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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RE 428 The Future in Science and Religion

The class explores the influence of science on religion and culture in the modern and postmodern worlds. The course focuses on four themes of creation: the universe, life, human consciousness, and ecology of the earth. First, the class examines the sacred cosmology of Western Culture that is based upon the creation narratives of Genesis. Then, the class examines the scientific. challenge of astronomy, biological evolution, the neuroscience and human consciousness, and the ecology movement. Issues such as Galileo and the Inquisition, the Theory of the Big band, evolution and intelligent design, human consciousness and religious experience, and ecology and global warming are examined. Graduate Humanities students as well as undergraduate majors in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology are encouraged to enroll.