James Madison University - From Black Elk to Black Holes. A joint venture to integrate the intuitive and the rational By Dave Pruett Originally published in Fall 2009 "Madison" magazine Ten years ago, with considerable trepidation, I left my academic comfort zone. To my continuing amazement and gratitude, some courageous undergraduates followed—and sometimes led—into a new dimension of intellectual exploration. For the first time I was teaching an honors course, From Black Elk to Black Holes: Shaping a Myth for a New Millennium (HON200D). Although delighted to have the opportunity to teach a course that had been germinating for several years, I wondered whether, as a mathematics professor, I might be out of my depth.
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In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise. Which is odd, because I'm still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington. What did he look like? Well not what you might have expected that's for sure. 'Anyone sitting here? ' 'Help yourself' I replied. Sits down, relaxes, I ignore and back to the correspondence on genetically modified crops entering the food chain... Train pulls out and a few minutes later he speaks. 'Can I ask you a question? ' 'Why don't you believe in god? ' The Bastard! I love this kind of conversation and can rabbit on for hours about the nonsense of theist beliefs.
But then I thought 'Odd! 'And why should I believe that? ' He did. The thoughts room. Infographics. Food Pyramid Submissions. High Existence.