Category Archives: Image of God

Transhumanism and enhancement, with a splash of culture

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

Last Monday night I attended a session of the Zygon Center’s Advanced Seminar in Religion and Science. I try to attend as often as I can, but my teaching schedule unfortunately limits it to a seminar here and there (which, … Continue reading →

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The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… Part 2: Nature and God-talk

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

How should humans understand their relation to nature?  Are we or are we not a part of that nature?  How should our understanding of this relationship influence our behavior in the world?  How does God relate to the world?  What … Continue reading →

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The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… Part 2: Nature

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

The last couple of weeks I have been posting on Phil Hefner’s outstanding, but demanding book, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion.  In the first post, I asked what sounds like a simple question: how do you define God? This … Continue reading →

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The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… Part 1: the theory of the “created co-creator”

Posted on January 11, 2011 by

Last week, I began a series on Phil Hefner’s interesting but demanding book, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion.  In the introductory post , I discussed the aim and scope of the book: who we are as humans and what … Continue reading →

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The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion… an Introduction

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

After posting briefly about how I was enjoying Phil Hefner’s The Human Factor, I decided the book was well worthy of a handful of posts. This book, fully titled The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, Religion, was published in 1993 and … Continue reading →

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Conjoined twins and what it means to be human

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

I just came across this article (link below) via Ed Yong on Twitter (@edyong209) about Tatiana and Krista Hogan, two conjoined twins who, if that’s not unique enough, actually share a bridge across their thalamus, a part of the brain … Continue reading →

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Frans de Waal for “sanity” in science and religion

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

Just saw this blog post on Irtiqa, a great science and religion blog.  Quite interesting in light of my hour old blog post on models for the interaction of science and religion.  It is also relevant because it is a … Continue reading →

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Morals without God (Frans de Waal, NY Times)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

I just got done reading a wonderful article by Frans de Waal, the noted primatologist who works on social behavior.  In it, he makes the common argument that we are not all that unique from other animals (as always, I … Continue reading →

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God’s interaction with nature pre-humans?

Posted on October 9, 2010 by

Estimates put the age of the universe at 15 billion years, the age of the earth at 4.5 billion years, and the time that humans have been around for a few hundred thousand years.  These large time periods are difficult … Continue reading →

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Sin or the idea of sin?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

As always, let me preface this blog post by saying that it’s me thinking aloud.  I haven’t come to any conclusions in this matter, but some of my recent reading has got to me thinking about “sin”, or perhaps better … Continue reading →

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