Additional reading assignments became part of the required work for the class.

Week 3

Stony the Road We Trod, “An Ante-Bellum Sermon,”  98-123.

Week 4

“Darwin’s twin track: ‘Evolution and Emancipation’” (BBC)

Week 6

"Unfinished Business." Economist, February 5, 2009

Week 7

Genesis 1 (identify all sciences and applied sciences potentially involved here)

"Darwinism: Why we are as we are."  Economist, December 18, 2008.

"Decisions, decisions: What people can learn from how animals make collective decisions." Economist, February 13, 2009.

Week 9

Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson. Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), xii.  The resurrection not a natural event.

Week 10

Richard Dawkins, "Heat the hornet." Review of Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True. TLS February 13, 2009.

J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1923), 1-15.  On American education.

Week 11

Jerry A. Coyne, “Seeing and Believing,” The New Republic

MIRACLES

1.       Read the excerpts provided from Martin Buber’s book, Moses.

2.       Read Psalm 114, the Song of Moses, and the text of the hymn “Come ye faithful, raise the strain,” distributed with the Buber except.  Consider this in relation to Dixon’s statement: “Individual religious experiences, like modern scientific observations, are made possible by very long processes of human collaboration in a shared quest for understanding.” (Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, 8)

NEWSPAPER COLUMN

1.        Read Robin Quillon, “Can science, religion find common ground?” (Stillwater NewsPress, March 17, 2009).

2.       Ask yourself how Dixon would comment on this column?

Week 12

RICHARD DAWKINS

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.

1.       Visit the book on amazon.com

            Examine the table of contents and read the excerpt.  Sample the many comments.

2.               Read the critique by Nicholas Lash in Theology for Pilgrims, 3-18.

MODERN SCIENCE WRITING

Reading Assignments

Part I

Jeans-Cronin, (3-18

Dobzhansky, 22ff

Ridley, 35ff

Jones and Haldane, 48ff

Hoyle, 66 ff

Humphrey and Pinker, 96ff

Trivers ,123ff

Wilson, 143ff

Part II

Snow-Oppenheimer, 152ff

Bronowski, 176ff

Einstein and Sagan, 235ff

Part III

Schrodinger-Hardin, 249ff

Bak, 273ff

Part  IV

Chandrasekhar, 349ff

Weinberg, 357ff

Smolin, 362ff

Griskevicius, Vladas; Sundie, Jill M.; Miller, Geoffrey F.; Tybur, Joshua M.; Cialdini, Robert B.; Kenrick, Douglas T.. "Blatant Benevolence and Conspicuous Consumption: When Romantic Motives Elicit Strategic Costly Signals." Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Jul2007, Vol. 93 Issue 1, p85-102.

Week 13

Dustin Hughes, "State lawmakers continue assauult on reason, free speech." Mannford Eagle, April 8, 2009.