Holmes Rolston III

University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy

 Media files both online and placed in CSU paper storage archives

Both video and audio files through 2014. VHS in various formats, tapes. DVD disks, audio cassettes, and other hard media, placed in archives.     Also with notes below about where some of these can be viewed online.

Listed by year.

1956-1958

1956-1958. Edinburgh Letters 1956-1958. DVD. Holmes Rolston, III, an American, was a Ph.D. candidate at New College, University of Edinburgh, from October 1956 through December 1958, when he was awarded the Ph.D. degree. His advisors were Thomas F. Torrance and John McIntyre; his thesis was later published as John Calvin versus the Westminster Confession (1972). He and his wife, Jane, lived at 17 Abercromby Place, a basement flat in the then Dutch consulate, where she worked.

           Jane wrote letters home to her mother and father almost daily, the six-pence air letters of that period, where one wrote on both sides of a single lightweight sheet, which folded to become an envelope. Those letters are reproduced here on DVD disk in digital (.jpg) scan, each letter with a side A and side B, over 275 letters, in numbered sequence, sometimes with brief descriptors. There are also some photos and diary materials. She recounts their impressions of life in Edinburgh, life at New College, Scottish and American friends, and her husband's interactions with Tom Torrance, John McIntyre, James Stewart, John Baillie, and other faculty. Holmes was a regular pulpit supply in diverse Scottish churches. In March 1957, they took a trip to the Holy Land, Jordan and Israel. Summer 1957, they toured England and Scotland, Summer 1958, they toured Europe.     Introductory summary and overview of the letters

1982

1982.  "A Remarkably Free Man."  Sermon preached by Holmes Rolston III at Mountain View Presbyterian Church, Loveland, Colorado, August 22, 1982.  Jesus as a remarkably free man, offering disciples similar ranges of freedom. In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette. Contains entire worship service.

2. Audio CD. Rolston sermon only.

See also, later, A Remarkably Free Man.  Sermon at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, September 4, 2016.

53 minutes, 42 seconds.  Online at:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178136

1988

1988.   Detail - Rolston Walking in Aspen
Online at:    https://hdl.handle.net/10217/236403

Rolston walking in the aspen in Colorado mountains notices the great detail there, such as the mosses, the lichens, the insects, biological diversity and wealth.  These may be important in ecosystems, but the rare ones often are not, still they contribute to the richness of life on Earth.  We ought  to care for,  to celebrate their conservation.
CSU Promotional video filmed at CSU Mountain Park Campus.  Video filming by Ron Bend.  Rolston extract only is short video : 1 minute 24 seconds.

Also in two formats:

1. BETACAM Master duplicate of original tape.

2. VHS.

1988. "Eco-Justice Case Studies," Rolston presentation, filmed at an Eco-Justice Seminar, National Task Force on Eco-Justice, United Presbyterian Church, held at Ghost Ranch, Abiqui, NM, August 15-21, 1988. Rolston presentation filmed August 1, 1988. VHS format. About an hour and a half.

1989

1989. "Environmental Ethics in Yellowstone Park," Holmes Rolston III, keynote speaker at Greater Yellowstone Coalition 1989 Scientific Conference and Annual Meeting, May 19-21, 1989. With focus on Yellowstone fires, occurring the previous summer and fall, and natural systems management at ecosystems level in Yellowstone Park.

In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette

2. Audio CD

1989. Rollin-Rolston Debate on Environmental Ethics. CSU Instructional Services, recorded as W-7946. Later renumbered TV06344. 51 minutes. Bernard E. Rollin and Holmes Rolston, both in the CSU Department of Philosophy, III debate environmental ethics. Rollin defends an animal welfare ethic and Rolston defends an ecocentric ethic. Moderated by David Crocker, CSU Department of Philosophy. Recorded November 29, 1989.

        Online: streaming video, at http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37822                         51 minutes

 Also in CSU archives in three forms:

(1) Beta SP Master, duplicated from original 1" tape

(2) VHS

(3) DVD

A DVD copy is also in general circulation in CSU Library.

GE42 .R655 1989

Also a CD with streaming media files: rollin­_rolston.wmv

1989. "Biological Conservation of Microbes." Seminar and lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, in Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University. September 11, 1989.
  Online at:      https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235394        About 50 minutes.
Environmental ethics is typically concerned with big stuff, bears, wolves, plants, wildfires, or insects.  The Endangered Species act protects these, but does not mention microbes.  There are concerns about microbes, in diseases, such as polio, or for patents, or fermenting.  There are agricultural, industrial, medical uses. The usual list of reasons for preserving species are that they have aesthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, or scientific value.  Microbes can have ecological, historical, and scientific value.  Often we do not know how much, at least not yet.   Microbes in rare places, such as in the hot springs of Yellowstone, may bring clues about the origin of life.  Respect for life includes microbes.  For perhaps two-thirds of the history of Earth, all life was one-celled.

Also In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette

2. Audio CD

1989. 

1989.    "A Visit with John Calvin." First Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, Colorado. October 29.  Impersonation and re-enactment of John Calvin by Holmes Rolston, III, on Reformation Sunday. VHS format, about one hour.

1989. Symposium: "Fee-Based Hunting and the Public Trust," at Montana State University, with Holmes Rolston as presenter and panelist. January 27-28, 1989. Sponsored by Departments of Philosophy and History at Montana State University, funded by National Endowment for the Humanities and others. About an hour and a half. In VHS format.

1990

1990. "Values in Environmental Ethics," Holmes Rolston, III. Invited address at "Conservation 2000: Environmental Stewardship," The Clarion Hotel, Boulder, Colorado, sponsored by United Bank of Boulder and Thorne Ecological Institute, January 20, 1990, Boulder, CO. Five levels of concern in environmental ethics: animals, plants, species, ecosystems, and human well being. Rolston's address is followed by an address by Dale Jamieson, University of Colorado, Department of Philosophy.

In two formats:

1. VHS format

2. Audiotape cassette

1990.    "Creation: Order and Chance in Physics and Biology."   Henry Harrell Memorial Lecture in Religion.  Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.  April 19, 1990.

Online at:    https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235465

The relations between physics and theology are surprisingly cordial at present; the relations between biology and theology are more difficult.  A key to understanding the interrelations of all three: physics, biology, and religion lies in examining the concept of order and disorder.  Astrophysics and nuclear physics are describing a universe “fine-tuned” for life, although physics has also found a universe with indeterminacy in it.  Meanwhile evolutionary biology and molecular biology seem to be discovering that the history of life is a random walk with much struggle and chance, driven by selfish genes, although they have also found that in this random walk order is built up over the millennia across a negentropic upslope, attaining in Earth’s natural history the most complex and highly ordered phenomena known in the universe, such as ecosystems, organisms, and, most of all, the human mind.

Also In two formats:

1. VHS tape

2. DVD

1990. "Religion and Ecology, Part I, Part II, Part III." CSU Instructional Services, recorded as X-7947. Later renumbered TV06699. Classroom lectures from PL 345, Environmental Ethics. Examines the Western monotheist religious tradition as cause and cure of the ecological crisis. Differing models of human dominion over nature. Science, technology, capitalism, secularism as factors. Western worldviews contrasted with those of indigenous peoples. Scientific vs. sacred vs. enchanted worldviews.

Part I, 50 minutes. Dominion. Discussion of advertisement: "The Conquerors: We outfit Them". Oversize Four Wheel Drive -- Ford 4WD Blackfoot. Discussion of Pioneer plaque greeting others in space. Human conquest of space, spaceship Earth, dominion over Earth. Senses of Models of Dominion: (1) Subjugation · Earth Tyrant. (2) Commander · Earth Pilot. (3) Domestication · Earth Gardener. (4) Steward · Earth Trustee. (5) Paternal · Earth Father. (6) Prophets, Priests, Kings. Hebrew rulers included prophets, priests, as well as kings. (7) Redemption - Earth Redeemer.

Part II, 50 minutes, features: Lynn White, Christian dominion over nature.

White's model: Judeo·Christian tradition produces science, produces technology, produces ecological crisis. More complex factors: capitalism, urbanization, increased wealth, democratization, increased population, secularization. God-man-nature hierarchy, maximizing vs. optimizing, Time Magazine: Endangered Earth. Scientific American: Managing Planet Earth. Beatitude: "Blessed are the meek." Using Earth justly and charitably.

Part III. Australian indigenous peoples, compared with astronauts, worldviews of indigenous peoples.

Recorded September 13, 1990.

1990. "Eastern Religion and Ecology," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as X-7948. All three parts under this one number. Later renumbered TV06700, again all three parts under the same number. Classroom lecture in PL 345, Environmental Ethics.  Examines whether Eastern religion, especially Taoism, can solve Western ecological problems. Eastern harmony with nature contrasted with Western dominion. Recovery of the feminine (yin) for environmental balance. Zen Buddhist attitudes to nature.

Part I. Zen gardens. Yang-yin. Annie Dillard. 50 minutes

Part II. Women as consumers. Buddhism, Four noble truths. Zen, taming the ox, Zen haiku. 50 minutes.

Part III. Modern Japanese industrial practice in contrast to religious ideals. Women as consumers. Historical versus cyclic worldviews. Deep ecology. 50 minutes.

1990. Dominion over Nature. DVD. 1 hour 6 minutes. Topics:

1. The Conquerors. Discussion of advertisement: "The Conquerors." Discussion of Pioneer plaque greeting others in space. Human conquest of space, spaceship Earth, dominion over Earth.

2. Models of Dominion: (1) Subjugation · Earth Tyrant. (2) Commander · Earth Pilot. (3) Domestication · Earth Gardener. (4) Steward · Earth Trustee. (5) Paternal · Earth Father. (6) Prophets, Priests, Kings. (7) Redemption - Earth Redeemer.

3. Exploit, Maximize, Optimize

4. Multiple values versus Multiple Use

5. Managed/Endangered Planet. God-man-nature hierarchy, Time Magazine: Endangered Earth. Scientific American: Managing Planet Earth.

6. Meek inherit the Earth. Beatitude: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Using Earth justly and charitably.

A copy is in general circulation in CSU library.

GE42.R6673 1990

1990. Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice. VHS, 15 minutes. Videotape produced by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A,), Louisville, KY, as an introduction to issues of environmental and environmental justice. Contains 3-4 minutes of interview with Holmes Rolston on endangered species.

1990. Wildlife in Africa. Holmes Rolston reports back to his Environmental Ethics class after a fact-finding trip to South Africa. Tour at invitation of Southern African Forum and International Wilderness Leadership Foundation, Vance Martin. Visits especially to West Coast Park, Lanageaan, Umfolozi National Park, Addo Elephant Park, Tempe Elephant Park. Informal presentation. VHS tape.

1991

1991. "Genes, Genesis, and God in Natural History."  Lecture given at a research conference devoted to Rolston's work at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, February 8-16.   Lecture published as: "Genes, Genesis, and God in Natural and Human History, pp. 9-23. Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 2, the proceedings of the research conference devoted to Rolston's work.

The following papers appear in an issue of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 2, the proceedings of the research conference  at CTNS.
    Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82159

"Respect for Life: Christians, Creation, and Environmental Ethics," pp. 1-8.  Article 1 in above URL.

"Genes, Genesis, and God in Natural and Human History," pp. 9-23.    Article 2 in above URL

Five commentaries :   Article 3 in above URL

Robert T. Schimke, "Reflections from a Molecular Biologist," pp. 24-26.

Walter R. Hearn, "Science, Selves, and Stories," pp. 26-31.

Carol J. Tabler, "Value Vocabulary in Biology and Theology," pp. 32-33.

Ted Peters, "Beyond the Genes: Epigenesis and God, pp. 34-35.

Margaret R. McLean, "A Moral World `Red in Tooth and Claw'," pp. 36-38.

1991. "Religion and Organismic, Cellular, and Molecular Biology," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7952. Later renumbered as TV07375. Classroom lecture. Religion and organismic, cellular, and molecular biology. DNA as information-containing molecules. DNA as the secret of life?  Biology differs from chemistry and physics in the coding of information. Organisms as historical information systems. History of life on Earth cumulating in information stored in genes. Life as "nothing but" biochemistry? Reductionism and hierarchical levels. Biology as based on chemistry and physics but radically different in its encoding of living natural history. Based on Chapter 3 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints).

1991. "Darwinian Evolution of Species and Some Historical Religious Reactions," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7953. Later renumbered as TV07376. VHS format. Classroom lecture. Fixity of species, combined scientific and theological accounts. Start-up creation. Discussion of woodpecker as designed by God versus evolved adapted fit; levels of interpretation. Darwinian evolution of species and some historical religious reactions to it. Religious accounts troubled by struggle, competition, waste; ungodly ways to create a world. Accident versus design. Caused accidents? Relative chance as intersection of causally unrelated lines. Pure chance as objective indeterminacy, as with radioactive decay causing mutations.

Protestant and Catholic, both those rejecting and those accommodating evolutionary theory. Creation science, conservative Christian accounts. Liberal Protestant accounts, Genesis interpreted in story, parable form. Originating events, as in Genesis 1, cannot be told in literal historical form, nor can ending events, as in the book of Revelation and the vision of the holy city. Roman Catholicism: body evolved, God added a soul. First couple? God at origins of life, origin of humans, gaps in evolutionary theory. Based on Chapter 3 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints).

1991. "Incompleteness of Evolutionary Theory," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7954. VHS format. Later renumbered as TV07377. About 60 minutes. Classroom lecture. Incompleteness of evolutionary theory. Discussion of Yale dinosaur mural and Michelangelo's painting, Creation of Adam. Life as a random walk versus creative trends in natural history. Historical, cybernetic, and pro-life (prolific) evolution, increasing biodiversity and complexity, as compatible with divine creativity. Generation of more out of less. Orderly innovating principle in evolutionary natural history. Metastable negentropic climb originating life, storing information in DNA molecules. Trial and error creativity. Generating and testing novel life forms. Analogy with genetic algorithms in computing. Divine Architect at Big Bang in physics, but in biology creative self-organizing in a prolific system with zest for life. Life as random walk, versus smart genes rigged for self creativity on an information search. Based on Chapter 3 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints).

1991. Incompleteness in Evolutionary History. DVD format. 47 minutes. Edited from CSU Instructional Services TV07377, see above. Evolution as a random walk? Evolution of biodiversity and biocomplexity. Evolutionary development generating more out of less. Life as negentropy. Information discovered and stored in DNA. Origin of life. Origin of humans. Selection of the advanced. Evolutionary history as a genetically-based information search. Earth as a prolific, pro-life system, a creativity complementary to religious accounts of creation. Based on Chapter 3 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints).

A copy is in general circulation in CSU library.

B818.R66 1991

1991. "Religion and Psychology," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7955. Later renumbered as TV07378. Classroom lecture. VHS format. 90 minutes. Possibility and limits of a human science. Human sciences as soft or incomplete sciences, in contrast to natural sciences. Freudian psychoanalysis and unconscious determinants of belief and behavior. Religion as an illusion, the projection of a heavenly father. Inadequacies in the Freudian account. Based on Chapter 5 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints). Recorded February 27, 1991.

1991. "Nature, Science, and History, Part I," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7956. Later renumbered as TV7000. VHS format. Classroom lecture. 50 minutes. Nature after science, its immensity, plurality, unity, process, autonomy, levels of organization, complexity and simplicity, rationality, continuing mystery, and the discontinuity and continuity of humans with nature. Based on Chapter 6 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints). Recorded April 10, 1991.

"Nature, Science, and History, Part II," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7957. Later renumbered as TV7001. Classroom lecture, 50 minutes. Idiographic (unique) and nomothetic (law-like) dimensions of natural history and of cultural history.  Characteristics of narrative and drama, as these apply to nature and culture. Meanings in history and religious dimensions of historical interpretation. Based on Chapter 6 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints). Recorded April 10, 1991.

"Nature, Science, and History, Part III," CSU Instructional Services, recorded as Y-7958. Later renumbered as TV7002. Classroom lecture, 50 minutes. Directions in historical processes, predictability in history. Science (theory and observation) transformed into interpretive history (interpretation or worldview and action). Truth as correspondence in science and as correspondent truthfulness in roles in cultural history. Based on Chapter 6 of Holmes Rolston, III, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987, and various reprints). Recorded April 10, 1991. 

1991. American Academy of Religion, Section on Science and Religion, panel on "Theological Construction in Relation to an Evolutionary Nature." Kansas City, Kansas, November 24, 1991. Focus on a lecture by Gordon Kaufman, Harvard University, with responses by Sheila Davany, Iliff Theological Seminary, Denver, Robert Russell, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Holmes Rolston III, Colorado State University. About two hours.

Kaufman: Lecture taken from his In Face of Mystery. A biohistorical account of humans and nature. God and Christ the two Christian symbols reconstructed thoroughly for continuing relevance in a scientific age, an ecological age, and religious pluralism.A new religious myth for nature, history, and God. "Serendipitous creativity" as the contemporary replacement for the dualistic Israelite God/world account. Humans as a significant trajectory of this cosmic creativity. "God" as symbol orienting human life, continuing even though God is no longer a transcendent being. God is the serendipitous creativity, from which humans evolve.

Davany response: The historical character of both science and theology, both continuously being reconstructed. Questions whether Kaufman's account is more satisfactory than other theological accounts.

Rolston response: Explanatory adequacy of natural explanations in physics and biology. Nature as super, superb. Nature begins simple and produces increasing complexity, with critical transformations over evolutionary time. "Serendipity" is not doing any explanatory work. Humans may construct their theology, making the symbol "God"; but the really startling construction is in evolutionary history, which includes constructing both humanness and wildness. Monotheists claim that "God" is in, with, and under this process, eons before humans constructed the symbol "God."

Russell response. Kaufman's account does not fit into any of the standard four categories of how science and religion relate: conflict, independence, dialogue, integration. His proposals are too indefinite to be evaluated by the usual categories in the field; they are vague language shading off into mystery, claims that have little substance.

Kaufman response to the commentators.

In two formats:

1. Two audiotape cassette tapes. Rolston segment starts end of tape I and concludes start of tape II.

2. Two audio CD disks. Rolston segment begins at start of disk 2.

1992

1992. "Living with Nature." Interview done in Athens, Georgia, April 6, 1992. VHS tape cut, April 15, 1992. Raw, unedited tape. About one hour. Accompanied by a transcript of Rolston's responses.

1992. "Living with Nature." DVD edited version. Excellent quality DVD. Sections:

1. Values in Nature

2. Following Nature

3. Nature and Culture

4. Aesthetics in Nature

5. Concept of the Sublime

6. Wilderness

7. Increasing Environmental Concern

8. Government and Business

9. Sustainability

10. Residence on Landscapes

11. Forests

12. Regulation

A copy of this is also in general circulation in CSU Library.

GE42.R6677 1992

Also a CD with streaming video files: Georgia_int.wmv

Also online: Living with Nature, Online, streaming video, Windows Media.

1993

1993. "Order and Disorder in Nature, Science, and Religion," Holmes Rolston, III. Plenary Lecture at Fourth Annual Science, Technology, and Religious Ideas Conference, Institute of Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, April 12, 1993.

In two versions:

1. VHS tape, 1 hour, 10 minutes. Unedited.

2. DVD format, 1 hour, 10 minutes. Edited.

Sections:

1. Order in Physics

2. Disorder in Physics

3. Disorder in Biology

4. Order in Biology

5. Order and Disorder in Science

6. Order and Disorder in Religion

Questions and Answers.

Lecture published as: "Order and Disorder in Nature, Science, and Religion." Pages 1-14 in George W. Shields and Mark Shale, eds., Science, Technology and Religious Ideas: Proceedings of the Institute for Liberal Studies, vol. 4. Frankfort, KY: Institute for Liberal Studies, Kentucky State University, 1994.

Online at:     http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70408 

A copy of the DVD is also in general circulation in CSU Library.

Q175.R544 1993

1993. Earth Day, April 22, 1993. VHS tape. Brief interview in two excerpts with Holmes Rolston, III on Channel 25, CTV News.  A second interview, April 21, 1995 is on the same tape.

1994

1994.  Augustana University College, Distinguished Theological Lecture Series, Camrose, Alberta, Canada. Three lectures, March 10-11, 1994.

I. Methods in Science and Religion. In two formats:

1. Audio cassette

2. Audio CD, 2 disks (1) Lecture, 56 mins. (2) Discussion, 24 mins.

II. Physics and Theology

1. Audio cassette

2. Audio CD, 2 disks (1) Lecture, 64 mins. (2) Discussion, 24 mins.

III. Biology and Theology. In two formats:

1. Audio cassette

2. Audio CD, 2 disks (1) Lecture, 57 mins. (2) Discussion, 22 mins.

Lectures are based on material in Chapters 1-3 in Science and Religion--A Critical Survey (New York: Random House, 1987; McGraw-Hill, 1989; Harcourt Brace, 1997; Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987). New edition: Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2006.

1994. Ethics and the Environment: Guidelines for Environmental Decisions. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 45 minute video, edited from symposium held at First United Methodist Church. VHS format.

Participants:

Herbert Bormann, Forest Ecology, Yale University

Robert Howard, Flight Surgeon, Pediatrics

Keen Butterworth, English, University of South Carolina

Dale White, Bishop, Methodist Church

Tom Thomas, Law and Environmental Science, Oak Ridge Associated Universities

David Pimentel, Insect Entomology, Cornell University

Michael Logan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Anthropology

Holmes Rolston, III, Philosophy, Colorado State University

Topics: Population, over-use of resources, indigenous peoples, religion and environment, future generations.

1995

1995. Address: "Global Environmental Ethics" at Conference: Paradigms in Transition: Natural Resources Management in the New Century. Environment and Natural Resources Policy Institute, College of Forestry and Natural Resources and Society for Conservation Biology, College of Forestry and Natural Resources.  Recorded by CSU Instructional Services as TV09555. April 11, 1995. Other speakers: Curt Meine, Susan Jacobson, Stewart Pickett, Patricia Nelson-Limrick. Total tape length, 43 minutes. VHS format. 

1995. Earth Day, April 21, 1995. VHS tape. Brief interview with Holmes Rolston, III, Channel 14 News. This is filed with a similar interview in 1993.

1996

1997

1997. "Genetic Creativity: Diversity and Complexity in Natural History." Lecture 1 of the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, series 1997/1998. Lecture given November 10, 1997. About one hour. In several formats:

Online at:    http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37690   for lecture 1, lecture 10, and book summary

Lecture 1.   Genetic Creativity: Diversity and Complexity in Natural History,
Online at:      hdl.handle.net/10217/37813 

1. VHS in PAL (UK and European system), the original recording

2. BETACAM SP MASTER, translated from PAL to NTSC (the U.S. system)

3. VHS

4. DVD format

A DVD copy is also in general circulation, CSU Library.

QH426.R6573 1997

Also a CD with streaming video files: Gifford_lec_01.wmv

Gifford_lec_10.wmv

Lecture 10. Genes, Genesis and God, 1 hour.

Online at:    hdl.handle.net/10217/37814

The ten lectures were:

1. Genetic Creativity: Diversity and Complexity in Natural History

2. Genetic Values: Intrinsic, Inclusive, Distributed, Shared

3. Genetic Identity: Conserved and Integrated Values

4. Genes and the Genesis of Human Culture

5. Genes and the Genesis of Science

6. Genes and the Genesis of Ethics

7. Ethics Naturalised and Universalised

8. Genes and the Genesis of Religion

9. Genes and the Prolific Earth

10. Genes, Genesis and God.

Only Lectures 1 and 10 were recorded. Lecture 10 is next entry. Lecture series published as: Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

1. VHS in PAL (UK and European system), the original recording

2. BETACAM SP MASTER, translated from PAL to NTSC (the U.S. system)

3. VHS

4. DVD format

A DVD copy is also in general circulation, CSU Library.

BJ1311.R652 1997

 See also the main Gifford Lectures website:  https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/holmes-rolston-iii

1998

1998. "Genes, Genesis and God," Mini-Gifford Lectures. Three lectures at First Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, Colorado, summarizing themes from Rolston's University of Edinburgh Gifford Lectures, given three months prior.

1. Genes in Natural History, February 28, 1998. About one hour.

2. Genes and Ethics. March 1, 1998. About one hour.

3. Genes and Religion. March 9, 1998. About one hour.

In VHS format.

1998. Carl Howie Lectures, Howie Center for Science, Art, and Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. Series theme: "Let there be light": Science, Theology, and Aesthetic Experience of Nature. Three lectures:

Lecture 1. The Planet Gone Wild, October 9, 1998. 39 minutes.  Online at:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70419

"The Earth produces of itself." Mark 4.28

1. Planetary Aesthetics: Earth from Space

2. The Wild Planet: Biological Beauty

3. Wildlands and Wonder

4. The Planet with Promise

Lecture 2. Animals: Beasts Present in Flesh and Blood, October 9. 1998. 52 minutes.  Online at:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70418

"The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God." Psalm 104.21

1. Born Wild and Free

2. Beauty in Motion

3. Predators and Prey

4. Humans: Aesthetic Animals

Lecture 3. Life: Perpetually Perishing, Perpetually Regenerated, October 10, 1998.   Online at:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70420

1 hour, 6 minutes

1. The Struggle for Survival

2. The Evolution of Pain

3. Regeneration and Redemption

4. A Cruciform Creation

All three lectures in three formats:

1. VHS format - without video excerpts

2. DVD format - with video excerpts

Copies of DVD format are also in CSU Library general circulation.

BH301.N3

R657 1998

pt. 1 pt. 2 pt. 3

1998. Howie Lectures, Panel Discussion: "Let there be light," Science, Theology, and Aesthetic Experience of Nature. October 10, 1999. Panel Discussion following Rolston's three lectures above. VHS format only.

1999

1999. "Genes, Genesis and God." Keynote address at Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science (later named Metanexus), April 19, 1999. About one hour.

In several formats:

VHS tape 1, tape 2, tape 2. Raw footage

Beta SP, Raw footage

VHS edited version, with PowerPoint slides included

DVD format.

Summary: The genesis of life on Earth is keyed to genes, located in organisms in evolutionary ecosystems. Molecular genetics is integrated into developing natural history, with spectacular levels of achievement and power, resulting in the myriad values of nature and culture. But there is remarkable scientific and philosophical debate about order and disorder, randomness and probability, the inevitable and the contingent, actualities and possibilities, as these result in increasing diversity and complexity over the evolutionary epic. The DNA in organisms is vital sets of information molecules, dramatically perpetuated and elaborated across species lines, stimulated by Earth's dynamic environments. This biological information originating over time displays a cumulative creativity that, although described by science, is nowhere an implication of biological theory. Such genesis invites an account of God as the Ground of Information.

A copy of the DVD format is also in CSU Library, general circulation.

BJ1311.R652 1999

1999. "Genes, Genesis and God: Values in Natural and Cultural History," President's Lecture Series, University of Montana. February 15, 1999. VHS format.

1999. "The Role of Philosophy and Ethics in Deciding Environmental Issues," North Idaho College Public Forum # 1350, Coeur d'Alene, ID. Interview on KSPS, Spokane, WA, with Tony Stewart, Show Host, and Jennelle Burke, an environmental lawyer.29 minutes.  Aired: October 22, 1999.  Regional PBS Station, aired in seven states and two Canadian provinces.

1999. Keynote lecture, "Nature for Real: Is Nature a Social Construct?" at Pacific Northwest Conference on Philosophy, North Idaho College, Coeur d'Alene, ID, October 22-23, 1999. Thomas Flint, Conference Coordinator. VHS tape, October 22, 1999.  Poor recording, too dark. Camera operator did not know how to deal with PowerPoint lighting situation.

1999. Lecture: "Genes, Genesis, and God" at Pacific Northwest Conference on Philosophy, North Idaho College, Coeur d'Alene, ID, October 22-23, 1999. Thomas Flint, Conference Coordinator. VHS tape, October 22, 1999. Poor recording, too dark.  Camera operator did not know how to deal with PowerPoint lighting situation.

2000

2001

2002

2002. Davidson College Graduation, May 19, 2002. Rolston Receives Honorary Doctorate of Letters (Litt. D.) from his alma mater. VHS format. Ceremony is about five minutes in longer tape.

2002. "The Good Samaritan and his Genes," Holmes Rolston, III. Lecture at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 9, 2002. Conference on Biology and Morality. Discussion follows. Total time 1 hour, 12 minutes.   Audio with frequent accompanying slides.  Online at:     https://hdl.handle.net/10217/234763

In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette

2. Audio CD

The lecture is published as "The Good Samaritan and His Genes." Pages 238-252 in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds., Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004.  Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37322 

2003

2003. Rolston interview by Robert Siegel on national NPR radio, program "All Things Considered," immediately following the press conference at which Rolston was announced as Templeton Prize laureate for 2003. March 19, 2003.  About 4 minutes.Audio CD.  Rolston Claims Templeton Prize. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Prof. Holmes Rolston, winner of this year's Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. He is a Philosopher and Presbyterian Minister known as the "father of environmental ethics."  Since 1975, he has been writing about the religious imperative to respect nature.  The interview as also archived online at the NPR website.

In two formats:

1. Audio cassette

2. Audio CD

Online audio recording:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37608 

2003. Rolston interview on Australian Radio National, program "Breakfast." Interviewer: Peter Thompson. Templeton Prize Winner.  Live on air, March 26, 2003.  7 minutes. Global warming more threat than Saddam Hussein.  Four main threats and concerns on world agenda: (1) war and peace, (2) escalating population, (3) escalating consumption, (4) environmental degradation.  All are entwined.  Rolston quarrels both with value-free science and with anthropocentric theologians.  As science advances, religion retreats? No, after 400 years of science, the value questions are as sharp and painful as ever.  Dominion over nature?  Or trustees, caretakers.  Science doesn't give those answers. Rolston reared in rural Valley of Virginia.  People were poor, without toilets and running water in Depression Era.  But they were rich in other senses, loved the gospel and their landscape, and were often happier than those who live there now.  

2003. Rolston interview on Utah Public Radio, program "Access Utah."  Interviewer Lee Austin. Live on KUSU, KUSR-FM, and rebroadcast throughout the state.  25 minutes. Rolston to receive the Templeton Prize at Buckingham Palace, May 7.  Lecturing at Utah State University.

Came as a surprise. Rolston wears two hats: science and religion and conserving nature. Reverence for nature versus respect for nature. Both value-free science and anthropocentric theology devalue nature. Biblical dominion over nature. Mastery and control versus tending the garden Earth. Psalmists, Job, Jesus celebrate glories in natural world. In biology values are pervasive. Earth has genetic natural history, marvelous creativity, divine creativity. Rolston a "philosopher gone wild." "Wild" has positive uses, as in wilderness. Biodiversity.

Call-ins. Wilderness on public lands in the West. But only 5% of U.S. landscape is wilderness nationwide. A philosopher at a cow college claims to be wiser than Socrates. Socrates was right: "An unexamined life is not worth living."  But he was wrong:  "Trees and country places can't teach me anything."  Rolston is wiser than Socrates: "Life in an unexamined world is not worthy living either." Rolston reared among Shenandoah Valley Scots Presbyterians, who loved gospel and landscape. Colorado and Utah have purple mountain majesties above fruited plains.  What a society does to its slaves, women, minorities--and wildlife and wildlands--reveals the character of that society.  Rolston has been hugging trees for three decades and wins a million dollar prize. He is headed for Buckingham Palace, then the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana, then will go searching for gorillas in Uganda. Endowing chair at Davidson College with prize money.

Audio CD format.

2003. Holmes Rolston interviewed on Radio Vaticana by Carol Glatz. Vatican Radio.  Aired variously in 61 countries on 5 continents. 14 minutes, in English.  Rolston on intrinsic value.  Childhood memories from the cradle of surrounding nature in Scots Presbyterian Valley of Virginia.  Both biologists and theologians challenged at first by Rolston's arguments for intrinsic value.  Biologists now keenly interested in biodiversity conservation and theologians with new interest in human relations to natural world.  Enlightened self-interest cleans up the water and air, provides sustainable forestry.  But this is only half of environmental ethics.  Humane treatment of animals, saving wilderness areas and endangered species requires caring for nature for what it is in itself.  People from all over the world come to see wild nature in the Rocky Mountain West.  Environmental concerns involve a just distribution of goods of the Earth.  Abundant life in the Bible does not demand escalating consumption.  The main agenda in the new millennium is to get humans into a sustainable relationship with their environment and that requires both justice and caring for the creation.  Rolston endows chair at Davidson College.

In two formats:

1. Audio tape cassette

2. Audio CD

2003. Holmes Rolston interviewed by UCB - United Christian Broadcasters of Europe. Interviewer George Luke. Recorded May 6, 2003 and broadcast variously on Christian radio stations in Europe. 3 minutes. Pamela Thompson on Sir John Templeton founding the Templeton Prize after the Nobel Prizes. Rolston comments on his surprise at winning the prize. Rolston will endow chair at Davidson College, North Carolina.

Format: Audio CD

2003. Rolston and pasqueflowers. Filmed, April 14, 2003 at Fort Collins Gateway Park, Poudre Canyon, and edited by Joe Schwind. Holmes Rolston, III, looking at pasqueflowers, raw tape, 10 minutes, rough edit, 3 minutes. DVCAM

2003. Rolston and pasqueflowers. Filmed, April 14, 2003 at Fort Collins Gateway Park, Poudre Canyon, and edited, Sept. 19, 2003, by Joe Schwind. VHS tape. Holmes Rolston, III, looking at pasqueflowers. Two short segments, each 54 seconds, prepared for use at Rolston appearance and interview by Robert Schuler at the Crystal Cathedral, Los Angeles, October 12, 2003.

In three formats:

1. DVCAM

2. VHS

3.  DVD disks, 2 ½ minutes. Rolston viewing Pasqueflower.  2 disks, one regular, one .mp4 file.

See also https://hdl.handle.net/10217/192784 

2003. "Environmental Ethics." Tele-conference, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, April 13, 2005. Rolston at Colorado State University video-linked to a class at Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.  The host professor in the class in Mexico is Juvenal Gutierrez, former student of Holmes Rolston, III at Colorado State University.  

2003. Holmes Rolston III, interviewed on Colorado Public Radio, "Colorado Matters," April 18, 2003.   Online audio at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37386 

 Templeton Prize laureate. Interviewer: Dan Drayer. About 25 minutes. KCFR, Denver and CPR throughout the state. Rolston, "father of environmental ethics," wins Templeton Prize. Rolston pleased at recognition of the conservation causes which he has been advocating. Caring for the natural world. Biblical views of nature versus traditional Christian dominion of nature. Stewards versus trustees.Dominion of nature versus tending the garden earth. Discovering a Whorled Pogonia, rare in Virginia, a moment of truth. Rolston's lover's quarrels with science and religion. Science and nature as value-free until used by humans; theologians and human dominion over nature.

Intrinsic value in nature. Rolston finds that biology is not value-free, but value-laden. Species defending their own kind. Psalm 23 portrays nature as both green pastures and the valley of the shadow of death. Life renewed in the midst of its perpetual perishing. Rolston recalls lionesses killing zebra in Africa, and Bible verse about lions seeking their prey from God. Humans too belong on the planet, unique species with culture and conscience, making possible an overview of the Earth and responsibility for it.

Rolston's rearing in Shenandoah Valley with Scots Presbyterians, who loved gospel and landscape. Recollections of his father and grandfather, of wandering rural landscapes in Virginia and Alabama. Teaching at Colorado State University. Getting recognition on the margins of philosophy. Philosophy of nature versus philosophy of science. Problematic theology of nature. Student interest in Rolston's classes. Rolston's work with policy and government organizations.

State of the environment in 2003. Good and bad news: cleaner water, air, wilderness areas conserved; global warming and reduced environmental concern in government. Spotted owl versus loggers in Pacific Northwest. Short-term versus long-term solutions. Endangered Species Act in limbo. Rolston uses Templeton prize to endow chair in science and religion at Davidson College.

In two formats:

1. Audio tape cassette

2. Audio CD. CD has two tracks: Track 1: Denver Health Ballot. Track 2. Templeton Prize Winner.

2003. Holmes Rolston III, interviewed on Jefferson Public Radio, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon. On program: Jefferson Exchange. 1 hour. Interviewer Jeff Golden. Producer Keith Henty. Aired on about a dozen regional PBS stations and some adjacent Canadian stations. Environmental ethics. Templeton prize. Rolston's rearing in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. From his cradle, Jump Mountain on the skyline. Shenandoah Valley farmers, Scots Presbyterians, in those days earthy people, loved God's good creation. First interest in physics, later biology. Darwinian evolutionary natural history and Christian monotheism. Dominion over nature, tending and caring for the garden earth. Jesus and the glory of the wildflowers.

Intrinsic value of wild nature. Rolston's lover's quarrels with science and nature as value-free, with philosophy and theology as too human-centered. Respect versus reverence for nature. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, political versus philosophical reasons for conservation. Many citizens concerned for saving wild nature, illustrated in Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act. Conservative Christians and environmental concern. Would Jesus drive a SUV? James Watt and apocalyptic Christianity. Concern for quality of life for children and grandchildren.

Call in questions. Treatment of animals. Humans as part of or apart from nature. Human uniqueness in culture. Humans alone put nature in jeopardy and have responsibility for saving nature. Nature as a wonderland, a marvelous Earth, even if not seen as sacred. Scientific management of nature. Genetic modification of nature. Surprise at receiving the Templeton prize, yet to be awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace forthcoming on May 7, 2003.

2003. Armenian Radio Interview. Holmes Rolston interviewed on VEM Radio, FM 101.6, Yervevan, Armenia. Interviewer: Manuk Hergnyan. Audio CD. 25 minutes. Aired September 7, 2003. Interview took place earlier in Philadelphia, PA. Program in Armenian, with Rolston interview in English. Environmental ethics, religion and ecology, Templeton prize laureate. What is environmental ethics? Duties to and values in the natural world. Christianity and conserving nature. Respect for life becomes reverence for life. Excessive concern for animals such as pets, while poor go hungry. But humans should not always win and animals lose. Loggers versus owls in U.S. Pacific Northwest. Short-term versus long-term solutions. Solving environmental problems where they arise in society, rather than by sacrificing nature. Economic activity and the will of God. Productivity of the land is part of the goodness of life, but, as Jesus says, persons do not live by bread alone, and the rich foolishly build bigger barns. The drive in global capitalism to amass more wealth will not bring an abundant life. Self-control, sustainability, knowing when to say enough. Need to face a sustainable future.

Science and religion. Physics and theology relate rather well in contemporary cosmology. Biology and religion relate with difficulty. Evolutionary natural history can seem wasteful, nature red in tooth and claw. But Darwinian natural history does find prolific creativity, biodiversity. Conservation biologists are as concerned as Christians for saving creation, a shared concern. Conflict, but also dialogue. Science discovers facts, but science has no competence in recommending values, in judging good and evil. The value questions remain acute and painful. Comments on receiving Templeton prize and endowing chair in science and religion at Davidson College.

2003. "Genes, Genesis and God." Lecture at Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona, November 17, 2003. Sponsored by Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies. About one hour.

VHS format.

2004

2004. Radio interview, Station KSFR Community Radio, Chico, California. Live on air January 20, 2004, 5.30 p.m. PST, and rebroadcast on Pacific Network to 24 stations. Interviewer: Randy Larsen. 55 minutes, lengthy interview mixing Rolston's ideas and his biographical experience. Why environmental ethics, in addition to environmental law, policy, economics. Duties directly to animals and plants, their intrinsic value. Hunting. Endangered species. Christianity as a source for environmental ethics.Rolston's response to Lynn White, Jr. with his claim that Christian dominion over nature is responsible for the environmental crisis. Jesus celebrating flowers, his earthy parables.

Rolston in a lover's quarrel with the three disciplines he loves: philosophy, theology, and science. Rolston's experiences on diverse landscapes. Positive aesthetic experiences on all landscapes, with John Muir: "no ugly wild landscapes." Reverential attitude toward nature. Place of science in aesthetic appreciation of nature; Rolston's recollections of his mother, father, grandparents and their love of nature. Science enriches a sense of creativity on Earth. Appreciation of systemic processes, as well as of individual lives. Quality of life, in both California and Colorado, requires both nature and culture. Nature programming on TV. Awe at the stars in the night sky, but the Western cowboy's wondered "if their glory exceeds that of ours."

Rolston's heroes: Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Rachel Carson, Phil Pister, David Brower, but also his parents and grandparents and their Scottish heritage. Optimism vs. pessimism. Much accomplished in Rolston's lifetime. Main environmental threat is escalating capitalism and consumerism, difficult to regulate. Law of the Sea, Antarctica, European Union demonstrating international cooperation. Rolston bought his own tombstone in a family cemetery in rural Virginia, had "Philosopher Gone Wild" inscribed on it, then went out the next day and climbed a high mountain on his childhood skyline (Jump Mountain in Goshen Pass). Rolston recalls spiritual experiences in nature, discovering a Whorled Pogonia in remote Virginia mountains, also at a rock cut in Tennessee Mountains, where he was surprised by a sheriff hunting moonshiners. How did his ought arise from rock? Current lectures and international travels in progress.

2004. Radio interview, Station KOFO, Ottawa, Kansas, January 22, 2004. Audio CD. 12 minutes. Holmes Rolston interviewed in relation to two lectures on the campus of Ottawa University. Topics: Bible and ecology, global capitalism, American empire.Genes, genesis, and God. Marvelous creativity found in evolutionary genetics. Rolston's lover's quarrels with both biology and theology. Opportunities for opening up new perspectives. Remarks about winning the Templeton prize.

2004. "Christians, Wildlife, Wildlands." Sermon by Holmes Rolston III at Saint Philip Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas, January 25, 2004. Presiding pastor William C. Poe.

In two formats:

1. Audio tape cassette

2. Audio CD disk.

2004. "Challenges in Environmental Ethics," Holmes Rolston, III. Lecture at Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT, February 13, 2004. VHS format. About one hour. Fair recording, in difficult lighting situation, with speaker plus videoclips.

2004. Institute for the Study of Science and Religion, Star Island, Portsmouth, NH. Address: "Using Water Naturally." July 24-31, 2004. Address on July 29, 2004. One hour, six minutes

2004. "The Science and Religion Dialogue: Why It Matters." Public event sponsored by the International Society for Science and Religion, Sheraton Boston Hotel, August 19, 2004. Three Templeton Prize Laureates in an exchange across the common borders of science and theology. (1) George F. R. Ellis, 2004 Templeton laureate, theoretical cosmologist. (2) Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, Colorado State University. (3) John C. Polkinghorne, Mathematical Physicist, Cambridge University, and Anglican priest. Moderated by Owen Gingerich, Astronomy, Harvard University. Question and answer session at the end. Filmed by WBGH Boston (PBS), and webcast. About a hour and a half.
Also: Archived online, Rolston lecture only  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37482

In several formats:

1. VHS

2. DVD

A DVD copy is in general circulation, CSU Library.

BL241.E55 2004

2004. "Genes, Genesis and God."  Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, October 4, 2004.  About one hour. In DVD format.

2004. "The Good Samaritan and his Genes," Holmes Rolston, III. Lecture at University of Virginia Medical School, October 27, 2004. After introductory remarks, the filmed lecture is entirely just the PowerPoint slides, about 45 minutes, and there follows a reasonably good question and answer session, about 10 minutes. The lecture is published as "The Good Samaritan and His Genes."  Pages 238-252 in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds., Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004.  

2004. "Challenges in Environmental Ethics," Lecture at Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 13, 2004. In VHS format. Fair recording, in difficult lighting situation, with speaker plus videoclips.

2005

2005. "Challenges in Environmental Ethics," Videoclips, Commentary, Holmes Rolston, III. Shot at Tamasag, CSU facility near Bellvue, Colorado, February 18, 2005.
Online at:        http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37816

Edited DVD 55 minutes.

Also a CD with streaming media files: challenges_EE.wmv

Cases discussed:

1. Antelope Fence, Red Rim, Wyoming

2. Hunter's Ethic, Colorado

3. Bear Hunting

4. Drowning Whales in Alaska

5. Drowning Bison in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

6. Elephant Calf Euthanized, Botswana

7. Wawona Tree, Yosemite National Park, California

8. Tree Spiking

9. San Clemente Goats, San Clemente Island, California

10. Old Growth Forest, Pacific Northwest, USA

11. Yellowstone Fires, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

12. Home Planet: Earth

In three formats:

1. BETACAM SP raw footage, tape 1

BETACAM SP raw footage, tape 2

2. DVD finished edit.

A DVD copy is also in general circulation CSU Library.

GE42.R667 2005

2005. "The Good Samaritan and his Genes," Holmes Rolston, III, Mendel Medal Lecture, Villanova University, Villanova, PA. April 2, 2005. Lecture given on the occasion of receiving the Mendel Medal awarded by Villanova University. About one hour.Fair photography due to the low light situation in a PowerPoint lecture. Audio is good, PowerPoint slides visible, but the speaker is largely in darkness.

In two formats:

1. VHS

2. DVD

The lecture is published as "The Good Samaritan and His Genes." Pages 238-252 in Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss, eds., Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004.  Online at;     http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37322 

2005. Radio Panel, Earth Day. Station KEMC, PBS, Billings, Montana, aired April 22, 2005. Kris Prinzing, host. Panelists: Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University; Walter Gulick, Montana State University at Billings; William Lynn, Center for Humans and Nature, New York. Panelists remarks and exchange, followed by call-ins and dialogue. One and one-half hours. In the Rolston segment at the start: What science and economics cannot teach us about nature but religion can. Promised Land and Promised Earth, lands flowing with milk and honey, if and only if justice rolls down like waters. Gulick segment: Corporate capitalism and its threat to visions of a good Earth. Respect for life on Earth versus emphasis on economics. Rolston: Earth as commodity versus Earth as community. Lynn segment: Earth Day and global values, values in politics, the culture wars, animal welfare and protection, creating a moral vision for life on Earth. Call in questions and discussion: Power and wealth corrupt community values. Conservative Christian environmental conservation. Creation care Christians and social liberals. Creation care Christians and apocalyptic Christianity. Ranches and their attitudes to conserving nature. Restoration of wolves in Yellowstone.

In two formats:

1. Audio cassettes

Cassette 1, Part 1, Part 2

Cassette 2, Part 3

2. Set of two DVD disks

2005. "Promised Land and Planet of Promise." Lecture at Chautauqua Institution, New York. August 3, 2005. About 20 minutes.

In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette

2. CD Audio disk.

2005. "Nature and Spirit." Lecture at Chautauqua Institution, New York. August 4, 2005. About 20 minutes.

In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette

2. CD Audio disk.

2005. "Cruciform Nature." Lecture at Chautauqua Institution, New York. August 5, 2005. About 20 minutes.

In two formats:

1. Audiotape cassette

2. CD Audio disk.

2005. Environmental Ethics, taught by Holmes Rolston, III, at Yale University. The first four class lectures were recorded, audiotape.

Class 1. Introductory. Humans and Nature. September 1, 2005. About 50 minutes.

Class 2. Emerson and Romanticism. September 6, 2005. About 50 minutes.

Class 3. John Stuart Mill and Nature. September 8, 2005. About 50 minutes

Class 4. Values in Nature. September 13, 2006. Values in Nature, based on Chapter 1 in Rolston, Environmental Ethics. About 50 minutes.

In two formats:

1. Audio tape cassettes. Classes 1 & 2 on tape 1. Classes 3 & 4 on tape 2.

2. CD disk. Four audio CD disks, one for each class.

2006

2006. "Genes, Genesis, and God," Richard J. Burke Lecture, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. March 13, 2006. About one hour. 

Online at:      https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235391

Holmes Rolston delivers the inaugurating Richard J. Burke Lecture in Philosophy, Religion and Society at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan on March 13, 2006. Professor Rolston discusses the debate about order and disorder, randomness and probability, actualities and possibilities, as these result in increasing diversity and complexity over the evolutionary epic. He features the increasing information in genes that appears in natural history, resulting in genetic coding, eucaryotes, sexuality, societies, and mind, with human capacities for culture, including science, religion and ethics. Life opens up increasingly new possibility space. In both nature and culture, life gets more promise, becomes more promising. Life is self-transforming, takes on meaning. This invites and demands deeper explanations, philosophically and theologically.

In two formats:

1. BETA CAM original tape raw footage

2. DVD format.

A DVD copy is also in general circulation, CSU Library.

BJ1311.R652 2006

2006. "Challenges in Environmental Ethics," Richard J. Burke Lecture, Oakland University, Rochester, MI. March 14, 2006. About one hour.

This lecture is essentially the same as:
“Challenges in Environmental Ethics.” Dr. Rolston presents a commentary on environmental ethics by discussing the following twelve videoclips: 1. Antelope Fence, Red Rim, Wyoming; 2. Hunter's Ethic, Colorado; 3. Bear Hunting; 4. Drowning Whales in Alaska; 5. Drowning Bison in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; 6. Elephant Calf Euthanized, Botswana; 7. Wawona Tree, Yosemite National Park, California; 8. Tree Spiking; 9. San Clemente Goats, San Clemente Island, California; 10. Old Growth Forest, Pacific Northwest, USA; 11. Yellowstone Fires, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming; 12. Home Planet: Earth.

Presentation shot at Tamasag, CSU facility near Bellvue, Colorado, February 18, 2005.

Online at:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37816

In two formats:

1. BETA CAM original tape (2 tapes: 1 of 2; 2 of 2)

2. DVD format.

A DVD copy is also in general circulation, CSU Library.

GE42.R667 2006

2006. July 27, 2006. Science, Religion, and the Environment.  Panel Discussion, public event sponsored by the Center for Ethics, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.  In a summer series, Exploring the Landscapes of Environmental Thought: An Environmental Ethics Institute in the Heart of Montana. Panelists:  Holmes Rolston, III, Colorado State University; Albert Borgmann, University of Montana; Ned Hettinger, College of Charleston, SC; John Hart, Boston University.  Produced by Montana Community Access Television (MCAT), Missoula, MT. 

In two formats:

1. Mini DV originals, raw footage, three tapes

2. DVD format. Boxed with the following. 

2006. "Generating Intelligent Life on Earth: Six Looming Questions in Evolutionary Biology," University of Montana, Missoula, MT.  About one hour. July 28, 2006.  DVD format, boxed with the preceding.

Public lecture, sponsored by the Center for Ethics, University of Montana, Missoula, MT.

Also for this lecture, there is the Master Cam Tape, DV CAM, raw footage.

A copy of the DVD format is also in general circulation in CSU Library.

GE42.R6675 2006 disk 1-2

2006. Business and Environment. Interview with Holmes Rolston, III, on Internet Radio, Station CHSR, Los Angeles, program called Enlightened Business, host Kathryn Alexander. Aired October 5, 2006. Rolston interview is about ten minutes into the program and lasts about seven and a half minutes. In two formats:

1. Audio tape cassette

2. CD disk

2006. "Generating Life on Earth: Six Looming Questions," Holmes Rolston, III. Lecture at The Ohio State University, November 2, 2006. DVD. One hour. Excellent photography. In two formats:

1. DV CAM original tape

2. DVD

Outline:

1. Creating information.

2. Inevitable vs. contingent creativity.

3. Possibilities: Omnipresent vs. emerging.

4. Co-option generating novel possibilities.

5. Anthropic biology?

6. Human uniqueness: Intelligent spirit.

A version of this lecture is published as:

"Generating Life on Earth: Five Looming Questions." Pages 195-223 in F. LeRon Schults, ed. The Evolution of Rationality. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006.

An abbreviated earlier version, which appeared in print later is:

"Originating Life: Six Big Questions." With questions and commentary. Pages 13-21

in Connie Bertka, Nancy Roth, and Matthew Shindell, eds., Workshop Report: Philosophical, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Astrobiology. Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007.

A copy of the DVD is in general circulation, CSU Library.

GE42.R66752 2006

2006. Panel Discussion on the Two Cultures: Science and Religion in the Age of Darwin. Ohio State University, November 2, 2006. DVD format. Panelists: John F. Haught, Theology, Georgetown University; Edward J. Larson, Law, University of Georgia; Holmes Rolston, III, Philosophy, Colorado State University; Owen Gingerich, Astronomy, Harvard University. Moderator: Joan M. Herbers, Dean, Biology, Ohio State University. About one hour.

2006. Rolston on Danish Radio: "Kirkens rolle i miljobatten (The role of the church in the environmental debate), aired December 3, 2006. Aired on DR = Danish Radio, the Danish equivalent of BBC. Program: Mennersker og tro (People and Faith).Interviewer Anders Laugesen. DVD format.

Track 1 - Rolston interview in English, 26 minutes.

Track 2 - Program in Danish, 49 minutes. "Pastor Martin Ishoy on the role of the church in the environmental debate and sustainability in a Christian perspective. Afterward, the father of environmental ethics, Professor Holmes Rolston, III, talks about how he sees signs of God's existence in the universe." Rolston is mostly talked about in Danish, speaking himself in two brief segments.

2007

2007. Northland College, Ashland, WI. Van Evera Lecture Series on Environment, March 23-25, 2007.

Two radio interviews:

1. Interview on Station WOJB, 88.9, Hayward, WI, aired March 15, 2007. Interviewer Eric Schudring. About 10-15 minutes.

2. Interview on Station KUWS, 91.3, PBS station, Superior, Wisconsin, aired March 19, 2007. Also aired on a network of PBS stations in the area. Interviewer Mike Simonson. About 10 minutes.

In audio CD format.

2007. Earth Day 2007. Holmes Rolston III interviewed on Station KRFC, Fort Collins, CO. Aired April 20, 2007. 6 minute interview. Caroline Harding, host. Audio CD.

2007. Down to Earth: Persons in Nature. Classroom lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, in PHIL 345, Environmental Ethics, December 4, 2007. 

Recorded in Room 7, Eddy Building, Colorado State University. On two DVD disks:

Disk 1: Ethics living in place; Earth as home planet; Aristotle and humans as political animals, living in cities; humans as both citizens of cities and residences on landscapes; correcting Socrates (who thought that nature could not teach him anything); living on Western landscapes with "nature in your face": four priorities on the current world agenda (peace and war, population, development, environment); escalating population; escalating consumption (affluenza). 1 hour, 15 minutes.

Disk 2: Humans as earthling overseers; environmental ethics as respect for life; human biography as storied residence on Earth; test for appreciating a resident environment; three role models for living in nature: Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher; John Muir; Aldo Leopold, founder of the land ethic. Leopold's experience of thinking like a mountain and seeing "green fire" in a dying wolf's eyes; Earth ethics and overview of the blue planet. 1 hours, 16 minutes. A copy is also in general circulation in CSU Library holdings.

GF21.R6673 2007 Disk 1 Disk 2

Also a CD with streaming media files: Down_Earth_1.wmv

Down_Earth_2.wmv

Also online at: Down to Earth: Persons in Nature, Disk 1, online, streaming video:      http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37817

Down to Earth: Persons in Nature, Disk 2, online, streaming video:        http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37818

2008

2008. Philosopher Gone Wild - Photo-media Biography, Holmes Rolston, III. DVD disk. 43 minutes. Also CD with streaming media files: philosopher.wmv.  Revised 2020.

Also online: Philosopher Gone Wild - Photo-media Biography. Online, streaming video:   43 minutes.       http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37821 

Shenandoah Valley childhood. Davidson College. Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Edinburgh. Southwest Virginia, Walnut Grove Church, Grand Canyon River run. Colorado State University, classroom 2007. Interview, University of Georgia.  Natural value, from Rolston-Rollin debate, 1989.   Africa: lion kill, wild dogs, elephant charge, gorillas. Wild Rocky Mountains. Asia and Antarctica. Science and Religion, from Oakland University, Michigan, 2006.  Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, 1997-1998.  Wilderness. Templeton Prize in Buckingham Palace, 2003.  In the Woods. The Pasqueflower

2008. Lectures at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, March 28-30, 2008. 8th Annual Religion and Science Conference.

Audio CD's.

Lecture 1. Generating Life on Earth: Five Looming Questions, Friday March 28, 2008, on three CD's Part 1 and Part 2. Disk 3: Discussion.

Lecture 2. Human Uniqueness: Spirited Mind, Saturday, March 29, 2008. Disk 1, Lecture. Disk 2. Discussion.

Lecture 3. Three Big Bangs, Sunday, March 30, 2008. Disk 1. Worship and Lecture. Disk 2. Discussion.

2008. Retirement. Philosophy Department Retirement Dinner and Recognition. DVD. 58 minutes. With brief extract from Liberal Arts Retirement Reception and Recognition, April 17, 2008.  

2008. "Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life Mind," Willard O. Eddy Lecture, Colorado State University, September 18, 2008. DVD, 1 hour, 23 minutes.

Willard O. Eddy lecture given by Dr. Holmes Rolston, III, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado on September 18, 2008. Introduction by Bernard E. Rollin.

Dr. Rolston speaks to "three big bangs" in natural history.  Scientific natural history discovers "three big bangs," each marking a serendipitous singularity.  1. At the primordial big bang, matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms, but with the remarkable capacity to generate heavier elements, without which life would not be possible. 2.  Life explodes on Earth with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information.  Across a singular natural history, life persists in the midst of its perpetual perishing, generating and regenerating billions of species. These increase biodiversity, with trajectories escalating biocomplexity.  3. The human genius, a massive singularity, crosses a trans-genetic threshold, generating language and making possible cumulative transmissible cultures, radically novel in time and in scale.  Life becomes ideational; ideas pass from mind to mind. Ideas generate ideals.  The nature of matter-energy, the nature of genes and their genesis, invites those at the center of complex caring intelligence to wonder where they are, who they are, and what they ought to do. Is there sacred Logos in, with, and under a cybernetic system with such breakthrough creativity?

There is also a copy in general circulation, Colorado State University Library.

Also online: Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind. Online, streaming video, CSU media, 1 hours, 23 minutes. Willard O. Eddy Lecture at Colorado State University, September 18, 2008.   http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37823

A later version of this lecture is: "Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind,"   the Carter-Chalker Lectureship on Faith and Contemporary Issues, The College of Idaho, November 17, 2013. See that entry.

2008. Lectures by Holmes Rolston III in Taiwan 2008. Six lectures at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Lecture # 1. "Philosophy Gone Wild."  "Values in Nature: Duties to Nature." October 7, 2008. 2 DVD disks, about 4 hours, other lectures in Chinese. Rolston lecture in English, Disk 2, starting at 11.00 minutes.

Lecture # 2: "Science and Religion Face the Environmental Crisis." October 14, 2008. 2 DVD disks, about 4 hours, other lectures in Chinese. Rolston lecture in English, with Chinese translation. Disk 2, starting at 19.00 minutes.

Lecture # 3. "Duties to Nature: Can We Follow Nature? Ought We to Follow Nature?" October 21, 2008. 2 DVD disks, about 4 hours, other lectures in Chinese. Rolston lecture in English with Chinese translation, Disk 2, starting at 2.00 minutes .

Lecture # 4. "A Managed Earth and the End of Nature. Nature and Culture in Environmental Ethics." October 28, 2008. 2 DVD disks, about 4 hours, other lectures in Chinese. Rolston lecture in English with Chinese translation, Disk 2, starting at 2.40 minutes.

Lecture # 5, "The Future of Environmental Ethics." November 4, 2008. 2 DVD disks, about 4 hours, other lectures in Chinese. Rolston lecture in English with Chinese translation, Rolston lecture, Disk 2, starting at 3.00 minutes.

Lecture # 6. "Environmental Ethics and Business." November 11, 2008. Rolston lecture, Disk 2, starting immediately. Lecture at Tainan Science Park.

2008. Holmes Rolston, III Lecture: "Nature's Revolt. Pushing Nature's Limits," given at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, October 8, 2008. Introduced by Jo Chiange-Hua Chen, professor of art. Sequential translation by Wang, Shun-Mei, professor of human ecology.

On two DVD disks. Plays on computer media player but may not play on DVD player Total time: about two hours. Good quality video.

Lecture part one is on Disk Part A.,

File: 200081008...Rolston01.mpg. Rolston lecture starts at 6 mins. 30 seconds. .

Lecture continues, concluded and Q&A on Disk Part B. File 20081008.... Rolston02.mpg

2008. Holmes Rolston, III, Lecture: "Values in Nature," given at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Gong Guan campus, October 13, 2008 Sequential translation by Yen, Mong-Yuan. Good quality video.

Plays on comuter media player but may not play on DVD player Total time: about two hours.

Three files on one DVD disk:

20081013 .....001).wmv

20081013 .....002).wmv

20081013.... .003).wmv

Note that these are .wmv files (streaming media files), not .mpg files.

2008. "Caring for the Earth: Promised Land and a Planet of Promise." Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, at Providence University, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan. St. Francis of Assisi Inaugural Lecture. October 17, 2008. DVD. About 1 hour. 20 minutes. In English with sequential translation into Chinese by Lin, Yih-Ren, Institute of Ecology, Providence University. Also a CD of photos of the occasion, .jpg digital photos.

2008. "Environmental Ethics and Sustainability" . Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, at National Taiwan University, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture and College of Life Sciences, November 12, 2008. 1. Sustainability: A comprehensive ethic. 2. Present duties to future generations. 3. America's duties to the world. 4. Ethics and economic development. 5. Sustainable development vs. Sustainable biosphere. Also there is a copy in general circulation, CSU Library.

2008. "The Future of Environmental Ethics." Thomas W. Overholt Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, at University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, November 20, 2008. 1 hour, 26 minutes. 1. A Managed Earth and the End of Nature? 2. Global Warming: Too Hot to Handle? 3. Human Nature: Pleistocene Appetites? 4. Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Biosphere. 5. Bioeiversity: Good for us; Good in itself. 6. Earth Ethics. With questions and answers. Also there is a copy in general circulation, CSU Library. Later version of this lecture is 2010, "The Future of Environmental Ethics," TILT lecture at Colorado State University, September 22, 2010. See there.

Online at: The Future of Environmental Ethics, Online, streaming video, Windows Media, via CSU media, 1 hour, 26 minutes.    http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37819 

2009

2009. "Sustainable Development versus Sustainable Biosphere." Holmes Rolston III lecture at American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chicago, February 14, 2009. DVD, 30 minutes. In sustainability debates. there are two poles, complements yet opposites. Economy can be prioritized, with the environment contributory to economics at the center. This is sustainable development, widely advocated, including statements by the United Nations. At the other pole, the environment is prioritized. A sustainable biospshere model demands a baseline quality of environment, respect for the integrity of natural systems. The economy must be worked out within such quality of life in a quality environment. This is advocated by the Ecological Society of America. Neither economics nor ecology is well equiped to analyze this issue ethically.

Also there is a copy in general circulation, CSU Library

Also online at: Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Biosphere, Online, streaming video, Windows Media, 30 minutes.    http://hdl.handle.net/10217/40518

2009. "Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Need to be Science-Based?" Interview of Holmes Rolston, III, at University of Helsinki, Finland, March 25, 2009. DVD, 22 minutes. Science-based aesthetic appreciation of nature can differ significantly from non-science-based appreciation, for example in understanding a volcanic eruption in Hawaii geologically or as the anger of the goddess Pelé. Non-scientific appreciation can be sometimes appropriate as with enjoying fall leaf colors, but even this is enriched by science. Environmental aesthetics and environmental ethics: from beauty to duty. 

Also there is a copy in general circulation, CSU Library.

Also online: Does Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Need to be Science-Based? Online, streaming video, via CSU Media, Windows Media. Interview, University of Helsinki, March 25, 2009   http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37809

2009. "Holmes and Jane Rolston: Memories and Recollections." Holmes and Jane Rolston interviewed in their home, Fort Collins, Colorado, October 2009, by David Rolston. a relative. 2 DVD disks.

Disk 1. 53 Minutes. 

Holmes' childhood, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia

Jane's childhood, Richmond, Virginia

Holmes youth, Charlotte, NC

Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary

Holmes Graduate study, University of Edinburgh

Pastor, Walnut Grove and High Point Presbyterian Churches, Bristol, Virginia

Graduate study, Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Disk 1 online: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/38997

Disk 2. 48 minutes

Rolston, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University

University Distinguished Professor

Rolston's books and publications

Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998

Templeton Prize, 2003

Intellectual Biography, Saving Creation, 2009

Disk 2.  Online:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/38998

2010.

2010. "The Future of Environmental Ethics" Lecture at The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT), Colorado State University, September 22, 2010. DVD disk.

Also online: The Future of Environmental Ethics. Online, streaming video, Windows Media, via CSU media, 56 minutes.    Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80889

Similar lecture, in earlier form is "The Future of Environmental Ethics, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Thomas W. Overholt Lecture. November 20, 2008. See there.

2010.   Colorado State University event celebrating Founders Day, February 11, 2010, and honoring Myra Monfort.  Video produced for this occasion with Rolston statement of about one minute, about educators standing on the shoulders of giants, and Monfort donations helping to fulfill this possibility.   Four celebration events during March, April, and May, 2012.   DVD disk.  Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82163

2011

2011.    "Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind."   DVD. 1 hour, 20 mins. Lecture by Holmes Rolston III in the Catholic Heritage Lecture Series, Seattle University, February 10, 2011. There are "three big bangs" in natural history. 1. At the primordial big bang, matter-energy appears. 2. Life explodes on Earth with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information. 3. The human genius, a massive singularity, crosses a trans-genetic threshold, generating language and making possible cumulative transmissible cultures, radically novel in kind and in scale.

2012

2012.   "Three Big Questions. Big Bang: Start Up! Set Up?"    Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, with commentary by Roger Culver and Sanford Kern. Recorded February 16, 2012. DVD. 1 hour, 10 minutes. Produced by Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University. Elements essential to life are made in the stars. Some explode; their matter condensed as planets, on one of which life evolves What should we make of this? Dismiss the puzzle? It really isn't surprising that the universe has produced us. But those who want a fuller explanation will find it impressive to discover that what seem to be widely varied facts cannot vary widely if the universe is to generate matter, life, and mind Might the start up big bang might also be a set up for creative genesis. Does the astrophysics and microphysics shape our metaphysics? Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/67468.

2012.    "Three Big Questions. Life: Full House! Lonely Planet?"    Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, with commentary by Michael Antolin and John McKay. Recorded March 22, 2012. DVD. 1 hour, 13 minutes. Produced by the Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University. Where once there were no species on Earth, there are today five to ten million. Information coded in DNA, a "cybernetic" molecule. makes possible a creative upflow of life struggling through turnover of species and resulting in more diverse and complex forms of life, producing a wonderland of biodiversity. Life is ever "conserved," biologists might say; life is perpetually "redeemed," theologians might say. Is such creative evolutionary natural history probable, improbably, lucky, random, ordered, disordered, inevitable? Is wonderland Earth a lonely planet? What of the human responsibility to respect life? Is life sacred? A gift?   Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/67472. 

2012.    "Three Big Questions. Human Singularity. Mind. Spirit."    Lecture by Holmes Rolston, III, with commentary by Wayne Viney and Bryan Dik. Recorded April 26, 2012. Two DVDs. Disk 1, Lecture, 44 minutes. Disk 2, Discusssison, 54 minutes.Produced by the Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University. Humans on Earth are a singularity beyond animal achievements, considering genetics, neuroscience, moral, psychological, philosophical, and spiritual experience. This gives humans a unique dignity. Science has been discovering deep space, deep time, and pushing deep down into subatomic nature On astronomical scales, we are cosmic dwarfs. But another perspective is possible: If we ask where the "deep" thoughts about this "deep" nature are, they are right here. Such thoughts are scientific, they are also philosophical and religious. We alone can ask big questions. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/67471.

2012.    "Closer to Truth. Why Science and Religion Think Differently."    DVD. 27 minutes. Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews four theologians at Helsingør, Denmark, and an atheist in London. Niels Henrik Gregersen, theologian, University of Copenhagen. Science is more analytical, religion is more synthetic, comprehensive. The two are not at war, but religion cuts a wider path through all of human experience. Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, theologian, Colorado State University (Rolstoninterview starts at 6 minutes, 30 seconds).

        Science is good at empirical questions, but does not touch the deeper value questions. After four hundred years of science, the deeper value questions are as sharp and as painful as ever. Christopher Southgate, theologian, University of Exeter. Science focuses on limited questions, but most aspects of life go beyond to questions of personal experience and transcendent truth, the answers to which are far more difficult. Celia Deane-Drummond, theologian, Notre Dame University. The study of nature in science can point to God, but religion confronts ethical questions. The goal of the religious search is a transcendent God, who cannot be subject to the scientific analysis appropriate for the physical world.

         Anthony A. C. Grayling, philosopher, atheist, New College of the Humanities, London. Science has demands for rationality and is powerfully self-correcting. Religion has faith and suppresses doubt. Conclusions: Science cannot judge values and meaning, but it does not follow that the diverse religions can. The truth or falsity of religion must stand or fall on its own merits. Each should be assessed in its own light. The ultimate question is whether any transcendent reality exists beyond the reach of science. Aired on PBS, 2012.      Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/67470.

2012.    "Closer to Truth . Do General Principles Govern All Science?"     DVD. 26 minutes. Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews: Geoffrey West, physicist, Santa Fe Institute, on complex adaptive systems Martin Rees, astrophysics, Cambridge University, on complex systems resulting from simple laws. Stuart Kauffman, theoretical biologist, Santa Fe Institute and University of Calgary, on super-critical complex systems, molecular and economic. Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, Colorado State University, on three Big Bangs: matter-energy, life, human mind, genesis of cognitive complexity, revealing a Logos in creation. (Rolston interview starts at 15 minutes, 20 seconds.) David Deutsch, physicist, Oxford University, on good explanations in general systems theory.

          Among the conclusions: As we get closer to truth, everything seems more interconnected. God is consistent with these general principles, but not required for them. Aired on PBS, 2012.    Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/67469.

2012.     "Concerns Concerning Biosciences, Human Nature, and Governing Science."    DVD. 45 minutes. Seminar, Governing Science: Technological Progress, Ethical Norms, and Democracy, held at Princeton University, Department of Politics, April 13-14, 2012. Rolston lecture, April 13, 2012.

             The biological sciences have developed dramatically in the last half century, raising concerns about their implications for human nature and behavior. While such research can and ought shape policy, policy equally should critique such research. Science, as much as any other human institution, needs its humanist critics--ethicists, philosophers, theologians, policymakers. Analysis of a half-dozen claims coming from biological sciences, to demonstrate that half-truths, if taken for the whole, can be both misleading and dangerous. Fortunately scientists are also good at being their own critics. 1. Selfish Genes. 2. Genetic destiny. 3. Pleistocene appetites. 4. Monkey's Mind. 5. Neuroscience: Bottom up? Top Down? 6. Enlightening/escalating Self-interest. 7. Ideology: Reasoned Governing Behavior. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70421.

2012.   "Cybernetic and Cruciform Nature." London - Giffords - Templeton. June 1, 2012.   DVD. An event of interviews and lectures, honoring the seven living persons who have both given the Gifford Lectures and been awarded the Templeton Prize, held June 1, 2012, at the British Academy, London. Rolston interview 22 minutes.   Rolston lecture 22 minutes, total 44 minutes.

        Natural and cultural history on Earth is a cybernetic process, a creative generate-and-test process, resulting in our planetary wonderland of biodiversity. With the emergence of humans, endowed with unique cognitive faculties, including language and the transmission of ideas from mind to mind, this creative genesis occurs in novel and even more spectacular ways. Humans are the only species that reflects on where we are, who we are, and what we ought to do. Cybernetics generates caring, increasingly in sentient life.

        This cybernetic process is also cruciform. Life is suffering through to something higher. Life has its logos, its logic, its history; life has its pathos. Life is in prolific and pathetic. The fertility is close-coupled with the struggle. Biologists find life perpetually "regenerated"; theologians find life perpetually "redeemed." Both in the divine Logos once incarnate in Palestine and in the life incarnate on Earth for millennia before that: "Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it." Online at:   http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70422.

2012.  "The Anthropocene!! Beyond the Natural?"   DVD disk, audio with PowerPoint slides. 1 hour, 6 mins. Rolston presentation at the Fall 2012 Center for Collaborative Conservation Seminar and Discussion Series, "Power and Ethics in (Collaborative) Conservation", August 28, 2012, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. We are now entering the Anthropocene Epoch - so runs a recent enthusiastic claim. Humans can and ought go beyond the natural and powerfully engineer a better planet, managing for climate change, building new ecosystems for a more prosperous future. Perhaps the Anthropocene is inevitable. But: Rejoice? Accommodate? Accept it, alas? Perhaps the wiser, more ethical course is not so much "beyond" as "keeping the natural in "symbiosis" with humans. Enter the Semi-Anthropocene! Basically Natural! Carefully!   Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/68177.

2012.   "The Anthropocene!! Beyond the Natural?"    Audio CD disk. 1 hour, 6 mins. Lecture by Holmes Rolston, April 3, 2012, at Utah Valley University, Orem Utah, Center for the Study of Ethics. We are now entering the Anthropocene Epoch - so runs a recent enthusiastic claim. Humans can and ought go beyond the natural and powerfully engineer a better planet, managing for climate change, building new ecosystems for a more prosperous future. Perhaps the Anthropocene is inevitable. But: Rejoice? Accommodate? Accept it, alas? Perhaps the wiser, more ethical course is not so much "beyond" as "keeping the natural in "symbiosis" with humans. Enter the Semi-Anthropocene! Basically Natural! Carefully!

2013

2013.    "Rediscovering, Rethinking Green Fire."   DVD,  49 minutes. Lecture at Utah Valley University, April 4, 2013.   Aldo Leopold shot a wolf a hundred years ago, the most iconic wolf kill in conservation history. He recalled the "green fire" in her dying eyes, metaphor and symbol, and his "thinking like a mountain," when launching his land ethic, on a moral frontier.  Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80888.

         Leopold is reconsidered, searching for an Earth ethics for the new millennium, thinking like a planet.   1. The Shooting - Rediscovered and Confirmed. 2. Green Fire - Metaphor and Symbol. 3. Game Management - Predators and Prey. 4. ThinkingLike a Mountain - Wolves and Ecosystems. 5. Land Ethic - Respect for Life, Landscape Integrity.   6. Beyond Green Fire - Thinking Like a Planet.  Also copies in Colorado State University Library, and in Rolston Library in Eddy Library, Philosophy Department, Colorado State University.   Also online.   A newspaper story about Rolston's trip to rediscover the site of the shooting can also be found at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/70409.

2013.   "Promised Land and Planet with Promise."  Audio CD 22 minutes.   Chapel talk given by Holmes Rolston III at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, October 23, 2013.   Anciently Palestine was a promised land.  Landscapes east and west, north and south, on six continents have proved homelands that peoples can come to cherish and on which they can flourish.  My forebears in the Shenandoah Valley, coming from Scotland, loved gospel and landscape, sometimes wondering which love took priority.  When this wonderland Earth is seen as divine gift, grace, that vision makes more alarming that Earth is also a planet in peril.  "A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever."  That ancient certainty needs now to become an urgent future hope.  Today and for the centuries hence, the call is to see Earth as a planet with promise.    Also online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80603.

2013. "Tales of Theron and Holmes Rolston, Brothers, and their Father Holmes Rolston (1864-1924)."   Audio CD.   67 minutes. Recorded at a family reunion at Virginia Beach, Virginia, on July 30, 2013.  Holmes Rolston I (1864-1924) was a pastor in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  Holmes Rolston II (1900-1977), Virginia and North Carolina pastor, author, and editor, was the father of Holmes Rolston III (1932-       ). Theron Rolston (1902-1951), a physician in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, was his uncle.

2013. "Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind." 2 DVDs. Disk 1: Matter-Energy Life, 57 minutes. Disk 2: Mind. 35 minutes.   Rolston delivers the Carter-Chalker Lectureship on Faith and Contemporary Issues, The College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho, on November 7, 2013. 

          Scientific natural history discovers "three big bangs," each marking a serendipitous singularity. 1. At the primordial big bang, matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms, but with the remarkable capacity to generate heavier elements, without which life would not be possible. 2, Life explodes on Earth with DNA discovering, storing, and transferring information. Across a singular natural history, life persists in the midst of its perpetual perishing, generating and regenerating billions of species. These increase biodiversity, with trajectories escalating biocomplexity. 3. The human genius, a massive singularity, crosses a trans-genetic threshold, generating language and making possible cumulative transmissible cultures, radically novel in time and in scale. Life becomes ideational; ideas pass from mind to mind. Ideas generate ideals.

           The nature of matter-energy, the nature of genes and their genesis, invites those at the center of complex caring intelligence to wonder where they are, who they are, and what they ought to do. Is there sacred Logos in, with, and under a cybernetic system with such breakthrough creativity?

There is also a copy in general circulation, Colorado State University Library. This is a revised and updated version of Rolston's Eddy Lecture, at Colorado State University on September 18, 2008.

2014

2014. Holmes Rolston Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics: Announced March-May 2014. DVD. 32 minutes.  The Holmes Rolston Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics, made possible by donations from Holmes Rolston and Jane Rolston and by Myra Monfort, is announced at four celebration events during March, April, and May, 2014.  1.  Dinner at Jay's Bistro, with Dean Ann Gill, Holmes and Jane Rolston, Myra Monfort and selected guests, March 11, 2014. 2.  The President's Dinner for University Distinguished Professors, April 28, 2014.  3.  Celebrate Colorado State, with Tony Frank, CSU President, April 29, 2014. 4.  CLA Dean Ann Gill's Reception for Faculty and Staff Donors, May 7, 2014.   Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82163.

2014.  Why Wilderness?  Rolston talk at the 2014 Mansfield Conference, "The Storied Past, The Troubled Future:  The Imperative of Wilderness at 50 Years," held at the University of Montana, September 10-12.  DVD, 43 minutes.   Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/86383.          1.  Half a Century of Wilderness.  2.  Urban, Rural, Wild - Three-Dimensional Persons. 3.   Wilderness is for People!?  4.  Wilderness as Social Construct?  Mind?   5.  Wilderness as Social Construct?  Hand?   6.  The World that Runs Itself.  Montana, the mountain state, can set a national and global example of conserving and celebrating wilderness.

2015

2015.  Messaging Morality: Ethics across the Cosmos.   Rolston lecture at a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) workshop, February 14, 2015, Mountain View, California.  Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/89538.

2015.  Environmental Aesthetics in China: East West Dialogue.  DVD format, also .mp4 file. 58 minutes   Lecture presented in Wuhan, China, at the Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China International Conference, May 20-23, 2015.    Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181772

2015.  ISEE Conference, Kiel, Germany,  Environmental Ethics between Action and Reflection.

July 23-25, 2015.  Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel.  Flights Denver, Newark, Hamburg.  Kielius shuttle to Kiel.  Conference. Conference Booklet.   Field trip. 

Dasenmoor.  One of the last bogs of Schlenwig/Holstein.  Field trip to salt marshes and North Sea.  Wadden Sea,  an intertidal zone on UNESCO's World Heritage List, the world's largest continuous mud flats.  Frisian Islands.  Walk on mud flats several miles.  Westhever Lighthouse.  Many birds.  Dangers from climate change.  Flights home via London with confusions.  

The detailed record is in Rolston: Trail Log – 2015.  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/171109

2016

2016. “Religion, Science, and the Future,” presentation failed, session was canceled.  Prepared for Bron Taylor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Jan. 14-17, 2016.

2016.  “Technology and/or Nature: Denatured/Renatured/Engineered/Artifacted Life?” 

Online media at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/172774.   Lecture at Texas A&M University, February 15, 2016.  mp4 file and DVD disk. In our high-tech world, do we live at the end of nature?  Is the technosphere replacing the biosphere?  Can humans control their genetically inherited Pleistocene appetites in an Anthropocene Epoch?  Is experience of the urban, rural, and wild a three-dimensional life, with life focused on fewer dimensions under-privileged?   Do we, ought we, wish to live on an engineered planet?  Would this fulfill human destiny or display human arrogance, failing to embrace our home planet in care and wonder?  True, we must become civilized.  Be a resident on your landscape.   True, the future holds advancing technology.  But equally: we do not want to live a denatured life, on a de-natured planet.  Online text:  Environmental Ethics 2015:37:45-55, at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178142.

2016.  “One Health - Eco-Health.”  Lecture at National Taiwan University, Risk Society and Policy Research Center, College of Social Science, June 8, 2016.  2 hours, 26 minutes. mp4 file.  Online media at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178135  There is only one world and only one health.   Health effects ripple throughout the web of life.   Human health requires thinking in ecological contexts, increasingly in more global ones.  This further suggests more inclusive ethical concerns:  global, international, and interspecific, beyond the immediate protection of human individuals from disease.  Developed countries, which may have thought themselves protected with their high technologies and advanced medical systems, discover they are still linked with health, human and animal, in the developing world, even in wild nature, and vulnerable to disruptions there, to which they may also be contributing.

Thinking of health must consider our entwined destiny with our landscapes.  Ecology is strikingly like medical science.  Both are therapeutic sciences.  Ecologists are responsible for environmental health, which is really another form of public health.  Health is just as much "skin-out" as it is "skin-in." It is hard to live a healthy life in a sick environment.

2016.  NTDTV Interview.  Holmes Rolston is interviewed by a reporter for NTDTV, New

Tang Dynasty TV, about pollution from Formosa Plastics at How-May-Li wetland, Taiwan, on June 3, 2016.   From NTDTV newscast.   2 mins. 49 seconds.  mp4 file and DVD disk.  Online media at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178140.

2016.  Trip to Taiwan, May 30-June 11, 2016.  Records, notes.  Vancouver, B.C., then business class to Taiwan.  Welcome and gift of painting of six roses.  Taiwan Theological Seminary.  Yulin.  Formosa Plastics and pollution.  How-May-Li wetland.  Interviewed by a TV reporter.  NTDTV.  New Tang Dynasty TV, see above. Ho-Ping

Church in Taipei.  Shung-Lien Church, Taipei.  Dongshan River Ecoark Park on the Dongshan River.  National Tung-Hua University, at Hua-Lien.  Taipei and meeting with Vice-President of Taiwan, Chen Chien-Jen, an epidemiologist known for his influential studies on the dangers of arsenic and hepatitis as well as his handling of the SARS outbreak in 2003, studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  National University of Taiwan, and lecture there, see above.  East coast, and to Yehliu Geopark.   Stone Trench of Laomei, and Green Reef.  North Coast of Guanyinshan National Scenic Area.  Yang-Ming Shan National Park, near Taipei.  Flights home via Vancouver, B. C. 

The detail of this trip is online: Rolston Trail Log – 2016. 

http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181779

2016.  “Loving Nature: Christian Environmental Ethics” in Love and Christian Ethics:

Tradition, Theory, and Society, ed. Frederick V. Simmons with Brian C. Sorrells. 

Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2016. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181774

2016. “Loving Nature: Past, Present, and Future,” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 70(#1, 2016) 34-47.  Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181775,

2016.  "Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Biosphere.”  Pages 195-199 in A

Future Beyond Growth: Towards a Steady State Economy, eds. Haydn Washington and Paul Twomey.  London: Routledge, Earthscan, 2016.  Shorter version of the above, given at the 2014 Fenner Conference on the Environment, Australian Academy of Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2016.  Terre objective: Essais d'éthique environnementale.  Volume of collected essays by Holmes Rolston published by Éditions Dehors, a French publisher.  The translators are Pierre Madelin and Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa.  Eight essays, featuring Rolston’s arguments about objective value on natural landscapes, and how this is needed, beyond resource values for people, in environmental ethics.  ISBN-13: 9782367510132.

2016.  Refereed mss. for BioScience, Batavia and Nelson, “Heroes or Thieves?

Examining the Ethical Grounds for Lingering Concerns about New Conservation.”

2016.  Cobb, John et al, seminar online with an Eco-Civ study group from several colleges at Claremont, California, Feb. 20, 2016.

2016.  Refereed book mss, Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground, Sacramental Creation, for Lexington Books 

2016.  Refereed mss., “Knowledge, Imagination, and Stories in the Aesthetic

Experience of Forests,” for Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

2016.  “Ralph Waldo Emerson,”  Rolston article in Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, eds., Key Thinkers on the Environment, London, Routledge, 2018. Revised edition of Joy A. Palmer, ed.,Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, Routledge, 2001. Pages 93-100.

2016.  Correspondence with  Masoud Mosafari (Iran and sometime U.S. and Canada) on “Let Nature Be Your Guide,” wanted co-publication, eventually failed.

2016.   “An Interview with Professor Holmes Rolston,” by Jie Shu, Wuhan, China, during the conference, Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China, May 20-23, 2015.  See under 2015.  I edited it for Gao Shan.  

2016.  Review refusal, Mathew Foster, book mss. The Human Relationship to Nature: the Limit of Reason, the Basis of Value, and the Crisis of Environmental Ethics, sought by Lexington Books.

2016.  “Endangered Species and Biodiversity,” in Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Elsevier Publishing, DellaSala, Dominick A. and Michael I. Goldstein, eds., (Waltham, MA: Elsevier, 2018), vol. 4, pages 199-203.   Online at:  https://hdl.handle.net/10217/185442

2016.  Refereed for Environmental Ethics, Tina Tin (France), “From Anthropocene to the Abiotic: Environmental Ethics and Values in the Antarctic Wilderness.”  Eventually published in Environmental Ethics 39, Spring 2017, pp. 57-74.

2016.  Rolston article for Bernard Rollin Festschrift, “Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics,” prepared for a Festschrift undertaken by Richard Kitchener.  But the Festschrift failed because Kitchener could not get enough contributors for papers.  My text is in my digital files for 2016, under Rollin Festschrift.

2016.  Rolston review of book mss. by John Haught: The Cosmic Story: A Look Inside, for Yale University Press.  Published by Yale, 2017.

2016.  Kenneth Shockley, “What we Need to Flourish: Rethinking External Goods and the Ecological Systems that Provide Them,” inauguration lecture for the Holmes Rolston Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics, October 14, 2016, Eddy Building, CSU.  His PowerPoint printout is here.  Streaming media online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178139

2016.  “Is Environmental Ethics Wicked?”  Rolston paper prepared for publication and eventually failed.  Tried Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (JAGE) for a special issue for which they were calling for papers, and was refused.  Tried for a conference that was forthcoming at CSU and failed. 

2016.  “The Earth Charter Facing the Anthropocene Epoch,” prepared and little came of it for several years. Editors complained their papers were very slow coming in.  Eventually published in Peter D. Burdon, Klaus Bosselmann and Kirsten Engel, eds., The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance: Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter,  Cheltingham UK: Edward Elgar. 2019. Pages 72-91.

2016.  Banff and Icefields Parkway.  June 24 -  July 1, 2016.   Flew to Calgary.  Bussed to Banff.  Upscale Fairmont Hotel.  Templeton Foundation Annual Meeting.  Bussed to Lake Louise.   Banff National Park has 44 wildlife crossing structures, overpasses and underpasses.  Parks Canada has become a world leader in highway wildlife mitigations.  Using auto cameras, over 200,000 animal crossings have been recorded here.  Canoe on Lake Louise.
Drive on Icefields Parkway.  Reached Saskatchewan River Crossing, “Crossroads,” 4 bighorn rams crossing on the bridge over the highway.  Reached Athabasca Glacier and Columbia Icefields up top.  Hotel room with a spectacular view of the Athabasca Glacier in the distance, maybe three quarters of a mile off.  Columbia Icefield has been there since before Homo sapiens appeared on the Earth. (238,000 to 126,000 BC). 

There have been several advances and retreats.  The icefield is atop a triple Continental Divide: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean.  Drove north to Jasper.  Great stretches of driving on the edges of braided glacial flats, filled with rock flour. Visited Athabasca Falls.  Spectacular.  Reached Jasper.  Drove up the Maligne Lake road.  Bears with cubs.   Bighorn sheep with lambs.  Drive back to Calgary.  Very hard rain and hail.  Flew home.

The detail of this trip is online: Rolston Trail Log  - 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181779

 2016.  Technology and/or Nature: Denatured/Renatured/Engineered/Artifacted Life?  DVD format, also mp4 format.  1 hour, 18 minutes.  Rolston gave this lecture at the Bovray Workhop on Engineering and Applied Ethics at Texas A&M University on February 15, 2016.  His lecture is followed by critical commentary by Clare Palmer, Philosophy, Texas A&M.    Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/191135                                                                              

In our high-tech world, do we live at the end of nature?  Is the technosphere replacing the biosphere?  Can humans control their genetically inherited Pleistocene appetites in an Anthropocene Epoch?  Is experience of the urban, rural, and wild a three-dimensional life, with life focused on fewer dimensions under-privileged?   Do we, ought we, wish to live on an engineered planet?  Would this fulfill human destiny or display human arrogance, failing to embrace our home planet in care and wonder?  True, we must become civilized.  Be a resident on your landscape.   True, the future holds advancing technology.  But equally: we do not want to live a de-natured life, on a de-natured planet.

Online media at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/172774.   Lecture at Texas A&M University, February 15, 2016.  mp4 file and DVD disk.  Online text:  Environmental Ethics 2015:37:45-55, at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178142.

2016.  NTDTV interview.  Holmes Rolston is interviewed by a reporter for NTDTV, New Tang Dynasty TV, about pollution from Formosa Plastics at How-May-Li wetland, Taiwan, on June 3, 2016. From NTDTV newscast.   Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178140

2016.  Preaching on the Environment.  Rolston lecture at Taiwan Theological Seminary, Taipei, June 2, 2016.  Biblical faith originated with a land ethic.  Within the covenant, keeping the commandments, the Hebrew people entered a promised land.  Nature is the creative, generative powers on Earth.  Spirit is the animating principle that raises up life from the ground.  Christian citizens ought to join others shaping a public environmental ethic.  Earth is promised planet, planet with promise, sacred, holy ground.  Online at:  http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178138

2016.  One Health -  Eco-Health.  Lecture given at the at National Taiwan University, Risk Society and Policy Research Center, College of Social Science on June 8, 2016. There is only one world and only one health. Health effects ripple throughout the web of life. Human health requires thinking in ecological contexts, increasingly in more global ones. This further suggests more inclusive ethical concerns: global, international, and interspecific, beyond the immediate protection of human individuals from disease.  Thinking of health must consider our entwined destiny with our landscapes.  Ecology is strikingly like medical science.  Both are therapeutic sciences.  Ecologists are responsible for environmental health, which is really another form of public health.  Health is just as much "skin-out" as it is "skin-in." It is hard to live a healthy life in a sick environment.  Online at:   http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178135

2016.  Trip to Taiwan, May 30-June 11, 2016.  Records, notes.  Vancouver, B.C., then business class to Taiwan.  Welcome and gift of painting of six roses.  Taiwan Theological Seminary.  Yulin.  Formosa Plastics and pollution.  How-May-Li wetland.  Interviewed by a TV reporter.  NTDTV.  New Tang Dynasty TV, see above. Ho-Ping

Church in Taipei.  Shung-Lien Church, Taipei.  Dongshan River Ecoark Park on the Dongshan River.  National Tung-Hua University, at Hua-Lien.  Taipei and meeting with Vice-President of Taiwan, Chen Chien-Jen, an epidemiologist known for his influential studies on the dangers of arsenic and hepatitis as well as his handling of the SARS outbreak in 2003, studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  National University of Taiwan, and lecture there, see above.  East coast, and to Yehliu Geopark.   Stone Trench of Laomei, and Green Reef.  North Coast of Guanyinshan National Scenic Area.  Yang-Ming Shan National Park, near Taipei.  Flights home via Vancouver, B. C. 

The detail of this trip is online: Rolston Trail Log – 2016. 

http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181779

2016. “Religion, Science, and the Future,” presentation failed, session was canceled.  Prepared for Bron Taylor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Jan. 14-17, 2016.

2016.  “Loving Nature: Christian Environmental Ethics” in Love and Christian Ethics: Tradition, Theory, and Society, ed. Frederick V. Simmons with Brian C. Sorrells. 

Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2016. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181774

2016. “Loving Nature: Past, Present, and Future,” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 70(#1, 2016) 34-47.  Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181775,

2016.  "Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Biosphere.”  Pages 195-199 in A Future Beyond Growth: Towards a Steady State Economy, eds. Haydn Washington and Paul Twomey.  London: Routledge, Earthscan, 2016.  Shorter version of the above, given at the 2014 Fenner Conference on the Environment, Australian Academy of Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2016.  Terre objective: Essais d'éthique environnementale.  Volume of collected essays by Holmes Rolston published by Éditions Dehors, a French publisher.  The translators are Pierre Madelin and Hicham-Stéphane Afeissa.  Eight essays, featuring Rolston’s arguments about objective value on natural landscapes, and how this is needed, beyond resource values for people, in environmental ethics.  ISBN-13: 9782367510132.

2016.  Refereed mss. for BioScience, Batavia and Nelson, “Heroes or Thieves?  Examining the Ethical Grounds for Lingering Concerns about New Conservation.”

2016.  Cobb, John et al, seminar online with an Eco-Civ study group from several colleges at Claremont, California, Feb. 20, 2016.

2016.  Refereed book mss, Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground, Sacramental Creation, for Lexington Books 

2016.  Refereed mss., “Knowledge, Imagination, and Stories in the Aesthetic Experience of Forests,” for Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

2016.  “Ralph Waldo Emerson,”  Rolston article in Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, eds., Key Thinkers on the Environment, London, Routledge, 2018. Revised edition of Joy A. Palmer, ed.,Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, Routledge, 2001. Pages 93-100.

2016.  Correspondence with  Masoud Mosafari (Iran and sometime U.S. and Canada) on “Let Nature Be Your Guide,” wanted co-publication, eventually failed.

2016.   “An Interview with Professor Holmes Rolston,” by Jie Shu, Wuhan, China, during the conference, Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China, May 20-23, 2015.  See under 2015.  I edited it for Gao Shan.  

2016.  Review refusal, Mathew Foster, book mss. The Human Relationship to Nature: the Limit of Reason, the Basis of Value, and the Crisis of Environmental Ethics, sought by Lexington Books.

2016.  “Endangered Species and Biodiversity,” in Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Elsevier Publishing, DellaSala, Dominick A. and Michael I. Goldstein, eds., (Waltham, MA: Elsevier, 2018), vol. 4, pages 199-203.   Online at:  https://hdl.handle.net/10217/185442

2016.  Refereed for Environmental Ethics, Tina Tin (France), “From Anthropocene to the Abiotic: Environmental Ethics and Values in the Antarctic Wilderness.”  Eventually published in Environmental Ethics 39, Spring 2017, pp. 57-74.

2016.  Rolston article for Bernard Rollin Festschrift, “Animal Welfare and Environmental Ethics,” prepared for a Festschrift undertaken by Richard Kitchener.  But the Festschrift failed because Kitchener could not get enough contributors for papers.  My text is in my digital files for 2016, under Rollin Festschrift.

2016.  Rolston review of book mss. by John Haught: The Cosmic Story: A Look Inside, for Yale University Press.  Published by Yale, 2017.

2016.  Kenneth Shockley, “What we Need to Flourish: Rethinking External Goods and the Ecological Systems that Provide Them,” inauguration lecture for the Holmes Rolston Endowed Chair in Environmental Ethics, October 14, 2016, Eddy Building, CSU.  His PowerPoint printout is here.  Streaming media online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178139

2016.  “Is Environmental Ethics Wicked?”  Rolston paper prepared for publication and eventually failed.  Tried Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (JAGE) for a special issue for which they were calling for papers, and was refused.  Tried for a conference that was forthcoming at CSU and failed. 

2016.  “The Earth Charter Facing the Anthropocene Epoch,” prepared and little came of it for several years. Editors complained their papers were very slow coming in.  Eventually published in Peter D. Burdon, Klaus Bosselmann and Kirsten Engel, eds., The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance: Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter,  Cheltingham UK: Edward Elgar. 2019. Pages 72-91.

2016.  Banff and Icefields Parkway.  June 24 -  July 1, 2016.   Flew to Calgary.  Bussed to Banff.  Upscale Fairmont Hotel.  Templeton Foundation Annual Meeting.  Bussed to Lake Louise.   Banff National Park has 44 wildlife crossing structures, overpasses and underpasses.  Parks Canada has become a world leader in highway wildlife mitigations.  Using auto cameras, over 200,000 animal crossings have been recorded here.  Canoe on Lake Louise.

Drive on Icefields Parkway.  Reached Saskatchewan River Crossing, “Crossroads,” 4 bighorn rams crossing on the bridge over the highway.  Reached Athabasca Glacier and Columbia Icefields up top.  Hotel room with a spectacular view of the Athabasca Glacier in the distance, maybe three quarters of a mile off.  Columbia Icefield has been there since before Homo sapiens appeared on the Earth. (238,000 to 126,000 BC). 

There have been several advances and retreats.  The icefield is atop a triple

Continental Divide: Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean.  Drove north to Jasper.  Great stretches of driving on the edges of braided glacial flats, filled with rock flour. Visited Athabasca Falls.  Spectacular.  Reached Jasper.  Drove up the Maligne Lake road.  Bears with cubs.   Bighorn sheep with lambs.  Drive back to Calgary.  Very hard rain and hail.  Flew home.

The detail of this trip is online: Rolston Trail Log  - 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/10217/181779

2017

2017.  “Environmental Ethics and Environmental Anthropology.”   Rolston article in Helen Kopnina and Elle Quimet, eds., Routledge Handbook of Environmental

Anthropology.   Routledge.  Papers and research notes.  includes notes on Makah Indian tribe and whaling.   Printed text online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178141.

2017.  “The Anthropocene! Beyond the Natural?” presentation at Oregon State University, March 16, 2017, at a book launch for Stephen M. Gardiner and Allen

Thompson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).  mp4 file.   Rolston was one of four contributors to the handbook who made short presentations at this event, followed by a panel discussion.  Only the Rolston presentation is here, 31 minutes.   The print version of this presentation is the article in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics, pp. 62-73, online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178714.  We are now entering the Anthropocene Epoch B so runs a recent enthusiastic claim.  Humans can and ought go beyond the natural and powerfully engineer a better planet, managing for climate change, building new ecosystems for a more prosperous future.  Perhaps the Anthropocene is inevitable. But: Rejoice?  Accommodate?  Accept it, alas?   Perhaps the wiser, more ethical course is not so much Abeyond@ as Akeeping the natural in Asymbiosis@ with humans.   Enter the Semi-Anthropocene!  Basically Natural!  Carefully!

2017. "Is There an Ecological Ethic?" in Donald Scherer and Thomas W. Attig, eds., Ethics and the Environment (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983). Reprinted in

Klaus Bosselmann and Prue Taylor, eds., Ecological Approaches to Environmental Law (in series The International Library of Comparative Law) (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017), pages 165-181. First published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 85(1975):93-109.

2017.   “Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch,” in Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World, Brian G. Henning and Zack Walsh, eds. Milton Park, Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2020.  Pages 196-210.  Prepared in 2017 but not published until 2020.  See also there.

2018

2018.  "Endangered Species and Biodiversity, in Dominick A. DellaSala and Michael I. Goldstein, eds., Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (Waltham, MA: Elsevier, 2018), vol. 4, pages 199-203.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/185442.

2018. Gentle Mission - Integrated Ecology, Faith and Living, Presbyterian Church of Taiwan celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Environmental Sunday.  2018.

温柔的使命 : 生態, 信仰, 生活的結合

Contains two articles:

Article 1: Yiren Lin, Dean of Taipei Medical School, College of Medical Humanities,  “Looking for home – Rolston’s Ecology and Philosophy, pp. 88-94. 

Article 2: Tzu-mei Chen, TESA, Taiwan Ecological Stewardship Association, General Secretary, “From ‘dismissed country preacher’ to “the father of environmental ethics”, pp. 101-108. Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/187175

2018.  "Holmes Rolston, III."   Featured in Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, eds., Key Thinkers on the Environment (London, Routledge, 2018), pages 291-297.  Biographical and interpretive article by Jack Weir.  Earlier version: Joy A. Palmer, David E. Cooper, and Peter Blaze Corcoran, eds., Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (London: Routledge, 2001), pages 260-268.  The 2018 text is online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37719.

2018.  Chen Wangheng,  Beautiful China and Environmental Aesthetics , 2018.  ISBN : 978-7-112-21825-7   Beijing: China Building Industry Press.  Contains Holmes Rolston III, “Environmental Aesthetics in China: East-West Dialogue,” in Chinese, pages 173-183, followed by English text. Translated by Qi Jun. Originally a lecture presented in Wuhan, China, at the Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China International Conference, May 20-23, 2015. Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/192316. 

2018.  “Redeeming a Cruciform Nature,” in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science  53(2018):739-751  Contains Rolston,  In a series of articles evaluating the work of

Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter, UK.  Online at https://hdl.handle.net/10217/196986

2019

2019.  "Leading and Misleading Metaphors: From Organism to Anthropocene," pages 103-116 in Kenneth Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, and Whitney A. Bauman, eds. After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations.  New York and London: Routledge, 2019.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/192937 

2019.  Rolston Review of Christopher J. Preston, The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengingeering our World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2018. xx, 224 pages). In Environmental Ethics 40(2018):189-191.  Preston has a new worldview, convinced “that humans have utterly transformed the earth” and have a "startling synthetic future.”  But he should have been more forceful about Anthropocene abuses of power.  Further, his discussion of the value of wildness is relegated to a brief, puzzling postscript. Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/194365

2019.  Holmes Rolston III, Science and Religion: An Introduction for Youth (Nashville, TN: Elm Hill Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing).  ISBN 978-1-595559937 paperback; ISBN 978-1-595559968 hardbound; ISBN 978-1-595559951 e-book.  Youth, grades 9-12, can and ought to understand that science and religion are compatible, when appropriately understood.

2019.  Rolston, “Lame Science? Blind Religion?” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 54(2019):351-353.  Commentary on Lisa Sideris, Consecrating Science.   Science is lame in supplying a commanding world view, but science introduces us to nature as a wonderland at levels great and small, to which religion is otherwise blind.

2019.  “Foreword: Weaving What Together?” in James S. Mastaler, Woven Together: Faith and Justice for the Earth and the Poor (Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2019; an imprint of Wipf and Stock),  pp.  ix-xii. Online at:     https://hdl.handle.net/10217/194872

2019.  “Surprisingly Neuroplastic Human Brains: Reading, Science, Philosophy, Theology,” Theology and Science, 17:3, 395-402.
Online at:  https://hdl.handle.net/10217/219460
Human brains, dramatically more complex than anything else in the known universe, are marvelously mutable. Recent neuroscience focuses on how humans create cumulative transmissible cultures which in turn shape mental development. When cultures become literate, cognitive powers escalate. Although until recently only a comparative few learned to read and write, this takes place with the serendipitous re-use of pattern recognizing capacities, such as those for recognizing faces. With sustained reading diligence, as required during education in science, philosophy, and theology, this results in advanced cognitive skills. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2019.1633058

2020

2020.  “Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch,” in Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World, Brian G. Henning and Zack Walsh, eds. Milton Park, Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pages 196-210.

2020.  Ecological Citizen ! ?”   in Ecological Citizen, vol. 3, no. 2, pages 121-123.  An ecological citizen is a citizen who is also ecological.  But can you be a citizen of an ecology?  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/203549    

2020.  Is God Responsible for Evil?  Episode 1402.  Aired 2020.  Filmed variously.  Robert Kuhn Closer to Truth Program.  How on earth could God be reconciled with massive, monstrous evil?  If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is the creator, wouldn’t God be responsible for evil?   Re-visiting the issue, featuring interviews with five academics, including Holmes Rolston.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/211042

2020.  If God Exists, Why Natural Evil?  Holmes Rolston interviewed by Robert Kuhn on Closer to Truth.  Filmed at Helsingor, Denmark, 2011.  Aired 2020.  6 mins, 28 secs.  If God exists, why is there so much suffering in the natural world?   Because creativity is impossible without challenge that includes forms of suffering.  The struggle for adapted fit is struggling through to something higher.  The creation is cruciform in that it necessarily requires life and death struggle.  Light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it.  The way of nature is the way of the cross.  Online at:  https://hdl.handle.net/10217/211041

2020. Philosopher Gone Wild. Rolston Photo-Media Biography, 2020.  mp4 file.

Holmes Rolston's biography: Shenandoah Valley childhood. Education. Years in Southwest Virginia. Grand Canyon River run. Colorado State University, classroom.

Interview,   University of Georgia. Family and outdoors.  Rolston-Rollin debate, 1989.  

Wild    Rockies, including wolves.  Travels, Africa, Asia including Nepal, and Antarctica.  Science  and Religion. Oakland University, Michigan, Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh, 1997-1998.   Wilderness. Templeton Prize in Buckingham Palace, 2003.  In the woods.  Endowed  Rolston Chairs, Davidson College, CSU.  The Pasqueflower, 2008. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37821

2020.  The Great Experiment, CSU at 150.  A documentary about the history of

Colorado’s land-grant university, produced in honor of Colorado State University’s 150th birthday. 150 years condensed into an hour and a half.  Rolston is mentioned briefly toward the end, at 1 hour, 17 minutes, for having won the Templeton Prize, awarded by Prince  Philip in Buckingham Palace.  https://www.pbs.org/video/the-great-experiment-csu-at-150-7igf4y/

2020. "Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch,” Rolston Zoom lecture and discussion sponsored by Yale University Center for Environmental Communication, October 23, 2020.  Moderated by Tom Murray, Speaker Coordinator.  Rolston introduced by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, also sponsoring the seminar.  Earth as the wonderland planet, humans as a wonder on Earth, Anthropocene humans, managed planet and end of nature.  Anthopocene arrogance.  Wonderful humans incarnate on wonderland Earth.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/216785 .

当代中国的环境美学：东西方对话, "Environmental Aesthetics in China: East-West Dialogue," by Holmes Rolston III, 霍姆斯·罗尔斯顿, translated by Weifu Wu,   International Social Sciences Journal  7(2020)(2):91-10.  ISSN 1468-245.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/230603    From a lecture given  to a group of visiting Chinese scholars at Colorado State University, on May 1, 2018, Zhihe Wang, co-ordinator, Scripps College, Claremont, CA and Director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China.  A similar lecture given at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China at the Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China International Conference, May 20-23, 2015, is online, streaming video, at http://hdl.handle.net/10217/172773

You are today out of place, as far as the East is from the West. Although having visited China a half dozen times, I found myself out of place, too much a Westerner to be competent to give an intelligent contribution to Chinese environmental aesthetics. But I felt I could ask you some probing questions.  I conclude that Chinese are skilled by their long heritage at seeking harmony, at getting the whole picture and fitting parts into a more beautiful whole. I hope that would be the future of Chinese environmental aesthetics. Then, and only then, will Chinese flourish, and can Westerners learn from our dialogue with the East.

2020.  “Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch,” in Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World, Brian G. Henning and Zack Walsh, eds. Milton Park, Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pages 196-210.

2020.  Ecological Citizen ! ?”   in Ecological Citizen, vol. 3, no. 2, pages 121-123.  An ecological citizen is a citizen who is also ecological.  But can you be a citizen of an ecology?  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/203549    

2021

2021.  “Life persists in the midst of its perpetual perishing.”  Holmes Rolston interviewed by Jeff Dodge on the coronavirus.  Published in Source, Colorado State University online newsletter, May 18, 2020.  https://hdl.handle.net/10217/207241.  The coronavirus brings novel experience of staying apart and keeping life safe together when finding a pasqueflower blooming at Easter.  This minute critter has played havoc with mighty humans.  Nature is still there, wild nature, both predictable and chaotic.  The devastating virus brings struggle and promising opportunities for more caring, love, and solidarity in our human communities. Death is not the last word.  This article may also be found online at:

https://libarts.source.colostate.edu/qa-with-holmes-rolston-life-persists-in-the-midst-of-its-perpetual-perishing/

2021.  Senior Scholars oral history interview with Holmes Rolston III.  Frank Boring interviews Holmes Rolston on December 19 and 20, 2017.  Rolston is a University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus.  He is credited with establishing the field of environmental ethics.  In the interview Rolston discusses his personal and professional history.  The establishment of his classes in environmental ethics and philosophy and his observations on the human mind and nature are included in the discussion.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/210895.

2021.   科學與宗教：為年輕人寫的簡介   Science and Religion: An Introduction for Youth, 羅斯頓  Holmes Rolston III /著 ISBN 978-986-5637-96-5    web://www.pctpress.org   email: publish@pctpress,org.  陳慈美 / 譯   Translated by Tzu-Mei Chen.  Chinese characters from English original Elm Hill Press, by permission.  Chinese translation copyright ©2021 by Taiwan Church Press.  Includes after the end of the book, pp. 106-109, in Chinese Rolston, The Way of Nature Is the Way of the Cross.  This is a Chinese translation of an introduction to science and religion for youth, grades 9-12. The central thesis is that youth can and ought to understand that science and religion are compatible, when appropriately understood. Youth can read it on their own, or with their parents, or with other youth in various study groups. Science teachers can refer curious students to it.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/230406

2021.  Senior Scholars oral history interview with Holmes Rolston III.  Frank Boring interviews Holmes Rolston on December 19 and 20, 2017.  Rolston is a University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus.  He is credited with establishing the field of environmental ethics.  In the interview Rolston discusses his personal and professional history.  The establishment of his classes in environmental ethics and philosophy and his observations on the human mind and nature are included in the discussion.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/210895.

2021.   科學與宗教：為年輕人寫的簡介   Science and Religion: An Introduction for Youth, 羅斯頓  Holmes Rolston III /著 ISBN 978-986-5637-96-5    web://www.pctpress.org   email: publish@pctpress,org.  陳慈美 / 譯   Translated by Tzu-Mei Chen.  Chinese characters from English original Elm Hill Press, by permission.  Chinese translation copyright ©2021 by Taiwan Church Press.  Includes after the end of the book, pp. 106-109, in Chinese Rolston, The Way of Nature Is the Way of the Cross.  This is a Chinese translation of an introduction to science and religion for youth, grades 9-12. The central thesis is that youth can and ought to understand that science and religion are compatible, when appropriately understood. Youth can read it on their own, or with their parents, or with other youth in various study groups. Science teachers can refer curious students to it.  Online at: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/230406

2021.  “Scientific and Ethical Considerations in Rare Species Protection: The Case of Beavers in Connecticut,” Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Holmes Rolston III, and Joshua H. Wilson, in Ethics and the Environment 26, no. 1 (2021):121-140.  doi: 10.2979/ethicsenviro.26.1.06   An ethical dilemma can emerge when the life of one species is valued higher than that of another.  We illustrate how the decision to kill beavers to protect a rare plant and rare animals found in a tidewater creek demanded an ecological ethic approach

2022.  Libenson, Sam and Justin Wong, An Interview with Holmes Rolston III, The Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 (2022):131-136.
    Online at:  https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235823

Holmes Rolston is interviewed by Sam Libenson and Justin Wong. Environmental ethics is about appropriate caring and respect for wonderland Earth and its inhabitants, each flourishing according to its own nature.  Earth is a marvelously distinct planet with the richness of life that has evolved here.   A wonderland?  Life contains information, encoded in genes, about how to construct and maintain an ongoing form of life. This is more marvelous than elsewhere in the universe so far as we know.  Part of the meaning of life can be found in science, but not the deeper meanings in religion. We ought to use technology save half-Earth.
The Harvard Review of Philosophy each year conducts interviews with philosophers considered groundbreaking and on the leading edge of philosophy. 

2023.  Rolston Professor Willa Swenson-Lengyel in Zoom Interview with Holmes Rolston.  February 10, 2023 at 12.00 p.m. MST = 2.00 p.m. EST  44 mins, 14 secs. Anne Wills, Chair of Religious Studies at Davidson College also present. 
      Online at:   https://hdl.handle.net/10217/236269

Rolston presents a series of two dozen slides that describe how he moved from being an undergraduate in physics and math at Davidson College in the 1950's through a career  in science and religion for which he was in 2003 awarded the Templeton Prize in Buckingham Palace by Prince Philip and Jack Templeton.  He immediately donated the prize, worth about $1.5 million, to Davidson College to establish an endowed chair in science and religion.  Rolston engages in conversation with Willa Swenson-Lengyel, who in 2022 became the second person named to the chair, about why she took the position and what she expects to accomplish in it.  Discussion of liberal arts and teaching the promising Davidson students how to think creatively in multiple disciplines.