Course description

This course examines the interactions between two of the most significant components of modern society: religion and science. The course first provides historical views on these two ways of understanding the world. It explores noteworthy religion and science events, including as the trial of Galileo and early religious responses to the theory of evolution. RELN1115 then tackles modern religion and science issues, including creationism, questions about life elsewhere in the universe, the psychology of religion, religion and health, the rise of contemporary atheism, feminist critiques of religion and science, as well as religion and the Big Bang Theory.

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