Soul Beliefs

I have learned so much during this course and I'm a 66 year old research program manager for a group exploring the interactions between the environment, health and Fascinating.

Professor Ogilvie and professor Hamilton did fine job in making an emotionally laden issue accessible to a broader audience.

It was a well balanced course that doesn't shove you into a particular corner but instead offers multiple viewpoints and questions for you to consider about your own personal beliefs.

Rather than taking polemic positions against soul beliefs and established religions, their goal is to make clear how soul beliefs worked throughout the history and explain with a lot of examples and evidence how the evolution theory works.

Most rational believers however could still hold onto their beliefs because the arguments were very weak.A better title for the course would be "why there is no soul".

Thanks to a well presented course material, I have learned that the ultimate evolutionary adaptation ability belongs to those traits that are perceived as promoting survival of the species whereas in reality they survive at the expense of the species.

Great, but with less new content than Units 1 and 2. excelent course, the best is that they make you think and brake down so many paradigms.

It's about time such subject matter that has such a profound effect on societies and peoples lives be analyzed.

My only remark is that whole course could fit into two parts.

These professors took a brave approach to discussing topics that are avoided in the classroom but merit discussion.

I also appreciated the dry humor, which always aids memory, at least for me.

I wish to thank all of those connected - Corrsera, Ruthers, Professors Daniel Ogilvie and Leonard Hamilton, and all the guest speakers for this great course presentation.