{"id":21,"date":"2011-02-23T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/02\/23\/science-and-religion\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:03:46","slug":"science-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/02\/23\/science-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Kent Dunlap, Associate Professor of Biology, Trinity College<\/p>\n

Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

The contemporary arguments on intelligent design and stem cell research demonstrate that the age old debate between science and religion is still very much still alive. This course will examine fundamental philosophical, ethical and historical questions at the intersection of religion and science. Are these two dominant “ways of knowing” destined to always conflict? Do religion and science provide separate and compatible world views? How has religion been a force in motivating and constraining science and technology? How has science prompted changing perspectives in theology and ethics? Using both historical and contemporary sources, we will explore ways in which religion and science collide, coexist and influence each other. We will focus on Christianity, Judism and the biological sciences, but also include some discussion of non-Western religions and physical sciences.<\/p>\n

Required Texts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Barbour, Ian, Religion and Science; Historical and Contemporary Issues, HarperCollins, 1997. ISBN 0-06-060938-9<\/li>\n
  2. Appleman Philip. ed., Darwin (A Norton Critical edition), WW Norton and Company 2001. ISBN 0-393-95849<\/li>\n
  3. Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0199291152<\/li>\n
  4. James, William, Varieties of Religious Experience, Random House, 1999. ISBN 0-67964011-8<\/li>\n
  5. Readings from Course book<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n