Charles Birch

Louis Charles Birch FAA (8 February 1918 8 Februari 1918 – 19 Desember 2009) adalah seorang pakar genetik Australia yang mengkhususkan diri dalam ekologi populasi danb juga dikenal sebagai teolog, yang banyak menulis topik tentang sains dan agama, serta memenangkan Penghargaan Templeton pada 1990.^[1] Penghargaan tersebut diberikan atas karya-karyanya yang menjelaskan nilai intrinsik pada seluruh kehidupan.

Birch lahir di Melbourne pada 8 Februari 1918 sebagai putra dari Harry Birch, seorang manajer bank kelahiran Selandia Baru dari ES&A Bank, dan istri kelahiran Irlandia-nya, Nora. Ia memiliki saudara kembar, Sidney, dan seorang kakak, Hugh. Birch masuk Scotch College, Melbourne, dan mempelajari pertanian di universitas di Melbourne.^[2]

Birch dididik di Universitas Melbourne, meraih gelar Sarjana Ilmu Pertanian pada 1939, dan ia pertama kali bekerja di departemen entomologi di Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, dimana ia meraih gelar Dokterandes Sains pada 1941.^[3]

Charles Birch tak pernah menikah. Ia meninggalkan kembarannya, Sidney, dan saudari iparnya, Jenny.^[2]

• The Distribution and Abundance of Animals, with H. G. Andrewartha. University of Chicago Press, 1954
• Nature and God, SCM Press, 1965
• Confronting the Future: Australia and the world: the next hundred years, Penguin Books, 1975 (2nd edition 1993) ISBN 0-14-021937-4
• Genetics and the Quality of Life, with Paul Abrecht. Pergamon Press, 1975. ISBN 0-08-018210-0
• Another Australia in a Just and Sustainable Global Society: An Address University of Newcastle, 1976.
• The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community, with John B. Cobb Jr., Cambridge University Press, 1981. ISBN 0-521-23787-4
• The Ecological Web: more on the distribution and abundance of animals, with H. G. Andrewartha. University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN 0-226-02033-9
• Liberating Life: Contemporary Approaches to Ecological Theory, Orbis, 1990 ISBN 0-88344-689-8
• On Purpose, UNSW Press, 1990. ISBN 0-86840-371-7 (published in the USA as A Purpose for Everything: Religion in a Postmodern World View, Twentythird Publications, 1990. ISBN 0-89622-453-8)
• Regaining Compassion for Humanity and Nature, UNSW Press, 1993. ISBN 0-86840-213-3
• Feelings, UNSW Press, 1995. ISBN 0-86840-151-X
• Living With the Animals: The Community of God's Creatures, with Lukas Vischer. Risk Book Series, World Council of Churches, 1996. ISBN 2-8254-1227-9
• Biology and the Riddle of Life, co-published by UNSW Press (Australia), 1999. ISBN 0-86840-785-2
• Life and Work: Challenging Economic Man, with David Paul. UNSW Press, 2003. ISBN 0-86840-670-8
• Science and Soul, co-published by UNSW Press (Australia), 2007 and Templeton Foundation Press (USA), 2008. ISBN 978-0-86840-958-0

• Australian Biography - Charles Birch Diarsipkan 2008-04-30 di Wayback Machine.
• Why I became a Panexperientialist by Charles Birch
• Charles Birch, Science and Soul - Charles Birch interviewed by Stephen Crittenden on The Religion Report, ABC Radio National, 19 December 2007
• Obituary - Sydney Morning Herald 23 December 2009