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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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