Thursday

Wendell Pfeffer

1/6/13

            Today instead of reading Notes from Underground we saw a video, which resembled the ideas that Dostoyevsky expressed in his writing. In the video a man from England and another man named Bill Nye the science guy, who is known for solving science experiments, debate about the volatility of the belief behind the bible. The English man is defending the bible and says that the bible and science correlate with one another while Bill is clearly denying that claim through clear concrete evidence. The debate is strange though because although it is evident that the English man is wrong the fact that he is English levels off the debate with Bill because Bill is not a great speaker but he provides us with some great points. Some of the things that the English man says is clearly absurd and if you listen closely he can only back them up with the information that is stated in his website. The English mans notion about the world also goes back to Dostoyevsky’s idea of the wall  - he is stuck and cannot think beyond what the bible says. He cannot look towards new ideas. He just tries and finds reasonable explanations that will convince people that his beliefs are correct, which they are clearly not.