Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Prof. Dr. Adnan GÜRSOY
Assistant Prof. Dr. Metin PAY

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Recognizes design and related concepts.
2) Analyzes the relation between the theories of intelligent design and evolution.
3) Analyzes the relation between intelligent design and God.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Learning Outcomes
	1	No relation	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Low	Middle
	2	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Low	Low
	3	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Low	Middle

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

none

Course Contents

The Theories of Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design and philosophical discussions about them.

Weekly Schedule

1) Concepts Related to Design
2) Explanatory Filter
3) Specified Complexity
4) Intelligent Agent and Design Inference
5) Design and Biology
6) Irreducible Complexity
7) Information Theory
8) Mid-term exam
9) Metaphysical Critics of Intelligent Design
10) Scientific Critics of Intelligent Design
11) Teleological Argument and Intelligent Design
12) Intelligent Design and Evolution
13) Intelligent Design and Creationism
14) Does Intelligent Design Require God?
15) Theistic Evolution
16) Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Elliott SOBER, Biyoloji Felsefesi, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara 2009.
2- Phillip JOHNSON, Evrim Duruşması, İstanbul 2003.
3- Charles DARWIN, Türlerin Kökeni, İstanbul 2003.
4- Francisco AYALA, Darwin and Intelligent Design, Minneapolis 2006.
5- Werner GITT, In the Beginning was Information, Bielefeld 2000.
6- Michael DENTON, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, USA 1996.
7- Michael BEHE, Darwin’in Kara Kutusu, İstanbul 2007.
8- William DEMBSKI, The Design Inference, Cambridge 2005.
9- Richard SWINBURNE, Tanrı Var mı?, Bursa 2001.
10- Metin PAY, Tasarım ve Tanrı, İstanbul 2018.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Brain Storming
5) Six Hat Methods
6) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required

Course Unit Title	Course Unit Code	Type of Course Unit	Level of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	ECTS Credits
Creation And Evolution II	FDB126	Elective	Master's degree	1	Spring	8