Greenflame

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

Category: Science, Technology & Religion

  • Impossible Choices?

    Currently reading Ronald Cole-Turner’s survey paper “Design and Destiny: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Human Germline Modification” prepared for “Science and Religion: Global Perspectives”, June 4-8, 2005, in Philadelphia and available here. It’s got some stuff in it on “preimplantation genetic diagnosis”, which starts with IVF but incorporates genetic testing of the embyro(s) prior to…

  • Excess Embryos

    From Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly a story about the implications of the excess embryos produced in by technological processes such as IVF. There’s both a link to the video clip of the story as well as the transcript of the clip. See Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER STORY . Excess Embryos . July 4,…

  • Give an organ, get an organ

    From Science & Theology News : Give an organ, get an organ. Stephen Giles, a Canadian social worker, thinks people who volunteer to be potential organ donors should be placed high on the waiting list if they are ever in need of an organ.

  • Springs of Living Water

    The print edition of Reality Magazine may now be defunct but some articles from the last issue have been put online, including an interesting article on God, nature and Christian engagement with the environment. See: Reality. Issue 69: Springs of Living Water, by Nicola Hoggard Creegan, In Christianity today one of our problems is that…

  • Customized kids may be the wave of the future

    Interview by Heather J. Smith with Christian bioethicist Ronald Cole-Turner on the ethics of designer babies. See: Science & Theology News : Customized kids may be the wave of the future. (Smith)How might this impact human nature? (Cole-Turner)It’s widely said that human germline modification would be a violation of human dignity. I challenge: If you…

  • The Biology of Belief

    Paul said (grumped?) that he’d been looking for the D’Aquili and Newberg book but couldn’t find it on sale. So to make his day happier here’s a link to Metanexus’ collection of articles by Andrew Newberg. Andrew Newburg mini-bio here.

  • Good selection of science-religion links

    Science and Theology news has a good selection of links this week covering stem cells, cloning, artificial consciousness and a great article about Sister William Julie Hurley. See: Science & Theology News : The Daily Dose: June 17, 2005

  • Snowflakes and embryos

    Article on “embryo adoption” (“or “embryo donation” in some circles), the practice of couples (often conservative Christians) adopting frozen embryos left over from fertility treatments. See: Stem cell opponents enter fertility crusade – Health & Science – International Herald Tribune.

  • Metanexus Visual Explorations : Earth’s City Lights

    Metanexus Institute – Visual Explorations : Earth’s City Lights. This image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth’s surface.

  • Philip Hefner, the created co-creator and me

    Slogging through understanding, appropriating and then adapting Philip Hefner’s metaphor as human beings as created co-creators into something of my own to apply to my research field (Christian anthropology, the imago Dei and emergent digital and transhuman technology). Figured I’d whack a summary out here so then when people ask me what I’m referring to…