180 MPH Philosophy

Last Thursday, for our freshmen guys Bible study, we went to a philosophy lecture. The lecturer was the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Alvin Plantinga. (Check out what Christianity Today had to say about him.) This was quite an opportunity! (Most of the engineers had mathematics night-exams last week, so we decided to postpone the study and go see this lecture instead.)



He was brought to town by the Christian Studies Center, Chesterton House, the Cornell Philosophy Department, and Campus On A Hill (COAH) a Christian student organization at Cornell.

Tim came, as well a few other guys from our freshmen Bible study. I'll be honest, it was a pretty heady lecture. Most of it went over our heads. But, he did have a hand out sheet outlining his lecture. That was very helpful.

Doug (our campus director) described it as having front row tickets to Nascar. Ideas and concepts are ripping by at about 180 MPH, and you can sort of tell what color they are. But, the next lap around the track, you realize you were totally wrong.

Afterwards we got some donuts and briefly talked about what we did understand, but ended up discussing more at length about other topics, like ethanol and dairy farming. These relationships are continuing to take shape & depth!

Thanks so much again for your partnership in prayer!

[M&L]