Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science, Technology & Religion
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From the technology section of Adbusters The Big Ideas 2005 comes the article Adbusters : Make peace with your biology. Lots of interesting quotes like, What do you lose when your life becomes more valuable than any other life in history? When your death is something you can’t accept? When pain makes you cower in…
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Picked up a flyer yesterday for Creation, Crisis and Conservation : A Christian response to a suffering planet, a conference here in Auckland in two weeks time (18-20 Feb). I probably won’t be able to go to it but here’s the link if you want to find out more. www.creationcare.org.nz The web site isn’t great…
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Came across this article today as part of my pulling stuff together for my “Hacking as Theology” paper I’m working on at the moment. Sociology of Religion: May the Force of the Operating System be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion (From Sociology of Religion, Summer, 2001 by Pui-Yan Lam) As practice, identity, and…
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If you’re looking to investigate the relationships between science and religion in general you’d be hard pressed to go past the book God for the 21st Century. The library managed to interloan me a copy from the Christchurch public library so I’ve been skimming through it. It’s a collection of 50 short opinion pieces and…
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From the Visual Explorations section of Metanexus is a movie entitled “Motion” with a series of images of nature in motion in Iceland. Part of their ongoing series based on art being a bridge between science and religion. The comment that “beautiful images from the sciences can also transform our vision of ourselves and the…
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Wish I’d been there. Sounds fascinating. Science & Theology News – News: Sci-fi conference removes fiction from fact.
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Something I was thinking about the other day. With all the heated discussion on embryonic stem cell use what about stem cells that can be gathered and cultured from adults? This article starts to answer my question. Science & Theology News – News: Focus on embryos neglects adult cell possibilities There’s line in there that…
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A brief editorial pondering the US debates over origins, separation of church and state, and spiritual question asking in schools. Science & Theology News – Editorial: Questions we cannot ask. It raises a good point – where are the safe places for people to ask questions about faith, science and other stuff?
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Ordered God In The Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity And God today. Always good to find a book directly related to your thesis topic. Hollywood to the halls of NASA, robots loom large in the popular imagination. But what feelings do these lifelike machines really provoke in us? In God in the Machine,…
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How odd. Somehow I never thought I’d come across Rick Warren while reading a science and religion editorial. See: Science & Theology News – Editorial: The universe, and our lives, on purpose. So far the most surprising thing today.