Science and Religion

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Religion Courses Critical Thinking Courses Evolution Courses Western Civilization Courses

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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