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RHR 401 Religion and Science

400 levelArts & Humanities10 topics

RHR 401 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. The relationship between religion and science
  2. Historical conflicts between religious and scientific worldviews
  3. The Galileo affair and its lessons
  4. Creation accounts and cosmology
  5. Darwin's theory of evolution and religious responses
  6. Models of engagement: conflict, independence, dialogue
  7. Miracles and natural law
  8. Science, ethics and human values
  9. Religion and modern technological challenges
  10. Reconciling faith and reason

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

The relationship between religion and science

The relationship between religion and science focuses on how two major ways of understanding reality interact: science studies the natural world through observation and testing, while religion addresses meaning, value, purpose, and humanity’s relation to the sacred.

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