Some Random Ramblings

Reading my earlier post, it seems as if, in some ways, I 'took leave of my senses' and cast reason to the winds. In a sense, I suppose I did. In those days in the Elim Pentecostal Church, there was an expectation that you believed the whole bible - it was all true, and the implication, in becoming a Christian in that church, was that I did believe it all.

When I became a Christian, I had 'sorted out' some things in my head already - those difficult 'three way' conversations with Isobel and her dad. But there was a lot of stuff that I was, in the end, forced to 'take on trust'. Not long after becoming a Christian, I went off to university, as I said in my previous post. My initial aim was to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and then to join the army as an officer. That idea went out of the window fairly rapidly, for a variety of reasons, not least among which was that I became very interested in physics, and 'swapped' to become a physics major at the beginning of my second year. I then did a practical research project in low-temperature physics - studying some of the properties of superfluid liquid Helium. At that point, I knew what I 'wanted to be when I grew up' - a low temperature physicist. Which I became, gaining two higher degrees and spending many years working in a laboratory on experiments concerned with superfluid turbulence.