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lecture 1 Introduction
Part I A Case for the Compatibility of Science and Religion
lecture 2 Science and Religion Compared
lecture 3 Critical Realism in Science and Religion
lecture 4 Is Religion Opposed to Science?
lecture 5 Does Science Rule Out a Personal God?
lecture 6 Creation in Sacred Writings
lecture 7 Was the Universe Created?
lecture 8 Why Is There Complexity in Nature?
lecture 9 Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
lecture 10 Is Life Reducible to Chemistry?
lecture 11 Life on Earth
lecture 12 Does Evolution Rule Out God's Existence?
Part II Contemporary Responses to Evolution
lecture 13 A Gene for Religion – E.O. Wilson
Lecture 14 River Out of Eden -- Richard C. Dawkins
Lecture 15 God as a Ham Sandwich -- Daniel C. Dennett
lecture 16 The Believer as Hypocrite – William Provine
Lecture 17 The Woeful Inadequacy of Science – Francisco Ayala<
lecture 18 Irreducible Complexity -- Michael Behe
Part III Creationism Examined
Lecture 19 Darwinism on Trial -- Philip Johnson
Lecture 20 The Creationists: God's Own Scientists -- Christopher Toumey, Ronald Numbers
lecture 21 Abusing Science: the Case Against Creationism -- Philip Kitcher
Part IV Science and Religion Fused
lecture 22 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Evolution and Theology Synthesized?
lecture 23 Teilhard and Contemporary Thought
Part V Is Science a Social Construct?
lecture 24 Science for the People?
lecture 25 Science as Salvation? Evolution as Religion?
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Peter Dodson
dodsonp@vet.upenn.edu
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