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    Big Bang: Start up!! Setup? (Three Big Questions)
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-02-16) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Culver, Roger, speaker; Kern, Sanford speaker
    Elements essential to life are made in the stars. Some explode; their matter condensed as planets, on one of which life evolves. What should we make of this? Dismiss the puzzle? It really isn't surprising that the universe has produced us. But those who want a fuller explanation will find it impressive to discover that what seem to be widely varied facts cannot vary widely if the universe is to generate matter, life, and mind. Might the start up big bang might also be a set up for creative genesis. Does the astrophysics and microphysics shape our metaphysics?
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    Three big bangs: are we the biggest?
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015-10-20) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Stubbs, Irving, speaker; Unidentified speaker
    In our lifetimes, we who are senior citizens have learned from the recent discoveries of scientists some startling facts about the universe. At the primordial big bang, matter?energy appears, with the remarkable capacity to generate heavier elements and complexity. Life explodes on Earth, with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information, escalating biodiversity and biocomplexity. The human genius is radically novel, hyper-immensely complex. The mind that each of us has is by far the most complex thing known in the universe. Living at the center of such caring, loving intelligence we can and must wonder about the big questions. Is there sacred Logos in, with, and under such breakthrough creativity? What have we learned in our lifetimes that helps us to answer the question whether we are the biggest? Chaplain's Lecture at Westminster Canterbury Richmond (a retirement home), Richmond, Virginia. October 20, 2015.
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    Three big bangs: November 7, 2013
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2013) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
    Scientific natural history discovers "three big bangs," each marking a serendipitous singularity. (1) At the primordial big bang, matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms, but with the remarkable capacity to generate heavier elements, without which life would not be possible. (2) Life explodes on Earth with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information. Across a singular natural history, life persists in the midst of its perpetual perishing, generating and regenerating billions of species. These increase in biodiversity, with trajectories escalating biocomplexity. (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. Life becomes ideational; ideas pass from mind to mind. Ideas generate ideals. The nature of matter-energy, the nature of genes and their genesis, invites those at the center of complex caring intelligence to wonder where they are, who they are, and what they ought to do. Human uniqueness on a wonderland Earth generates intense responsibilities. Is there sacred Logos in, with, and under a cybernetic system with such breakthrough creativity?