Manufacturing Humans: The Borderlands Between Human and Divine Control

Professor D. Gareth Jones:  ISCAST (NSW) - CASE Lecture 
Date: 29 May, 2009
Venue: New College, University of NSW

 

 

Professor D. Gareth Jones presented this ISCAST-CASE lecture in the Common Room at New College, The University of NSW at 7.30 pm on Friday May 29th. 

Prof Gareth Jones is a Professor of Anatomy & Structural Biology and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Otago University in New Zealand. He has a special interest and expertise in the interaction of bioethics and Christian theology and has written many books and book chapters in this area.

Abstract of Lecture: This is a broad overview of the reproductive technologies looking especially at the varying ways in which Christians have responded to them since the mid-1980s to the present day. In the light of this, Prof Jones concludes that a Christian commitment should be directed at arguing for ways in which the technologies should be applied rather than in whether the technologies should or should not exist.

Listen to the lecture here, or download the podcast on ITunes here.

Powerpoint slides for the lecture available here.