Name: Emily Kendall
Age: 19
Educational Background: public grade schools in southern Indiana, now
a chemistry-and-physics-major undergrad at Harvard
Family: mom, dad, three younger sisters. all amazing.
I've grown up in a Christian family and an evangelical church, and
been a believer from a very early age. Inquisitive, intellectual, and
very happy to be a student, I'm drawn to academia. At the same time,
I've often wondered what it means to live a life for Jesus in an
academic setting. I've also struggled with how to reconcile my
science with my faith, especially regarding Genesis, origins, and the
YEC position that I accepted after reading Henry Morris and others in
junior high. My anxiety increased over the past few years as I
learned more science and started to doubt a lot of those assumptions
but my parents and church assumed that questioning how science and the
Bible fit together, doubting their YEC paradigm, or seeking proof for
those aspects of my belief system that are testable, meant I was
doubting and endangering my faith. Discovering the ASA and this email
list a month ago, along with reading Polkinghorne, Noll, and others,
have been a huge encouragement to me and have challenged me to
continue striving to love God with my scientific mind. I've been
amazed at the freedom I've found, the weight that has been lifted off
my shoulders, as I've become more willing to question things in search
of Truth this summer. Thanks to many on this list for modeling for me
a coherent combination of Christian faith and good, honest science.
I'm going to continue lurking, but also hopefully taking part in
discussions soon :)
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