I attended my first Astronomy class at WCU last night. It was pretty strange. The teacher is some kind of religious zealot, except not in the traditional sense. No, he’s very anti-religion.
How do I even describe this? I don’t even know that it’s necessarily that he doesn’t believe in God (although I think that’s probably the case), but that he must always be at odds with the really religious folks. He says that people are always telling him that the Earth can only be a few thousand years old because the bible says so, even though scientific proof exists that the Earth is much older. Well, nobody in our class said anything about religion. I wonder how he got so jaded.
He reminds me a little of older people (and he is retiring after next year) who are very stubborn in their ways and profess certain beliefs rather publicly, when nobody asked to know what they thought.
Anyhow, the class was pretty neat. We spent about 40 minutes in the planetarium, and it seems we’re going to have about that much time in every class. The bad news is that I do have class on Tuesday, so it’s a three-day class. Pretty hectic. I’ll have to arrange time in the morning to see Abby.
