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Choose one of the following topics and write a 1000 word essay. Research must primary and secondary (critical) texts from at least two sources. Apply the four major criteria (comprehensive, coherent, true to experience, open to change) for assessing worldviews discussed in this course to one of the following debates between proponents of competing worldviews. All the criteria should be applied to each position in the debate, and you must argue your thesis as to which worldview meets more of the criteria most effectively. 1) Creationism vs. Natural Selection (living organisms) 2) Non-physical vs. strictly physical understanding of the workings of the mind 3) Creationism vs. Big Bang (physical universe) 4) Purposeful vs. random chance explanations of the evolution of the universe 5) Consciousness vs. scientific inquiry as the source of knowledge