Welcome to the home page for SCI 1202 at Bangor Theological Seminary -- affectionately known as "Rocks for Frocks". This site includes pages primarily useful for students taking the course -- Syllabus and Homework pages -- and it also has pages of more general interest to the Seminary community -- Science and Religion, Books and Resources, Images, and Chips and Flakes. The Instructor page tells how to contact him as well as including a short bio, CV, and publications list.

Images include thumbnail pictures of geological features, each of which is a link to a larger-scale image with descriptive text. You can also click on the image in the upper lefthand corner of each webpage to go directly to the Image Page and link to the descriptive material. Resources and Books contains active links to other websites. Chips and Flakes is a catch-all page for things that don't fit elsewhere.

Each page has a navigation bar on the left margin, like this one. You can move to any page at the site by clicking the appropriate title.

If you are not a Bangor Seminary student, perhaps you are wondering why a basic science course is offered at a theological seminary. At Bangor Theological Seminary, "The Bangor Plan" allows students who have not yet completed an undergraduate college degree to pursue masters-level graduate study in theology while simultaneously making progress towards a bachelor's degree. While at BTS, Bangor Plan students are expected to complete 60 credits of undergraduate work ("Liberal Studies") in addition to their graduate studies (90 credits).

A basic science course is one component of the Liberal Studies distribution requirements. While Geology is hardly the only possible choice for such an offering, it has the advantages of (1) illustrating clearly the application, consequences, and limits of the scientific method as an human endeavor trying to make meaning of existence; (2) making maximal use of the geological resources of outdoors Maine; (3) requiring minimal laboratory facilities; and (4) focusing on skills (primarily accurate observation) and knowledge that students can use for the rest of their lives, wherever the opus Dei may take them.

For further information, consult the Bangor Theological Seminary Catalogue.

Latest site revision 08.28.2005