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Programs

CTNS has created and administered a number of Fellowships, programs and research projects central to our mission of bridging science and religion through research, teaching, and public service.
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VO/CTNS Books

In 1988 the Vatican Observatory published a watershed volume on theology, philosophy and science resulting from an international research conference held in Rome: Physics, Philosophy and Theology: A Quest for Common Understanding. This volume included a unique address by Pope John Paul II on theology and science. Based on this volume the Vatican Observatory and CTNS began a twenty year collaboration of further research. The collaboration has produced seven scholarly volumes to date. These volumes include: The five-volume series whose underlying theme is "Scientific Perspectives on Divine...
Vatican ObservatoryDivine Action SeriesScience and TheologyCTNS | Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
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God, Information, and the Sciences of Complexity

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Saturday, February 9th 2013, 1:00pm
Part of CTNS' J. K. Russell Conference Dr. Niels Henrik Gregersen, 2013 J. K. Russell Research Fellow in Religion and Science. Responses by: Joshua Moritz, Ted Peters, Oliver Putz and Robert Russell. Dinner Board Room, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley To register please visit http://www.ctns.org/jkr_fellow_pay.html or write ctnsinfo@ctns.org for more information. Information and complexity have become central concepts of our contemporary scientific world-view. In which sense can we speak of information and complexity also as part of the nature of God? It will be argued...
CTNS | Center for Theology and the Natural SciencesConferenceJoshua MoritzOliver PutzTheodore F. Ted PetersRobert John RussellTheology and Natural Sciences
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New Perspectives on Human Origins: Three Challenges for Christian Theology

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Saturday, March 10th 2018, 1:00pm
Over the past decade, scientific and technical advances have transformed our understanding of human evolution. Paleogenomics (the recovery, sequencing, and analysis of genomic DNA from ancient individuals) provides powerful tools for retracing the steps of our evolutionary past. Newly discovered species such as Homo naledi point to multiple hominin lineages living simultaneously. New findings and advanced analysis of tools and cultural artefacts from Neandertals and other early humans tend to undermine our confidence in any cultural "big bang" that separates behaviorally modern humans from...
science and religionTheology and SciencectnsRon Cole-Turnerhuman origins
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Scientific And Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature (SATURN)

Scientific And Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature (SATURN) SATURN was an interdisciplinary research program in theology and science created and administered by CTNS and supported by a $200,000 grant from Calvin College. The purpose of the SATURN program was to study the scientific warrants for and theological implications of randomness, propensities and indeterminism in nature. We chose the acronym SATURN for this research on the “Scientific and Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature” because the rings of the planet Saturn exhibit the kind of self-organization...
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CTNS Briefs

CTNS Research Brief 2024 / Revision of 7/5/2024       Hopes and Hazards of Artificial Intelligence A CTNS Research Brief By Braden Molhoek and Ted Peters   For decades Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has been trudging up the hill like the Little Engine that Could. Now it sits on the hill’s crest, ready to roll down at unstoppable speed and crash into everything below. All hopes are threatened by hazards. First, the hopes. With glee, two health scientists, Ridwan Islam Sifat and Upali Bhattacharya, celebrated the birth of ChatGPT in 2023. Here are their hopes. ChatGPT...