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Sep. 20th, 2013 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212EEEEEEEEeeeeee! I'm teaching two advanced college courses on science and religion!
Holy frell, I'm teaching two advanced college courses on science and religion. And I have a little over a month to prepare the syllabus and course materials for a semester long course. With two exams/papers required. Eeek.
So, flisters/friends. If you were going to attend a class on science and religion (and since this is in the Philippines at a Christian college, with one course being attended only by ordained clergy, take it as read that the religion is Christianity), what subjects would you want covered? What resources would you use? (If you have easily available online sources, please for everything you hold dear, send me a link!
So far the first things that I've thought about:
Defining terms: What is science? What are major terms used in science that are not always understood? What is religion?
History: What is the history of science and its relationship to the church? Galileo, Darwin, Aquinas, et cetera. Early scientists were oftentimes also clergy as their main job. What created the divisions between modern scientists and theologians?
Truth and Fact: mindsets (pre-modern, modern, post-modern) and the differences in what they perceive as the relationship between fact and truth.
Perspectives on the Bible: textual critiques, literal vs other readings.
Specific passages of the Bible: Genesis 1-3, Judges (Gideon and the sun), miracles, what else?
Scientists' perspectives on faith: Talk to science department teachers and ask them about their faith stories, where they draw their boundaries/reconcile viewpoints.
Texts to draw from: Rock of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould, the Bible, The Origin of Species by Darwin, Babylonian creation myths, Book of Common Prayer
Holy frell, I'm teaching two advanced college courses on science and religion. And I have a little over a month to prepare the syllabus and course materials for a semester long course. With two exams/papers required. Eeek.
So, flisters/friends. If you were going to attend a class on science and religion (and since this is in the Philippines at a Christian college, with one course being attended only by ordained clergy, take it as read that the religion is Christianity), what subjects would you want covered? What resources would you use? (If you have easily available online sources, please for everything you hold dear, send me a link!
So far the first things that I've thought about:
Defining terms: What is science? What are major terms used in science that are not always understood? What is religion?
History: What is the history of science and its relationship to the church? Galileo, Darwin, Aquinas, et cetera. Early scientists were oftentimes also clergy as their main job. What created the divisions between modern scientists and theologians?
Truth and Fact: mindsets (pre-modern, modern, post-modern) and the differences in what they perceive as the relationship between fact and truth.
Perspectives on the Bible: textual critiques, literal vs other readings.
Specific passages of the Bible: Genesis 1-3, Judges (Gideon and the sun), miracles, what else?
Scientists' perspectives on faith: Talk to science department teachers and ask them about their faith stories, where they draw their boundaries/reconcile viewpoints.
Texts to draw from: Rock of Ages by Stephen Jay Gould, the Bible, The Origin of Species by Darwin, Babylonian creation myths, Book of Common Prayer
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Date: 2013-09-20 12:32 pm (UTC)Okay, mostly speaking as a historian here:
If you don't know it already, get thee to The Internet History SourceBook Project, in particular, the History of Science one. Free, easily accessible primary source materials, broken up into manageable chunks.
The International Society for Science & Religion has a library page. Probably mostly useful to you as a bibliography of what is out there, but they do seem to have a bunch of the introductory essays to the books available online, which might be helpful.
Columbia University has a Center for Science and Religion. Get thee hence and crib from their courses!
and there seem to be a bunch of TED talks on the subject.
And lastly, I don't know how your database access for academic journal articles is, but if there is anything you want to get your hands on, let me know and I'll see if I can pull it and email it to you as a pdf.
SO COOL! *bounces for you*