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Describe and assess some of the current discussions relating to the ‘miracle’ of self-consciousness and relate it to the Christian understanding of the soul.

Brodie McGregor

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How did the concept of the ‘god of the gaps’ lead to an increasing secularisation of the scientific view of the world. 
Describe and discuss one or two of the fundamental questions and insights of twentieth century science that have lead some scientists to doubt whether, after all, a purely materialistic understanding of the natural world is possible.

Brodie McGregor

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The Question “Who made God?” is a common response to the assertion that someone must have created life on earth.  Richard Dawkins says that a Creator, in order to make such a thing as the DNA, would have to be at least as wonderful as the DNA.  He goes on to argue that if we have to explain the origin of the DNA then we must explain the origin of God.
“You have to say something like ‘God was always there’, and if you allow yourself that sort of lazy way out, you might as well just say ‘DNA was always there’, or ‘Life was always there’ and be done with it.” (“The Blind Watchmaker, p141)

Discuss critically this point relating your discussion to the ‘Cosmological’ and ‘Design’ Arguments for the existence of God.

Mark Barnes 

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Another on the same subject by
Steve Davies:

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In what ways might 20th Century discoveries about the nature of space-time, energy and matter, help us grasp more deeply Christian beliefs about Providence, Prayer, Incarnation and Atonement?

Steve Davies

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The modern concept of Human Rights compared with the Christian view of human dignity.
Gavin McFadyen.
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Genetic Determinism and Post-modernism - a challenge to morality.
Gavin McFadyen.
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