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Item Open Access Detail - Rolston walking in aspen(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1988) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Bend, Ron, speaker and filmmakerRolston walking in the aspen in Colorado mountains notices the great detail there, such as the mosses, the lichens, the insects, biological diversity and wealth. These may be important in ecosystems, but the rare ones often are not, still they contribute to the richness of life on Earth. We ought to care for, to celebrate their conservation.Item Open Access Rollin - Rolston debate on environmental ethics(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1989) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Rollin, Bernard E., speaker; Crocker, David A., moderator; CSU Instructional Services, producerBernard E. Rollin and Holmes Rolston, III, both in the CSU Department of Philosophy, debate environmental ethics. Dr. Rollin defends an animal welfare ethic and Dr. Rolston defends an ecocentric ethic.Item Open Access Biological conservation of microbes(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1989-09-11) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerA talk by Holmes Rolston, III in the CSU Department of Microbiology on September 11, 1989. Environmental ethics is typically concerned with big stuff, bears, wolves, plants, wildfires, or insects. The Endangered Species act protects these, but does not mention microbes. There are concerns about microbes, in diseases, such as polio, or for patents, or fermenting. There are agricultural, industrial, medical uses. The usual list of reasons for preserving species are that they have aesthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, or scientific value. Microbes can have ecological, historical, and scientific value. Often we do not know how much, at least not yet. Microbes in rare places, such as in the hot springs of Yellowstone, may bring clues about the origin of life. Respect for life includes microbes. For perhaps two-thirds of the history of Earth, all life was one-celled.Item Open Access Creation: order and chance in physics and biology(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1990-04-19) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Dean, Charles, speaker; Crombie, Bob, speakerThe relations between physics and theology are surprisingly cordial at present; the relations between biology and theology are more difficult. A key to understanding the interrelations of all three: physics, biology, and religion lies in examining the concept of order and disorder. Astrophysics and nuclear physics are describing a universe "fine-tuned" for life, although physics has also found a universe with indeterminacy in it. Meanwhile evolutionary biology and molecular biology seem to be discovering that the history of life is a random walk with much struggle and chance, driven by selfish genes, although they have also found that in this random walk order is built up over the millennia across a negentropic upslope, attaining in Earth's natural history the most complex and highly ordered phenomena known in the universe, such as ecosystems, organisms, and, most of all, the human mind. Holmes Rolston lecture "Creation: Order and Chance in Physics and Biology" was the 15th Henry Harrell Memorial Lecture in Religion presented at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee on April 19, 1990.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 Gifford Lecture 10: Genes, genesis and God(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerItem Open Access Gifford Lecture 1: Genetic creativity: diversity and complexity in natural history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerCentral to the contemporary Darwinian view is emerging diversity and complexity. Genes are critical in this historic composition. In physics and chemistry, there is matter and energy, but in biology there is proactive information. Scientists divide over whether such evolution is contingent or directional. Elements of trial and error are incorporated in a searching generative process, analogous to genetic algorithms in computing.Item Open Access Animals: beasts present in flesh & blood(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-10-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerThe young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. Psalm 104.21. 1. Born Wild and Free. 2. Beauty in Motion. 3. Predators and Prey. 4. Humans: Aesthetic Animals.Item Open Access Earth: the planet gone wild(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-10-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerThe Earth produces of itself. Mark 4.28. 1. Planetary Aesthetics: Earth from Space. 2. The Wild Planet: Biological Beauty. 3. Wildlands and Wonder. 4. The Planet with Promise.Item Open Access Life: perpetually perishing, perpetually regenerated(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-10-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker...green pastures ... through the valley of the shadow of death Psalm 23. 1. The Struggle for Survival. 2. The Evolution of Pain. 3. Regeneration and Redemption. 4. A Cruciform Creation.Item Open Access The Good Samaritan and his genes - audio/video lecture(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2002-11-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerThis is a lecture given by Holmes Rolston at a conference on Biology and Morality at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 9, 2002.Item Open Access The science and religion dialogue: why it matters(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2004) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Gingerich, Owen, moderator; WGBH Forum Network, videographerSeen in terms of their long-range personal and cultural impacts, science and religion are the two most important forces in today's world. Science cannot teach us what we need most to know about either nature or culture: how to value it. Science increasingly opens up religious questions. The future of religion depends on the dialogue. The dialogue offers new opportunities for understanding and confronting suffering and evil. The future of Earth depends on this dialogue.Item Open Access Challenges in environmental ethics(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerTwelve cases in environmental ethics, videoclips and commentary. An antelope fence, hunters ethics, bear hunting, whales in Alaska, drowning bison in Yellowstone, euthanized elephant calf, drive-through sequoia, tree-spiking, San Clemente goats, old growth forests, Yellowstone fires, planet Earth.Item Open Access Genes, genesis and God: Holmes Rolston III: Richard J. Burke lecture in philosophy, religion and society(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006-03-13) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Burke, Richard J., speakerHolmes Rolston delivers the inaugurating Richard J. Burke Lecture in Philosophy, Religion and Society at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan on March 13, 2006. Professor Rolston discusses the debate about order and disorder, randomness and probability, actualities and possibilities, as these result in increasing diversity and complexity over the evolutionary epic. He features the increasing information in genes that appears in natural history, resulting in genetic coding, eucaryotes, sexuality, societies, and mind, with human capacities for culture, including science, religion and ethics. Life opens up increasingly new possibility space. In both nature and culture, life gets more promise, becomes more promising. Life is self-transforming, takes on meaning. This invites and demands deeper explanations, philosophically and theologically.Item Open Access Challenges in environmental ethics: Richard J. Burke Lecture(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2006-03-14) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Burke, Richard J., speaker; Oakland University Media, videographerChallenges in environmental ethics, philosophically and practically, include hunting, Colorado hunters and bear hunters, saving whales in Alaska, saving a drowning bison in Yellowstone, mercy-killing an elephant calf, tree spiking, shooting goats on San Clemente Island, cutting old growth forests, Yellowstone fires, and saving ecosystems and the biosphere planet Earth. Interaction with students and the audience.Item Open Access Down to Earth: persons in natural history: part 1(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerLecture covers the following topics: Ethics living in place; Earth as home planet; Aristotle and humans as political animals, living in cities, humans as both citizens of cities and residences on landscapes; correcting Socrates (who thought that nature could not teach him anything); living on Western landscapes with "nature in your face": four priorities on the current world agenda (peace and war, population, development, environment); escalating population; and escalating consumption (affluenza).Item Open Access Down to Earth: persons in natural history: part 2(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerLecture covers the following topics: Humans as earthling overseers; environmental ethics as respect for life; human biography as storied residence on Earth; test for appreciating a resident environment; three role models for living in nature: Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher; John Muir; Aldo Leopold, founder of the land ethic. Leopold's experience of thinking like a mountain and seeing "green fire" in a dying wolf's eyes; Earth ethics and overview of the blue planet.Item Open Access The future of environmental ethics(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speakerLecture covers consideration of the following topics: 1. A managed earth and the end of nature? 2. Global warming: too hot to handle? 3. Human nature: Pleistocene appetities? 4. Sustainable development vs. sustainable biosphere; 5. Biodiversity: good for us/good in itself; 6. Earth ethics.Item Open Access Three big bangs: matter-energy, life, mind (2008)(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2008) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Rollin, Bernard E., speakerDr. Rolston speaks to "three big bangs" in natural history: 1. At the primordial big bang, matter-energy appears; 2. Life explodes on Earth with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information; 3. The human genius, a massive singularity, crosses a trans-genetic threshold, generating language and making possible cumulative transmissible cultures, radically novel in kind and in scale.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.