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The Creativity of God 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Luis Brito, http://www.sxc.hu My theologically trained colleagues tell me that the Hebrew Scriptures are very concrete in their use of language. It’s not surprising, then, that a rather abstract conc...
Why we are not computers: The case of memory 15 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
Brain coral, Ben Stoate, http://www.sxc.hu Ray Kurzweil, futurist, author, and director of engineering at Google, has ambitious plans to create computer copies of human brains by 2045. He teame...
Creative lives 8 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Mandie LeScum, http://www.sxc.hu Do scientists and ‘creatives’ have more in common that they think? I recently interviewed Dr Ruth Hogg, a vision scientist at Queen’s University, Belfast (part 1 here...
Ordained Scientists 1 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
abcdz2000, http://www.sxc.hu I recently spent a few days with 50 clergy whose first career was in science. The path from science to the church is a well-worn one, and the Society of Ordained Scientis...
Creative Science 25 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
OCT, Dept of Med. Physics, Med. Univ. Vienna, 2004 When I started working on creativity I wasn’t sure how many people would share my view that science is a very creative activity so I approached Dr R...
The Vocation of Robert Boyle 18 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
http://www.sxc.hu Robert Boyle was a great experimental scientist, still famous for his ‘law’ about the behaviour of gases, and yet he wrote as much about theology as he did about science. Boyle was ...
What makes us creative? 11 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Chris Greene, http://www.sxc.hu We value creativity very highly – in science and every other area of life – but what makes a person creative? Creativity is not correlated to the much-contested score ...
Mountaintops 4 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Climbing mountains brings perspective. Looking down from the top of a high peak, you can see the whole of the surrounding area laid out like a map. You can plan where you want to go next, or maybe eve...
Science, Faith and Creativity 26 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
Flavio Takemoto, http://www.sxc.hu Scientists are creative people. When I began to work on this project I spoke to a number of Christians working in science about what they thought were the most posi...
The Future of Life on Earth 20 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
The Christian church is not always the first place environmentalists run to when faced with a potentially global catastrophe. Nevertheless, Christian theology provides a sound basis for caring for the...
