I've also decided that this blog will feature music, books, other things I am into. Right now I have a couple of things to mention. I have been listening to the new Metallica CD Death Magnetic, and it is amazing. It might just be their best work yet. Better than Kill 'em All, better than S&M, maybe even better than Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. It easily makes one forget about the musical abortion that was St. Anger. If you are into Metallica and haven't heard Death Magnetic yet, go get you some.

Also, the newest volume of Christian Scholar's review has some good stuff in it. Dr. Patrick McDonald of SPU has a jointly written article titled In Defense of Methodological Naturalism that is a must read and clearly espouses some important information about the necessity of Christians accepting the scientific framework of methodological naturalism. For those that don't know methodological naturalism is the view that science should only concern itself with things which can be researched from a naturalistic standpoint. It makes no comments about what actually composes the world, i.e. supernatural forces in addition to natural phenomena, it only states that when coming up with a scientific theory one should leave out recourse to supernatural phenomena as they are not accessible via the scientific method. There is also a very good book review that asks the question of whether or not a Christian should be a scientific realist. 

I will leave off from these things now and say I hope someone is actually reading this once in a while.

Pars Prima

Ok, so here is my first blog post. I figured I would start one now and hopefully detail my life and my grad school experience. The important information about this is that so far I have been accepted to San Francisco State University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Texas Tech. So far I am pretty well set on going to San Fran. I don't really know what else to say right now, but hopefully this will get somewhat more interesting.