Science and Religion

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Course Description

Overview

Explore how science and religion are two crucial forces that helped shape Western civilization and continue to interact in our daily lives.

Syllabus

By This Professor
01: Science and Religion
02: The Warfare Thesis
03: Faith and Reason—Scripture and Nature
04: God and Nature—Miracles and Demons
05: Church, Copernicus, and Galileo
06: Galileo’s Trial
07: God the Watchmaker
08: Natural Theology and Arguments from Design
09: Geology, Cosmology, and Biblical Chronology
10: Darwin and Responses to Evolution
11: Fundamentalism and Creationism
12: Past, Present, and Future

Taught by

Lawrence M. Principe

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