Big Ideas courses are co-designed by two or more faculty members with expertise in different disciplines and engage with more than one distribution area (thereby satisfying two distributional areas with a single course). Students will be limited to one Big Ideas course per semester.

 

12453

IDEA 223      Evolution and Religion

Bruce Chilton John Ferguson       Lab:

T  Th  3:10 pm-5:30 pm     F        2:00 pm-5:00 pm

HEG 308 RKC 112

LS MBV

Cross-listed: Biology; Religion (6 credits) Evolution, understood as a perspective that accounts for changes of forms of life over time, has been explored by philosophical and religious systems since antiquity. In the modern period, however, evolution as a scientific theory has often (although not always) been taken to be at odds with religious commitment. This course investigates both the scientific and religious issues in the understanding of evolution.

Class size: 22