CHRTC350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: False Dilemma, The Blind Watchmaker, Pantheism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Christian Theology at St Joseph's College
• Course: CHRTC350
• Professor: Denis Lamoureux

Document Summary

Your head is going to swim!: science & religion warfare s4. Common messages: forced to choose between only two positions: either (1) science. Or (2) religion: science explains away religion, problem behind science & religion warfare common categories s6. Def: the foundational concepts that direct the way we: Glasses give a view of the world. Software process information through a program or worldview. Common categories s7 trap the mind & force people to think in: Def: division of an issue into only two simple positions thinking in black-and-white" & either/or". Def: careless mixing of distinct ideas into one simplistic concept. Eg: science & godless secular philosophy religion & origins in 6 days. Note: we all begin our intellectual voyage in dichotomies & conflations. K good education moves us beyond both of these problems: solution toward a peaceful relationship between science & religion s9. Major theme of this course: challenge common categories & replace with academic categories: result s10.