I. Introduction: Religion and Science

Thursday, January 11 Introduction: The Interaction of Religion and Science.

Tuesday, January 16 Haught, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation,Chapter 1. Worthing, God, Creation and Contemporary Physics, Chapter 1 (coursepack).

Wednesday, January 17 Laboratory - The Simple Pendulum .

Thursday, January 18 Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science,  Ch.2, sect. 1-3, pp. 31-58 (coursepack). Craig and Stechel, What is Science from a Physics Perspective? Physics and Society Newsletter, October 1997
 

II. Atmospheric Science and Global Warming

Tuesday, January 23  Is Global Warming occurring? Student research reports/discussion.
Physics and Society Newsletter, American Physical Society, Demarcation between Science and Non-science

Wednesday, January 24 Laboratory - Energy Budget & Renewables

Thursday, January 25 Turco, Earth Under Siege: From Air Pollution to Global Change,
Chapter 11 - The Climate Machine. (coursepack)

Tuesday, January 30 Turco, Chapter 12 - Greenhouse Warming. (coursepack)

Wednesday, January 31 Laboratory - Interaction of Light and Matter

Thursday, February 1 Energy Innovation: A Prosperus Path to a Clean Environment, Executive Summary
 

III. Stories of Origins in Religion

Tuesday, February 6  White, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis"(coursepack)
Haught, Chapter 9 - Is Religion Responsible for the Ecological Crisis?

Wednesday, February 7 No Laboratory

Thursday, February 8: Exam #1 - Covers January 11 - February 1
Exam 1 Review Questions

Tuesday, February 13 Excerpts from Genesis, in Gottlieb, This Sacred Earth, pp. 71-75 (reader). "The Parade of Ants," in Gottlieb, pp. 56-59. Ruether,"Three Classical Creation Stories," chapter 1 in Gaia and God (coursepack)

Wednesday, February 14 Laboratory: Mythmaking

Thursday, February 15 Gilkey, Maker of Heaven and Earth , excerpts from Chapters 1-3 (coursepack)

February 17 - 27, Winter Recess
 

IV. Stories of Origin in Physics

Wednesday, February 28 No Laboratory

Thursday, March 1  Barrow, The Origin of the Universe, Chapters 1 & 2.

Tuesday, March 6 Classes cancelled for first time most can remember!

Wednesday, March 7 No Laboratory

Thursday, March 8 Barrow, Chapters 3 & 4.

Tuesday, March 13 Barrow, Chapters 5 & 6.

Wednesday, March 14 Laboratory:  The grating spectrometer and atomic spectra .

Thursday, March 15 Barrow, Chapters 7 & 8. Haught, Chapter 5 - Was the Universe Created?

Tuesday, March 20 -  Exam #2 - Covers Stories of Origin, February 6 - March 15
Study guide
 

V. The Physics of Mystery

Wednesday, March 21 Laboratory: Paley's teleological argument and Fine-tuning .

Thursday, March 22 Davies, The Mind of God, Preface, Chapter 1 (pp. 19-31 only), Chapters 2, Chapter 7 (omit pp. 185-190) - Cosmological Argument .

Monday, March 26 Zerby Lecture in Contemporary Religious Thought, "Are Gaia and God on Speaking Terms?" Rosemary Radford Ruether, Chase Hall Lounge, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27 Davies, Chapter 8 - Designer Universe.
Haught, Chapter 8 - Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
 

VI. The Theology of Nature

Wednesday, March 28 Laboratory: Religious responses to environmental problems. Films: Keeping the Earth , The Earth is the Lord's.

Thursday, March 29  McFague, The Body of God, Chapters 1 & 4.

Tuesday, April 3  McFague, Chapter 5

Wednesday, April 4 No Laboratory

Thursday, April 5 McFague, Chapter 6

Tuesday, April 10 Oelschlaeger, Caring for Creation, Chapter 6 - Redescribing Religious Narrative: The Significance of the Sacred Story (coursepack).

Wednesday, April 11 No Laboratory

Thursday, April 12 Review and Wrap-Up

Friday, April 13 Final Paper due, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 18, 10:30 a.m. Final Exam, Carnegie 339.
Final Exam Study Questions .