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5 years in the US Army as a medical laboratory technican degree in biochem from ucsd worked on ma in religion at westminster seminary in Calif. travelled western US for years working swapmeets and selling books stopped in tucson az and been here for 15+ years. working on old adobe house while raising 6 kids. youngest is over 21 so i'm spending a lot more time reading now. studied computer sci, ele… Read more5 years in the US Army as a medical laboratory technican
degree in biochem from ucsd
worked on ma in religion at westminster seminary in Calif.
travelled western US for years working swapmeets and selling books
stopped in tucson az and been here for 15+ years.
working on old adobe house while raising 6 kids.
youngest is over 21 so i'm spending a lot more time reading now.
studied computer sci, electrical engineering and computer engineering at the Univ of AZ.
travelled in china 4 summers, loved every minute of it, hope to return to teach english before i die. i'd be there now if my wife wanted to live there. i think my folks kidnapped me from chinese gypsies...i really like chinese culture.
now gainfully unemployed, reading and looking at life....on the CED debate please use thinkcreation2002@yahoo.com to contact me. please see my homepage at: http://www.dakotacom.net/~rmwillia or my blog at http://livejournal.com/~rmwilliamsjr
i would like to second an_avid_book_reviewer 's comments:
[quote]'I post reviews on this site for several reasons:
1. I use this site as a great resource for deciding if I want to read a certain book or buy a certain item, etc. I post reviews to try to give something back.
2. Reading books and to a lesser extent, critically analyzing movies can be a fun effective way to learn about whatever you are interested in. Posting reviews is an impetus to help me keep up my reading.
3. By reading a book with the intent of teaching it to others, I think it helps me learn more from it for myself. '[end of quote]
thanks.
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09:57 pm - book review _The Metaphysical Club_ This represents the completion of a partial book for me, started months ago as a part of an online book club, and finished as the issues popped up again in the context of the study of worldviews. It is an unusually good and interesting book, worthy of winning the Pulitzer prize. It is a combination of intellectual history and the biography of multiple people. For what the author does is to trace several philosophic movements basically from the Civil War through roughly 1920, from the vantage point of 4 friends, hence the title, where these lives touched. The overall theme of the book is explicit on the first page of the introduction, in… Read more
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One True God: Historical consequences of Monotheism Rodney Stark Oftentimes i find myself very directed in my reading, the last few years have been such a time. I found what is vol 2 of this set For the Glory of God first, as a result of recommendations to read simply one chapter out of it. This book is vol 1 of the set, and now i found that i bought yet another book by Stark The Rise of Christianity, thus moving into the other systematic way of reading, not by topic but by author. And this author has earned such a task, he is witty, interesting and more important presents these big important ideas and defends them with flair. His big idea is the exchange relationship as a… Read more
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This is the first of what i hope to be a handful of commentaries and studies of the New Testament book of James. It is the current text for our church's Sunday service sermons and as such is automatically a point of study and interest for me. This particular book was mentioned in the first sermon and it was the first i picked up as well. It is an adequate introduction to the book. A little too quote-heavy, disjointed for my personal taste. It often reads like a series of sermon illustrations than a commentary. For that reason i do not think of it as a strict commentary, where the text is the big point, but rather in this book the text is the launching point to get into the literature and… Read more
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