RE: PhD program

From: Wendee Holtcamp (wendee@greendzn.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 19:28:32 EDT

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    I guess I forgot to mention that I don't have that much flexibility when it
    comes to PhD programs. I am married with two kids. I plan to return to get
    my PhD when my kids are a bit older so I can immediately, post-PhD go on to
    a job as a professor. I'm just researching options now.

    I wonder if any universities offer distance study for PhD?! Probably not for
    science, but maybe for some of these other fields?

    What about Keith Miller -- didn't he write that book Finding Darwin's God?
    Or something like that? Is he a professor somewhere? In what?

    Thanks to all for feedback :) I still am curious about Princeton because
    there is a slight possibility of moving there at some point. I don't want to
    go in TX where I am now. I'm going to wait til we move on in a few years.
    Unless I can find a distance study. Does Princeton have anyone who studies
    such things? A religion dept? A history of science anything? I've always
    wanted to go to an Ivy League school...

    Wendee :)
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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
    > Behalf Of Jonathan Clarke
    > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 5:25 PM
    > Cc: wendee@greendzn.com; asa@calvin.edu
    > Subject: Re: PhD program
    >
    >
    > Wendee
    >
    > To follow on from Joe's comment. David Livingstone, John
    > Hendley Brooke, and
    > Colin Russell in the UK would doubtless have some interesting graduate
    > programs. Michael Roberts would be able to get their contact
    > details, I
    > suspect.
    >
    > Jon
    >
    > Joel Moore wrote:
    >
    > > Ronald Numbers is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
    > in the History
    > > of Science department. He wrote _The Creationists_, which
    > was quite good
    > > and has written numerous books and articles on the YEC
    > movement. He comes
    > > from a Seventh Day Adventist background and so has a good
    > understanding of
    > > where YECs are coming from but does not vilify them (he
    > doesn't pull any
    > > punches either). I emailed him about the possibility of
    > taking classes
    > > from him (I was looking at UW-Madison for geology grad
    > school) and he
    > > seemed quite nice. Also the religious studies department at
    > UW is supposed
    > > to be good, which might be a nice resource for some
    > relevant coursework.
    > > My wife's parents know several evangelicals studying in
    > that department
    > > who attend their Evangelical Free church.
    > >
    > > Also check out _Evangelicals and Science in Historical
    > Perspective_, eds.
    > > David Livingstone [a geographer], D.G. Hart [a
    > historian/theologian], and
    > > Mark Noll [a historian] (Oxford University Press, 1999).
    > Amazon has a 2002
    > > publication date listed so they may be reprinting it. You
    > could probably
    > > contact any of the contributors and they would be able to
    > point you to
    > > some programs and/or professors.
    > >
    > > Also another alternative is to get your graduate degree in
    > a field of
    > > science and then write from that platform. I'm hoping to do
    > some history
    > > of science writing at some point (I was a geology and
    > history major in
    > > undergrad) and have chosen to get my Ph.D. in geology and
    > then will go
    > > from there.
    > >
    > > Hope your search goes well. It should be interesting.
    > >
    > > Joel
    > >
    > > --- Glenn Morton <glenn.morton@btinternet.com> wrote:
    > > > Go study under Ronald Numbers. Not sure where he is.
    > > >
    > > > glenn
    > > >
    > > > see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
    > > > for lots of creation/evolution information
    > > > anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
    > > > personal stories of struggle
    > > >
    > > > -----Original Message-----
    > > > From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
    > [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
    > > > Behalf Of Wendee Holtcamp
    > > > Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 3:14 PM
    > > > To: asa@calvin.edu
    > > > Subject: PhD program
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Anyone have any insight as to what universities might have a PhD
    > > > program
    > > > that would fit what I'm looking for? Anyone have names of
    > professors in
    > > > related lines of study? Also, anyone familiar with
    > Princeton which is
    > > > where
    > > > I'm very interested in going?
    > > >
    > > > What I want to study: I'd like to study, and eventually become a
    > > > Professor
    > > > in, the study of evolution-creation, essentially. I'd
    > like to explore
    > > > the
    > > > history of creation-evolution conflicts, how and why
    > religious people
    > > > believe what they do, how people change beliefs, how
    > people get lure
    > > > dinto
    > > > believing some very odd things and how these things can
    > take over very
    > > > large
    > > > segments of society, and dangers of not being open to new thought.
    > > > Obviously
    > > > these are many things. I'm sure much is done on them
    > previously, and I'm
    > > > interested in breaking new ground.
    > > >
    > > > I'm not sure if this would fall into a PhD in Religion,
    > Psychology (of
    > > > Learning), History of Science, Evolutionary Biology, or some odd
    > > > combination.
    > > >
    > > > Thanks for any insight, Wendee
    > > >
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