Professor Holmes Rolston delivered this lecture on Tuesday 9th March 2005 in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge. The lecture was followed by questions from the audience and later a dinner/discussion at St Edmunds College. A transcript of the lecture and the discussion can be viewed in html or downloaded as a pdf file, and an audio recording of the lecture and questions is also available.

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Introduction
1. Biodiversity and plenitude of being
2. Darwinian nature and sufficient cause
3. Earth as providing ground
4. Cruciform creation
5. Nature as grace
6. Genesis and creativity
References
Discussion following public lecture

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Transcript
Who's Who

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Brief Biography

Holmes Rolston richly varied educational career included studying physics as an undergraduate at Davidson College, then entering theological seminary and completing a Ph.D. in theology at Edinburgh University, Scotland, in 1958. He then worked for some years as a Presbyterian pastor before taking a master's degree in philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. An academic appointment in philosophy followed at Colorado State University, where he became a full professor in 1976. Holmes Rolston is currently University Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Colorado State University.

He has written six books, the more recent are: Genes, Genesis and God (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Science and Religion: A Critical Survey (Random House, McGraw Hill, Harcourt Brace), Philosophy Gone Wild (Prometheus Books) Environmental Ethics (Temple University Press), and Conserving Natural Value (Columbia University Press). He has edited Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life (Jones and Bartlett, Wadsworth). He has written chapters in eighty other books and over one hundred articles. Rolston was awarded the Templeton Prize in Religion in 2003 and the Mendel Medal by Villanova University in 2005.

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