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My favorite classes in school were the basic Physics curricula. Physics I, II, and III. They were also some of the most difficult. But what an eye opener! So this is how the world really works! It was great! And I rarely use exclamation points, but that's how it felt! Like there was a big exclamation point being shoved into my brainpan, but in a good way. Uh-huh, right, but stick with me here. "Knowledge is Good." Say, wasn't that the aphorism chiseled into a statue on the campus of National Lampoon's Animal House? Sorry, I'll have to verify that later. But I'm getting sidetracked here.
Anyway, if you wish to seriously get some higher education, for free, avail yourself of the MIT OpenCourseWare site, which offers the notes, lectures, assignments, and associated sundry data for over a thousand courses, ranging from Aeronautics to Writing.
I don't believe there is a course offered on "Intelligent Design". That may come later, depending on the outcome of Harvard University's study into the origin of life.
Anyway, if you wish to seriously get some higher education, for free, avail yourself of the MIT OpenCourseWare site, which offers the notes, lectures, assignments, and associated sundry data for over a thousand courses, ranging from Aeronautics to Writing.
I don't believe there is a course offered on "Intelligent Design". That may come later, depending on the outcome of Harvard University's study into the origin of life.
posted by Mike King at 8:18 PM
6 Comments:
Mike,
I discovered the MIT site last year and then forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.
I naturally wondered if your statement: “I don’t believe there is a course offered on Intelligent Design”, was actually true so I checked through the MIT courses on line. They do, or almost do, depending upon how one views it; Check out: Linguistics & Philosophy\Problems of Philosophy\24.0\Lecture One.
Comment number one was by rex.
Rex, my original comment was intended as a fairly gentle jibe at ID, but your point is well taken. I guess my point is, if discussed at all, ID is found in the Philosophy curricula, not slumming with the Science dudes.
Like an annoying puppy, with a firm grip on your pant leg, I cannot let go of this string.
There is talk among some of the QED types that Quantum Physics and Philosophy are tending to merge closer together and may, someday, integrate. Some have proposed the question: do we imagine, or perceive a reality (the philosophy component) and then invent the universe in which it exists (the science component). One example: the Wave versus Particle proofs for light. The point being that: Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Evolution could be valid concepts within their own universes?
Some conjecture is that Quantum and Newtonian Physics exist in separate universes.
No barbs are being ejected here, in any direction; I’m just having fun with a string of thought that may spurt off at an awkward tangent, at any moment. Furthermore: I do not, at this point in time, indorse any of the previously mentioned concepts. I’m to much overwhelmed by ignorance, limited IQ and laziness, to come close to presenting a comprehensive argument in favor of any of them.
Maybe it boils down to a macro vs. micro view of existence. At the subatomic level, all bets are off if you ask me. Anything can and will happen. On the other hand, at the macro level, i.e. the real world as you and I experience it, I'm kind of like, "If I can point to it, it's real." mk
I guess you have it pretty close: there are at least two universes, Macro and Micro, as best as we can understand, at this point in time. Uh, well, here I go again: time...
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