Mar 29, 2024  
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) 
    
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

PHY 193 - Science and Belief

Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters

History of the relation between science and religion from Copernicus to David Hume: Catholic and Protestant reactions to the Copernican theory; the Galileo affair; rationalism and empiricism; Puritanism and science; the Enlightenment critique of religion; and the nature of belief in science and the role of “reason” in religion.

Fulfills the General Education Natural Scientific Inquiry requirement.