PUBLICATIONS OF L. C. BIRCH

Books

Biology for Senior High School Students.  Sydney, Australia:  Nuclear Research Foundation, University of Sydney, 1965.

Confronting the Future: Australia and the World the Next 100 Years.  Penguin Books Australia, 1976.

The Distribution and Abundance of Animals (with H.G. Andrewartha).   Chicago, IL:  University of Chicago Press, 1954

The Ecological Web and the Distribution and Abundance of Animals (with H.G. Andrevartha).  Chicago, IL:  University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Genetics and the Quality of Life (with P. Abrecht).  Pergamon Press, 1975.

The Liberation of Life: from Cell to Community. (1981) Cambridge University Press (with John B. Cobb, Jr.).  Cambridge University Press, 1981.  [Reprint 1990 by Enrovironmental Ethics Books]

Editor, with W. Eakin and J. D. McDaniel.  Liberating Life:  Contemporary approaches to Ecological Theology.  New York:  Orbis, 1990.

Multistrand Science for Senior High School Students (with other authors). Sydney, Australia:  Nuclear Research Foundation, University of Sydney, 1975.

Nature and God.  Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. 1965.

On Purpose.  New South Wales University Press, Australia; and in the USA Mystic, CT:  23rd Publications, 1990.

Published Booklet

Facts and Fables in Ecology and the Integrity of Creation (with Ronald Preston.)  Liverpool: Liverpool Hope Press, 1998.

Papers

“The Ability of Flour Beetles to Breed in Wheat.”  Ecology 20 (1947): 322-324.

“The Abundance of Animals.”  Biologica, Trabajos del Instituto de Biologia, “Juan Noe” Santiago 22 (1956): 11-14.

“The Abundance of Drosophila Willistoni in Relation to Food in Natural Populations.”  Ecology 38 (1957): 165-166.

“Adam Was a Crowd.”  Compass 3 (1969): 57-59.

“Another Australia in a Just and Sustainable Global Society.”  University of Newcastle Lecture, 1976.

“The Authority of Science.”  Crux (February-March, 1963): 5-8.

“Bevolkerung und Entwicklung.”  E.P.D.¾Entwicklungspolitik (September, 1974): 3-13.

“Biocentric Christian Ethics.”  Science & Religion News 5, no.3-4 (Summer/Fall, 1994): 1 & 15.

“A Biological Basis for Human Purpose.”  Zygon 8, nos.3-4 (September-December, 1973): 244-60.

“The Biological Future of Man.”  The University of Sydney Gazette 2 (1967): 212-213.

“Biologie et Valeurs Ethiques.”  Cooperation 40 (3 October, 1970): [???]

“Biology and the Image of Man.”  In Brain Mechanism and the Control of Behaviour, eds., H. Messel and S. Butler.  (Shakespeare Head Press, 1972):  10-63.

“Biology and the Image of Man.”  The Modern Churchman 98 (1973): 3-7.

“Biology at the Frontier.”  J. Proc. Linn. Soc. 118 (1985): 47-50.

“The Biotic Potential of the Small Strain of Calandra oryzae L. and Rhizopertha dominica Fab.”  Journal of Animal Ecology 14 (1945): 125-127.

“Born Again Science and Technology.”  The Inaugural Keith Roby Memorial Lecture in Community Science.  Murdoch University, November 3, 1982.

“Called to Replenish the Earth.”  New World Outlook (March, 1976): 8-14.

“Can Evolution Be Accounted for Solely in Terms of Mechanical Causation?”  In Mind in Nature, eds., John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin.  (The University Press of America, Washington:  l977):  13-18.

“Can Religion Remain Silent Any Longer?”  Los Angeles Times (Wednesday, March 7, 1990): B7  

“The Carrying Capacity of the Global Environment.”  Anticipation 13 (1973): 10-27.

“Chance and Purpose in Evolution.”  In The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, ed. Lewis E. Hahn.  La Salle, IL:  Open Court [Library of Living Philosophers], 1989, pp. [???].

“Chance, Necessity and Purpose.”  In Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, eds., F. Ayala and Th. Dobzhansky. (London:  Macmillan, 1974):  225-39.

“A Ciencia e a Idea de Deus.”  Testimonium 130-140. [???]

“A Concept of Nature.”  [Extended in] American Scientist 39 (1951): 294-302.

“Concept of Nature.”  Australian Journal of Science 12 (1950): 193-199.

“Conscience and the Scientist.”  Hemisphere 14 (1970): 23-25.  

“A Conscience and the Scientist.”  New World Outlook 31 (1971): 7-11.

"A Contribution to the Ecology of Calandra oryzae L. and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. in Stored Wheat.”  Transcripts of the Royal Society of South Australia 69 (1945): 140-149.

“Creation and the Creator.”  Journal of Religion 37 (1957): 85-98. [abstract available]

“Creation, Technology and Human Survival:  Called to Replenish the Earth.”  The Ecumenical Review 28, no.1 (January, 1976): 66-79.

“A Crisis of Knowledge.”  The Melburnian 108 (1982): 12-16.  

“Current Challenges to Conventional Values in Science and Technology.”  Counterpoint Forum 2 (1979): 13-21.

“Darwin and His Successors.”  Australian Journal of Science 22 (1959): 17-22.

“Des chercheurs responsables.”  Reforme 1384 (Sept. 1971): 12.

“Deterioration of the Environment.”  In Man and His Australian Environment, eds., F.M. Burnet, et. al. (Melbourne: Cremond Books, 1973):  35-44.

“Diapause in the Eggs of Scelio chortoicetes Frogg, a Scelionid Parasite of Austroicetes cruciata Sauss.”  Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Sciences 11 (1946): 189-190.

“Did Darwin Get It Wrong?”  Anticipation 30 (July, 1983): 26-29.

“Die Tatsachen Haben uns Uberholt.”  Entwicklungspolitik 12:75 (1976): 3-6.

“Ecological Ethics and Economics.”  Habitat 10 (1982): 13-14.

“An Ecological Model of Life.”  In A Process Theory of Medicine.  (New York:  Edwin Miller Press, 1986):  91-114.

“The Effect of Species of Animals Which Share Common Resources on One Another’s Distribution and Abundance.”  Fortschr. Zool. 25, no.2-3 (1979): 197-221.

“The Effect of Temperature and Dryness on the Survival of the Eggs of Calandra oryzae L. (Small Strain) and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. (Coleoptera).” Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 22 (1944): 265-269.

“Eight Fallacies of the Modern World and Five Axioms for a Postmodern World.”  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 32 (1988): 12-30.

“Environmental Deterioration.”  In Faith, Science, and the Future, ed. P. Abrecht.  (Geneva:  W.C.C. Press, 1978): 143-53.  

“Es Ist an der Zeit zu zahlen.  Schopfung, Technik und Gberleben der Menschheit.”  Lutherische Monatschefte [???] (January, 1976): 12-l8.

“Ethical Dilemmas in the Biological Manipulation of Human Life.”  In Faith, Science, and the Future, ed. P. Abrecht.  (Geneva:  W.C.C. Press, 1978):  52-61.

“Evolutionary Opportunity for Insects and Mammals in Australia.”  In Proceedings of Symposium on the Genetics of Colonizing Species, 1964, Asilomar.  Academic Press Inc:  New York, 1965.

“Experimental Background to the Study of the Distribution and Abundance of Insects.  [I. The Influence of Temperature, Moisture and Food on the Innate Capacity for Increase of Three Grain Beetles.”  Ecology 34 (1953): 698-711.

“Experimental Background to the Study of the Distribution and Abundance of Insects.  [II.  The Relation Between Innate Capacity for Increase in Numbers and the Abundance of Three Grain Beetles in Experimental Populations.”  Ecology 34 (1953): 712-726.

“Experimental Background to the Study of the Distribution and Abundance of Insects.  [III.  The Relation Between Innate Capacity for Increase and Survival of Different Species Living Together in the Same Food.”  Evolution 7 (1953): 136-144.

“Experiments on the Relative Abundance of Two Siblings Species of Grain Weevils.”  Australian Journal of Zoology 2 (1954): 66-74.  

“Food:  The Prospects.”  In Faith, Science, and the Future, ed. P. Abrecht.  (Geneva:  W.C.C. Press, 1978):  125-32.  

“The Genetic Factor in Population Ecology.”  American Naturalist 94 (1960): 5-24.

“Genetics and Evolution.”  Australian Museum Magazine (December, 1959): 123-127.

“Genetics and Moral Responsibility.”  In Genetics and the Quality of Life, eds., Charles Birch and P. Abrecht.  Sydney: Pergamon Press, 1975, pp. 6-19.

“The God Beyond God.”  Address delivered in St. Stephen’s, Sydney, Australia, July 2, 1965.

“The ‘God is Dead’ Debate.”  Current Affairs Bulletin 38 (1966): 162-175.

“The Heating of Wheat Stored in Bulk in Australia.”  Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Sciences 12 (1946): 27-31.

“How Brave, New World?”  Ecumenical Review 37 (1985): 152-60.

“The Impact of Evolution on Modern Thought.”  Australian Journal of Science 15 (1952): 37-43.

“An Improved Method for Determining the Influence of Temperature on the Rate of Development of Insect Eggs, Using Eggs of the Small Strain of Calandra oryzae L. (Coleoptera).” Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 2 (1944): 277-283.

“The Influence of Food on the Size of Two Strains of Calandra oryzae L.”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 24 (1946): 123-125.

“The Influence of Temperatures above the Development Zero on the Development of the Eggs of Austroicetes Cruciata Sauss (Orthoptera).”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 20 (1942): 17-25.

“The Influence of Temperature and Dryness on the Survival of the Eggs of Calandra orzae L. (small strain) and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. (Coleoptera).”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science 22 (1944): 265-269.  

“The Influence of Temperature on the Development of the Different Stages of Calandra oryzae L. and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. (Coleoptera).”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 23 (1945): 29-35.

“The Influence of Temperatures, Humidity, and Density on the Oviposition of the Small Strain of Calandra oryzae L. and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. (Coleoptera).”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 23 (1945): 197-203.

“Insect Microbiology.”  Ecology 28 (1947): 209-210.

“Interpreting the Lower in Terms of the Higher.”  Christian Scholar 37 (1954): 402-409.

“In the Footsteps of Charles Darwin.”  Australian Journal of Science 21 (1958): 33-39.  

“The Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase of an Insect Population.”  Journal of Animal Ecology 12(1948): 15-26.

“The Liberation of Nature.”  Colloquium 22 (1989): 2-11

“Living in a Transition.”  The Corion (1980): 34-38.  

“Man and Environment.”  Medical Journal Australia 58:1 (1971): 1-2.

“The Meanings of Competition”.  American Naturalist 91 (1957): 5-18.

“Modern Man and His Environmental Crisis.”  Australian Natural History (December, 1970): 385-390.

“The Mortality of the Immature Stages of Calandra oryzae L. (Small Strain) and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. in Wheat of Different Moisture Contents.”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 23 (1945): 141-145.

“The Movement of Calandra oryzae L. in Experimental Bulks of Wheat.”  Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Sciences 12 (1946): 21-26.

"My Damascus."  In Spiritual Evolution: Scientists Discuss Their Beliefs, eds. John Marks Templeton and Kenneth Seeman Giniger (Philadelphia and London: Giniger Books, 1998): 1-15.

“Natural Selection Between the Species of Tephritid Fruit Fly of the Genus Dacus.”  Evolution 16 (1962): 360-374.

“Nature, God and Humanity in Ecological Perspective.”  Christianity and Crisis 39, no.16 (October 29, 1979): 259-266.  

“Nature, Humanity and God in Ecological Perspective.”  In Faith and Science in an Unjust World.  (Geneva:  World Council of Churches, 1980):  62-73.

“New Wine in New Bottles.”  In 1984 and Beyond, ed. C. Ledger.  (Australian Council of Churches, 1984):  30-35.

“On Bridging the Gulf Between Generations.”  Education News 12 (1969): 8-10.

“Ordering the World as a Sustainable Global Society.”  Christianity and Crisis (November 24, 1975): 282-85.  

“The Organic Image of Nature, Humanity, and God.”  Anticipation 25 (1979): 52-57.  

“The Origin of Life.”   Australian Natural History 14 (1963): 137-140.

“The Oxygen Consumption of the Small Strain of Calandra oryzae L. and Rhizopertha dominica Fab. as Affected by Temperature and Humidity.”  Ecology 28 (1947): 17-25.

“Participatory Evolution:  The Drive of Creation.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 40 (1972): 147-163.

“Population Ecology and the Control of Pests.”  Bulletin W.H.O. 29 (1963): 141-146.

“Population Growth and the Sustainable Society.”  In Faith, Science, and the Future, ed. P. Abrecht.  (Geneva:  W.C.C. Press, 1978):  154-63.

“The Postmodern Challenge to Biology.”  In The Reenchantment of Science, ed. David Ray Griffin.  (Albany, NY:  State University of New York Press, 1986): [???].

“Process Theology.”  Eremos Newsletter 31 (1990): 4-7.

"Processing Towards Life."  Process Studies 27, nos.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1998): 280-91.

“Purpose in the Universe:  A Search for Wholeness.”  Zygon 6 (1971): 4-27.  [Reprinted in Psyche and Spirit, 1973, Paulist/Newman Press.]

“Queensland Fruit Fly:  A Study in Evolution and Control.”  New Scientist (July, 1966): 204-207.

“Religion and Nature.”  In Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Auckland [1982], 1984, 1-21.

“Resources:  Limits or No Limits?”  In Faith, Science, and the Future, ed. P. Abrecht.  (Geneva:  W.C.C. Press, 1978): 133-42.  

“Review:  W.C. Allee, A.E. Emerson, 0. Park, T. Park, and K.P. Schmidt, Principles of Animal Zoology.”  Australian Journal of Science 12 (1950): 166-67.

“Review:  Bradley T. Scheer, Comparative Physiology.”  Australian Journal of Science 11 (1948): 68-69.

“Review: Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, ‘Physiological Mechanisms in Animal Behaviour.’”  Australian Journal of Science (April, 1951): 159-60.

“The Role of Environmental Heterogeneity and Genetical Heterogeneity in Determining Distribution and Abundance.”  Proceedings of the Advanced Study Institute, Dynamics of Numbers in Populaticns (1971): 109-128.

“The Role of Weather in Determining the Distribution and Abundance of Animals.”  Cold Spring Harbour Symposium 22 (1958): 203-218.

“Salvation for Elephants.”  Church and Society (September, 1987): 73-81.  

“Schopfung, Technik, und Uberleben der Menschheit.”  Der Uberblick (Marz 1976-12-Jahrgang): 3-8. [Stuttgart]

“Science and Ethics.”  Search 9 (1978): 365-70.

“Science and Faith:  An Ecological Model.”  In Science and Faith in Our Schools.  [???] Science Teachers Association of Victoria, 1983, 12-41.

“Scientific Dilemma.”  Christianity and Crisis 27 (1967): 304-307.

“Selection in Drosophila pseudoobscura in Relation to Crowding.”  Evolution 9 (1955): 389-399.  

“Six Thesis for Conservation.”  Habitat 8, no.4 (1980): 25-31.

“Social Responsibility in Science.”  The Australian Science Teachers Journal 18:1 (1972): 19-25.

“Social Responsibility in Science.”  Search 3 (1972): 109-112.

“Stability and Instability in Natural Populations.”  New Zealand Science Review 20 (1962): 9-14.

“Supervivencia en la Tierra, Civilizacion Tecnica y Teologia de la Creacion.”  Dios Y Mundo (Barcelona) 17 (1978): 114-26.

“The Sustainable and Just Global Society.”  In Australian Politics 5 eds., H. Mayer, and H. Nelson.  (Melbourne:  Longman Cheshire, 1980):  3-16.

“The Threat to Earth’s Life-Support Systems.”  Journal of the Home Economics Association 3 (1971): 36-41.

“Three Facts, Eight Fallacies, and Three Axioms About Population and Environment.”  The Ecumenical Review (1973): 29-40.

“Toward a Post-Modern World.”  In The Latrobe Memorial Lecture. (The University of Latrobe Press, 1985):  ??

“Two Strains of Calandra oryzae L.”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 22 (1944): 123-125.

“Two Ways of Interpreting Nature.”  Australian Natural History 21:2: 68-69.

“Values, Responsibilities, and Commitments in the Teaching of Science.”  In Science, Education, and Ethical Values, eds., D. Gosling and B. Musohenda.  (Washington, D.C.:  Georgetown University Press, 1985): 20-30.

“The Unity of All Life.”  In The Lord of Life, ed. W.H. Lazareth. (Geneva:  W.C.C., 1983): [???]

“What Does God Do in the World?”  Union Theological Seminary Quarterly Review 30, no.4 (1975): [???].

“Whitehead and Science Education.”  Educational Philosophy and Theory 20, no.2 (1989): 33-41.

“Who Decides About Human Life?”  Presbyterian Life 24 (1971): 20-1.

“Zero Energy Growth.” In Energy For Survival, ed. H. Messel (Sydney, Australia: Pergamon Press, 1979): 97-117.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “The History of Insect Ecology.”  In History of Entomology.  (Annual Reviews Inc., 1973):  229-260.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “The Influence of Drought on the Survival of Eggs Austroicates cruclata Sauss (Orthoptera) in South Australia.” Bulletin of Entomologial Research 35 (1944): 243-250.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “The Influence of Moisture on the Eggs of Austroicetes Cruciata Sauss (Orthoptera) with Reference to their Ability to Survive Desiccation.”  Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 20 (1942): 1-8.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “The Influence of Weather on Grasshopper Plagues in South Australia.”  Journal of Agriculture South Australia 45 (1941): 94-100.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “The Lotka-Voltera Theory of Interspecific Competition.”  Australian Journal of Zoology 1 (1953): 174-177.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “The Measurement of Environmental Resistance in the Australian Plague Grasshopper.”  Nature 161 (1948): 447-448.

_____, with H.G. Andrewartha.  “Some Recent Contributions to the Study of the Distribution and Abundance of Insects.”  Annual Review of Entomology 5 (1960): 219-42.

_____, with Bruno Battaglia.  “Crossing-over in Drosophila willistoni.”  Nature 178 (1956): 1005.

_____, with Bruno Battaglia.  “Polimorfismo Chromosomico e Fattori Ecologici Delta Selezione in Drosophila willistoni.”  Archiv. Zoo. Italiano. 41 (1956): 281-315.

_____, with Bruno Battaglia.  “Selection in Drosophila willistoni in Relation to Food.”  Evolution 11 (1957): 94-105.

_____, with G.J. Caughley.  “Rate of Increase.”  Journal of Wildlife Management 35 (1971): 658-663.

_____, with D.P. Clark.  “Forest Soil as an Ecological Community, with Special Reference to the Fauna.”  Quarterly Review of Biology 28 (1953): 13-36.

_____, with John B. Cobb, Jr.  “God’s Love, Ecological Survival, and the Responsiveness of Nature.”  Anticipation 16 (March, 1974): 32-36.  

_____, with Th. Dobzhansky, P.O. Elliott, and R.C. Lewontin.  “Relative Fitness of Geographic Races of Drosophila serrata.” Evolution 17 (1963): 72-83.

_____, with P.R. Ehrlich.  “The ‘Balance of Nature’ and ‘Population Control.’”  American Naturalist 101 (1967): 97-107.

_____, with P.R. Ehrlich.  “Evolutionary History and Population Biology.”  Nature 214 (1967): 349-352.

_____, with P.R. Ehrlich.  “Evolutionary History and Taxonomy.”  Systematic Zoology 16 (1967): 282-285.

_____, with R.C. Lewontin.  “Hybridisation as a Source of Variation for Adaptation to New Environments.”  Evolution 20 (1966): 315-336.

_____, with T. Park, and M.B. Frank.  “The Effect of Intra-species and Inter-species Competition on the Fecundity of Two Species of Flour Beetles.” 5 (1951): 116-132.

_____, with J.G. Snowball.  “The Development of the Eggs of Rhisopertha dominica Fab. at Constant Temperatures.” Australian Journal of Experimental Biologial & Medical Sciences 23 (1945): 37-40.

_____, with Jan Tinbergan, E.F. Schumacher and Bruce McFarlane. “Rich Against Poor Nations.”  In Transcripts on the Political Economy of Development, ed. E.L. Wheelwright.  (Sydney:  Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1977): 219-264.

_____, with W.G. Vogt.  “Plasticity of Taxonomic Characters of the Queensland Fruit Flies Dacus tryoni and Dacus neohumeralis.” Evolution 24 (1970): 320-343.

Interviews

Crittenden, Stephen.  "Religion Report: Charles Birch - Science and Soul." ABC Radio National (December 19, 2007): http:www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/2122324.htm [abstract] 

Scott, David Clark.  “To Save Earth, Ideals Must Change.”  The Christian Science Moniter (March 23, 1990)

Todd, Douglas.  “God Thinker Wins $310,000 Prize.”  The Vancouver Sun (Saturday, March 24, 1990)

Williams, Graham.  “Heretic Scoops Religion’s Richest Prize.”  UUC

Unpublished Works

As I Remember Them:  and formed my philosophy of life.  (first draft of manuscript sent to John Cobb.)

Web Publication 

Todd, Douglas.  “Death of one of my heroes.”  The Vancouver Sun (December 23, 2009). http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thesearch/archive/2009/12/23/
death-of-one-of-my-heroes.aspx

Brown, Malcolm. "A Man of Science and Religion." Sindey Morning Herald (December 23, 2009). http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries
/a-man-of-science-and-religion-20091222-lbpx.html