• Readings from Wilkinson, L 1980. Earthkeeping: Christian Stewardship of Natural Resources
• Phillip K. Wilson 1996 Origins of science. National Forum. 76(1):39-43.
• Chapter 2 in Kellert & Farnham pp 19-29: Goodenough, Ursula: The Contribution of Scientific Understandings of Nature to Moral, Spirtual, and Religious Wholeness and Well-Being.
• Kistler, R. 2000. Greengrass, recycling, and God: From here to there and back again: Humanity's journey from Eden to the Noosphere: Always seeking excellence, always finding (almost) the same.

• Readings for further individual investigation and interest
  • Allman, William F. 1991. Who we were: the origins of modern humans. U.S. News & World Report , 111 (12): 53-60
  • Gibbons, Ann 2002. In search of the first hominids: thanks to an astonishing series of fossil discoveries, researchers are at last glimpsing our earliest ape ancestors, back beyond 4 million years ago. The finds are shifting attention from the savanna to the woods--and changing ideas about what it means to be a hominid. (News Focus). Science 295(5558):1214
  • Vogel, Steven, 1999. Unnatural Acts. (nature and technology) The Sciences , July 1999 v39 i4 p10
  • Elfstrom, Gerard 2002.The origin of science .(contributions of Thales, founder of the Milesian School) Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science , 73:30-37

Who are we? Where did we come from? Are we really as independent of our "nature" as we think in our current freedom-individualist oriented society?  Do we have "roots" that link us biologically, mentally, and spiritually back to our heritage?  Is science, or technology a part of what it means to be human? Are our thoughts and actions really our own or "pre-destined" by our heritage? Do we really run with the buffalo?