Tenth grade was fairly similar to ninth, sans depression. Although I did have this really great English class that year. Something about puritans or some such stuff.
Eleventh was really when I came back in full force. I was feeling better and I had regained some friends lost by the move, and I was back on track to pick up where I had left off four years ago. Except that I now no longer held almost any of the same views. My Deism had faded for a much more Atheistic viewpoint. I no longer believed in a God. Instead, what had taken its place was simply the natural order. There was no need for there to even be a God, barring the mountains of scientific evidence disproving many of the things God had been said to purportedly have done (at least according to most, if not all, of the world’s leading religious texts).
This happened to be the year in which I began taking biology. Prior to this, I had always had the inkling that a rational approach to problem solving had been the way to go, but this course cemented it for me. Science really could be the end-all for discussions. Not only was there a set methodology in which to pursue any line of questioning, but the community was essentially entirely skeptics. Were something to pass through that much doubt and still maintain credibility, the odds of it being true were high enough to be considered truth, in my opinion. All this heavily supported Georg Hegel’s own view that everything could be broken up into ration categories. Science has been able to accomplish this task with most biota on the planet, so why not everything? Now, I understand that this may seem very reminiscent of David Hume’s emphasis on the empirical method, but I differ in that I believe logical proofs are a valid form of proof. Another thing biology cemented for me was the debate between Darwin and Genesis. The body of evidence was so overwhelmingly in favor of evolution that the belief in Creationism, or that God created everything only a short while ago, seemed almost childlike in its simplicity.
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