Very good readings, lectures and professors, the content was not what I initially expected but I ended up learning a lot and understanding epistemology. Only thing is most reading are in word documents which is somewhat inconvenient.

In general, this course is well designed, covering most recent issues in philosophy and religion. As a beginner, a couple of weeks are very challenging and honors quizes are too, although these are optional.

Good course but it seemed to end abruptly. It was missing some type of conclusory module that tied the segments together. Overall, the course was interesting and worth the time.

Another good course from the University of Edinburgh on Philosophy. Some parts were a little bit more in depth than I expected, but a good range of topics and mix of lecturers.

Very informative and useful information to support my school learning. I found the use of examples and metaphors useful to help contextualise the information.

I enjoyed the challenge of new ideas totally foreign to my way of thinking. It made my brain creak at times - which is good for me!

Michael Barnes

Islam is the second biggest religion in the world and is one of the Ibrahimic religions. There should be some more research done on it.

An engaging and thought-provoking course. Week 5 (Scientism) was of especial interest to me and was very well presented.

It was a wonderful experience indeed! It helps to widen up the analytical power of a learner.

The course expanded my knowledge, thus ratifying my reason for taking the course

Very good content. Lecturers were OK but have seen better.

The course is nice, I did not get too involved though.

Excellent lecturers, very clear.

Great and enjoying the goodies

Very Interesting course.

an interesting course

Written by Benny G. Bryan Jr. (04/25/2023)

I was somewhat disappointed by the information provided by this class. I had hoped for more theological content. The primary focus of this program of study delt with the analysis of how religious content was derived, the reliability of the communicative methods or skills used to spread that religious content, and how reliable that religious content was in comparison to the knowledgebase of modern science – with a strong emphasis on modern science having relaced he outdated concepts of religion.

I also wish that more theologically oriented classes were offered.

An interesting course, but success could only be achieved with the assistance of a dictionary. The lecturers all assumed their knowledge of the meanings of erudite words and concepts would be known to all students. I advise anyone taking this course to have a window open to an online dictionary.

Some segments were excellent, especially the one dealing with neurobiology and religious experience. Others, particularly the latter ones, were less clearly presented and did not seem as relevant to the topic.

My expectations about the course were others (I thought that It would be more esoteric than other thing)

Interesting topics but it may have been helpful to focus the course a bit more.

Really good. Taught me to carefully examine the path knowledge takes.

GOOD

I thought that this course was generally rather poor. I was disappointed with what I saw as the overly 'intellectualized' language, which I did not think provided much insight. I thought that many of the issues could have been explained in simpler terms using plain language. Profs John Lennox and Alister McGrath are two Christian apologists who I think do an excellent job in reconciling scientific and religious thinking.

ateos