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Audiotapes
Theology & Science Conference
Fall 2001
Eugenie C. Scott
Mere Evolution
Within science, evolution merely provides an exciting insight on nature and the cosmos. Outside the sciences, evolution — more than any other science — impinges upon our sense of who we are, whether life
has meaning and purpose, and our place in the universe. It has been pressed into service to promote a wide variety of sometimes contradictory ideologies — Marxism, Nazism, and laissez-faire capitalism,
to name just a few. Most of the controversy over the teaching of evolution in the public schools grows from its supposed philosophical and ideological implications, which protesting parents
believe are inseparable from the science. However, these concerns can at least partly be assuaged by teaching evolution as straight science, without imposing philosophical views on students. Dealing
with residual anti-evolutionism, on the other hand, will remain a concern of the faith community, which has an important if thus far largely ignored role to play in this controversy.
1 cassette tape, 90 minutes, $12.50
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Joseph Bessler-Northcutt 
Unlearning the Past
Theology & Jesus
This workshop on doing theology will explore 1) the logic that connects the topics of God, human beings created in the image of God, sin, Christology
and redemption, grace and faith, the Holy Spirit, the Church and eschatology into a unified religious system, 2) the consequences of Platonic assumptions of reality for shaping Christian thought, 3) how the
emergence of science and the discipline of history call into question traditional Christian claims, and 4) the challenges and possibilities that current Jesus scholarship poses to and for theology's future
practice.
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Bruce T. Moran with John C. Kelly
Galileo
Scientist or Theologian?
Galileo is often seen as one of the heroes of modern science because of his defense of Copernicus in the face of an authoritarian and dogmatic Church. But he did not refute medieval Aristotlean cosmology,
nor was he able to establish the truth of Copernicanism. While he is justly famous for his scientific discoveries, he also supported some spectactularly wrong-headed explanations of natural phenomena. His
disagreements with Church authorities turned essentially on philosophical and theological issues rather than on questions of empirical fact. A reexamination of Galileo's contributions to modern scientific
thought and his conflict with the Church is an important first step in rethinking the contemporary relationship between science and religion.
Bruce Moran is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of several books including The Alchemical World of the German Court. A life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, he also has been named University Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada.
John Kelly is Sanford Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of Nevada, Reno, and Acting Chair of the Western Traditions program. He specializes in Plato, Wittgenstein, contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
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