Sunday, January 10, 2010

Scientists!!!

I was talking with a fellow TA from the course I'm on about different types of students he's had in class, and he was mentioning how he had some problems with scientists in an Old Testament class.

One, for example, couldn't understand her bad grades, since writing a humanities paper is just like writing a lab report, since both have hypotheses.

The other one couldn't understand why you needed to read creation myths from the Ancient Near East in order to understand the Old Testament.

"Why do I need to read that if I want to understand the Old Testament?", he was like. "It's all made up anyways."