The debate about homosexuality is at a zenith in American culture, and public opinion is changing rapidly. It is often a difficult topic to converse about absent high emotion. This first-ever Free Think University course dealing with the core, paradigm-level issues in the debate present the opposing views on homosexuality in order to more objectively… Read more »
The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. But does this theory hold water academically, and does it solve the issues it addresses satisfactorily? This Free Think University course experience guides students through a series… Read more »
Are your choices really free for you to make? Or is your life predetermined? As most of our moral system and justice system assumes that we are each responsible for own actions, even in a court of law, this seems a weighty and important question. Free Think University’s new course presents various views on this… Read more »
The buzz about entrepreneurship is everywhere nowadays–from magazine covers to conferences, and hotel lobbies to university seminars. The French word entrepreneur first appeared in the French dictionary in 1723 to describe a person who organizes and operates a business by taking a financial risk. Since then the word entrepreneur has completely changed. In 1975, Harvard professor Howard… Read more »
In light of the Russell Crowe movie, “Noah,” a new Free Think University course asks: Was there a global catastrophic flood? At least 9 different ancient cultures have a version similar to Noah’s flood story in the Hebrew Scriptures. The importance of this story to interpreting the world in which we live is hard to… Read more »
