Date

Topic

Reading

Aug 29

Introduction

Sept. 3

Aristotle, St. Augustine and Protestantism

Chapter 2 , pg 61-66 in Moore (1999) and Introduction from Harrison (1998)  

Sept 5

Case of Galileo

Chapter 1 in Hellman (1998) and Johnston (2000)

Sept 10

Evolution, The Scopes Trial Part 1

Chapter 1 in Larson (1997)

Sept 12

Evolution, The Scopes Trial Part 2

Sept 17

Chapters 6 and 7 in Larson (1997)  

Sept 19

4 Different Views of Science and Religion 

Chapter 1 in Barbour (2000)  

Sept 24

Overlapping or Non-Overlapping Magesteria?  

Preamble and NOMA defined  in Gould (2001)  

Sept 26

Is Science a Religion?

Dawkins (1996)

Oct 1

Oct 3

Intelligence beyond universe?

Chapter 2 in Nicholi (2002)

Oct 8

Evolution and continuing creation

Oct 10

Does Evolution Rule Out God’s Existence?

Chapter 3 in Haught (1995)

Oct 15

Does the Universe Have a Purpose?  

Oct 17

Chibnall et al. (2001)

Oct 22

Science & Spirit 12: 28-39, 36-37

Oct 24

  Neuroscience, Genetics, and God

Begley, 2001 and Ch. 5 in Barbour (2000)

Oct 29

Chapter 6 in Barbour (2000)

Oct 31

Knowledge, Wisdom, and Truth

Chapter 8 in Polkinghorne (1998) and Jurgen (2002)

Nov 5

Birth Control

Foy (2000)

Freud