Faith and Reason: Creation

Class begins January 4, 2012

Can we prove the existence of God, or are we left to grapple in the dark and take blind leaps of faith about what we believe?

Over 10 weeks, students will interact with ideas surrounding God, creation, evolution, and ethics as guided by the TrueU video series “Does God Exist?”. The class will be divided between times of video presentation and discussion.

Week 1: Faith and Reason

Week 2: The Big Bang Cosmology: “The Finite Universe”

Week 3: The Big Bang Cosmology, Part 2: “In the Beginning”

Week 4: The Big Bang Cosmology, Part 3: “A Finely Tuned Universe”

Week 5: DNA by Design

Week 6: DNA by Design, Part 2: “Doing the Math”

Week 7: DNA by Design, Part 3: “Information and Intelligence”

Week 8: The Return of the God Hypothesis

Week 9: The Moral Necessity of Theism

Week 10: The Moral Necessity of Theism, Part 2: “We Need God”