Teaching, hearing, learning
It's weird to think that I'm old enough now that students can come back to me as adults to tell me what they thought of my teaching. Sometimes that's a nice experience, because students really took my guidance and teaching to heart and became better people and better scholars for it. Other encounters make me wonder if I taught anyone anything. And then there are those instances where people think I've taught them things that I never did or would even consider. I have been thoroughly misunderstood on more occasions than I care to remember, even on issues where I made my position perfectly, crystal clear. Some folks, even after reading a large amount of my work, still have no idea what I actually believe and think I should be tossed out with the rest of the garbage. I've been thinking about this as I've seen a lot of people lately in the creation/evolution debate wildly misunderstand and misrepresent each other. I recently read a book on theistic...