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The word ‘teleology’ (from Greek τελος ‘telos’ – meaning ‘goal’, ‘end’, ‘purpose’ or ‘that toward which things tend’) is not a street-level term. However, the concept of a purpose, goal, function or ‘end’ to things most certainly is. It’s a common as anything. Teleology is blindingly relevant. . . . → Read More: teleology & ethics  31 comments  ethics, philosophy  abortion, advertising, art, belief, busyness, change, community, conflict, consumerism, creation, dignity, ethics, evil, god, humanity, Law, life, love, morals, order, pain, peace, philosophy, politics, relationships, science, sexuality, spirituality, technology, wisdom Ryan Browning joins the NZ blogosphere – and it’s not long ’till he has a post about evolution What Genesis 1-3 is not: a play-by-play, atom-by-atom historical and scientific account of creation. The author/community which produced the text clearly had other things in mind than producing such a thing.* This is widely accepted by people who should know: scholars in fields relevant to Genesis 1-3 (biblical scholars, ancient near east religion scholars, hebrew linguists, experts on ancient semetic . . . → Read More: on reading genesis 1-3 Mark your calendars and register! TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences Aotearoa) presents: The Theological Meaning of Evolution Conference to celebrate and interact with Darwin. Thursday June 25th at 7pm to Saturday June 27th at 6pm Key Note Speaker: Dr. Christopher Southgate, author of The Groaning of Creation University of . . . → Read More: evolution conference: june 25-27 Whether or not one agrees with Gould’s famous dictum that Religion and Science are Non-Overlapping Magisteria, it occurs to me that unless a given Religion says absolutely nothing at all about the things which Science also investigates, then at least they will be related. A far better question, of course, is how they might be related. Over at xenos theology, Jonathan Robinson draws out attention to: 5 ebooks on evolution and Christian belief – summing up 2 years of blogging/commenting at this blog (see links to ebooks on right side-bar). and… this book review of this book: The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth by Davis A. Young and Ralph . . . → Read More: books on evolution and earth age The 2009 Gifford Lectures, “A Fine-Tuned Universe: Science, Theology and the Quest for Meaning”, presented by Alister McGrath, are all up online in PDF format. Lecture 1: Yearning to make sense of things - 2009 Gifford Lecture 1.pdf Lecture 2: Why we still need natural theology – 2009 Gifford Lecture 2.pdf Lecture 3: The mystery of the constants of nature – 2009 . . . → Read More: 2009 gifford lectures miscellaneous thoughts… if the time we spend is to be at all worthwhile, we need to accept that words matter enough to use them and work at our use of them (some key words in science/faith include: ‘knowledge’, ‘evidence’, ‘explanation’, ‘natural’, ‘reality’, etc). it occurs to me that aiming for mutual understanding is infinitely more helpful than aiming to ‘win’. . . . → Read More: on science/faith blogging… There are at least two kinds of ‘value’ – a) the kind science can measure, and b) the kind that science cannot. . . . → Read More: measuring value The term ‘teleology’ comes from the Greek term ‘telos’, meaning a ‘goal’, an ‘end’, or that toward which a thing tends. We often skip over or assume (or ignore?) the notion of teleology. But without it, we cannot say that something is ‘wrong’ with anything. We cannot speak of anything functioning ‘poorly’ or ‘well’, or of somthing having been ‘poorly’ . . . → Read More: teleology and stuff |
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