by Amanda Read Sheik | May 12, 2010 | Politics, World Views
Winning minds is one thing. Winning hearts is a totally different matter. I’ll explain later. She’s conservative. She loves and defends Christians. She believes America was founded on Judeo-Christian values. She says she would never vote for an...
by Amanda Read Sheik | May 7, 2010 | Journal
Things are very suspicious over here, I know. I’ve had over a month long sabbatical from blogging. That’s not how I intended it to be. But blogging slipped my mind as of late since I’ve been… – Getting ready for Summer classes (and now...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 24, 2010 | Luke Historians, World Views
“How do you gain protection against the dragon? By naming the dragon.” – from The Hobbit Companion’s analysis of the dragon Smaug in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit I’m a History major, and the history of science is one of my primary...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 21, 2010 | Comedy, World Views
The history of science is one of my primary interests. What constitutes science, how scientific opinion and data has changed or appeared, and what sort of influence the whole field of science has on culture, as well as vice versa. Despite all its glory, science is,...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 16, 2010 | Comedy, Satire, World Views
…Asteroids, asteroids, we all fall down. “Evolution is so ‘out there’ that it’s on its way out,” a friend told me. She had many reasons to conclude that it is irrational of some scientists to proclaim that macroevolution is fact. ...
