I am a freshman studying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING here at A&M (that is, I'm in
General Studies until I can figure out my major.) Despite my present
academic indecisiveness, I harbor an intense interest in Questions of
Origins and Other Big and Important things.
My introduction into the debate came during the summer of 1995, where I
received a heavy dose of YEC (Morris, Gish, etc) at a Christian conference
in Colorado. Ecstatic with my new "discovery", I came home and was promptly
brought down to earth by the anti-creationist works of Futuyma, Kitcher,
Gould, Dawkins, and others. I subsequently underwent an examinations of
both positions, and am still forming my opinions, under the influence of
PEJ, Behe, Moreland's _Creation Hypothesis_, Ratzsch, etc.
I confess that I am still somewhat uninformed, although that it changing
every day. Next semester I have signed up for an introductory course
entitled Principles of Evolution, and hope to learn as much as I can. Most
of my reading so far has come from the popular material on both sides, but
that too with change in the next several months. I beg the readers'
forgiveness if I make any naive or unsupported arguments, and will try to
back myself up as often as possible.
This may be the last heard from me for a while-I'm just going to hang around
and read posts until I catch up with all of the ongoing conversations. See
you in a bit. . .
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called resesearch,
would it?"--Einstein
Andy May asm4676@tam2000.tamu.edu
Class of '00! http://lech-86.dorms.tamu.edu