2021-2022 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
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PHIL 205 - Science and Religion


Credits: 3
Description
Selected problems and episodes in the interaction between science and religion, such as the seventeenth century condemnation of Galileo, the eighteenth century controversy about natural religion, and the recent creation/evolution debate in the United States.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify the central issues pertaining to the relation between science and religion which were covered in the course.
  2. Identify the evaluate the central arguments on the issues pertaining to the relation between science and religion which were covered in the course.
  3. Offer a coherent and accurate description of some of the historical episodes involving conflicts of science and religion examined in the course.
  4. Write a short analytical paper in which you state and evaluate a clearly-structured argument on a selected issue on the relation of science and religion according to the standards of evaluation prescribed in the course.

Prerequisite: None



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