A few weeks ago, I finished an incredibly long-take home final for one of my favorite classes: the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics with Professor Ned Hall (I highly recommend it, even for people who are terrible at physics like me). Even though the course is now complete, I still have quantum mechanics in my mind
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On behalf of The Harvard Ichthus, Merry Christmas! May you be blessed with joy and remember the true meaning of Christmas. “The true meaning of Christmas.” You probably didn’t want to hear that. You may have cringed when you saw the title of this post. At this point in the Christmas season, if you are
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“…the relation of the [biblical writer] to the truth of his story still remains a far more passionate and definite one than is Homer’s relation. The Biblical narrator was obliged to write exactly what his belief in the truth of the tradition…demanded of him—in either case, his freedom in creative or representative imagination was severely
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O come, thou Dayspring, come and cheer Our spirits by thine advent here; Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death’s dark shadows put to flight. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel! Even when we know that Christ has died and is risen, that he has conquered sin and death, that he
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Hello wonderful readers! Today At 5:00 p.m., those students who, due to woeful calendrical misfortune, happen to be taking Harvard’s very last final of 2009, will put down their pencils and experience for the first time ever an actual winter break. Not a fake winter break, the kind where you have to study for finals
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What do we mean when we say that God is omnipotent? Can an omnipotent being exist? Some time ago, an atheist friend (who subsequently became a Christian) presented me with a paradox that purportedly disproved God’s existence: “Could God create a stone so heavy that He could not lift it?” If God could, it seems
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This is the third part of an ongoing series about what we’re waiting for during Advent. O come, thou Branch of Jesse’s tree, Free them from Satan’s tyranny That trust thy mighty power to save And give them victory over the grave. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel!
