Interview Results (more extensive)

I believe that Bryan Froehle was the best choice I could've made when it came to my interview on the "Religion" aspect of my project. He affiliated theology, religion, science, and society with reality, making the session more influential than actually informational. Here are some quotes from the interview that had an impacting meaning toward both my research and my life:

---> "We don’t exist as separate beings from one another. None of us could ever exist without other people. Everything that surrounds us was done by someone for us, with us, or in some connection with us. Everything that we’re surrounded by is a gift of being a part of a much wider human community. Someone created everything (computers, cars, etc.), but whoever created these, never created them fully by him/herself, he always had a preceder. There was always someone/something that came before. The work of science is a collective enterprise."

---> "If we truly appreciate our surroundings, we can both be humble about who we are as well as relational about who we are with each other and also in relationship with that which loves us into being."

---> "The key area that must be emphasized on is community. A liberal university can be pointing toward freedom as a free-for-all, leading ultimately to lose and forget ourselves and make us believe that somehow we’re better than tradition. A liberal understanding can also mean that we’re putting individualism at the very center. If we become people without a tradition, we become people without a story; people without a history; people who have rejected all wisdom that came before us, wisdom that humanity has struggled long, hard, and shedded blood to acquire. For us to lose that tradition is not only one of the most arrogant things we could do, but one of the most dangerous things we could do. A people without that kind of collective wisdom from our past will be doomed to be doing terrible things to each other in the future because we would’ve lost all of the wisdom that we’ve gained throughout history."