3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Lower Division
Are science and religion irrelevant to each other? Or can one of them challenge, support, shape, presuppose, explain- or explain away-the other? This course examines how science in general, as well as specific scientific disciplines such as evolutionary biology, physical cosmology, and cognitive science, are related to religion in general, and to particular religious traditions.
Learning Outcomes1Identify specific ways in which science and religion appear to be in tension and specific ways in which they appear to support one another.
2Demonstrate familiarity both with attempts to resolve alleged tensions between science and religion and with attempts to challenge claims that science and religion support one another.
3Present, explain, defend, and evaluate complex philosophical perspectives on the relationship between science and religion, in oral and written communication.
4Locate, interpret, understand, and evaluate philosophical arguments encountered in complex texts on the relationship science and religion.
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