HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sublogic, Anthropocentrism, Random House
7 Jun 2016
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Arguments against the existence of god (sociological and psychological) No readings for sociological criticism (only lecture notes) We will begin this unit by watching a documentary on modern cosmology. Aquinas"s cosmological arguments, we might be tempted to assume that today"s cosmology, based in physics, must have a much stronger grasp of what is real. After all, aquinas was a theologian, not a scientist. It is odd to show a documentary based upon practicing (and famous) cosmologists and physicists in a course on the nature of religion but there are some very interesting parallels to be drawn between religion and contemporary science. Something necessary for the standard model of physics to make sense (take dark matter away, and the system will collapse upon itself, for dark matter is a pillar of physics, not just a side-project). It must have mass but it cannot be weighed in any traditional sense. It moves through ordinary matter without creating any effect.
