ISCAST fellow Michael Clarke was interviewed by the international "Nature" magazine about the Australian bushfires.
"It is deathly silent when you go into a forest after a fire. Apart from the ‘undertakers’ — the carrion eaters like currawongs, ravens and shrike-thrushes — picking off the dead bodies, there’s nothing much left in the forest. It’s a chilling experience.
ISCAST Executive Director Chris Mulherin was one of the guests on the ABC's "God Forbid" program recently. See here.
The program's introduction runs like this:
If something is true, you should be able to prove it. Sounds reasonable, but is it correct? James Carleton and the God Forbid panel investigate the nature of knowledge and the philosophy of science.
The following is an email sent to ISCAST members and friends on January 13, 2020 following the Executive Director's sojourn and evacuation from Mallacoota during and after the fires. ...
It is Sunday morning January 12, 2020. I am sitting at home where things are externally normal: normal traffic, normal bird noises, normal Melbourne blue sky with clouds, although a little smoky.
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Thanks to the thorough archival diggings of ISCAST past-president Emeritus Professor John Pilbrow, ISCAST has its own "History of ISCAST". It is now published here as a PDF. We are...
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Creation or Evolution: Do We Have To Choose?
Denis Alexander (Monarch 2008)
Monarch Books, Oxford, 2008 288 pp.
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ISCAST fellow Michael Clarke writes on ABC Religion and Ethics that the bushfires and climate change are a moral issue and not just a scientific one. As a Christian, he says, "I deeply regret that many of us who claim to be followers of Christ...
Read moreISCAST fellow Michael Clarke was interviewed by the international "Nature" magazine about the Australian bushfires.
"It is deathly silent when you go into a forest after a fire. Apart from the ‘undertakers’ — the carrion eaters like...
Read moreThis is one paper arising from the Wicked Problems Symposium in Victoria in 2018. Click here to return to the summary report and links to the other papers....
Read moreThe following is an email sent to ISCAST members and friends on January 13, 2020 following the Executive Director's sojourn and evacuation from Mallacoota during and after the fires. ...
It is Sunday morning January 12, 2020. I am sitting...
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The summer of 2019-20 has seen huge and intense bushfires in Victoria and NSW. Some 1.4 million ha in Victoria and 4.9 million ha in NSW has been burned to mid-January. (The areas burned in four years to 2015-16 were 1.0 million ha in Victoria...
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ISCAST fellow Ian Hore-Lacy has published a review of a very highly praised and recent book The Madness of Crowds. See the review here.
Review of Confronting Religious Denial of Science: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination by Catherine M. Wallace. Review by Jonathan M. Hanes
Alan Gijsbers introduces the issues and papers from Wicked Problems Symposium, held in Victoria in 2019. The papers are published separtely on the site with links below.
This is one paper arising from the Wicked Problems Symposium in Victoria in 2018. Click here to return to the summary report and links to the other papers....
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