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2011-2012 HillBook (Class of 2015) 
    
2011-2012 HillBook (Class of 2015) [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.