Gifford Lectures
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Item Open Access Critical notice of Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2020) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, authorCritical notice of citations of Rolston's published book Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History.Item Open Access Gifford Lecture 1: Genetic creativity: diversity and complexity in natural history(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, 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 Gifford Lecture 10: Genes, genesis and God(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-10) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, speakerItem Open Access Gifford Lectures revisited: reflections of seven Templeton laureates(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2012-06-01) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, 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 Archived resources - Holmes Rolston - Gifford Lectures(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, authorIncludes information on and persistent links to archived resources related to the Gifford Lectures given by Dr. Rolston at the University of Edinburgh, Academic Year 1997-1998, in November 1997.Item Open Access Gifford Lectures (1997/98): Genes, genesis and God, a series of ten lectures by Professor Holmes Rolston(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11) Gifford Lectures Committee, Edinburgh, author; The University of Edinburgh, publisherFlyer of the Gifford Lectures given by Dr. Rolston at the University of Edinburgh, Academic Year 1997-1998, in November 1997.Item Open Access Gifford Lectures: portrait of Professor Holmes Rolston(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11) Gifford Lectures staff, photographerPortrait of Dr. Rolston at the Gifford Lectures in doctoral gown and hood.Item Open Access Gifford Lectures: Professor Holmes Rolston giving the lecture Genes, Genesis and God(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11) Gifford Lectures staff, photographerDr. Rolston giving a lecture in doctoral gown and hood.Item Open Access Gifford Lectures webpage: Holmes Rolston III(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11) Gifford Lectures staff, authorAuthor biography of Dr. Holmes Rolston on the online Gifford Lectures database.Item Open Access Gifford Lectures: over 100 years of renowned lectures on natural theology(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1997-11) Gifford Lectures staff, authorThe Gifford Lectures web site providing the Lectures' history, overview, sponsoring universities, news and other related information; also including an online database to search books derived from the Lectures, lecture summaries, and lecturers' biographies.Item Open Access Genes, genesis, and God: values and their origins in natural and human history: Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 - book summary(Colorado State University. Libraries, 1999) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Cambridge University Press, publisherItem Open Access Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history - review(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000) Ferré, Frederick, author; Springer, publisherBook review of Holmes Rolston's Genes, Genesis and God. Lord Gifford, whose bequest founded the famous Gifford Lectures more than a century ago with a mandate to advance 'natural theology', would be proud of this book. It constitutes the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998; and, unlike many other recent Giffords, it really does fulfill the terms of the original bequest. This fulfillment is not expressed in the traditional language that Lord Gifford would have recognized (though underneath there are still classical arguments at work), but in this volume Holmes Rolston III brings together the best of current information about nature, especially the history of this planet, with the persistent depths of classical concerns about the character of the ultimate nature of things.Item Open Access Genes, genesis and God: values and their origins in natural and human history - review(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2000) Bryant, John A., author; Paternoster Press, publisherBook review of Holmes Rolston's Genes, Genesis and God. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh, Nov. 1997. Dr. Rolston says the phenomena of religion and ethics cannot be reduced to the phenomena of biology. The book deals with genetic values, genetic identity, culture, science, ethics, biology and religion.