Creative Creatures Values and Ethical Issues

Creative Creatures introduces a new theme into the growing field of science-and-theology by focusing on topics that have so far received little attention from scholars, namely ethical issues raised by the technological applications of scientific knowledge. The main themes explored include technology's impact on our worldview, morality, nature and culture in a technological society, along with discussions of artificial intelligence and biotechnology.

Preface and Acknowledgements

ix

List of Contributors

xi

Chapter 1: Introduction: technological and moral creatures or creators?

1

(14)

Willem B. Drees

PART I: TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON OUR WORLDVIEW

Chapter 2: ICT and the character of finitude

15

(19)

René P.H. Munnik

Chapter 3: Technology and the changing notion of nature

34

(11)

Zbigniew Liana

Chapter 4: Co-creator or co-creator? the problem with artificial intelligence

45

(8)

Noreen Herzfeld

Chapter 5: From thou to IT: information technology from the perspective of the language philosophy of Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy

53

(11)

Otto Kroesen

Chapter 6: Being cyborgs: on creating humanity in a created world of technology

64

(11)

Taede Smedes

PART II: MORALITY, NATURE AND CULTURE

Chapter 7: The perennial debate about human goodness: the primate evidence

75

(17)

Frans B.M. de Waal

Chapter 8: Theological reflections on the moral nature of nature

92

(15)

Nancey Murphy

Chapter 9: Is it suitable to translate Christian anthropological topics into genetic and cognitive categories? The case of original sin

107

(16)

Lluis Oviedo

PART III: MORALITY IN A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Chapter 10: Ethical issues of AI and biotechnology

123

(11)

Margaret A. Boden

Chapter 11: Co-creation or hubris? Responses to biotechnology in Christianity, Judaism and Islam

134

(18)

Ulf Görman

Chapter 12: The human being a co-creator? Theological reflections on reproductive cloning of human individuals

152

(10)

Jan-Olav Henriksen

Chapter 13: When astronomers and environmentalists clash over a sky island

162

(8)

Christopher J. Corbally, SJ

Chapter 14: The crisis of ideologies and the need for a new anthropology: values education in a technological and pragmatic age

170

(15)

Angela Roothaan

Index

185

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Creative Creatures Values and Ethical Issues in Theology, Science and Technology

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