Zadok Perspectives - Issue 97, Summer 2007

The Geek shall inherit the earth?

Domestic science - Alison Sampson

We can't do without the environment- Peter Crabb
In the light of a United Nations summit on climate change re-emphaising the need for urgent action on a global scale, Peter Crabb reviews David Lindenmayer’s latest book “On Borrowed Time: Australia’s Environmental Crisis and what we must do about it.”:

Mars Settlement in imagination, science, ethics and theology - Jonathan Clarke
Mars is not only a frontier for exploration, science, adventure, and perhaps settlement, It is also a frontier where we will test the moral framework in which we will approach new worlds in the solar system.

Intelligent design in the cross-hairs - Thomas Woodward
A science that rules out, a priori, certain possibilities, is a dangerously constrained science. We cannot let science serve any religious system, whether theism or naturalism.

The arguement from design- David Young
…the idea of intelligent design tends to undermine science and is no help to religion.

Deforestation in Palestine - Richard Gijsbers
Is there a ‘God’s way’ of using, conserving and preserving forests that would resolve much of the argument that surrounds humans’ relations to forests today?

Neuroscience and Christian belief- Ron Chong
While current neurobiological inferences do not adequately explain sin as a mere description of evolutionary naturalism, it does demand a change in the Christian theological interpretation of the Fall…

Did Jesus exist? Meet the mythicist - Nigel Chapman
The subjective sphere is the meaningfully human; the objective is the reliably scientific. We reconcile them because neither are dispensable, and because our framework does not need to subjugate one to the other.

Science, atheism and belief- Mick Pope in interview with Alistair McGrath
I think my study of chemistry brought home to me that, for example, the history and philosophy of science was not as straightforward as a simplistic atheist reading of things might suggest.

BOOK & FILM REVIEWS

God is not great
The God delusion
The Goldilocks enigma: why is everything just right?
Three gates to Paradise
Women of the Gobi


 


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