Assigned Supplemental Reading for Religion and Science Fall 2007

 

General, Relationship Between Religion and Science

Stephen Jay Gould, "Non-overlapping Magesteria"

Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science"

 

Also of interest (not required):

Ian Barbour, Christianity and the Scientist [complete book]

Religion and the Rise of Science

The Relation of Religion and Science

 

Evolution

Donald Prothero, "The Fossils Say Yes"

Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution as Fact and Theory"

Talk Origins - An Index to Creationist Claims

15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

Ron Numbers: Creationism History

 

Intelligent Design

The Wedge Strategy

Intelligent Design Special Report (Natural History magazine) [less formatted version]

William Dembski, Intelligent Design Coming Clean

 

Also of interest (not required):

Intelligent Design and its Critics

Jason Rosenhouse,   "How Anti-Evolutionists Abuse Mathematics" (The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 23, No. 4, Fall 2001. pp. 3-8).

 

Public Opinion and Science Education

Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding

Harris Poll: Nearly Two-thirds of U.S. Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God

Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design (New York Times)

 

Also of interest (not required):

Editorial: The New Creationism and Its Threat to Science Literacy and Education

Evolution and Creationism in Public Education
 

 

Naturalism

C. S. Lewis, "The Naturalist and the Supernaturalist"