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Apr 19, 2024
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2016-2017 HillBook (Class of 2020) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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PHY 193 - Science and BeliefThree Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Exploration of the relation between science and religion looking at selected historical episodes from St. Augustine to Richard Dawkins. Possible topics include: reactions to Copernican cosmology; the Galileo affair; rationalism and empiricism in the scientific revolution; Aristotelianism and mechanical philosophies; Puritanism and science; Enlightenment critique of religion; responses to Darwin; Big Bang cosmology and the fine-tuning argument; evolutionary psychology; the growth of anti-scientific sentiment within American fundamentalism.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions and Natural Scientific Inquiry requirements.
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