What was your Phd thesis, DM ?
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:07:48 -0400
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Spirit
Debbie wrote: > I thought of a way to explain why I shrink from what > you call reductionism. To me, it is like trying to evolve > the whole eye or wing one feature at a time. Yeah, what's wrong with that? In high school I took my Volkswagon engine apart, every bolt, and then put it all back together again. It was a lot of work, but well worth the effort. I now understood that engine and everything about it. When I taught Vertebrate Biology, I had my students dissect sharks and cats. Why? Reductionism. If they wanted to understand how animals work and are put together, you have to cut them open, learn the musculature, circulatory, and nervous system. Then understanding increases as they are compared with one another. I do recognize that everybody has a threshold for the amount of details they can abstractly hold in their mind. When I was working on my Master's degree, my professors had trouble with some non-linear regression analysis I did on the data. I understood what was going on because I had immersed myself in the mathematics of it all. They had not immersed themselves in the math, and really didn't like math all that much to begin with, so in order to make it more understandable to them, I had to transform my data through a mathematical formula to create a linear regression analysis. Then they could find agreement with my conclusions. I guess it is kind of like how some people can think in 3 or 4 dimensions while others are taxing their brains to think in 2 dimensions. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
