Address a topic of your choice that corresponds to something Lewis discusses in AOM part 3. Questions, observations, critiques, etc.

350 words minimum, due 8 a.m. Tuesday, 5 December

Open forum on AOM, part 2. Your thoughts, concerns, agreements, disagreements, confusions, epiphanies, etc.

A general guideline for this post: make sure that you are on topic, and not just rambling about anything.

Explain how Wilson uses the terms "transcendentalism" and "empiricism". Then comment on his assertion that religious belief and scientific belief are incompatible (he says this on page 84 of the course reader). Do you agree? (If you are having trouble thinking of something to say about his assertion, perhaps ask yourself, What must we assume about religion and about science before we can conclude that they are "not factually compatible"?

Explain what Lewis means by "Men Without Chests" and comment on whether the danger posed by Gaius and Titius's textbook examples warranted an entire book-length essay in response (i.e., Lewis's AOM).

Michael Behe warns that the domination of science by materialist dogma is costing nonmaterialist students (e.g., Christians, but also anyone who believes in extramaterial force or presence in the universe) "a significant chunk of their freedom."

Choose from one of the following prompts:

1) Why is Carl Sagan so lonely? (Note that you would do well to discuss the problem of scientific transcendence and reentry into the immanent world if you choose this one.)

Writing in 1905, Chesterton criticized his contemporaries for manifesting a "total levity on the subject of cosmic philosophy." He added, "The modern idea is that cosmic truth is so unimportant that it cannot matter what any one says."

For this reading response, please summarize your topic proposal for the second essay in a minimum of 200 words. Use correct grammar and complete sentences, and avoid bulleted lists.

Answer Question (I) in chapter 11; choose one or more of the possible explanations for depression, and, using content from one other part of Lost in the Cosmos, explain your rationale for answering as you did.

Based on the first 40 pages of Lost in the Cosmos, in what sense do you think Percy has "heretical" tendencies, if at all? If he seems like a more "orthodox" kind of guy, note why you think so.