Date, Topic and Reading

Tuesday, Aug 23
How Do We See "Prehistoric" People?
Video

READING: Carefully read this entire syllabus.

Wednesday, Aug 24
DISCUSSION: What Are Our Views on Evolution?

READING:
"Discovery of Early Hominids"
"Earliest Hominid Discovery Not the Missing Link--But Close".
Genesis, Chapters 1 and 2, in Course Reader, pp. 57-59.

Thursday, Aug 25 What is History -- And Does Biology Have Anything to do with It?

READING: Carl Sagan, The Universe in a Year (handout).

Click to read a National Geographic article on 2004 discovery of species of Hobbit-like Humans that lived 18,000 years ago in what is now Indonesia

Click to read an August 23, 2005 New York Times article, "Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution"

Click to read an August 23, 2005 New York Times article, "Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science"

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