Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science, Technology & Religion
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A reflection on science and religion by by Gordon Atkinson at The Christian Century: The lion and the lamb.
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Brief article at Science & Theology News – A cyborg explores what it means to be human looking at whether things like cochlear implants threaten humanness and personhood. Includes comments from Michael Chorost (see Greenflame: Hi, I’m Bionic) and Anne Foerst (Greenflame: God In The Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity And God).
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Radio documentary from Radio Netherlands that was broadcast in the “Windows on the World” slot on National Radio last night. There’s a Real Audio stream on the following page RNW: Man and machine, part 1. Here’s the blurb from that page, From the myth of Pygmalion down to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to films such as…
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The latest issue of Dialag, a Lutheran theological journal, has a collection of articles on technology and the human being in it’s latest issue. And that issue is now their current sample issue – it wasn’t a week or two back when I was getting ready to interloan it – with PDFs of the articles…
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Just finished re-reading this paper as I tidy some things up. Rosenfeld, Azriel. “Religion and the Robot: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Religious Anthropologies.” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought 8 (1966): 15-26. It’s forty years old, written when AI hype was greater than today, but it still raises some good questions. For example, “What…
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I’m off to pester the interloan people at the uni library. The uni has a subscription to the journal but only electronically and there’s a 12 month embargo on electronic copy. (So much for the digital technology making it easier for people). Anyway here’s the link to the contents page: Blackwell Synergy: Dialog, Vol 44,…
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I’ve been reading bits from Gregory Peterson’s Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences today. It’s very readable and covers a range of interesting things – from human dignity, ethical considerations towards other creatures, intelligent design and artificial intelligence. You can find a review of it here: Science & Theology News – Peterson’s scope and…
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PBS run an article on evangelicals reexamining their relationship with the environment over at Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER STORY . Evangelicals and the Environment . January 13, 2006 | PBS. Related links: Jim Ball, “The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis”, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith…
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From the recent essay Metanexus Institute – Evolution and Intelligent Design by Sjoerd L. Bonting: The basic fallacy of the ID proponents is that they fail to distinguish between the questions that can and should be answered by science (how-questions) and by theology (why-questions). If scientists would have to conclude that certain complex systems cannot…
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Looking to get some insight into what transhumanism is? Have a look at JET 14(1) – April 2005 – Bostrom – A History of Transhumanist Thought. Nick Bostrom sketches an overview of transhumanism (from the point of view of a transhumanist) in a fairly easy to read paper. The final section is interesting too with…