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"New Perspectives from Science on Human Origins: Three Challenges for Christian Theology", Fellowship Conference

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Saturday, March 10th 2018, 5:00pm
"New Perspectives from Science on Human Origins: Three Challenges for Christian Theology", Fellowship Conference Over the past decade, scientific and technical advances have transformed our understanding of human evolution. Paleogenomics (the recovery, sequencing, and analysis of genomic DNA from ancient individuals) provides powerful tools for retracing the steps of our evolutionary past. Newly discovered species such as Homo naledi point to multiple hominin lineages living simultaneously. New findings and advanced analysis of tools and cultural artefacts from Neandertals and other early...
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Honoring Francisco J. Ayala

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Thursday, February 16th 2017, 4:00pm
CTNS Naming Event and Reception: Honoring Francisco J. Ayala Free and open to the public. Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Library
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 Russell Family Research Fellowship in Religion and Science

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Tuesday, March 7th 2017, 5:00pm
 Russell Family Research Fellowship in Religion and Science Center for Jewish Studies (CJS) Event with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, "Jewish Environmentalism: Faith, Scholarship, and Activism" Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union What is Jewish environmentalism? Has the Bible contributed to our current ecological crisis? This lecture will present some of the major aspects of the Jewish environmental movement as well as the opportunities it provides for new modes of Jewish expression. Join us as we explore the distinctive contribution of Jewish environmentalism to the field of religion...
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CTNS Public Forum with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, "Judaism and the Science-and-Religion Dialogue: A Personal Journey "

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Wednesday, March 8th 2017, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, "Judaism and the Science-and-Religion Dialogue: A Personal Journey " Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union How did a secular, Zionist woman born in a kibbutz in Israel become involved in the field of science and religion? While telling a unique personal story, Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson will reflect on the place of science in Jewish history, the diverse perceptions of science in modern Judaism, and the limited interest of Jews in the science and religion and dialogue. Dr. Tirosh-Samuelson will argue that engaging the field of science and...
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Russell Family Research Conference with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, "In Pursuit of Perfection: The Misguided Transhumanist Vision "

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Thursday, March 9th 2017, 5:00pm
Russell Family Research Conference with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, "In Pursuit of Perfection: The Misguided Transhumanist Vision " Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Transhumanism is a secular ideology that invests technology with spiritual meaning. Presenting transhumanism as a pursuit for perfection of the human species, the lecture highlights the innate ambiguity of transhumanist discourse which treats perfection both as a stadial process of self-improvement as well as an end state of the process: the emergence of the posthuman species. The lecture highlights the main themes of...
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CTNS Public Forum with Celia Deane-Drummond

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Wednesday, May 23rd 2018, 7:00pm
Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 7pm CTNS Public Forum with Celia Deane-Drummond Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union This lecture contributes a theological perspective to recent heated public debates in psychology on the rejection of empathy as of key significance in the moral life. In dialogue with philosopher Martha Nussbaum, Professor Deane-Drummond explores recent analysis of the deep history of the evolution of compassion in early hominins. She also argues for the importance of charity, understood in the classic, Thomistic, sense, as holding a central place for mercy and its...
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CTNS Student Showcase

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Thursday, September 28th 2017, 7:00pm
CTNS Student Showcase Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union To kick off the 2017-2018 school year CTNS will give a sampling of the kinds of science and religion research being done at the GTU by doctoral students. Speakers: Austin Eikenberry, Ki Wook Min and Robert Russell (for our recent graduate Hun Cho Yu) Austin Eikenberry, The Temporality of Creation and the Eternality of God The intersection of temporality and eternality has been a fundamental question of Christian theology almost from its earliest inception. Rooted in the ancient Greek...
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Pacific Coast Theological Society Fall Meeting: Theology, Transhumanism, and Artificial Intelligence

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Friday, November 3rd 2017, 12:00am
Pacific Coast Theological Society Fall Meeting: Theology, Transhumanism, and Artificial Intelligence Papers from Brian Green, Levi Checketts, Arvin Gouw, Braden Molhoek Public Lecture by Mark Graves Classroom B, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA Papers are expected to be read ahead of time. Registration Required. For more information, visit the meeting's website http://www.pcts.org/meetings/2017/Fall.html
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Science and Religion Hospitality Event at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion

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Saturday, November 18th 2017, 7:00pm
Saturday, November 18, 2017, 7-10pm Science and Religion Hospitality Event at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion For those attending the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2017 Annual Meeting, please join CTNS, along with Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS, www.zygoncenter.org), the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR-http://www.issr.org.uk/), the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR - www.ibcsr.org), and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS - www.iras.org) for refreshments and a brief presentation. St....
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"Exploring the Convergence of Science and Religion: Following in the Footsteps of Charlie Townes."

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Wednesday, July 6th 2016, 9:00am
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 9am "Exploring the Convergence of Science and Religion: Following in the Footsteps of Charlie Townes." First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way Berkeley, CA 94704 On Wednesday July 6 First Congregational Church of Berkeley (FCCB) member Robert Russell will present three lectures on "Exploring the Convergence of Science and Religion: Following in the Footsteps of Charlie Townes." This morning lecture series will be a special repeat consolidating three FCCB Learning Hours offered in the fall of 2015. In 1966, Charlie Townes published a...
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CTNS Student Showcase

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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Student Showcase To kick off the 2016-2017 school year CTNS will give a sampling of the kinds of science and religion research being done at the GTU by doctoral students. Speakers: Alan Weissenbacher, Sungho Lee, Braden Molhoek, and Robert Russell (on Adam Pryor's work) Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Alan Weissenbacher, “Practical Neuroscience for the Pews” Sungho Lee, “Radical Relationship: The Trinity, Humans, and Non-humans” Braden Molhoek, “Original Righteousness Contributes to the Inevitability of Sin?” Robert Russell,...
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PLTS Founders' Day

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Thursday, September 15th 2016, 9:30am
Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 9am-3:30pm PLTS Founders' Day Keynote: Ted Peters and Pamela Gay: "Space Studies and New Theology: God out of the Box" The afternoon panel discussion will address the question: "Why is understanding science important in Christian ministry?" Panelists include: Robert Russell, Lisa Fullam, Daniel Smith and Isai Garcia.  
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CTNS Faculty

Dr. Braden Molhoek

Dr. Braden Molhoek has a B.A. in Genetics and Religion from Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.T.S from Boston University School of Theology, a Certificate in Science and Religion (Bioethics Track) from the Boston Theological Institute, and a Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union. He is currently a Program Associate at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and an Adjunct Professor of Science and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union. His dissertation entitled “Reinhold Niebuhr’s Theological Anthropology in Light of Evolutionary Biology: Science...
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Dr. Joshua M Moritz

Dr. Joshua M. Moritz teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco, theology at the Jesuit Graduate School of Theology at Santa Clara University, and theology and science at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He is Managing Editor of the journal Theology and Science and he has authored numerous books and articles, including Science and Religion: Beyond Warfare and Toward Understanding (Anselm Academic, 2016).
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CTNS Faculty Showcase

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Sunday, November 6th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Faculty Showcase A sampling of theology and science research by faculty from around the GTU. Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Ted Peters, “Astrotheology: Making New Neighbors in Outer Space” Rita Sherma, “Mindfulness, Contemplative Practice and Neurobiology” Lisa Fullam, “AAAS at JST-SCU: Transforming the Theological Curriculum”
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Science and Religion Hospitality Event

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Wednesday, November 16th 2016, 7:00pm
Science and Religion Hospitality Event For those attending the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 2016 Annual Meeting, (registration required) please join CTNS, along with the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR - www.ibcsr.org), Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS, www.zygoncenter.org) and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS - www.iras.org) for refreshments and a brief presentation.   Live Oak Room, Hill Country Level, Hyatt Regency San Antonio, 123 Losoya Street, San Antonio, TX
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April 23-25, 2015 J.K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Noreen Herzfeld: More than Information: A Christian Critique of a New Dualism

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Saturday, April 23rd 2016, 5:00pm
April 23-25, 2015 J.K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Noreen Herzfeld: More than Information: A Christian Critique of a New Dualism Thursday, April 23, 2015, 7pm CTNS Public Forum with Noreen Herzfeld, "Who is My Neighbor? A Personal Journey" Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Years ago, as a new professor in computer science, teaching artificial intelligence raised a lot of questions in my mind. Why do we want to create AI? How would we treat such a thing, should we be successful? Do we image ourselves in the computer the same...
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CTNS Public Forum with Noreen Herzfeld, "Who is My Neighbor? A Personal Journey"

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Tuesday, April 23rd 2019, 5:00pm
CTNS Public Forum with Noreen Herzfeld, "Who is My Neighbor? A Personal Journey" Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Years ago, as a new professor in computer science, teaching artificial intelligence raised a lot of questions in my mind. Why do we want to create AI? How would we treat such a thing, should we be successful? Do we image ourselves in the computer the same way God imaged God's self in us? Over the ensuing years these questions led me on a spiritual journey from St. John's University to the GTU and further afield to the Faculty for...
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J.K. Russell Research Conference with Noreen Herzfeld, More than Information: A Christian Critique of a New Dualism "

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Thursday, April 25th 2019, 1:00pm
J.K. Russell Research Conference with Noreen Herzfeld, More than Information: A Christian Critique of a New Dualism " Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union In light of quantum theory and advances in computer science many scientists have posited that information, rather than matter, forms the bedrock of the universe. Thus it follows that the essence of our selves as human beings is the information housed in the neural connections of our brain, information that, in principle, could be reproduced digitally. Such a "cybernetic immortality" forms one of the bases of a new transhumanist...