Transformations: Science & Religion In the Modern World

Catalog description

The aim is to prepare graduating students to enter into an intelligent encounter with one of the most salient issues in modern society and in particular in modern America, namely, the interface between the natural sciences and religious beliefs. The course will do this by lectures on specific issues involved in the interface and by small group discussions of those issues. These will include: scientific cosmology and biblical stories of creation; biological evolution and religious beliefs about the human person; the neurosciences, consciousness; personality, spirituality; the role of chance in nature and divine omnipotence; the Intelligent Design Movement in America; etc.