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“Usually even a non-Christian knows something about
the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of
this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars
… and this knowledge he holds to as being certain
from reason and experience. Now it is a disgraceful
and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a
Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy
Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we
should take all means to prevent such an
embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast
ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. ...
how are they going to believe those books in matters
concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of
eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they
think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts
which they themselves have learnt from experience
and the light of reason?" (42-3; 19:39)
Augustine, "The Literal Meaning of Genesis" trans.
John Hammond Taylor, S. J. Ancient Christian Writers
41 (Newman Press: 1982) (Original 401AD)
Course Syllabus
Outlines/Notes:
Chapter 1
reading and Scientific Method class discussion
Chapter 2
notes
Chapter 3 notes
Quantum notes
Chapter 4 notes
Chapter 7 notes
Chapter 9 notes
Geology Notes
Climate and Global Warming Notes
Stem Cell Notes
Energy Notes
Links and
Reading Assignments:
Here is a webpage discussing the wave-particle
duality of matter. Also read: Box 4 on pages
63 and 64, the bottom of 242 to the middle of 248,
and Box 8 page 229
Here is an animated cartoon discussing the
double slit experiment
The Bohr Model of the Atom
The strong nuclear force - a brief overview of
the strong force
Geologic Time - an overview that describes the
geologic time scale and discusses how relative and
absolute ages are determined. Read
each section ("Geologic Time" through "Age of the
Earth").
Radiometric Dating from a Christian Perspective,
and some "controversy" about radiometric dating can
be found
here and
here.
IPCC
report summary and an
article describing the dissent of some scientists
Also browse through the
senate report detailing the dissent
Here are some
Stem Cell links:
An introduction
to stem cells from NIH , some
recent news
about stem cells, and some opposition to
embryonic stem cell research
here,
here,
and
here.
Here is
Tiera-Zon, a fractal
generator, and here is a
tutorial |
