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A remarkably free man
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016-09-04) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; First Presbyterian Church, producer
Sermon at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, September 4, 2016. Humans cherish freedom. Americans live in "the land of the free and the home of the brave." College students, on leaving home, are free to do their thing. Many who consider themselves uninterested in religion are keenly interested in being free. Jesus, as recounted in the gospels, is a remarkably free man. Though a Galilean peasant, he moved freely among high and lower levels of social status, quick to be forthright and to cut to the quick in criticism. He revised and transformed both Hebrew and Greek thought, founded a great world faith, and is worshipped by billions of persons. He challenged Herod and the Roman tyranny of his day, also the Hebrew Scriptures and religious authorities. He was little concerned for his own physical needs, health, welfare, or security, though showing great compassion for others in need. He went to his death, afraid, a prisoner, yet freely, under the authority of his divine calling. His followers have in him a model for more genuine human freedom.
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Animals: beasts present in flesh & blood
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-10-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
The 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.
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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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Biological conservation of microbes
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1989-09-11) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
A 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.
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Celebrating 50 years of the Templeton Prize 2023
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Templeton Gill, Heather, narrator; Unidentified speaker; Denholm, Rebecca, editor and producer; CTN Communications, London, producer
Celebrating 50 years of the Templeton Prize, two dozen past prize laureates, living and deceased, are featured for their cosmic focus, whether theistic or atheistic, on the grand visions which Homo sapiens, the wise species, can attain. What do, what ought we humans most care for and about? Brief, penetrating, pointed, provocative, and pithy moments of wisdom. About halfway through Holmes Rolston is heard: "The environmental crisis is essentially - a crisis of spirit."
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Challenges in environmental ethics
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2005) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
Twelve 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.
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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, videographer
Challenges 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.
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Concerns concerning biosciences, human nature, and governing science
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-04-13) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
The biological sciences have developed dramatically in the last half century, raising concerns about their implications for human nature and behavior. While such research can and ought shape policy, policy equally should critique such research. Science, as much as any other human institution, needs its humanist critics--ethicists, philosophers, theologians, policymakers. Analysis of a half-dozen claims coming from biological sciences, to demonstrate that half-truths, if taken for the whole, can be both misleading and dangerous. Fortunately scientists are also good at being their own critics. 1. Selfish genes. 2. Genetic destiny. 3. Pleistocene appetites. 4. Monkey's mind. 5. Neuroscience: Bottom up? Top down? 6. Enlightening/escalating self-interest. 7. Ideology: Reasoned governing behavior.
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Creation: order and chance in physics and biology
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1990-04-19) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Dean, Charles, speaker; Crombie, Bob, speaker
The 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.
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Detail - Rolston walking in aspen
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1988) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Bend, Ron, speaker and filmmaker
Rolston 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.
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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, producer
Robert 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.
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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, producer
Science-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.
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Down to Earth: persons in natural history: part 1
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
Lecture 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).
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Down to Earth: persons in natural history: part 2
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
Lecture 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.
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Earth: the planet gone wild
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1998-10-09) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
The 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.
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Ecological aesthetics and ethics in the post epidemic era
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021-08) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Bend, Ron, videographer
The largest and most threatening pandemic in human history has humbled arrogant humans, locked us up. The virus in a couple months has stymied human achievements, aspirations, and freedoms. The upsetting surprise is that this tiny bit of nothing, not even alive, that you can't see even with a microscope, is upsetting our local and our global ecologies. We wonder why and how viruses can have their place in a wonderland biosphere. One big worry is that, developing a vaccine, we will miss this opportunity for more caring, love, and solidarity in our human communities, for pandemic justice. Biological nature is always giving birth, always in travail. Death is a necessary counterpart to the advancing of life. The music of life is in a minor key. The global Earth is a land of promise, and yet one that has to be died for. Earthen natural history might be called the evolution of suffering, or, equally, the evolution of caring. Life is perpetually perishing, yet perpetually regenerated, redeemed. In the post pandemic normal, it is impossible to go back to where we were. We must embrace nature and culture on Earth as it is and as it is becoming.
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Environmental aesthetics in China: East West dialogue
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015-05-01) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker; Unidentified speaker
Lecture by Holmes Rolston III presented in Wuhan, China, at the Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China International Conference, May 20-23, 2015. 1. Art and Nature: Chinese Landscape as a Work of Art? 2. Urban, Rural, Wild: Are the Chinese Three Dimensional Persons? 3. Residence in Place: Is China Like No Place Else on Earth? 4. Ugly? What on Chinese Landscapes Is Ugly? 5. Environmental Aesthetics and Ecological Aesthetics: Beautiful China, Ecosystemic China? 6. Environmental Aesthetics and Environmental Policy: Beautiful China, Saving China?
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From Shenandoah to the mountain west
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021-10-22) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
Holmes Rolston recalls his life story founding environmental ethics. He was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with mountains on his skyline and fields, creeks, and rivers as his playground. His elders loved gospel and landscape, gifts of God. Moving to a city, he excelled in school, and studied physics and mathematics, theology, and philosophy of science. He got lost in the stars, loved natural history, and rejoiced in abundant life persisting in the midst of its perpetual perishing. He discovered natural values in his storied residence in the Appalachians. He became the father of environmental ethics at Colorado State University. Earth is a promised land, a wonderland planet, in which one can glimpse divinity.
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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., speaker
Holmes 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.
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Gifford Lecture 10: Genes, genesis and God
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker

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