Science and Christianity: Understanding the Conflict Myth, by ISCAST Executive Director Chris Mulherin, is on the shortlist for the 2020 Australian Christian Book of the Year. It is an easy-to-read introduction to science and Christianity written for students, teachers, clergy, parish groups and interested lay people.
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An opinion article by ISCAST fellow Ian Hore-Lacy.
ISCAST fellow Peter Harrison comments on the danger of assuming that a return to Enlightenment values is the solution to some of the global turmoil. An excerpt: "We should be wary of calls to revisit an imagined Enlightenment in which the values of science, reason, progress, and secularity hold sway. At worst, these very things were implicated in some of the social ills now confronting the world; at best, they could happily co-exist with visions of humanity that we now regard as deplorable.
Science and Christianity: Understanding the Conflict Myth, by ISCAST Executive Director Chris Mulherin, is on the shortlist for the 2020 Australian Christian Book of the Year. It is an easy-to-read introduction to science and...
Read moreAn opinion article by ISCAST fellow Ian Hore-Lacy.
In May 2018 Peter Ridd was sacked from his position as Professor of Physics by James Cook University (JCU) after criticising the scientific work of academic colleagues. ...
Read moreThe following document is a draft of various contributions to the ISCAST Kingdom Project. This document consists of the following contributions:
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ISCAST fellow Peter Harrison comments on the danger of assuming that a return to Enlightenment values is the solution to some of the global turmoil. An excerpt: "We should be wary of calls to revisit an imagined Enlightenment in which the values...
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Mike Hulme is a top climate scientist (and Christian) who hit the news some ten years ago when the "climategate" saga blew up releasing private emails between climatologists.
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It is with some sadness that we learned of Sir John Houghton's death brought on by COVID-19.
John was world renowned as a leader and co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on...
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It is Easter. And I am an addiction physician. What has addiction medicine to do with the atonement?
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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