Chance, Emergence or Design

Course Material

Syllabus	Lecture Notes	Reading List
Class Schedule	Presentation Topics Presentation Grading	Old Origins Web Pages

Required Texts:

Smith, J. M., and E. Szathmary, 2000: The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language. Oxford University Press, 180 pp.
Morowitz, H. J., 2002: The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex. Oxford University Press, 209 pp.
Wise, K. P., 2002: Faith, Form, and Time: What the Bible Teaches and Science Confirms About Creation and the Age of the Universe. Broadman and Holman Publishers, 287 pp.

Cedarville Wiki: http://wiki.cedarville.edu/classwiki/HON3230

Cosmology
Black Holes - Calderhead
Pauli Exclusion Principles - Woiwood

A Fit Earth
Plate Tectonic Theory - Fallin

Abiogenesis
Boolean Logic and Steady State Machines - Riggleman

Simple Life
Cell Structure - Hebson
Trophism - Roose
Transcription and Translation - Weston

Complex Life
Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Brewin

Biological Evolution
Taxonomy - McCullough

Society
Social Contract - Studebaker