Free Online Course on Evolution

The Continuum of Humanist Education (COHE) is the Internet's first website offering interactive courses in humanist thought. COHE is a service of the Institute for Humanist Studies, a non-profit U.S. organization promoting nonreligious perspectives on social, political, and ethical issues and serving as a resource for and about the humanist community.

Course: Evolution, Creationism and the Nature of Science

Faculty: Massimo Pigliucci, Ph.D.

Evolution, Creationism and the Nature of Science will use the contemporary example of the evolution-creation controversy to provoke critical thinking about the nature and function of science as a method for understanding the world we all share. Intelligent Design and other forms of creationism will be explained and rebutted, highlighting the characteristics of empirical vs. anti-scientific and pseudoscientific thinking.

About the Science and Humanism Study Area

The humanist worldview includes a commitment to rational inquiry based on verifiable evidence. In the last 500 years, this commitment has given rise to modern science. But what claims are testable, and what constitutes evidence? The Science and Humanism Study Area focuses on the scientific method, the body of scientific knowledge, the interaction between science and humanism, and the conflict between science and religion, where it exists.