Summary of the Toms River Interfaith Stem Cell Panel

Some Notes on Islam and Science

Class Notes

• Re-Imaging the Trinity
• The Science of God ...
  1. Genesis and the Big Bang
  2. Genesis and the Evolution of Life
  3. Genesis and Free Will
  4. Genesis and Why Bad Things Happen
• God is still speaking to us ...
  1. in Evolution
  2. in Stem Cell Research
  3. in the Internet
• Applying Relational Theology
  1. What if Jesus were married?
  2. Is Satan Real?
  3. Is there Original Sin?
  4. Is the Resurrection real?
• Christianity and Ecology: Re-Enchanting Nature
• Tolkien's Ring: The Magnification of Power by Technology
• Technology and Redemptive Violence
• Cosmic End Times: The Future of the Universe
• The Scientific Basis of Miracles?
• The Spiritual Impact of Science
  1. Agreeing to Disagree: Is the liberal, scientific worldview spiritually bankrupted?
  2. Effectively Disagreeing: Can the liberal, scientific worldview be spiritually nurturing?
  3. Agreeing to Agree: Can the liberal, scientific worldview and religious worldviews enrich each other?
• Faith and Medicine
• Altruism: The Scientific Basis
• The Religious Impact of the New Biology
  1. Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief
  2. The Human Genome: Can We Create Ourselves?
  3. The Promise of Stem Cell Research: Life or Death?
• The Religious Response To The Social Impact of Science and Technology
  1. Social Teleology & Religious (Christian) Response to Technological Change
  2. Towards Cyborgism: Body and Machine
  3. Changing Sacred Cosmos
  4. Telecosm: Communication & Information
• What is a person?
• Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life & the Theological Implications
• The Mind of God
• The Nature of Nature
  • Holoprocess: The Holographic Universe and Process
  • Biological Exuberance
  • On the Moral Nature of the Universe
• Does A Clone Have A Soul?
• On Time
• Where Is Eternity?
• God and Computers:
  1. Y2K and the End of the World
  2. God and the Internet
  3. Virtual Reality;Virtual God
  4. Artificial Intelligence: Alien and Alive!!!
• Genesis, Creationism, and Evolution: Does God Play At Dice?
• Intelligent Design: Creationism or a Third Way?
• Is God Evolving?

Reading List on Religion & Science