Online Course Explores History of Science and Christianity

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Society & Culture, Astronomy, Life Sciences, Science, Philosophy

4.3 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Did Christianity help or hinder the rise of science? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with Dr. Melissa Cain Travis about her latest online course Science & Christianity: An Historical Exploration. The live 6-week course offered this spring gives a small cohort of students the opportunity to dive into the historical relationship between science and Christianity and the skill to address the distorted historical narratives that persist in the contemporary conversation.

Source

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	welcome to ID the future I'm your host Andrew McDermott. Today I'm
0:16.8	speaking with Dr. Melissa Kane Travis about her new online course, Science and
0:21.5	Christianity and Historical Exploration.
0:24.0	Dr. Travis is a fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture,
0:29.0	where she serves as an instructor of adult education courses at discovery U.org.
0:35.0	She is the author of Thinking God's Thoughts,
0:37.1	Johannes Kepler and the miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility,
0:41.0	and Science and the Mind of the Maker, what the conversation between faith and science reveals about God.
0:47.0	In addition to teaching graduate courses for Colorado Christian University's Lee Strobel Center, she serves on the Executive Council of the Evangelical
0:56.0	Philosophical Society and as President of the Society for Women of Letters.
1:01.5	She is part of the core writers team for the World View Bulletin and the Christian
1:05.6	Research Journal and regularly lectures at universities, seminars and churches around the country.
1:11.6	Melissa, welcome back to ID the Future.
1:14.0	Hey Andrew, I'm glad to be here.
1:17.0	Yeah, thanks for dropping in.
1:18.0	While you're teaching a series of courses at DiscoveryU.org
1:22.0	on the relationship between science and Christianity, a subject
1:26.3	in which you have a particular interest and in which you've dedicated a lot of study and
1:30.6	research.
1:32.2	This spring you're offering again the first in this series
1:35.0	Science and Christianity and historical exploration. It's a live six-week course
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.