How do conceptual and technological innovations, worldviews, and the inherent limitations of the scientific enterprise affect the way that biology develops? By studying current literature, students examine how Christian and secular perspectives inform the big challenges of our time: environmental sustainability, evolutionary science, as well as biofuels and other uses of biotechnology. Student mastery of biological communication is assessed through written and oral presentations. To aid the department?s curricular assessments, completion of the biology major field test also is required. Prerequisites: senior status in a biologically-oriented program or permission of the instructor, biblical foundations I or theological foundations I, developing a Christian mind, and philosophical foundations.