Last Friday, I heard an excellent talk by Dr Michael Burdett of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, on the subject of bio-enhancement and transhumanism. Bio-enhancement is the use of technology – typically medical – to move someone beyond health to ‘superior’ performance (including, for example, athletes using performance-enhancing drugs). Because such technologies are typically used to gain […]
Animal Sentience
I am writing this on Animal Welfare Sunday 2016. It seems a good time to look at the science and animal sentience and consider how this fits with a Christian theology of creation. Do animals think and feel? Do they have souls? Some people might suggest that these are childish questions, along the lines of, […]
Does science reach to the future while religion looks to the past?
In a recent blog posted on the Huffington Post web site (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connor-wood/do-science-and-religion-c_b_9829960.html), blogger Connor Wood suggests that the recent increase in what might be termed ‘tribalist’ violence is the result of people losing a sense of connection with their past. Wood also states that, in Western societies, science has become a source of moral authority […]
