Is Justice Possible? – Pre-Lecture Discussion

Co-organized by:Faith and Global Engagement, HKUGeneral Education, HKU  In the award-winning film The Theory of Everything, the young Stephen Hawking describes cosmology as a religion for intelligent atheists. The film then explores the theological implications of two cosmological models defended by Hawking.  Do these models in fact have the implications which Hawking attributes to them, and…

Received wisdom is that evolution is a more-or-less open-ended process, and lacks any predictability. This applies to all species, including humans. We too are just another historical accident, of no more (or less) significance than a snake or dragon fruit. Central to this supposition are not only random factors such as mutations, but the claim…

Synopsis How ‘western’ is Christianity? This joint lecture explores Chinese contributions to Christian thought, and how Chinese viewpoints on the human may change and challenge traditional ideas inherited from the West.  Peng Yin probes the difference Chinese philosophy makes for a Christian understanding of human nature.  He diagnoses three flawed European imageries of China, and identifies their…

Presenting Ray Chan’s ceramic works, Gabriel Leung’s mixed-media installations, and Stephen Wong’s series of paintings, “At the Still Point of the Turning World” is a depiction and materialisation of the artists’ personal means and journeys of searching for the “still point” – a constant ritual, respite, or an oblique resolution in the face of chaos, crisis, or uncertainties…

In a world of 7+ billion citizens, each aspiring towards a lifestyle that consumes more of the planet’s resources than our ancestors, what is ‘enough’ and how do we know when we have it? Is affluenza the most worrying illness in today’s world, or should we simply be glad that life is now more comfortable?…

In what MIT Tech Review has called the “biggest biotech discovery of the century,” CRISPR/Cas9 and related techniques promise easy-to-do, inexpensive, and highly precise genetic deletions, insertions, and functional manipulations to basic genetic processes across the full spectrum of living beings. This holds great promise for advances in agriculture, animal studies, and fundamental biomedical research,…