science and religion final paper

3pg mininum, due by 12/7/2015 3pm.

font 12.

must choose 2 out of the following topics.

http://web.csulb.edu/~plowentr/rst391page.html [this is the class webpage]

It is sometimes said today that religion and science are mutually exclusive -- that the assumptions of one entail a fundamental denial of those of the other. Is this true? Was it true in the past?

In answering this question, consider the following: Barbour's four ways of relating religion and science; the relationship of science and religion in past centuries, as well as in our own; the respective methods of the sciences and religion; Teilhard's 20th century attempt to unify the sciences and religion; the new physics and religion; the processes of secularization and the notions of "displacement" and "reenchantment" presented in class; the assigned readings; course media presentations..