For everyone who wished they could go to MIT but didn’t have the money or just weren’t smart enough, now MIT can come to you via the web. MIT has available a large selection of lectures which they have taped and posted to the web for anyone to enjoy. The subject listings are extensive, so [...]
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scientists & creationists
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
This continues my recent thoughts about jobs and intellectual culture. There is a front page article in the New York Times today about a creationist scientist who has recently finished his doctoral work in geosciences from U of Rhode Island. The catcher is that he doesn’t really believe in the work that he did. The [...]
intellectuals and evangelicals
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
In my last post, I talked about and posed many questions about what the choices I’m facing for the future. Jake was so kind as to give a very interesting reply in regards to the post relating to a book he is reading. The book says, from what a gather, that Christendom today doesn’t hold [...]
argument for a quarter system
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
So it never fails, this time of the semester, right after midterms, I just check out mentally. It’s really not by any choice of my own, at least not consciously. I just find it find to study, or really focus on anything school related. I just get mentally tired of thinking about the subject no [...]
blessings to all that find the poor…college student
Friday, 7 October 2005
Walking home after classes this morning, wondering what I would eat for lunch. I really didn’t have anything to eat. I had a cookie to eat this morning, just to stave off the pains (it was an oatmeal cookie, so I justify it being 50% healthy). Low and Be Hold! Dale Bumpers to the rescue. [...]