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Introduction to the Course
1 video

Introduction with Mark Harris

3 readings

About this course
Course assessments and exercises
Course Textbook

1 discussion prompt

Get to Know Your Classmates
Science, Religion and the Origins of the Universe
6 videos

The Origins of the Cosmos: Religious Accounts
The Origins of the Cosmos: Philosophical Accounts
The Origins of the Cosmos: Scientific Accounts
The Structure of the Universe
The End of the Universe
Structure and Design

1 reading

What provides a better explanation for the origin of the universe: science or religion?

5 quizzes

Quiz on lecture 1
Quiz on lecture 2
Quiz on lecture 3
Quiz on lecture 4
Quiz on lecture 5

1 peer review

Which, if any, of the mythological accounts of the structure of the universe does current science support? Explain your answer.

2 discussion prompts

Other origin myths?
Does current science support the idea that our universe was designed?
BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE
9 videos

The History and Geography of Buddhism
Some Basic Buddhist Ideas: The Four Noble Truths
Buddhist Atheism and Scientific Naturalism
Buddhist Anātman and the Scientific View of a Person
Some Aspects of Western Logic
The Buddhist Catuṣkoṭi
Emptiness (Śūnyatā)
Quantum Mechanics and Entanglement
Graham Priest Interview

5 readings

Contradiction
Catuskoti
Nāgārjuna
Quantum Entanglement
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2 peer reviews

Required Essay Question
Is the analogy between the interdependence of Huayan Buddhism and the universal entanglement of quantum mechanics a good one?

14 discussion prompts

Can an atheist view be a religion?
What is the difference between religion and philosophy?
Is suffering necessarily a bad thing?
Why should a Buddhist be concerned with the suffering of others?
When is it rational to believe something you have been told (by a person or a book)?
Are there any experts in morality. If not, why not? If so, why are they experts?
Do you have a self, in the sense that Buddhists deny?
What makes a view scientific?
Are there claims which are neither true nor false, or both true and false?
How can one adjudicate a dispute about logic?
Could it be rational to believe a contradiction to be true?
Is anything what it is in and of itself (without relation to anything else)? If so, what? If not, why not?
How can a cat be in a state indeterminate between life and death?
Why might one think that everything is what it is by relating to all other things? Is that a good reason?
EVOLUTION AND DESIGN
8 videos

Introduction
Argument for Intelligent Design
Arguments Against Intelligent Design
Scientific Theories
Religious Doctrines
Compatibility Between Religious Doctrine and Scientific Theory
Bigger Issues: Compatibility Between Teleology and Scientific Theory
Criticisms of the Fine Tuning Argument

1 reading

Darwin and Design

7 quizzes

Quiz on lecture 1
Quiz on lecture 2
Quiz on lecture 3
Quiz on lecture 4
Quiz on lecture 5
Quiz on lecture 7
Quiz on lecture 8

1 peer review

Is Intelligent Design compatible with Evolutionary Theory?

3 discussion prompts

Other examples of irreducible complexity
Humans in the image of God
Is the universe fine-tuned for life like us to develop?
SIN, SUFFERING AND SALVATION: EVOLUTION’S THORNY ISSUES
6 videos

Introduction
The Traditional Account and the Cosmological Fall
The Only Way – A Package Deal
The Second Challenge
Original Sin and Being Made in the Image of God
Is there Any Place for God

2 readings

Evolution, Suffering, and the Creative Love of God
The purpose of dinosaurs: Extinction and the goodness of God

5 quizzes

Quiz on lecture 2
Quiz on lecture 3
Quiz on lecture 4
Quiz on lecture 5
Quiz on lecture 6

3 discussion prompts

When Dr. Sollereder asked you to think of an experience of nature, was it positive or negative?
A heaven for animals
Does accepting evolution necessarily rule out the possibility of divine action?
HUMAN UNIQUENESS IN SCIENCE, THEOLOGY AND ETHICS
6 videos

Are we alone in the Universe?
Where did we come from?
Are we just animals?
Is this a theological problem?
Does this Have ethical implications
Conclusion

8 readings

The Great Debate: Learning more
Videos of animal capacities
All God's creatures: Reading Genesis on human and nonhuman animals
Not a Not-Animal: The Vocation to Be a Human Animal Creature
Consuming Animal Creatures: The Christian Ethics of Eating Animals
David Clough - Mirroring Narcissus: The Pursuit of Human Uniqueness as Species - Level Narcissism
Animals and the Kingdom of God
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2 quizzes

Quiz on lesson 1
Quiz on lesson 2

1 peer review

Do Christians have good reason to be vegetarian?

2 discussion prompts

Do you think that human beings are unique? If so, why? If not, why not?
Not so unique human capacities

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