On the wonderful site Religion Dispatches, Michael Ruse reviews The Moral Landscape: How Science can determine Human Values, by Sam Harris, Free Press (2010).
This review is especially important to the VKF movement insofar as the harmonization of values and information is regarded by this community as vital to meeting contemporary human challenges. But is it possible that science alone can provide the path to restore values to knowledge and information? Here is Ruse’s review…
This article has just been published on the Values Forum of the New World Encyclopedia Abstract: Advances in genetic science is one of the most exciting developments of our time. There arises from this great…
Here is an article posted on the Values Forum of the New World Encyclopedia about a rare conversation between Saudi Arabia and Iran: Saudi King, Ahmadinejad Talk Politics on Phone 12/10/2010 Al-ManarTV:: Saudi King, Ahmadinejad…
(AP) – 19 hours ago PARIS — The chief of Interpol says the “skyrocketing” number of extremist websites is making it easier for terrorists to recruit middle class youth around the world. Discussion of this…
The high energy, highly charged, political movement on the American right called “Values Voters,” ties the term values to a particular, parochial set of values, often expressed in narrow, divisive, and judgmental ways (even though…
The Values in Knowledge Foundation identifies trends in modern thought and culture that give rise to what has been dubbed “the information age.” A great danger inherent in the dominance of ungoverned data and information…
A Review of Genesis Rejuvenated: Read the Word, Word for Word by Bill Jemas
This book was a rare and unexpected pleasure to discover. With a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Religion, from a leading university, I was not expecting much from a theological work written by the former CEO of Marvel Comics. I was surprised. This book provides the grist for a revolution in theology by providing translation of the Leningrad Codex, a Hebrew Bible compiled from lost ancient sources that predates the King James translation of the Bible that has dominated the Christian worldview.
By offering fresh interpretations of ancient texts, the Freeware Bible enables us to see how the King James Version was translated through glasses colored by Church doctrine and political monarchy. The possibilities of substituting alternative words both enable the reader to take off those glasses and reconstruct passages in ways that are more consistent with contemporary scientific worldviews.
Sometimes human and social concerns with an intellectual dimension get mistaken for debate “in the Ivory Tower.” This is an understandable mistake. No harm done. Still though, it is important whenever possible to set the course more clearly, and tie values in knowledge issues to pressing contemporary concerns in plain language.
Author and writer Nancy Pearcey has a short and poignant piece in the American Thinker investigating Vaughn Walker’s decision to overturn California’s Proposition 8, explaining how the fact and value split contributed so centrally to the judge’s ruling.
She writes:
Foreign Policy magazine introduces a major article with the following:
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not — and will not be — one global village, so much as a network of different ones.
The Values in Knowledge Foundation supports positive directions in the world of knowledge and information through an integrated web of projects, activities, and communities devoted to recover and repair our grasp of how we know.…