Edward A. Morris (Ed)
938 Pendleton Ave.
Longmont, CO 80504
USA
Email: emorris -at- noble-minded.org
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Edward A. Morris (Ed) Email: emorris -at- noble-minded.org |
Welcome to my website, started all the way back in 2001 when I was a young, heavily indoctrinated, very conservative evangelical Christian. My goal then was to write in defense of the theological beliefs I was sincerely trying to hold in a rational, intellectually honest way. My views have obviously evolved quite dramatically since then, gradually passing through more liberal Christian and agnostic phases before eventually reaching all the way to atheism, and my writing now involves critiques of Christianity rather than defenses of it. I’ve left just a few of my older writings up, however, in cases where I felt they might still be interesting, with disclaimers added as I thought appropriate.
My formal education is in electrical and computer engineering (M.S. from UW-Madison), but my informal reading interests have grown much broader over the years to also include subjects like epistemology and philosophy of mind, partly because of the potential implications of those subjects on the kinds of questions I frequently wrestled with in my journey from Christianity to atheism. Besides reading and writing on these topics, my other hobbies include hiking and photography, and you can see reduced-resolution versions of some of my favorite photographs elsewhere on this website. (The picture above is me at the top of Pawnee Peak in the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area about an hour west of my home, taken August 26, 2011.)
I originally intended the name of this website to be a reference to the New Testament story of the Bereans, who were commended for being “noble-minded” because they examined their scriptures to see if the things Paul told them were so. I now believe they would have been much more deserving of that designation if they had also been willing to subject the scriptures themselves to skeptical examination, of course. But in any case, the name remains. Even if it sounds a little pretentious, I hope it still applies in an aspirational way, at least, to my continued objective to hold my beliefs in a rational and intellectually honest way.
This page copyright © 2001-2024 Edward A. Morris. Created May 3, 2001. Last updated February 10, 2024.