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Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - Chinese(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewer; Ma, Chenghui, translatorHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access An interview with Holmes Rolston III - English(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Libenson, Sam, interviewer; Wong, Justin, interviewerHolmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature. Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here ‒ a wonderland. Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know. Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.Item Open Access Do general principles govern all science?(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Kuhn, Robert Lawrence, interviewer; The Kuhn Foundation; Getzels Gordon Productions, producerRobert Lawrence Kuhn interviews: Geoffrey West, physicist, Santa Fe Institute, on complex adaptive systems. Martin Rees, astrophysics, Cambridge University, on complex systems resulting from simple laws. Stuart Kauffman, theoretical biologist, Santa Fe Institute and University of Calgary, on super-critical complex systems, molecular and economic. Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, Colorado State University, on three Big Bangs: matter-energy, life, human mind, genesis of cognitive complexity, revealing a Logos in creation. (Rolston interview starts at 15 minutes, 20 seconds.) David Deutsch, physicist, Oxford University, on good explanations in general systems theory. Among the conclusions: As we get closer to truth, everything seems more interconnected. God is consistent with these general principles, but not required for them.Item Open Access Does aesthetic appreciation of nature need to be science-based?(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Stevens, Christopher, interviewer; University of Helsinki, producerScience-based aesthetic appreciation of nature can differ significantly from non-science-based appreciation, for example in understanding a volcanic eruption in Hawaii geologically or as the anger of the goddess Pelé. Non-scientific appreciation can be sometimes appropriate as with enjoying fall leaf colors, but even this is enriched by science. Environmental aesthetics and environmental ethics: from beauty to duty.Item Open Access Gifford Lectures revisited: reflections of seven Templeton laureates(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-06-01) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Burton, Simon, interviewer; Nolan/Lehr Group, Inc., producerNatural and cultural history on Earth is a cybernetic process, a creative generate-and-test process, resulting in our planetary wonderland of biodiversity. With the emergence of humans, endowed with unique cognitive faculties, including language and the transmission of ideas from mind to mind, this creative genesis occurs in novel and even more spectacular ways. Humans are the only species that reflects on where we are, who we are, and what we ought to do. Cybernetics generates caring, increasingly in sentient life. This cybernetic process is also cruciform. Life is suffering through to something higher. Life has its logos, its logic, its history; life has its pathos. Life is in prolific and pathetic. The fertility is close-coupled with the struggle. Biologists find life perpetually regenerated; theologians find life perpetually "redeemed." Both in the divine Logos once incarnate in Palestine and in the life incarnate on Earth for millennia before that: "Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it."Item Open Access Holmes and Jane Rolston: memories and recollections: part 1(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Rolston, Jane, interviewee; Rolston, David, interviewerMemories and recollections by Holmes Rolston III and his wife Jane Irving Wilson Rolston interviewed in their home, Fort Collins, Colorado, October 25, 2009, by David Rolston, a relative. Disk 1 covers Holmes' childhood Rockbridge Baths, Virginia; Jane's childhood, Richmond, Virginia; Holmes' youth, Charlotte NC; Holmes' education, Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary; Holmes' Graduate study, University of Edinburgh; Holmes' occupation as Pastor, Walnut Grove and High Point Presbyterian Churches, Bristol, Virginia; Holmes' Graduate study, Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.Item Open Access Holmes and Jane Rolston: memories and recollections: part 2(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Rolston, Jane, interviewee; Rolston, David, interviewerMemories and recollections by Holmes Rolston III and his wife Jane Irving Wilson Rolston interviewed in their home, Fort Collins, Colorado, October 25 2009, by David Rolston, a relative. Disk 2 covers Holmes' Rolston career as Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University, University Distinguished Professor; Rolston's books and publications, Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998; Templeton Prize, 2003; Intellectual Biography, Saving Creation, 2009.Item Open Access Holmes Rolston wins Templeton Prize(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Donahower, James, interviewer; Voice of America (Organization), producerThe winner of the $1 million-dollar Templeton Prize is a university professor credited with establishing the field of environmental ethics. Cathedrals are the treasures of Europe, but the national parks are the treasures of the United States. Most people want them on the landscape.Item Open Access If God exists, why natural evil?(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Kuhn, Robert Lawrence, interviewer; The Kuhn Foundation; Getzels Gordon Productions, producerHolmes Rolston interviewed by Robert Kuhn on Closer to Truth. Filmed at Helsingor, Denmark, 2011. If God exists, why is there so much suffering in the natural world? Because creativity is impossible without challenge that includes forms of suffering. You cannot achieve the rich genesis in evolutionary natural history without such challenge. Eyes, ears, teeth, legs, muscles evolve to search for food, to seek prey and to avoid predators. The struggle for adapted fit is struggling through to something higher. Biblical faith similarly finds creative suffering. The name Israel means "he who struggles with God," and God struggles to redeem Israel. Jesus lives in creative struggle to become God incarnate, and dies to redeem from sin. The creation is cruciform in that it necessarily requires life and death struggle. Light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it. The way of nature is the way of the cross.Item Open Access Living with nature: interview, Athens, Georgia(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1992) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; [AVP Film and Video Productions], producerInterview, held in Athens, Georgia on April 6, 1992, with Holmes Rolston discussing the following topics: values in nature, following nature, nature and culture, aesthetics in nature, concept of the sublime, wilderness, increasing environmental concern, government and business, sustainability, residence on landscapes, forests, environmental regulation.Item Open Access NTDTV interview(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-06-03) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Unidentified interviewerHolmes Rolston is interviewed by a reporter for NTDTV, New Tang Dynasty TV, about pollution from Formosa Plastics at How-May-Li wetland, Taiwan, on June 3, 2016. From NTDTV newscast.Item Open Access Rolston claims Templeton Prize (NPR)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Siegel, Robert, interviewer; National Public Radio (U.S.), producerInterview live on All Things Considered, NPR, by Robert Siegel in the afternoon of the morning New York Press Conference, announcing the 2003 Templeton Prize laureate. Rolston wins the 2003 Templeton Prize in Religion, a well known prize often said to be the equivalent in religion of the Nobel Prize. Rolston donates the prize, about $1.3 million, to endow a chair in science and religion at Davidson College. The interview is about 5 minutes.Item Open Access Rolston interview by Pascale Smeesters and Bau Dang Van(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-09-06) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Smeesters, Pascale, interviewer; Van,Bau Dang, interviewerRolston interview by Pascale Smeesters and Bau Dang Van on September 6, 2016, at Rolston's home. What is "nature"? Nature compared with culture. Does true "wilderness" exist? Humans respect a wonderland planet. Value in nature. Animals and plants value their own survival. Whatever values its own survival has a good of its own. Snakes, mosquitoes with a good of their own? Beauty in nature. Animal motions may show graceful form. Deer, impala in flight; hawks soaring. Adapted fit results in efficient form in motion. Dead animals? Life persists in the midst of its perpetual perishing, and that is beautiful. Are humans part of or apart from nature? Humans evolved in nature, yet evolved out of nature into culture. We alone can jeopardize or take care of the planet. "I don't want to live a denatured life on a denatured planet." Vegetarians? Humans evolved as hunters, and eating meat is natural. Some industrial farming mistreats animals, and some meat Rolston does not eat. Rolston grew up among farmers, and critics object that this biases his views. Nature in the Bible. The Hebrews lived closer to nature than most of us now do. All of us ought to see ourselves as living in promised lands, living on an Earth with promise. Jesus found the beauty of wildflowers to exceed the glory of Solomon. Nature in the Bible is part of a wonderland planet.Item Open Access StoryCorps interview(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Yeager, Douglas, interviewerInterview by Douglas Yeager, December 11, 2011. Rolston finding his way to a calling in life. Beginnings in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, amidst people who loved gospel and landscape. Studies in physics and mathematics, in theology, in philosophy of science. A lifetime of crooked lines, yet a certain straight course. The father of environmental ethics exploring new directions interpreting values in nature. Life has a logic, a capacity for creative genesis, and that opens up possibilities for religious interpretation. Early publications, rejected, later reprinted many times. Personal agenda, loving nature, turns out to be a global environmental crisis. Recollections of being awarded the Templeton Prize. Invitation to give Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, came by surprise. But it gives Rolston an opportunity to present his views on the importance of , beyond , in biology, coded in DNA, yet limits to genetic explanation, for example, in ethical and religious explanations. Darwinian explanations are correct but incomplete. Three big bangs: the explosion that produced the universe, the explosion of life on Earth, and the explosion of mental powers in humans.Item Open Access Templeton Prize winner(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2003) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Drayer, Dan, interviewer; Colorado Public Radio, producerRolston, "the father of environmental ethics," wins Templeton Prize. Rolston pleased at recognition of the conservation causes which he has been advocating. Rolston's lover's quarrels with science and religion. Intrinsic value in nature. Biology is value-laden. Psalm 23 portrays nature as both green pastures and the valley of the shadow of death. Rolston's work with policy and government organizations. State of the Colorado environment in 2003.Item Open Access Why science & religion think differently(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, interviewee; Kuhn, Robert Lawrence, interviewer; The Kuhn Foundation; Getzels Gordon Productions, producerRobert Lawrence Kuhn interviews four theologians at Helsingør, Denmark, and an atheist in London. Niels Henrik Gregersen, theologian, University of Copenhagen. Science is more analytical, religion is more synthetic, comprehensive. The two are not at war, but religion cuts a wider path through all of human experience. Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, theologian, Colorado State University (Rolston interview starts at 6 minutes, 30 seconds). Science is good at empirical questions, but does not touch the deeper value questions. After four hundred years of science, the deeper value questions are as sharp and as painful as ever. Christopher Southgate, theologian, University of Exeter. Science focuses on limited questions, but most aspects of life go beyond to questions of personal experience and transcendent truth, the answers to which are far more difficult. Celia Deane-Drummond, theologian, Notre Dame University. The study of nature in science can point to God, but religion confronts ethical questions. The goal of the religious search is a transcendent God, who cannot be subject to the scientific analysis appropriate for the physical world. Anthony A. C. Grayling, philosopher, atheist, New College of the Humanities, London. Science has demands for rationality and is powerfully self-correcting. Religion has faith and suppresses doubt. Conclusions: Science cannot judge values and meaning, but it does not follow that the diverse religions can. The truth or falsity of religion must stand or fall on its own merits. Each should be assessed in its own light. The ultimate question is whether any transcendent reality exists beyond the reach of science.