From the grandfather clock to the personal computer, the scrubboard to the washing machine, the bicycle to the Apollo mission, Americans have identified technology as central to their personal and national destiny. We will consider both the utopian promises of technology and their shortcomings. There will be three one-hour meetings a week, with a significant percentage run as discussion meetings. In the Age of the Smart Machine Edward Bellamy, Looking Backwards Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano Also short works by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Frederick Taylor, Henry Adams, Buckminster Fuller, Barry Commoner, Charles Reich, and others. Scientific creationsim is the view that scientific evidence supports the Biblical story of creation more strongly than it does evolutionary theory.
Evolutionary biologists argue that such claims are pseudo-scientific nonsense.
Sociobiology is the view that evolutionary explanations can be provided for the social and psychological characteristics of human beings, the way that they can for all other organisms.