. Abstracts and full papers from the conference are available online from the web site. One paper I look forward to reading is More than Human: Religion, Bioethics, and the Transhuman Prospect by Ronald Cole-Turner. If I look sideways…
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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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Science & Theology News – The Daily Dose: Science blessed by Pope points to Vatican’s ongoing openness to engagement with science. There’s a link there to the original Boston Globe news article, plus adding some comments on it.
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A short, but interesting, interview (text and video) with Francis Collins (Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health and Author, THE LANGUAGE OF GOD) at Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . DR. FRANCIS COLLINS . July 21, 2006 | PBS.
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Recent Science and Theology News article looking at Jewish interaction with reproductive technologies. See Science & Theology News – Be fruitful and multiply.
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Working on refining the thesis section that notes people who have used the idea of co-creation independently of Philip Hefner’s work. Here’s a quote from Arthur Peacocke on co-creation which he frames within the topic of humanity, creation and concern for the environment: to be co-creator with the ‘living God’ who always actualizes in his…
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Article I missed when it came out a few months back, but directly connected to the thesis edits for next week. See Science & Theology News – I, robot? Ethical considerations of cyborgs Crittenden said cyborgs may provoke humanity to engage in what he calls “self-deselection†— the idea that in replacing parts of our…
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This happened a while back but the site still has audio, presentations and papers for download. See TransVision 2004 : Faith, Transhumanism and Hope Symposium.
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Science and Theology New have been running articles recently about biotechnology and its interaction with religion. There are a couple of interesting ones I’ve seen in the print edition that haven’t made it on to the web site yet, but this one is there now. Science & Theology News – God’s genetically modified image
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I’ve been looking at various ways in which people have appropriated Hefner’s metaphor of the ‘created co-creator’ and today I was following up a paper by Anne Kull (University of Tartu, Estonia) that drew parallels between the concept of the cyborg articulated by Donna Haraway and the dual-natures of Christ found in the Incarnation. Kull…