I. Introduction: Religion and Science

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

Thursday, January 13 Haught, Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation,Chapter 1. Worthing, God, Creation and Contemporary Physics, Chapter 1 (coursepack).
A question regarding Haught and Worthing

Tuesday, January 18 Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science,  Ch.2, sect. 1-3, pp. 31-58 (coursepack).
 

II. Energy and Environment

Thursday, January 20 Key issues of energy and environment: Student research reports/discussion.

Tuesday, January 25 Ristinen & Kraushaar, Energy Fundamentals, Energy Use in an Industrial Society (coursepack)

Thursday, January 27 Ristinen & Kraushaar, Heat Engines, (coursepack)

Tuesday, February 1 Ristinen & Kraushaar, Renewable energy Sources I: Solar Energy (coursepack); Energy Innovations: A Prosperous Path to a Clean Environment, Executive Summary
 

III. Stories of Origins in Religion

Thursday, February 3  White, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis"(coursepack)
Haught, Chapter 9 - Is Religion Responsible for the Ecological Crisis?

Tuesday, February 8: Exam #1 - Covers Sections I and II
Exam 1 Review Questions

Thursday, February 10 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)
Mythmaking

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

IV. Stories of Origin in Physics

Thursday,  February 17  Barrow, The Origin of the Universe, Chapters 1 & 2.
From the American Physical Society News, October 1900: Planck's Formula for Black Body Radiation

February 19 - 27, Winter Recess

Tuesday, March 1 Barrow, Chapters 3 & 4.

Thursday,  March 3 Barrow, Chapters 5 & 6.
Paul Steinhardt's web page on Dark Energy and the Cyclic Universe.
WMAP web page.

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

Thursday, March 10 -  Exam #2 - Covers Stories of Origin, Sections III and IV
Study guide
 

V. The Physics of Mystery

Tuesday, March 15 Davies, The Mind of God, Preface, Chapter 1 (pp. 19-31 only), Chapters 2, Chapter 7 (omit pp. 185-190) - Cosmological Argument.

Thursday, March 17  Paley's teleological argument and Fine-tuning .

Tuesday, March 22 Davies, Chapter 8 - Designer Universe.
Haught, Chapter 8 - Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

VI. The Theology of Nature

Thursday, March 24 Religious responses to environmental problems. Films: Keeping the Earth , The Earth is the Lord's.
Maine Interfaith Power and Light!

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

Thursday, March 31  McFague, Chapter 5

Tuesday, April 5 McFague, Chapter 6

Thursday, April 7 Review and Wrap-Up

Friday, April 8 Final Paper due, 5 p.m.
A bibliography of recent books.

Final Exam, Wednesday, April 13, 10:30 a.m., Carnegie 113
Study Questions .