Dr. Min Y. Pack, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

“This is exactly why belief in a God is ridiculous…” remarked an Engineering professor in a leading public university as they described a few equations on the board remarking on the beauty and self-sufficiency of the physics which explains the natural world. Isn’t science supposed to be untethered from worldview? Could one’s learning and faith be inseparable ideas? These were the types of questions I wrestled with throughout my college and post-graduate years. Interacting with the Crane Scholars program at Baylor as a faculty mentor put a finger on this exact need and has provided vocabulary to describe what so much of modern education is missing today. Worldview matters. How faith inflects our respective fields matters. How we learn a subject matters. 

The Crane Scholars program gives students the opportunity to wrestle with deep-seated questions in a small, intentional, community-oriented yet diverse group around good food. The Crane Scholars program also allows students to come to the heights of intellectual endeavors and find that the air is thin unless one’s worldview is considered in its appropriate context. And for the Crane scholar, the singular aim is being able to walk away from the Baylor experience knowing that ultimately, “Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all those who delight in them”. There is great joy and unity in the continuity of deep thought and growing faith.