Aquinas 101 - Does Science Explain Everything?

Does Science Explain Everything?

Faith and ReasonScienceAnswering Common Objections

11 lessonsHas modern science made faith in God impossible? The Catholic faith does not need to fear contemporary science. In fact, great believing minds have steered the scientific project until today, and still have much to say about the harmony of science and divine faith. In this course, we will begin to examine the relationship between faith, science, and the search for wisdom, answering common objections along the way.

What you will learn

Whether or not science can explain everything
The benefits and limits of the scientific method
Why science needs interpretation
Answers to common objections

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Course Content

Lesson 1: Faith, Science, and the Search for Wisdom

Lesson 2: Does Science Explain Everything?

Lesson 3: Does the Scientific Method Have Limitations? A Contemporary Scientist Explains

Lesson 4: The Scientific Method: Common Objections to Faith

Lesson 5: What's Wrong With Physicalist Reductionism?

Lesson 6: Substantial Form

Lesson 7: Scientific Evidence Against Reductionism

Lesson 8: Science Needs Interpretation

Lesson 9: Final Causality

Lesson 10: Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

Lesson 11: Quantum Mechanics and the Principle of Non-Contradiction

Instructors

Fr. James Brent, O.P.Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Chaplain to Commuter Students, Dominican House of Studies.

Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P.Professor of Philosophy, Angelicum.

Prof. Karin Öberg, Ph.D.Professor of Astronomy and the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University. McDonald Agape Visiting Scholar, Dominican House of Studies.