Victory! The thesis is submitted

The author has now left the building.

Sorry for the totally off-topic post here, but it can’t hurt to chime in with some personal news once in a while - especially when it affects the state of the site!

My senior thesis is finally, begrudgingly submitted - that little bugger just didn’t want to go! In all seriousness, though, it’s a huge weight off my shoulders and things should be getting back to normal around here very soon.

I have a feeling that looking back on this paper in the coming weeks, there will be a few things I’ll want to change. However, once I’m satisfied that it’s sufficiently polished, I’ll put it up for any curious eyes to see.

For those who don’t know, I’ve spent the last few months researching the recent wave of biologists who published books and articles in support of atheism. My research took me back through the Creationism debates of the 80’s and 90’s, through a whole pile of theology while I tried to determine just what these guys were getting at, and ultimately found a real diamond amidst a surprising amount of rough.

You can look forward to that, as well as individual book reviews of the major texts I examined (one part of the importance of this project was the reliance on the popular press as an arena for disseminating their theories) I hope to make book reviews a feature on the site in the future, and I’ll be posting reviews on scientifically and environmentally-minded books as I get through them.

I’ve got a couple of other things planned for the site as well:

• I’ll immediately be trying to meet a higher post-per-week quota, working up to a 5-day post-week.

• I’ve also been working on moving the site to a dedicated server where I can have a little more control over the format and such, which should be an exciting launch…I’ll have to do something special for that one.

If you’ve kept checking in through my frequent absences lately, thank you. I’ve fled the continent for a little R&R, but will be checking in soon with lots of updates.

On deck: a multi-part piece looking at the recent salmon problems taking hold around the world, and a special piece on the delicate balance of fisheries.

Stay tuned!