1) Describe / Summarize why Jacobs goes to the creationist museum and the main points or ideas Jacobs learns or struggles with in his visit to the museum.

Jacobs decides to visit the creationist museum because, in his words, "...creationism is biblical literalism at its purest, so I need to check it out." Creationists have taken the Genesis and interpreted everything literally, therefore epitomizing biblical literalism. Also, Jacobs seeks to learn more about religion, and creationists are a group he knows not much about. Jacobs struggles mainly with the ideas that the earth is only several thousand years old as stated by creationism and cannot give up his steadfast belief in evolution. He does learn, however, something about the characteristics of biblical literals; They are not dumb, or crazy. They have a relatively normal intelligence and logical process, they just believe in creationism so much, that they are capable of filtering everything through the creationist theory and distorting whatever they need to make everything fit into its mold.

2) Comment / describe what Jacobs spiritually struggles with or discovers on Dancing like King David"

This passage was one of the most interesting in my opinion. I found it interesting because I have never heard of a "Jewish Dance Club" before, but the things he learned from it struck me as one of the more important biblical lessons up to this point in the book. He learns that, although the bible is full of strict rules that seem to make life quite difficult and relatively un-fun, it still notices the humans need to let go every now and then. Even the most devout of Jews practice the dancing, a seemingly ridiculous act, and let loose. I also noted that this passage in the bible is not very prominent, yet it contains one of (to me) the best lessons yet.

3) Describe what Jacobs specifically admires about the prophets (especially by the end of the second month?

He admires their all-trusting faith in God. For him, it is difficult to surrender that much control to an entity that may or may not exist, but the prophets dedicated their lives to the will of God. I would be in the same boat as Jacobs, it's a frightening concept to give my destiny and my life to something else, I quite enjoy believing I'm in control, however, we (Jacobs and I) lack the belief in an almighty being necessary for such faith.