{"id":4552,"date":"2014-02-05T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4552"},"modified":"2014-03-14T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T14:25:56","slug":"cuny-world-civilization-10100-pre-historic-to-1500-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4552","title":{"rendered":"The City College CUNY Class: World Civilization 10100 Pre-historic to 1500 AD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting course at the City College. Perhaps not evolution course at its best\/worst, because the instructor is trying to be very open minded and sensitive about religious views. After all, I saw him at Redeemer, though he admitted to me that he's not Christian, but was raised Jewish. While at times I had to worry for Redeemer's methodology, the instructor does make me admire Redeemer's ministry for being so approachable by a Jewish raised, non-Christian professor.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there's much to deal with in this course. First I had to deal with evolution of hominids to man, then I have to read the book <em>Ishmael<\/em> by Daniel Quinn (Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ishmael-An-Adventure-Mind-Spirit\/product-reviews\/0553375407\/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&amp;filterBy=addOneStar&amp;showViewpoints=0\" target=\"_blank\">negative reviews<\/a> on Amazon): about a gorilla who came into consciousness and attempts to teach a man \"the author\" about life. The book is in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socratic_dialogue\" target=\"_blank\">Socratic Dialogue<\/a>. The link provided has all of the Socratic dialogues by Plato.<\/p>\n<p>The class itself is rather easy going, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting course at the City College. Perhaps not evolution course at its best\/worst, because the instructor is trying to be very open minded and sensitive about religious views. After all, I saw him at Redeemer, though he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4552\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}