The Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame invites high school teachers to a summer seminar that integrates the disciplines of science and religion in ways that nourish the imagination.
The Science & Religion Seminars equip teachers with approaches that expand the dialogue between the disciplines and challenges the notion that science and religion are in conflict.
Program Highlights:
- Inspiring talks from leading scientists and theologians
- Development of lesson plans and teaching materials with curriculum experts
- Collaboration with seminar faculty on how to develop an elective course in Science & Religion for high school student
Please see the flyer attached here for more information on how to participate.
Student Activity
St. Thomas Aquinas summed up five so-called proofs for the existenceof God. They all come down to affirming that we can discover God by looking at movement, becoming, contingency, order and beauty in the world(see CCC, 32). For example, Aquinas points out that everything we know of an existence was caused by something or someone else. There has to be a source which was the first cause--an uncaused cause which logically always existed. The first cause the philosophers call God. Other arguments, including the ones presented by Bishop Robert Barron in the video clip below are similar.
Have your students view the video and write a brief summary. As appropriate, you may wish to examine some of the points and counterpoints presented in the comments section below the video.
