Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: Science, Technology & Religion

  • Society and Technological Change

    From Rudi Volti’s book on technological society that I was skimming through today, Distrust flourishes when people have no ability to participate in decisions that shape their lives, and the inability to affect the course of technological change can produce a mixture of naïve hope and paranoid reaction. A realistic sense of control, including a…

  • New ATF books on the shelf

    Picked up a couple of volumes from ATF Press last week that I had been meaning to get for a while. The one on determinism and reductionism has some essays that will intersect with my research. Being the collector that I am I had to restrain myself from picking up several other (but less immediately…

  • Arizona State University gets grant to study transhumanism

    ASU picked up a half-million dollar grant from the Metanexus Institute to look at the “the challenges posed to humanity by new advances in the life sciences, technology, and the neurosciences” in a new project “Facing the Challenges of Transhumanism: Religion, Science, and Technology”. The project is based at the Center for the Study of…

  • Science & Theology News – Ecology

    Science and Theology News has a collation of articles relating to ecology and religion available in a new mini-portal at Science & Theology News – Ecology. This includes the 2001 article “Ted Peters Reflects on Making the World a Better Place” which is of interest for me at the moment as I work through ideas…

  • Food, aid and genetic modification

    Ben Myers on his posting Faith and Theology: Theology and GM foods has a link through to an interesting Science & Spirit article on religious debate (or lack thereof) over genetic modification foodstuffs. The article is at Science & Spirit: God and the New Foodstuffs. The article makes some good points and highlights some of…

  • What would Jesus say about human enhancement?

    Two different perspectives on human enhancement at: BetterHumans.com : George : What would Jesus say about human enhancement? and The Pursuit of Enhancement – Christianity Today Magazine.

  • Science, Theology and Pop Culture

    There’s a collection links to articles on science, theology and pop culture over at Science & Theology News – Pop Culture. It’s not a big selection but each of the articles has further links to other things. Mostly related to cinema and television with a couple of books thrown in too.

  • More science-religion stuff

    Link here to a recent Reuters article on an approach by US clergy to science and religion that differs from the intelligent design/creationism-type approaches. See US Scientists enlist clergy in evolution battle.

  • Science and the soul

    A recent defense of a dualist view of human nature by philosopher Richard Swinburne over at Science & Theology News – Science and the soul. For a physicalist view – that the body is all there is – see Science & Theology News – Whole people don’t need souls says theologian.

  • Science and faith and “Lost”

    Science and Theology News has an article commenting on the tension between different world views – primarily science and faith – in the TV show “Lost”. Main conclusion is that this tension is played up, rather than looking at how different views can complement or assist each other. Also the quest for meaning is a…