Frantic Finals
Jun. 14th, 2005 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI love my Geology professor. He was very understanding when I had to cut out of lecture after the quiz to study for my final tomorrow.
Nothing better than a recent grad student as a teacher, I always say. :)
Of course, 90% of the class left as well, but I've been the "one with the questions" throughout the class.
Okay, so I kept visualizing a Stargate scientist or Sam explaining these Geological principles to Jack -- and Jack kept giving me these blank looks and saying "how do you get that from just a rock?" So I had to get clarification. For Jack's sake. (Shush, my characters are alive.)
Two people in the hall were astounded to see I left early as well. "Even you're leaving?"
In the elevator ride down, I read them one of my Philosophy questions for my exam tomorrow:
"William Lee Craig (in "Rational Theology and the Big Bang") believes that Quentin Smith uses a notion of 'uncaused' (in the case when quantum processes predominate near the Big Bang) which is "equivocal." Why does Craig think Smith's notion is equivocal? Why, by contrast, does Craig think that "the inference from the necessity of causal conditions for the origin of existents in spacetime to the necessity of causal conditions for the origin of spacetime itslf is not similarly equivocal"? What is the "logically impeccable inference" Craig believes is the "proper inference" in this context?"
The one girl said with a definite nod, "Yeah. You need to study."
Oh hell yeah.
I didn't realize the exam was going to be on the entire quarter. Yes, yes, it was right in the syllabus, but it was buried on page three and I'd forgotten. I haven't read this debate on the implications of modern physics on religion since mid-term.
Nothing better than a recent grad student as a teacher, I always say. :)
Of course, 90% of the class left as well, but I've been the "one with the questions" throughout the class.
Okay, so I kept visualizing a Stargate scientist or Sam explaining these Geological principles to Jack -- and Jack kept giving me these blank looks and saying "how do you get that from just a rock?" So I had to get clarification. For Jack's sake. (Shush, my characters are alive.)
Two people in the hall were astounded to see I left early as well. "Even you're leaving?"
In the elevator ride down, I read them one of my Philosophy questions for my exam tomorrow:
"William Lee Craig (in "Rational Theology and the Big Bang") believes that Quentin Smith uses a notion of 'uncaused' (in the case when quantum processes predominate near the Big Bang) which is "equivocal." Why does Craig think Smith's notion is equivocal? Why, by contrast, does Craig think that "the inference from the necessity of causal conditions for the origin of existents in spacetime to the necessity of causal conditions for the origin of spacetime itslf is not similarly equivocal"? What is the "logically impeccable inference" Craig believes is the "proper inference" in this context?"
The one girl said with a definite nod, "Yeah. You need to study."
Oh hell yeah.
I didn't realize the exam was going to be on the entire quarter. Yes, yes, it was right in the syllabus, but it was buried on page three and I'd forgotten. I haven't read this debate on the implications of modern physics on religion since mid-term.
