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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION -CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC& CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 22 Number 2                                                                                                April/May 1980

ONE OF THESE MONTHS ...

... You'll get your Newsletter during one of the publication months posted on page 1, but maybe not this time. It may be biblical for our right (Elgin) hand and our left (Berkeley) hand to be uncoordinated (Matthew 6:3), but we figure there'll be applause when we can get'em both on schedule. (Sound of one hand slapping: "Ouch!") Our difficulties meeting bimonthly deadlines don't seem to discourage those members who want ASA/CSCA to publish a "popular magazine" on science/faith issues. We don't have room to discuss the pros and cons in this issue, but we'd like to draw more people into the discussion. Starting a whole new magazine seems out of the question but some kind of modification of the Newsletter might meet a public need. The Newsletter, now edited solely for members, could take on a slightly different slant, or outer-directed issues could alternate each month with inner-directed issues, or something like that. It would take seed money to produce something new, more to market it. Is there a market? Could we find it?

A recent jump in JASA subscriptions from direct mail advertising can be read two ways: (1) "The Journal will fill the need if people just know about it"; or (2) "if that many nonmembers are interested in a scholarly publication, think how many would go for something written in a more popular style." We don't know how to read the sines (or cosines), but we know there are a lot of ups and downs.

We especially appreciate our loyal fans who think the Newsletter has a lot going for it now, and don't want to lose that. Maybe we should discuss the whole thing at the 1980 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at TAYLOR UNIVERSITY in UPLAND, INDIANA, AUGUST 8-11.

Meanwhile, we'd better shape up. We've just seen Volume 1 Number 1 of the Newsletter published by the Toronto CSCA local section, edited by Ken Kosow, and it looks great. We could get by with a little sloppiness when there was nothing to compare us with, but not any more. As one bumper sticker says, "ENTROPY ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE."

Dentist Donald E. Webb of Santa Barbara and his wife Sally attended the 1979 ASA Annual Meeting at Stanford. Sally is now teaching in a Christian junior high school which will be adding high school years one year at a time. She wants to know of any science curriculum materials written from a Christian viewpoint in addition to those by young-earth advocates. Having heard that at least one recent creationist organization gathers teachers together in workshops for producing teaching materials, she wonders if ASA/CSCA might take a crack at such a project. We told her we'd run it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes. If you have strong opinions on the idea, write to Bill Sisterson at the Elgin office and/or come to the 1980 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at TAYLOR UNIVERSITY prepared to discuss it.

And if you have some existing curriculum materials to recommend, write to Sally Webb, 1081 Camino Viejo, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

"Concern About Science" is the theme of an Academic Congress to be held October 43-17, 1980, at the Free University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. The congress forms part of the centennial celebration of the university, which has maintained its special Christian character since 1880 while remaining "free from any tutelage on the part of either State or Church."

Prominent Dutch and foreign scientists and scholars will address three areas of concern: the relationship of scientific knowledge to other types of knowledge (including religious knowledge); ethical aspects of science; and priorities and control. Anyone interested in the congress theme is invited to participate in the discussions, which will be held in English. Short papers may be submitted until June 1. Registration should be completed by August 1. For registration forms and information on accommodations, write to: Concern About Science Congress, Vrije Universiteit, Postbus 7161, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

For various reasons, theological seminaries have seldom paid much attention to the sciences, or to other "secular" disciplines, for that matter. But the need to integrate academic work with theological understanding at the graduate level has at last been recognized by evangelicals in other institutions, producing an abundance of short-term and long-term opportunities. Consider these:

Trinity College in Illinois sponsors an annual "Faith/Living/ Learning Institute" of seminars in six areas such as arts, history, philosophy, and so on. This year's institute will be held August 4-22 on the Deerfield campus. The natural science seminar will be led by Trinity Extension professor Loren Wilkinson on "Perspectives on Christian Stewardship of the Earth." In the social sciences, Trinity psychology professor Kirk Farnsworth will deal with "Theoretical and Applied Integration." Deadline for applications is June 1. For info write: Dr. Kenneth W. Shipps, Director, Faith/Living/ Learning Institute, Trinity College, 2045 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015.

C. S. Lewis Institute in Washington, D.C., operates summer sessions as well as academic year programs. This spring James Houston of Regent College is teaching "I Believe in the Creator" (from the title of his recent book) and Carl F. H. Henry is teaching "Christian Perspective on Contemporary Chaos." For info on this summer and beyond, write: C. S. Lewis Institute, 514 E. Capitol St., N.W., Washington,, DC 20003.

Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, now ten years old, is delighted to announce an accredited Ph.D. program in cooperation with the Free University of Amsterdam. ICS also has a one-year "Christian Worldview" program in addition to a basic Master's program. Several CSCA members are on the faculty, including principal Bernard Zy1stra. For the new 1980/82Academic Bulletin, write: Institute for Christian Studies, 229 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1 R4.

Regent College in Vancouver is also celebrating its tenth anniversary as a graduate school of Christian studies. Speaker at the May 5 convocation will be Brian Sutherland, CSCA chemist who devoted much energy in his retirement years to helping the college get off the ground. Regent now has a sizable student body in one- to three-year graduate programs (the new three-year M.Div. is a seminary-like degree). It attracts even larger numbers for its annual summer sessions. This year's three-week summer sessions are June 30-July 18 and July 25-Aug. 8. For course information, write: Registrar, Regent College, 2130 Westbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1W6.

New College for Advanced Christian Studies in California is almost a "clone" of Regent, but with distinctive emphasis on ethics and no intention of offering a M.Div. This is its first academic year but its third summer of offering courses. Walt Hearn is   currently teauhing a course on "Science and Christian Faith." Among the summer courses, sociologist Elaine Botha of South Africa's Potchefstroom U. will teach "Christian Foundations of the Social Sciences" in the June 30-July 18 session (before going to Vancouver to teach the same course in Regent's second session). In the July 21-Aug. 8 session, medical ethicist Marsha Fowler will teach "Christian Ethics in Health Care." For info on other courses this summer or next fall, write: Registrar, New College, 2606 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.

Center for Advanced Biblical Studies in Texas is even newer than New College, opening its doors for the first time in September 1980. It arises from a merger of Probe Ministries in Dallas with Christian Associates, a seminary formerly based in Thousand Oaks, California. The center will offer one-, two-, and three-year programs, with classes initially held in a church in the Richardson area. Chemist-philosopher Charles Thaxton of Probe will be one of a half-dozen faculty members. For more info, write: Registrar, Center for Advanced Biblical Studies, Probe Ministries International, 12011 Coit Road, Suite 107, Dallas, TX 75251.

Institute of Holy Land Studies in Israel is excited about offering a new concentration in Islamic Studies in addition to its present programs in Modern Hebrew, Ancient Israel, and Judaeo-Christian Studies. The Islamic program begins in fall 1980, with courses in Arabic being added in fall 1981, according to institute president George Giacumakis. For info, write to Institute of Holy Land Studies, P. 0. Box 1276, Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Israel, or to the North American offices: P. 0. Box 456, Highland Park, IL 60035; or 1 Queen's Drive, Weston, Ontario, M9N 2H3.

TRANSCULTURAL SEMINAR

Kenton K. Brubaker, professor of biology and advisor to the International Agricultural Development Program at Eastern Mennonite College, announces a "Transcultural Seminar" to be held June 16-27 at the college: "This twoweek seminar is designed for pre-professional workers, and teachers interested in expanding their knowledge, skills, and resources for working to improve quality of life for individuals, families, and communities in transcultural settings." Mennonite Central Committee is cosponsor. Many resource people who have worked overseas with MCC will be on hand, including Kenton, who has served in Zaire, Haiti, and Bangladesh. College credit (3 hrs.) in biology, education, home ec, humanities, or nursing is offered (tuition, $315). Room, $3 a night; board, $6 a day. For more information, write: Dean's Office, Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, VA 22801.

Beside getting our numbering of this series mixed up, we mislaid a request received around the time of the last ASA Annual Meeting. Wayne Dye, a translator and anthropology consultant for Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea, noted that we were discussing both "energy choices" and "how to help the Third World" at that meeting. He wondered if anybody in ASA/CSCA is trying to put those two concerns together. Wayne pointed out that "the countries hurt most by the growing cost of energy are Third World countries. It would seem most appropriate for Christian scientists to investigate solutions which are better for small, undeveloped, generally rural situations. There is more research money, because there is more market money, for the needs of the developed countries."

We wish Wayne could have heard the fine paper by Ken Touryan of the Solar Energy Research Institute dealing with just that subject. Bill Sisterson has probably put Ken in touch with Wayne, who has served in Papua New Guinea for the past fifteen years.

1. "Outboard motors are generally grossly inefficient. I have looked into steam power, but safety and cost seem to be serious problems. Small steam engines are evidently dangerous to use if one is not an expert. But millions of people who live near and use tropical waterways are largely limited to outboard motors. Could someone devote some study to developing steam power for such applications? Naturally the economics of steam are not good in North America, but where I live the cost of gasoline, the difficulty of shipping it, and the availability of wood seem to provide quite a different set of economic parameters."

2. "Electricity would be a boon to many villages, schools, and government stations of various kinds. The larger places use diesel generators but the smaller places and the villages do without. I use a gasoline generator in my village. Solar power seems to be the answer, and in fact many of my fellow translators are already using solar cells to charge their transceiver batteries and for a small night light. Perhaps much work is already being done on this and I must simply be patient. I want to point out, though, that the economics are again different. Solar power is economical here at a much higher first cost than in most places in North America. Because there is so little maintenance, it is almost the only source of electricity which would be practical in many villages in Papua New Guinea. In spite of a vast potential for water power, the low population density and low usage rates to be expected make hydroelectricity out of reach for most villages." To suggest solutions, get more information, or give some encouragement, write to Wayne Dye, Wycliffe, Box 28, Ukarumpa via Lae, Papua New Guinea.

Is there a horticulturist-or a farm-hand-out there who wanted to serve on the mission field but never got to medical school or seminary? Yieldingtree Farm in Zambia on the Zimbabwean border has lost its farm manager and needs a new one. This Farm is a working poultry operation run by Ann and Gordon Bland as a Christian ministry of hospitality. It has offered shelter and spiritual refreshment to several ASAers working in that part of Africa, including psychologist Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen and physician Lee Isaacs. After surviving the tensions of recent times, the Blands are planning to be there "for the next twenty years," having received from the Lord "a prophetic word of promise to start off 1980." Young people traveling north and south in Africa often drop in on the farm. For information on the position open, write: Yieldingtree Farm, P. 0. Box 229, Lusaka, Zambia, Africa.

Jack Richardson of Ottawa, Ontario, sent us a copy of Enterpriser magazine, evidently a publication of the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. At any rate, Enterpriser goes to every business in Ottawa plus another 2,500 people. The. November, 1979 issue has a fine article by James Ashwin entitled "Is A Handicapped Person Too Disabled to Work?" Jim has "been there"; his story of contracting polio in India in 1955, just two years after receiving his Ph.D. in physiology from McGill, has been told in our Newsletter and in greater detail in Jim's autobiography, God's Mountain (1978).

In the Enterpriser article, Jim identifies himself as a Fellow of the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation while, toting up other things he's been able to accomplish in his twenty-five years in a wheel chair. It wasn't easy. "In 1956 there were few college buildings, houses, or businesses that could accommodate a wheel chair." Jim says he rarely encountered another person in a wheel chair who was employed, but when he did, the story was similar: someone had been willing to invest in them so they could become employed.

Since his first boss agreed to try him out for three months at half salary, Jim Ashwin has held various positions in a medical school, the Canadian Heart Foundation, a major pharmaceutical institute, and now the Bureau of Drugs in Ottawa. He lists the special services needed for disabled people to function in society, arguing that almost all can be employed in some capacity if someone will give them a little help to get started. Besides, disabled people "can teach the able-bodied about strength in weakness and acceptance of difficulties."

If you have been inspired by Jim Ashwin's story, you can order God's Mountain from the Canadian or U.S. offices of Ludhiana Christian Medical College (where Jim was teaching when he was stricken), or from Dr. James G. Ashwin, 1450 Lexington St., Ottawa, Ontario K2C 1R9. (List price, $2.95.)

Many evangelicals have heard of Ralph Blair's ministry to homosexuals and people concerned about homosexuality "Evangelicals Concerned." Few know about another ministry that seems equally compassionate but somewhat more direct in confronting homosexuals about their lifestyle: "Love in Action." Tom Hill, an ASA member using his psychology training to minister to "gays" and "ex-gays" through Love in Action, says it grew out of Kent Philpott's Church of the Open Door north of San Francisco over seven years ago. Today it still carries on an active local witness in the Bay area but finds itself reaching out to other places as well.

Helping people come out of the gay lifestyle when they find Christ is not an easy task because of the strong temptations to return and the suspicion or ineptness toward them in most "straight" churches. Love in Action operates Christian "half-way houses" to help in that transition. They supply literature and tapes to help churches and individual Christians minister to homosexuals, and have begun to send ministry teams or speakers far and wide. They keep in touch with a network of related ministries around the world, including Exodus International, a coalition of Christians who have given up homosexual practices. Love in Action founder Frank Worthen spent twenty years as a practicing homosexual before returning to Christ; the fact that LIA staffers have "been there" helps them offer constructive help to homosexuals touched by the gospel.

For more information, write to: Love in Action, P. 0. Box 2655, San Rafael, CA 94902.

One of the most impressive series ever broadcast on Public Television was "Charles Darwin's Voyage of Discovery," aired in recent months in five hour-long episodes. The acting was excellent, the photography magnificent, and the expense of retracing the voyage of the Beagle unimaginable. Further, the content seemed to be painstakingly reconstructed from the actual writings of Darwin and others.

The final episode came to a climax at the June 1980 Oxford meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, seven months after publication of The Origin of Species. The famous debate between Bishop Samuel Wilberforce and T. H. Huxley was enacted just the way we've all heard that it took place. Attacking Darwin's theory, Wilberforce (nicknamed "Soapy Sam" because of his slippery debating skills) made a snide comment that "delivered" him into Huxley's hands, and "religion lost to biology." Few people realize that no records exist of that debate; all the speeches cited nowadays "are quoted from the memory of those who attended, so accusations of the Bishop's ignorance and shallow thought are based on hearsay evidence, often from prejudiced witnesses."

So says Richard Wrangham, research fellow at King's College, Cambridge, in the9August 1979 issue of New Scientist, sent to us by Paul Mauer of Rochester, NY. Wrangham's article, "The Bishop of Oxford.-Notso Soapy" (pp-_4W-1), is based on the long critical essay on the Origin written before the debate but published in the Quarterly Review after the debate. Wilberforce accepted the idea of natural selection but regarded it as a conservative mechanism maintaining perfectly adapted species, not producing new species. The crucial point he missed is that what is conservative in a stable environment becomes a force for change in a changed environment. Wilberforce never discussed environmental change.

Wrangham concludes that in "Fighting for the view that species are perfectly adapted, Wilberforce took a remarkably modern stance. Even if that view was forced on him by his Christian beliefs he deserves to be remembered as more than the broken pillar of the Church."

"Did you know that scientific evidence points toward a Geocentric Universe and that scientists admit it?" That's what the flyer says, but most of the arguments seem to be theological or philosophical. "if the Earth revolves, how could both the sun and the moon stand still during Joshua's longest day?" "Why was it so6 important for these humanists to make the Earth just a place in space? I can think of one reason, the same way with evolution: man wants to delude himself in that he can escape the impending judgment."

How about some of you physicists or astronomers taking a close look at whatever Hanson sees as evidence and giving us a report on this modern Geocentricity movement? Ray says he'd like to see the evidence refuted, since he invited two Purdue Ph.D.s in his church to listen to the Hanson tapes-and they're "on the verge of being convinced." (Ray's address is 1013 Hillcrest Rd., West Lafayette, IN 47906. Maybe he'll bring the tapes to the ASA ANNUAL MEETING at TAYLOR UNIVERSITY, UPLAND, INDIANA, AUGUST 8-11.)

Despite our Affiliations' commitment to stewardship of natural resources, this column has almost died out for want of reader input. What better way to integrate creativity and "redemptivity" than for Christians to figure out how to make use of things that would otherwise be discarded? We'd like to hear how members are applying "appropriate technology" to recycling projects on any scale, from that of a single household on up.

While we're waiting to hear from you, we'll point out that LIVING MORE SIMPLY: Biblical Principles & Practical Models has just been published by Inter-Varsity Press. Edited by Ronald J. Sider, Living More Simply contains papers from the 1979 consultation on that subject sponsored by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. A major sec~tion-eallled "Struggfirrg Free in the Family: Guidelines and Models" contains a number of personal accounts by Christians trying to cut down on consumptive behavior, including ASA members Howard Claassen and Wait Hearn. There's a lot more besides in the 206-page paperback ($4.95), royalties from which go td support the Unit of Ethics and Society of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship.

Ian S. Johnston (Dept . of Microbiology & Immunology, Center for the Health Sciences, U. of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Tel. 213-825-5478 or 213-825-4359) seeks a biology teaching position, preferably with opportunity to pursue his research interests. Ian has a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge and Ph.D. from UCLA (1978), over a half-dozen technical publications and research experience in Jamaica, Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and on the "Alpha Helix" Clarion Island expedition. He is currently a research immunologist at UCLA. Ian has had experience as a teaching fellow at S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook (1970-72) and at UCLA (1973-75) teaching a variety of biology courses, but would be most comfortable teaching aspects of cell biology, cell and tissue ultraitructure (Histology), comparative physiology, immunology, and invertebrate biology. His publications and current research interests stem largely from his dissertation on functional ultrastructure of the skeleton and skeletogenic tissues of the reef-coral Pocillopora damicornis. Although he has special interests in marine invertebrates, he is not restricting himself to marine biology orto a position in a coastal area. Ian is a U. K. citizen with permanent resident status as a U.S. immigrant, is married and has a daughter born in 1978.

Philip J. Lawlis (Philhaven Hospital, 283 S. Butler Rd., Lebanon, PA 17042. Tel. 717-273-3523) is a psychologist seeking employment for fall 1980 in a Christian counseling center, Christian college, or church with a counseling service. He has an A.B. from Indiana and M.A. from Kansas U., expects to receive his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from'Kansas in fall 1980. Phil is presently interning ataChristian psychiatric hospital. He has experience in family, individual, and group counseling, is dedicated to integrating biblical principles and psychology, and has interests in counseling, teaching, community education and consultation.

Anderson College in Indiana has an opening for a chemist beginning September 1980, preferably a Ph.D. with college teaching experience; rank and salary open. Teaching competence in general, inorganic, and physical chemistry plus chemical instrumentation required. "Anderson College is a church-related liberal arts college of 2,000 students committed to a distinctly Christian educational philosophy with growing programs, plans, and ambitions." It is sponsored by the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana). Address correspondence to: Dr. Duane C. Hoak, Dean of the Faculty, Anderson College, Anderson, IN 46011. (Received 14 March 1980.)

Asbury College in Kentucky is looking for someone in biology, according to presently illegible notes from a telephone call last month. We jotted down " botany/environmental" and "physiology/developmental" on the back of an envelope but now we can't remember whether that was an "either/or" or a "both/and" specification. Better check with: Dr. Steven Hannum, Asbury College, Wilmore, KY 40390. Tel. 606858-3511 X123. (Sorry about that.)

On Tuesday evening, March 25, the Guelph section cosponsored a showing of the film "Through Joy and Beyond," the life story of C. S. Lewis narrated by Walter Hooper, Lewis's secretary and executor of his literary estate. The film was shown in the Physical Sciences Building of the U. of Guelph, with the Christian Reformed Captaincy of the university as cosponsor.

We haven't heard news from that meeting or the section's annual business meeting held just before the film. We hear from secretary Steve Scadding that a group of CSCA members and friends are getting together at the university for bimonthly discussions of Bernard Ramm's classic, The Christian View of Science and Scripture. Meetings may continue after the first terminus of April 21, so call Ed DenHaan at 824-4120 (X3245) or Steve Scadding at 824-4120 (X3334) for more information.

The section was planning a meeting for Thursday evening, March 27, at the Medical Sciences Building at the U. of Toronto at last report. Albert Wolters, senior member in history of philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, was to speak on "The Scope and Significance of Creation." Responding to Wolter's presentation was Dan Osmond of the Dept. of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine at U. of T.

The meeting notice stated Wolter's main objective as showing "that the doctrine of creation should not be restricted to physical creation, but also applies to society and culture. We should understand creation as the whole of God's intentions for the world." The annual business meeting of the Toronto section was to be held just before the public lecture.

We hear that a humongus picnic for all CSCA members and friends in central Ontario is being planned for Saturday, June 21, at Doug Morrison's farm at Fergus which also serves as the central office of CSCA). It's a BYO Barbecue & salad party, with beverages, dessert, plates, and cups furnished by the management. You might bring charcoal, lawn chairs, and sports equipment in addition to your "eating tools" and come at 3 p.m. for outdoor fun and socializing before supper at about 5 o'clock. (Sounds like a good time to emigrate to Canada, especially if U.S. conscription for the Oil War has begun by then-Ed.)

The section's spring meeting is to be held on Saturday, April 19, at Cook Auditorium of The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, New York. Astrophysicist Owen Gingerich of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, professor of astronomy and the history of science at Harvard, is giving two lectures. At 4 p.m. he will ask "Will the Universe End with a Bang or a Whimper?" and (after dinner in the college cafeteria) at 7 p.m. will discuss "Is There Life on Other Worlds?"

Professor Gingerich is a leading authority on Copernicus and Kepler. His work on Copernicus's 16th-century De revolutionibus is being published as a 600-page monograph by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Gingerich is probably better known as the editor of the collection of Scientific American articles entitled New Frontiers in Astronomy, but he has several hundred technical articles and reviews to his credit as well.

Gingerich regards evidence for a primordial cosmic explosion in which energy and matter were created about 20 billion years ago as quite convincing, but questions the longfavored idea that the outward-rushing galaxies will continue "forever," creating space as the universe expands. New evidence suggests that the galaxies might stop and retreat into a fiery cataclysm; the question is not yet settled. Gingerich is also skeptical about prospects for intelligent life on other planets in our own Milky Way galaxy, according to the announcement of his lectures sent us by Bob Voss. A short business meeting will be held just before the 4 p.m. lecture.

With winter rains over and sunny days lengthening, events spring up all over the section. On April 3 for example, Fred Cuttner, research associate in physics at U. C. Santa Cruz, spoke on "Modern Science and Eastern Mysticism" at an evening meeting cosponsored by the Stanford IVCF chapter on the Stanford campus.

On Friday, May 9, at 8 p.m., Bernard Ramm, professor of theology at Berkeley's American Baptist Seminary of the West, will speak at a section meeting at Irvington Presbyterian Church in Fremont, where Paul McKowen is pastor. Professor Ramm will discuss "Eric Rust: An Alternative View of Science and Theology"; Rust is the Baptist theologian festschrifted in the 1979 volume, Science, Faith, and Revelation (see Dec/Jan issue of ASA/CSCA News).

Meanwhile The Upstart, newsletter of the section's Northeast end, surfaced from the underground with announcements of another informal get-together at Walt Hearn's

Troll House on March 29 and two Berkeley public lectures by Donald MacKay on April 9. The MacKay lectures, sponsored by New College for Advanced Christian Studies, were well attended, drawing such scattered section members as Dave Sheriff from Campbell, Craig Ellison from Simpson College in San Francisco, and Gordon Chan from College of Marin.

March 29 was the Saturday evening before a new quarter at U. C. Berkeley, corresponding to the January 5 gathering when so many students showed up. Wait should have heeded Arthur Bloch in Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong (Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan, 1979); according to Bloch, Fett's Law of the lab states: "Never replicate a successful experiment." On the other hand, several students who hadn't been at the January 5 get together did make it: biochemist Liane Stevens and linguist Jeanne van Oosten. Moreover, Roland Lindh and wife Janina dropped in all the way from Pennsylvania, having used a bargain airfare deaf to take their three kids on a California vacation.

John Peter Chow of Sunnyvale, California, is an ordained Baptist minister who has begun a Sunday service for Mandarin/Cantonese-speaking Chinese in his area. Peter says he needs help from a Christian with computer experience for several projects. He is writing a history of the Chinese church in North America and has information on some 390 congregations in the U.S. (with about 40,000 weekly attendants out of almost 900,000 Chinese people) and 110 congregations in Canada (with about 14,000 attendants out of some 300,000 Chinese people). A computer person could help him keep track of his research data, and might also help him set up an inventory control to order books and pamphlets for his proposed "gospel literature promotional project." That project would try to put gospel bookshelves in stores and restaurants to reach the 96 percent of the North American Chinese who do not go to any church. (Address: 890 Lewis Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086.)

Craig W. Ellison, professor of psychology and urban studies at Simpson College in San Francisco, has been publishing on urban ministry lately; "The Concrete Mission Field" appeared in the March His Magazine and "The Urban Revolution" in the premiere issue of Today's Mission, a new missions-oriented magazine for college students, for which Craig will be writing a regularcolumn. But he hasalsowritten a book on Loneliness: The Search for Intimacy, coming out in May from Christian Herald Books. Craig seems to be stirring things up at Simpson; we've seen an announcement of a newly established Simpson Community Counseling Center to provide "professional counseling with a Christian foundation" for area residents, another announcement of Simpson's second Summer Institute for Urban Missions. (For information on the June 9-July 5 session or the July 7Aug. 2 session, write SIUM Director, Simpson College, 801 Silver Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.)

Bert C. Henderson has joined the technical staff of Watkins Johnson Co., working on electromagnetic problems. Bert has a B.S. in E.E. from U.C. Davis, a 1979 M.S.E.E. from Berkeley, and a new bride named Ann, whom he met at Davis. Bert goes to Peninsula Bible Church and enjoys jazz and classical music. Feeling a bit isolated after active IVCF participation in his campus days, Bert thinks it would be great to correspond with some other ASAers who work on electromagnetic problems, especially in microwave antennas and components. (Address: 27020 Purissima Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022).

Douglas Johnson is in a master's program in environmental engineering at the U. of Illinois in Urbana, having stayed on after attending IVCF's missionary convention in December 1979. At U.C. Berkeley he majored in C.E., specializing in hydraulic and sanitary engineering, after deciding that water was one of the world's major problems. He is considering the Peace Corps or some other overseas opportunity for the future but meanwhile he has many contacts with international students in his graduate dorm. Doug wonders if some ASA/CSCA member could help place him overseas as a sanitary engineer, possibly in east or southeast Asia. (Address: 603 Daniels Hall, U.R.H., 1010 West Green St., Urbana, IL 61801.)

Lindy Scott of Mexico City hopes our typo on his address didn't thwart anyone who wanted to order his thesis on Economic  Koinonia within the Body of Christ ($1.75 for single copies, discounts for more than 10 copies). Further, for orders placed before June 1, the publishers, Editorial Kyrios, will pay the postage. We have the right number this time: Senor Lindy Scott, Companerismo Estudiantil, Apdo. 20-648, Mexico 20, D.F., Mexico.

Gary M. Michal of Strongsville, Ohio, finished his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Stanford U. in November 1979. Now Gary is a research metallurgist at the Republic Steel Research Center in Independence, Ohio.

George L. Murphy of Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, spent three weeks in Israel in January for the seminary's interim term. His article on "The Scientific Dimension of the Christian College" appeared in the Advent (1979) issue of Lutheran Forum.

W. James Neidhardt of Randolph, New Jersey, professor of physics at Newark College of Engineering, sent us what we take to be either a birth announcement or a research progress report. Jim indicates that a new element has been discovered, or a new compound, J4N. At any rate, the card is signed Jim, Janet, John, and Jerry. How about that? Even the postmark says New J.)

Robert A. Nisbet is now in Goleta, California, serving as senior ecologist for HDR Sciences of Santa Barbara. Bob was formerly associate professor of biology at Malone College in Ohio.

Dennis Perry of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico has been making progress toward a Master's degree in business administration and computer science while working in a research group that discovered five new isotopes in 1978. Last summer he organized an International conference on Computer-Nuclear Applications. Dennis and wife Linda try to be "salt" and "light" in Los Alamos, described in a Dec. 10, 1979 Time magazine article as a community with some intense social stresses.

W. Stanford Reid, now of Lake Placid, Florida, claims to have retired in 1978 as professor of history (now emeritus) from the U. of Guelph after thirteen years of teaching there. It's hard to tell he's retired, though. Last May Stan received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Presbyterian College in Montreal. In October he taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois before chairing local arrangements, reading a paper, and giving the banquet address at the Sixteenth Century Conference at the universities of Guelph and Waterloo. Now he's catching up with "a multitude of things I have promised to write and edit" before going to Australia to lecture this summer. (But don't all our futures depend in part on Afghani, Stan?)

Dean Richardson and wife Joyce have returned to La Marque, Texas, after five years of service as Southern Baptist missionaries in Ghana. Most of that time they were doing literacy work, training Ghanaians to be literacy teachers. Although the overall literacy rate is about25 percent, in large sections of the country it is less than 5 percent. Dean and Joyce are getting reestablished in the USA, doing a lot of speaking and a little free-lance writing.

Terrell Smith sent us another progress report on his work with international students at the U. of Marburg, West Germany, for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. The prayers of a dedicated core of Christians are bringing more and more students from many countries to a weekly meeting, "making the work of visiting and friendship more challenging." Several have become Christians. Twenty-three students attended an international student conference in December, including a number of non-Christians seriously interested in faith. Terry will be visiting a dozen other German universities this year to encourage evangelism among international students.

Arthur A. Smucker, chemistry professor at Goshen College in Indiana, is developing a strong interest in computers and will do a sabbatical next year at Virginia Polytech in Blacksburg, Virginia, with Prof. Ray Dessey. Art is getting a head start next trimester undera Lilly Foundation faculty improvement award to Goshen. Release from teaching one course will enable Art to work with Goshen's PDP 11/70, improving his competence at computer use and programming and helping other faculty with computer applications. Art, a biochemist, is also assisting a biology colleague in a study of growth mechanisms in fungi. He says his colleague will be looking for someone at the pos tdoc level to continue that work during Art's sabbatical. Fungi, anyone?

Carol Spalding of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, didn't have much news to report when she returned our "pink postcard" but at least we got her name straight. We had her on our records as Mrs. H. Daniel Spalding but in our friendly affiliations we like to keep things on a first-name basis.

Charles R. Taber, professor of world mission at Emmanuel School of Religion in Johnson City, Tennessee, lectured in January at the Overseas Ministries Study Center in Ventnor, New Jersey. His topic was "Obstacles to Equal Partnership in Mission." Charles also edits Gospel in Context "as long as the journal survives." (Beside the steady rise in cost of paper and postage, recent madness in precious metal buying has produced a sudden jump in photo-offset costs by sending silver prices through the roof: Ag, as Charlie Brown would say.)

Bron Taylor, while completing a Masters in theology from Fuller Seminary, has just been appointed director of the Inter-Faith Center to Reverse the Arms Race (132 North EuclidAve., Pasadena, CA 91101). The Center grew out of a major conference on Reversing the Arms Race convened in October 1979 by All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena and Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles. More than a thousand people attended the conference. A major purpose of the Center is to "serve as a resource to the religious community in its efforts to educate and mobilize people ... to slow down, stop, and reverse the arms race." Bron has some excellent literature on what military spending does to the economy, and on the growing realization by religious people that " more and better weapons" do not mean "more and better security." (Hey, Bron, how about presenting a paper at the 1980 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at TAYLOR UNIVERSITY in Indiana on biblical foundations for resisting the arms race?)

Steven Triezenberg graduated last May from Calvin College with a B.S. in biology and a secondary teaching certificate. He is now in a Ph.D. program in cellular and molecular biology in the health sciences at the U. of Michigan in Ann Arbor, supported by Danforth and NSF graduate fellowships. This year Steve has been part of a big interdepartmental project aimed at understanding how human genes code for ribosomal and transfer RNAs.

Aldert van der Ziel of the Electrical Engineering Dept. of the U. of Minnesota spent the fall quarter at the U. of Florida, where, in spite of the weather, he always gets a lot done. This year he wrote several papers on quantum noise and helped write a major research proposal on quantum noise experi ments. In May Aldert will receive the 1980 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Education Medal. The citation will read, "For leadership in engineering education and for contributions to noise theory in electronic devices."

Gordon Wood of Orleans, Ontario, is employed by the National Research Council of Canada and has just become manager of Numeric Data Bases forthe NRC's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. Gordon received his Ph.D. in engineering physics at U.B.C. in 1969 for work on low temperature and nuclear physics. Sincethen he has worked in NRC's Division of Physics. In the Electricity Section he initiated and carried out the research to establish a quantum-effect primary voltage standard, the "Josephson Volt," for Canada. Having completed that project, Gordon will now coordinate the generation and management of an effective scientific and technical numeric data base system for Canada. (In other words, he is now "chef des bases de donnees numeriques," as they say in some parts of Canada.)

Jerry D. Albert of San Diego sent us a postcard from "down under," which Jerry says is actually "tops." Endocrine Society group rates enabled wife Judy and daughters Jill and Jennifer to go along on "the vacation of a lifetime." In addition to the paper for the 6th International Congress of Endocrinology in Melbourne, Jerry also went to Sydney to give a paper at a Congress Postgraduate Satellite Symposium on Hormones and Cancer. The long titles of those two papers on prostate cancer coauthored with Jack Geller didn't leave much room on the postcard for Australian adventure tales.

Paul F. Barkman is a clinical psychologist who was one of the founders of the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Now he is in private practice and dean of Cedar Hill Institute for Graduate Studies in Twentynine Palms, California. Paul sent us literature on a conference the Institute held at Anaheim in December, 1979 on "Hypnosis in the Life of the Church." Conference staff included psychologists H. Newton Maloney of Fuller and Donald F. Tweedie, another founder of Fuller's Graduate School of Psychology now in private clinical practice. Paul's wife Frieda, author of several books and many articles, was also on the staff, lecturing on her own experience of giving birth with the use of self-hypnotic analgesia. Participants received, among other materials, a new cassette tape prepared by the Barkmans using hypnotic techniques for guided concentration in a devotional experience with Scripture and hymns.

Jerry Bergman of the Dept. of Educational Foundations & Inquiry at Bowling Green State U. in Ohio is the author of the "Impact" article in the February issue of Acts & Facts, monthly publication of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego. Number 80 in the series of "Vital Articles on Science/Creation," Jerry's article asks "Does Academic Freedom Apply to Both Secular Humanists and Christians?" He urges Christians to be "well informed, well read, and insistent on their rights," noting that many fail to make any response to the erosion of moral values in the public schools. Jerry cites evidence that incest seems to be following close behind homosexuality as a "human freedom" accepted as legitimate in some quarters.

Lynn E. Boliek is pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Burlingame, California. He has made use of T. F. Torrance's Space, Time, and Resurrection as one text in an apologetics course he teaches for Fuller Seminary Extension. Lynn says he has many questions about the way Torrance tries to apply an analogy of the shift of theory in modern physics to a similar shift in biblical hermeneutics, considered desirable by Torrance. He wonders how ASA physicists react to Torrance (andto Polanyi and Kuhn) and suggests that Torrance especially ought to be the focus of some JASA articles. on "Women in Science" at Mount St. Mary's College. Barbara spent the past seven years as a stream ecology research technician at Oregon State U.

Keith Clemenger is a Wheaton College graduate in his first year of grad work in physics at U.C. Berkeley. At Wheaton he picked up an interest both in an intellectually honest integration of science and faith and in an appropriate response to social problems, particularly the responsibility of affluent Christians in a poor world. Keith hopes to teach physics at the college level someday, perhaps overseas in a country not otherwise open to Christian witness. Active in IVCF, Keith is concerned to honor God not only in his future vocation but also in his present witness on campus.

Richard A. Davis a chemist, has left California and moved to Dallas, Texas. Richard's note said he and wife Lisa are happy to be back in Texas-but didn't tell us what he's doing now.

Charles E. Hummel of Grafton, Massachusetts, has been on the road this spring as director of faculty ministries for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. He spoke at conferences in Pennsylvania and Iowa in March and April, then headed for campus visits in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, and Tennessee.