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CTNS Public Forum with Brian Green, "What Science Can and Cannot Say about Ethics." Free and open to the public Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union What is the relationship between science and ethics? Is there any relationship at all, or is it impossible to get an "ought" from an "is"? There has been a contemporary resurgence of interest in whether we can use science to determine moral values, and this talk will consider to what extent this task may or may not be possible.

CTNS Public Forum with Oliver Putz, God’s Self-Communication in an Evolving World: Evolution, Self and Transcendental Being A fundamental assumption of traditional Judeo-Christian anthropology is that humans alone are capable of knowing and loving God as both, their whence and wither. While all of creation is intimately related to a wholly transcendent and immanent divine, only humans are aware of this relationship and can respond to it appropriately. The present paper challenges this anthropocentric view on the basis of both transcendental theological anthropology and insights from the...

UFOs: God's Chariots?: Spirituality, Ancient Aliens, And Religious Yearnings in the Age of Extraterrestrials, by Ted Peters, Book Launch UFOs: God's Chariots? uncovers and exposes the clandestine spiritual dimensions within the UFO phenomenon. UFOs vibrate with transcendence, omniscience, perfection, and redemption. Panel Discussion & Book Launch PLTS Chapel Classroom 2770 Marin Avenue Berkeley, CA 94708

CTNS Public Forum: Jesus and the Depth of Creation: The Idea of Deep Incarnation, with Niels Henrik Gregersen Tucson Room of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley (enter via the courtyard on LeConte Avenue ) There seems to be an ineradicable tension between the grand-scale story of the world of creation, cosmic in scope and pitiless in its operations, and the small-scale story of Jesus as embodying divine empathy. The idea of deep incarnation aims to overcome three pitfalls of contemporary Christology. The one is the liberal solution of seeing Jesus...

Public Forum, Braden Molhoek on "Clones, Sin and Extinction: Theological Anthropology in Light of Evolution" Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union While great strides have been made regarding the incorporation of the insights of science into our understanding of creation and humanity’s place in the universe, not enough work has been done to show how these kinds of insights affect our understanding of human nature. This forum will examine three ways in which the insights of science help inform theological anthropology. In the context of the human cloning debate, misunderstandings...

Science and Religion Hospitality Event Westminster Room of the Royal Sonesta, Harbour Court Hotel, 550 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21202.   Please join CTNS, along with the Zygon Center for Religion and Science (ZCRS, www.zygoncenter.org) the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR - www.ibcsr.org) and the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS - www.iras.org) for refreshments and a brief presentation.

CTNS Public Forum: Lies, Damned Lies, Science and Theology Bishop Richard Cheetham Graduate Theological Union Library, Dinner Board Room The popular image of science as providing reliable, useful and objective knowledge, whilst theology only offers speculative and subjective opinion is remarkably widespread and persistent. This remains so despite a large and growing body of academic literature which presents a much more nuanced view. One important understanding is that both science and theology can be seen as saying (albeit in different ways) true things about the way things really are - i...

Public Forum with George Ellis on “Cosmology and Ultimate Causality” Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Tucson Room The deep issue in both cosmology and human life is what underlies the existence of the laws of nature, which define the possibility space within which the universe and life comes into being. Is the ultimate reason pure chance, probability, necessity, or purpose? Is their nature prescriptive or descriptive? The possibility of meaning and ethics has to have been built into the foundations that gave physical existence its structure, suggesting a higher intention is realised...

"Icarus' Second Chance: Ethics as New Frontier for the Space Enterprise?" with Jacques Arnould Dinner Board Room, 2nd Floor, GTU Hewlett Library Jacques Arnould is an ethicist working at the National Space Centre in Paris and the author of God vs. Darwin (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2009). He will be speaking on his work on ethics and the exploration of extraterrestrial life. This event is free and open to the public.