Continuing in a series of short and meaningless post, I am only sharing with you my favorite cartoon from this week’s New Yorker.
I have been going through the study guide (last year’s test) we were provided for the preparation for our Seminar final and deeply in the description it says we can use course texts and notes in developing our answers — I am wondering whether that means developing our arguments with our notebooks open or just arguing from our memory… Nonetheless, I have spent past eight hours reading and taking notes, upon which I drew five quite elaborate mind-maps that cover every major topic we discussed since October. I am wondering how much of the test will be based on the required readings only a handful of people did; and I am wondering whether completely off-topic answers from those who didn’t do the readings will be accepted. Sadly, there is a regrettable precedent.
One of the topics concerned deals with the metaphor of God the Watchmaker. I honestly wish this was one of the essay questions — I have read many texts vindicating this metaphor, and even greater number ridiculing it. Ever since firt touching Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion I have wanted to discredit the argument of Junkyard Tornado.
