1. Reason and revelation
Issues:
The problem with Aristotle
Reconciling Aristotle and Christianity: Roger Bacon, Thomas Aquinas
Nicholas of Cusa's Learned Ignorance
William of Ockham
Sources:
Edward Grant,
God and Reason in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2001).
David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
G. E. R. Lloyd, Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of His Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968).
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/ (Secondary references included in bibliography.)
Issues:
The 1616 meeting
The 1624 meeting
Dealings between 1624 and 1632
The trial
Sources:
Mario
Biagioli, Galileo Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of
Absolutism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
Michael
Sharratt, Galileo:Decisive Innovator (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity
Press, 1996).
William R. Shea and Mariano Artigas, Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Issues:
Formative experiences of Newton's youth
Newton interpreting scripture and the crisis of 1675
Newton-Leibniz debate
The God of the Queries
Sources:
Richard Westfall, Never at Rest
Gale Christianson, In the Presence of the Creator
H.S. Thayer, ed. Newton's Philosophy of Nature
4. The classical argument from design
Issues:
In antiquity
In Newton
David Hume's critique
William Paley's Natural Theology
Sources:
John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Reflections
Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from his Writings
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning
Natural Religion
William Paley, Natural
Theology
Issues:
The religion of Darwin's family background
Darwin's decisions about the ministry
Annie death and Darwin's Christianity
Darwin's conception of God
Sources:
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
Neal Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation
Issues:
The cosmological argument
The anthropic principle
Big bang
Sources:
John Barrow et al, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)
Nick Bostrom, Anthropic Bias (New York: Routledge, 2002)
Adair Butchins, The Numinous Legacy (Albatross Press, 2002)
Issues:
Why it happened
William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
As portrayed in "Inherit the Wind"
Recent portraits
Sources:
Jeffrey Moran, The Scopes Trial (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
Michael Lienesch, In the Beginning (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods (New York: Basic Books, 2006)
Issues:
Early evangelicals and evolution
Whitcomb and Morris
Court cases
Changing strategy
Sources:
Ronald Numbers The Creationists (Cambridge University press, 2006)
John C. Whitcomb and Henry Morris, The Genesis Flood (Baker Publishing Group, 1979)
Edward Larson, Trial and Error (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Langdon Gilkey, Creationism on Trial (University of Virginia Press, 1998).
9. God (and religion) as the problem
Issues:
Science compatible with atheism
Incompatibility of Darwinism and religion
Flaws in the arguments for God's existence
Why religion evolved
Sources:
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006)
Sam Harris, The End of Faith (New York: Norton, 2005)
Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1996)
Victor J. Stenger, God the Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist (Prometheus Books, 2007)
Issues:
Science compatible with belief in a purposeful universe
Irreducible complexity
IS ID science?
Sources:
Rick Santorum and William Demski, Darwin's Nemesis ( Intervarsity press, 2006)
Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box ( Free Press, 2006)
Owen Gingrich, God's Universe (Belknap Press, 2006)
Francis Collins, The Language of God (Free Press, 2007)