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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 26 Number 2 April I May 1984

HERRMANN-EUTICS

As I write this, Betty and I are nearing the middle of a two-month trip to the Gulf-Southwest area, with m any fond memories of friendships made and renewed. On our way south we stayed with old friends Lew and Carole Bird in Philadelphia and met with the ASAers at Eastern College. In Atlanta we had a rich f1me at Markham and Edie Berry's home, then on to Fort Myers to see Martin Price's plantation - hard hit by frost but still a fascinating display of plants with Third World potential. Our next meeting was in Baton Rouge at Dewey and Marie Carpenter's, with thirteen attending, then on to Lake Charles where Carroll and Barbara Karkalits were hosts to another dozen, mostly non-ASAers. In Galveston, Gordon and Mary Jane Mills had organized a joint ASA/CMS lecture which over forty attended, and we had the joy of staying with old friends Jerry and Marilyn Smith.

Next stop Houston. We stayed with old friends Charlie and Elaine Brown, met at the M.D. Anderson Hospital with a group including Austin Anthis, and enjoyed a delightful luncheon with newlyweds Don and Maria Logan. From there we went north to College Station for meetings with medical students and the IVCF group, arranged by Jack McIntyre. Jack told us about his research using a fiber-optics approach in one of the latest medical developments, positron-emission tomography.

After College Station we headed for San Antonio, with a side trip to the Aransas Wildlife Refuge, where the rare whooping cranes winter (we saw eleven of those giant birds!). We toured the San Antonio Riverfront with Dave and Martha Burleson, and at Brooks Army Medical Center had a look at Dave's work on anomalies of the immune system following severe burns. Our visit there concluded with a luncheon with eight attending. On to Austin where we stayed with John and Ann Cogdell and met with Don Davis and several other UT faculty and Glenn Roark at a noon Bible study.

After Austin we traveled east along the Old San Antonio Road to Nacogdoches, for a fine stay with Lawrence and Ann Walker and a luncheon and lecture at Stephen F. Austin State U. We also led a Bible study at Trawick Church, a small farming-community congregation which Lawrence Walker pastors in addition to teaching forestry. For the past three days we have been in Dallas, lecturing at SMU's Chemistry Department, and having ASA luncheons and two home meetings with our hosts Bob and Annie Joe Adams and Tony and Nancy Ostroff. We also visited the Christian Medical Society offices and had a nice visit with Don and Mae Westra.

Today (Feb. 5) we are off to Puerto Rico as a visiting lecturer in a program of the American Society of Biological Chemists. We'll visit John NichoJs in Mayaguez. It has been exciting to sense so much renewed enthusiasm among Christians in science here in the Gulf States. We look forward to seeing many more of you in August, at the ASA ANNUAL MEETING at Miami University in Ohio. - Bob Herrmann

GOINGS-ON AND COMINGS-UP

1. The Christian Legal Society (CLS) holds its second triennial symposium on the state of religious liberty at Pheasant Run Convention Center in St. Charles, Illinois, April 5-8, 1984. One seminar features both Edward J. Larson, assistant counsel for human resources of the Education and Labor Commission, and Robert A. Gange, director of Genesis Foundation, on the "creation/evolution debate" and First Amendment implications. Information: CLS, P.O. Box 2069, Oak Park, IL 60303. Tel. (312) 848-7735.

2. Theme of the 1984 Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) meeting will be "Evangelicals: Heritage and Recovery." The ETS will meet in Chicago, Dec. 11-13. Papers on change and development in exegesis, biblical interpretation, and formation of doctrines and theological concepts are especially welcome, To propose a paper, send title and precis of under 150 words to the program chair, Dr. Richard V. Pierard, Dept. of History, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, by April 15. For information on ETS, write the secretary, Dr. Simon J. Kistemaker, Reformed Theological Seminary, 5422 Clinton Blvd., Jackson, MS 39209.

3. A conference on "Critique and Challenge of Christian Higher Education" will be held Aug. 15-22, 1984, hosted by the Free University of Amsterdam and sponsored by the International Council for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education (ICPCHE). Application should be made by May 1. Information: Vrije Universiteit, Ms. M. Dolorita, De Boelelaan 1081, room T-102, P.O. Box 7161, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

4. Evidently the Newsletter jumped the gun with our mid1983 announcement that the Ontario government had granted the Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) special authorization to award the degree of "Master of Philosophical Foundations." According to Bob VanderVennen, who led the campaign for the ICS charter, that was only the introduction of the legislation (June 6). Now we can announce final passage of the bill (Oct. 25, 1983) - amid general rejoicing of the ICS community. At the same time, the Institute's name has become the official name for the entity that used to be the AACS (Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship), which replaced the original ARSS (Association for Reformed Scientific Studies).

Robert D. McAllister is the blind engineer in British Columbia who suggested putting together an ASA/CSCA network of amateur radio operators (see Aug/Sept 1983 Newsletter). Bob met several more "hams" at last year~s ASA Annual Meeting. For a start he suggests a frequency of 21285 at 1900 hrs Z on Saturday mornings (starting Feb. 25) until a better suggestion comes along.

So far the net includes: N7EES (Allen Bilderback, Puyallup, WA); W9DPO (Howard Dunlop, Crystal Lake, IL); N6GRF (Roger Gathers, Pleasanton, CA); N6CFD (Irwin Moon, Hacienda Heights, CA); WA9LBC (Floyd Rheinheimer, Milford, IN); WD6AXY (Tom Roseland, Merced, CA); N6DDB (Dean Ortner, Whittier, CA); and of course VE7ERQ (R.D. McAllister, Box 399, Rossland, B.C., Canada VOG 1YO).

Bob has worked Irwin Moon before on the ARMS net (Amateur Radio Missionary Service). Anyone else who would like to join the net, drop Bob a line or give him a call at 21285±5 Hz some Saturday.

When we received a review copy of The Genesis Con nection (Thomas Nelson, 1983. 254 pp., $14.95), we figured it might be one of those books "harmonizing" the Bible and science by twisting one or the other out of shape. But as we began to read its eminently fair treatment of historical geology and evolutionary biology, we could see that The Genesis Connection is almost in a class by itself. Here we have a well illustrated, up-todate, popular book from an evangelical publisher, honoring the biblical creation narrative without deprecating scientific understanding of how we came to be. In fact it is a good introduction to that science, from the beginnings of the universe to the appearance of human beings on earth.

The tone is not only non-polemic but downright irenic. Instead of getting worked up over the priestly philosophical pronouncements of people like Carl Sagan, for instance, this book simply ignores such "scientistic fundamentalism" as irrelevant to the real business of science. Only at the very end does the author address the current creationist/evolutionist controversy, deftly summarizing it: "Both sides are using science to teach religion. " In a gentle open letter, he appeals to young-earth creationists to expand their horizons and stop insisting that the earth is only a few thousand years old. To science teachers, parents, and students he also urges an expansion of horizons - beyond the closed system of natural causes explored by science.

Who wrote the wonderful book? John Wiester, who earned a B.S. in geology at Stanford, got an M.B.A. there, and had a full career managing high-tech enterprises. Retired from his own company, Astro Industries, Inc. (producer of ultrahigh temperature scientific instruments for the nuclear and aerospace industries), he now owns and operates a cattle ranch in Buellton, California. We were so excited to find John Wiester in the ASA Membership Directory that we called him to thank him for writing The Genesis Connection (and to report a few typos we spotted). He said he began work on the book soon after he became a Christian four or five years ago, partly to sort things out for himself and his kids. He heard of ASA about that time, wrote to the address he had, and got no response. He learned of our Ipswich address last year from a JASA subscriber in his church. John attended the 1983 Annual Meeting, found it spiritually uplifting as well as stimulating. Modestly, John says the Lord kept bringing him into contact with topnotch scientists at just the right time to get things straight. He knew a lot from his geological background but "not too much" - so, with some expert help, he could make The Genesis Connection for the general reader.

Another significant new book also follows a middle course but differs a lot from John Wiester's. Titled Is God A Creationist? (Charles Scribners, 1983. 205 pp., $15.95; paper, $9.95), it is edited by Roland Mushat Frye, professor of English at the U. of Pennsylvania and a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. As is clear from its subtitle, The Religious Case Against Creation Science, this book, though not belligerent in tone, dives right into controversy. It is an anthology of previously published writings by recognized scholars. A prologue by Roland Frye outlines the history of the controversy. In a brief epilogue Frye repeats Sir Francis Bacon's early advice: we must recognize the integrity of both "the book of God's Word in Scripture and the book of God's Works in science."

Although this book is not primarily a scientific presentation, four of the eleven chapters are by Christians who are professional scientists, including ASA members Edwin Olson and Davis Young and our 1981 keynote speaker Owen Gingerich. The fourth is a helpful paper on "The Beginning" (from Theology Today, Oct. 1982) by Richard W. Berry, described as professor of geology at San Diego State University and a Presbyterian elder. The one piece by a nonliving author is Asa Gray's "Natural Science and Religion," taken from a set of lectures the famous botanist gave at Yale Divinity School in 1880.

Two of the contributions by Protestant theologians have been cited before in this Newsletter: Langdon Gilkey's article on the roots of the creationist conflict (from Science, Technology & Human Values, Summer 1982), and Conrad Hyer's article on distortions inherent in literalistic interpretations ("Constricting the Cosmic Dance," The Christian Century, 4 Aug. 1982). Roman Catholic and Jewish biblical scholarship is also represented. Although all the authors argue against recent creationism on biblical grounds, they do not ridicule fundamentalism. Professor Bruce Vawter of Chicago"s De Paul University. in tact, generously praises creationists for branding evolutionism as a rival religion - even if they "have not succeeded in making creation out to be a science."

(We asked Ed Olson, newly elected to the ASA Executive Council, how it felt to have his paper lead off a book containing an address by John Paul 11 to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Ed says that so far both he and the Pope seem to be taking it in stride.-Ed.)

1. We've seen a favorable review of a new edition of the well-known book Wayne Frair co-authored with P.W. Davis, The Case for Creation (Moody Press, 1983. 155 pp., paper, $5.95). Published in 1967, it was first revised in 1972. Wayne, program chair of the 1982 ASA Annual Meeting, is professor of biology at The King's College in New York. The Case he and fellow biologist Davis make is entirely biological, omitting such geological topics as the age of the earth. The authors try to propose an alternative to evolution that is "biblically sound, intellectually satisfying, and open to experimental demonstration." The review (in Bible-Science Newsletter, Aug. 1983) says that the Third Edition has been updated to deal with such current topics as the reasons for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

2. Mike Sonnenberg of Nyack College in New York told about his son Joel's recovery and continuing reconstruction from burn damage in a moving devotional session at the 1982 Annual Meeting (see "Defining our Focus,"

Oct/Nov 1982 Newsletter). Now Jane Sonnenberg's book about their experiences, Race For Life: The Joel Sonnenberg Story (Zondervan, 1983. paper, $9.95), has been published - an account of sorrow, pain, and suffering that nevertheless "brims with joy, hope, and expectancy." No one else in the U.S. has ever lived through such a devastating burn. Mike says this is also a story about "you, the people of God, and the way you sustained us."

3. Psychologist Stanley E. Lindquist is founder and president of Link Care Center, an organization devoted to missionary candidate assessment, selection, and assignment mentioned from time to time in this Newsletter. Stan gets a lot done himself but he knows how to slow down, listen, and help people find solutions to their problems. He's put a lot of practical advice in a new book. Reach Out . . . Become an Encourager (Creation House, 1983). We got hooked and read it all the way through, impressed with its good sense and readable style. How to listen and be nonjudgmental is what it's about. The 167-page paperback is available for $5.00 postpaid from Link Care Center, 1734 West Shaw Ave., Fresno, CA 93711.

4. Papers prepared for one of the three "tracks" at the international consultation on the church called "Wheaton '83" are contained in The Church in Response to Human Need (MARC, 1983. paper), edited by futurist Tom Sine. ASA contributors among the 14 authors are Wayne Bragg ("Beyond Development"); Miriam Adeney ("Culture and Planned Change") and Ed Dayton ("Social Transformation: The Mission of God"). "Human concepts of development are reviewed and found wanting. Evangelization is seen as the core of any effective effort to enable people toward a more human life." List, $22.50; available at $15.00 from Missions Advanced Research and Communications Center (MARC), 919 West Huntington Dr. Monrovia, CA 91016.

5. Dean Wilken of Stanford University, who was pleased to discover the ''Science and Theology'' series edited by professor Thomas F. Torrance (Aug/Sept 1983 Newsletter) in the Stanford graduate library, points out that we failed to mention that the series is published by Oxford University Press.

In the Oct/Nov 1983 issue we promised a story "in the next issue" on the continuing development of the ASA Book Service (c/o Logos Bookstore, 4510 University Way, NE, Seattle, WA 98105). Bookstore manager Michael Adeney is no doubt among those who wonder what happened. Well, we're short on space again, but we'll at least mention some bibliofreebies from the 1983 Annual Meeting, and Michael's ideas for ASA/Logos cooperation:

1. Michael Adeney is not only a bibliophile but a bibiiographiophile. One of the things he distributed at George

Fox College was an annotated Peace and Justice Bibliography covering the whole spectrum of Christian opinion, plus many secular works. Logos of Seattle had put together that huge list just before purchasing its computer. Michael has since been computerizing and updating that material to publish a revision when time and money permit.

2. An even larger project was publication of the first comprehensive catalog of foreign language Bibles. Michael has long had an interest in spreading the Word in all the languages God speaks. (Michael once taught English in Saigon, later worked on a daily newspaper in Manila.) With funding from Christian Booksellers Association and other sources, he produced an 8-page retail catalog (free) listing Scripture in 300 languages and describing 83 translations available in 22 major languages. A separate 24-page wholesale catalog (504:) gives complete ordering information, from 60 different ordering sources. While working on those catalogs, Michael began collecting opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of the various translations, now available as a continuously updated printout for $15 from Logos in Seattle.

3. With that much computer experience, Michael would like to see ASA develop a computerized data base of information and resources on Christianity and the sciences. He recognizes that bibliographies in our field of interest are hard to keep up to date, since generally low sales force publishers to let good titles go out of print rather quickly. But Michael is willing to make at least a small start by keeping the official list of books available from ASA Book Service as up-to-date as possible. Everyone attending the 1983 Annual Meeting received a tentative version of that list.

Amyotropic lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease") claimed the life of William H. Hildemann on 8 Sept. 1983 after two years of severe illness. An internationally known authority on the comparative genetics of the immune system, he was a professor of microbiology and immunology at UCLA Medical School in Los Angeles. His immunological work helped lead the way to heart and kidney transplants.

Bill Hildemann was born in Los Angeles in 1927. After obtaining his bachelor's degree and an M.S. at USC he served as a First Lieutenant in the First Marine Division during the Korean War. He returned to earn a Ph.D in immunogenetics at Cal Tech, then spent a postdoctoral year in London before joining the UCLA faculty in 1957. He eventually served as chair of the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology and as director of the UCLA Dental Research Institute.

Bill helped to found two international journals and published almost 200 papers in his 26 years at UCLA. An interest in aquatic life began with his Ph.D. work on immune responses in fish. Bill continued to study the phylogeny of the immune response in such organisms as corals and sponges. He had a great love for the South Pacific and at one time served as dean of Hilo College at the U. of Hawaii.

Bill's widow, Mrs. Dorothy Hildemann, wrote to us about her husband's lifelong participation in the Lutheran church. A Sunday school teacher for many years, he was also active in the Lutheran Campus Council at UCLA. He and Dorothy met in church and were attending Village Lutheran Church in Westwood. Because Bill had been a jogger, swimmer, and scuba diver, his debilitating disease was a heavy burden to him, she said, "but his faith in God never wavered."

Bill Hildemann joined ASA in Aug. 1982, perhaps after one of our readers called his attention to mention of his name in the Jun/Jul issue of the Newsletter. We had quoted a letter he wrote in Science (5 Mar. 1982) on the creation/evolution controversy, and a later letter responding to his. We thought Bill's final rejoinder was superb. In fact we planned to quote it in a story we still haven't found room for, on articulating Christian faith in secular journals.

Bill said he did not advocate "mixing religion with science instruction," as charged by his critic. Instead he advocated "teaching concepts of evolution in a manner that avoids unnecessary strife" - in a country where perhaps 40 million people perceive evolution as "antiGod." After quoting Judge Overton's decision in the Arkansas Balanced Treatment case, to the effect that such a perception is mistaken, Bill concluded:

"I would add that concepts of creation and evolution are quite compatible if evolution is viewed as a creative process continuing over many millions of years. Individual writers or lecturers could, of course, say much more about divergent beliefs or theories concerning origins, depending on the audience. The integrity of science is not compromised by stating that 'ultimate origins of life and matter are unknown and open to conjecture.' Indeed, evolutionary scientists, among whom I count myself, could well take greater care in separating facts from conjecture."

Dorothy Hildemann said that response to Bill's letters in Science was very large, running about 9 to 1 in favor of his stand. She also said that coming issues of Immunology Today, Transplantation; and Developmental & Comparative Immunology would all contain special memorial tributes to her husband.

Roy E. Cameron (3433 Woodridge Dr., Woodridge, IL 60517) sent us a warm note of thanks for the notice in the Oct/Nov 1983 issue. He is still seeking employment, preferably in a middle-management scientific position in energy, environment, natural resources, or fields related to soil science (his Ph.D. is in plant sciences). Roy has over 20 years of varied experience, primarily at Jet Propulsion Lab in California and Argonne National Lab in Illinois, and over 120 publications. He is finding his current unemployment rather discouraging, but Roy is a man of faith. He is willing to relocate (including overseas), negotiate on salary, and consider any position (even completely outside his field) for which his background and experience could make him of use.

Robert Wesleyan College in New York has an opening in mathematics starting Sept. 1984. Full-time faculty position, Ph.D. preferred, teaching upper-division courses such as linear algebra, higher algebra, real analysis, differential equations, numerical analysis, and modeling. Some calculus and other lower-division courses, possibly computer science also. Roberts Wesleyan is a "nonsectarian Christian college founded by the Free Methodist Church" with an enrollment of 672 on a spacious campus ten miles west of downtown Rochester. Inquiries to: Dr. Philip M. Ogden, Chair, Division of Natural Science & Mathematics, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr., Rochester, NY 14624; tel. (716) 594-9471. (Received Feb. 1984.)

A symposium entitled "Biotechnology and the Human Condition" is scheduled for April 14 at Boston's Park Street Church as part of their 175th Anniversary celebration. Cosponsored by ASA and Christian Medical Society, it will feature geneticist V. Eiving Anderson, molecular biologists Franklin Young and, Ruth Hubbard and ethicists Lewis Bird and J. Robert Nelson. For further information, write or call Bob Herrmann at the Ipswich Office, (617-356-5656).

We've heard from several sources that talks given at the Nov. joint conference with IVCF were superb. Charles Hummel brought out many parallels between Galileo's day and our own. Paul Earl and Edward Habert, both biology professors at Nassau Community College, spoke of teaching as a Christian vocation as well as a profession. Habert: "That Christian teachers in secular schools are not outright contradictions surprises everyone except Christians. To us it comes as no surprise because ours is a religion of paradox ... Who but a Christian teacher would have the confident expectation of using the profane, the secular, and the temporal as tools to build the sacred, the holy, and the eternal? Who other than the Christian teacher could possibly do it?"

Dick Harrison writes that the section is in correspondence with Dr. Felix Fernando of Sri Lanka, a physician and accupuncturist with wide international professional contacts. The section voted to purchase back-copies of JASA and the special reprint collections from the national office (at a special rate) to send to Dr. Fernando. Individual members are also sending him books on science and faith to share with his colleagues. In return he sent the section a reprint of a talk by Chandra Wickramasinghe, "is Life an Astronomical Phenomenon?" introduced by the president of Sri Lanka. Wickramasinghe is the coworker of Fred Hoyle who testified on the "creationist" side in the Arkansas balanced-treatment trial - although he characterized young-earth arguments as without foundation.

"Christian Wtness on the Secular Campus" wag the theme of this section's conference also, held Feb. 4 at George Mason University. IVCF faculty specialist Charles Hummel and InterVarsity Press editor James Sire were the speakers. Jim spoke on the Christian world view and on the personal nature of knowledge. As a special feature, each preregistrant received a copy of the IVP book by Charles Malik, A Christian Critique of the University, to read before the conference.

Vice-president Paul Arveson has been trying to find time to fill a leadership vacuum since the resignation of president Ed Allen after the death of Ed's father. Paul's letter, sent out with the conference announcement, bounced a number of meeting ideas off the membership, reminding them of "ASA's unique vantage point as a bridge between the evangelical Christian community and our scientific culture."

Coordinator Marilyne Sally Flora (tel. 312-879-5079) reports that the section is alive and well.

meeting drew about 35 people, beginning with a fellow ship dinner at a nearby restaurant. Dave Fisher of the Slavic Gospel Association told of efforts to break down the official Soviet myth of scientists as atheists by SGA's broadcasts into Russia. In the main address, Wheaton College philosophy professor David Fletcher demonstrated how ethical decisions can be classified into a hierarchy of principles. Disagreement on bioethical issues usually occurs at the very top level between superprinciples such as autonomy, justice, or beneficence. In a lively discussion afterward, psychiatrist David Busby contributed input from some actual case histories.

The March 29-30 Wheaton College Science Symposium sounds absolutely earth-shaking. It begins with an evening lecture on "The Age of the Earth Controversy: PostDarwinian Debates" by Joe B. Burchfield of Northern Illinois U., cosponsored by Sigma Xi. The next day, young-earther Robert Gentry of Maryland and old-earther Davis

Young of Michigan will be the featured speakers - followed, no doubt, by a possibly igneous discussion. (Hot I ava! -Ed.)

PERSONALS

Elinor Abbott is spending February and part of March in Africa, directing anthropology workshops for Wycliffe workers in Sudan, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Togo. Elinor is still recovering from the shock of last summer. Taking a break from Ph.D. dissertation writing at Brandeis U., she headed for Oklahoma to teach a basic anthropology course at the Summer Institute of Linguistics. After a stay in Dallas at the Wycliffe Center she came out of a restaurant to find her car broken into and everything stolen - including all her field notes, files, and the only draft of the first part of her dissertation! Now she has to start over, switching her topic to Africa, where she will join a Wycliffe translation team in Cameroon after a nine-month stay in France for French conversational study.

Jerry D. Albert continues his biochemical work on prostate cancer with physician Jack Geller at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego. They co-authored a paper on "Diagnostic Indicators and Prognosis with Symptomatic Therapy" in Consultant (Feb. 1983) and another on "Hormonal Therapy for Prostatic Carcinoma" in Geriatric Medicine Today (July 1983). Jerry's running injury has required a good bit of physical therapy. Yet on Father's Day Jerry's one-mile leg in a 100-mile relay for runners over 40 helped take the world record away from the British. Jerry and wife Judy presented two Marriage Encounter Weekends in 1983 and expect to become more active in that movement.

John E. Amoore of El Cerrito, California, has a chapter on "Odor Theory and Odor Classification" in Fragrance Chemistry.- The Science of the Sense of Smell (Academic Press, 1982), edited by Ernst Theimer. That pungent bit of news was sniffed out by chemist Stephen Bell of

Dundee University in Scotland, participant in a prayer group with John and Walt Hearn a few years ago during a sabbatical in Berkeley. More recently, John has been consulting on chemical waste management problems and Steve spent the fall semester at Wheaton College and Argonne National Lab in Illinois.

Wesley G. Bentrude is a professor of organic chemistry at the U. of Utah. He has been moving toward bio-organic and medicinal chemistry with studies on cyclic nucleotides, cyclophospharn ides. and related compounds. Wes now serves on a committee charged with designing a high school curriculum for Intermountain Christian School. He wrote to ask about science materials written from a Christian perspective but avoiding the extremes of recent-creationism. We gave him some suggestions and the address of Henry Triezenberg of Christian Schools International in Grand Rapids. Wes would be glad to hear from other ASAers who've wrestled with curriculum problems (address: 3680 E. 3225 St., Salt Lake City. LIT 84109). Intermountain Christian School is a ministry of the Evangelical Free Curch in Salt Lake City that seems to be meeting a need. In its second year of operation it has 250 students (preschool through grade 9) from 15 denominations, only a third of them from the sponsoring E.F. church.

Raymond E, Grizzle is in his second year of a Ph.D. program in biology (ecology) at Rutgers U. in New Jersey, after receiving his B.S. from Florida State and an M.S. from the U. of Central Florida, and working as a biologist and water resource planner for ten years. If he could complete his studies on the effects of organic enrichment on macrobenthos of coastal waters fast enough, Ray would also like to earn an M.A. in theology, possibly at Princeton Seminary. His long-range goals include teaching a university-level course on Christianity and science. He joined ASA three years ago, after learning about us from an article in Christianity Today. Ray thinks more ASAers should present their views in places "where the average person is looking." JASA is doing its job, but we need to "translate" its high-quality material on science and faith for a wider audience. Ray and wife Teri are members of a local Baptist church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Glenn /. Kirkland will retire this summer after 39 years at the Applied Physics Lab at John Hopkins University. Newsletter readers know that Glenn has been trying to educate the public about Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, presently incurable degeneration of the brain that affects about two million people a year in the U.S. It strikes 5 percent of those over 65 and 10 percent of those over 80, causing sudden mood changes that can be frustrating or even devastating to the victim's family. Glenn sent us a clipping from the Washington Post about a TV documentary entitled "Living With Grace." It presents Alzheimer's from the viewpoint of one victim - in

this case Glenn's wife Grace, who is 73. Filmed by William A. Whitford and Susan Hattery Cohen of the Dept. of Physical Therapy at the U. of Maryland School of Medicine, the documentary was judged best among 200 entries in the 1983 International Rehabilitation Film Festival. It makes clear that Christian faith and the support of the Christian community are precious resources for the Kirklands. Glenn thinks the program will be aired on Public Television at 10:30 p.m. EST on Monday, April 30, but keep an eye out for "Living With Grace" on your own PBS channel.

Joseph H. Lechner is associate professor of chemistry at Mount Vernon Nazarene College (Mount Vernon, OH 43050). This winter he offered a weekend short course on "Science, the Church, and Creation" at Roberts Wesleyan College as part of their Continuing Education for Waistry program. "T" t4at-aessiop-bagan with a personal testimony followed by the ASA statement of belief (yes, there are things science and the church can agree on). We then reviewed the Church's opposition to the heliocentric theory (a dangerous precedent?) and the present-day controversy over the earth's age (repeating history?). Participants viewed the film "Footprints in Stone" and critiqued it. The next morning we discussed evolution (scientific theory or four-letter word?), examined the implications of McLean vs. Arkansas, and critiqued creationist curricular materials used by Christian high schools. On the final afternoon we discussed implications of expanding-universe astronomy, concluding with a personal reading of Genesis 1." Joe was pleased with the response from participants who had already been presented with a strong case for biblical literalism. He tried to give them a better understanding of the nature and limitations of science, and of some of the pitfalls of biblical interpretation. He thinks other ASA members should be doing the same type of presentation. Joe would be happy to conduct similar workshops elsewhere as his time permits.

Edwin A, Olson. geochemist at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, spent a four-month sabbatical in Israel last year. As a visiting professor of archaeology at Jerusalem's Institute of Holy Land Studies (directed by George Giacumakis), Ed taught geological dating methods. For background reading material he used The Discovery of Time, "a history of the historical outlook" by philosophers of science Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield. Ed highly recommends that 1976 U. of Chicago Press paperback (in the same Midway Reprint series as The Architecture of Matter by the same authors). Speaking of books, at a big Bible bookstore in London on the way home, Ed found recent-creationist author Henry Morris completely dominating the single science shelf, with a lone copy of The Christian View of Science and Scripture representing all other options. Ed praised the proprietor for stocking Bernard R amm's 1954 classic, but suggested some more recent titles by other evangelical scholars who accept the geological evidence for an ancient earth.

Lindy Scott is a "self-supporting missionary" in Mexico teaching part-time at the Polytechnic Institute and serving on the staff of Companerismo Estudiantil, the equivalent of IVCF. Beginning in March 1984, Lindy is on study leave in the Chicago area, hoping to pursue a doctorate in Latin American church history at either the U. of Chicago or Northwestern, while working part-time as a discipleship coach on the pastoral team of the Des Plaines Evangelical Free Church. Before leaving Mexico, Lindy sent Ipswich the names of two keen graduate students in science as primo candidates for ASA membership.

David Vander Meulen has accepted a position at the Research Institute of Baylor U. Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, where he will use fluorescence techniques to study muscle proteins. Since receiving his Ph.D. in biophysics at the U. of Illinois in Urbana in 1977, Dave has been a research associate in biochemistry at the U. of 1. Medical Center in Chicago. Dave and Carol's two-yea rold son David Christian was born in Chicago. Several years ago Carol's parents and a brother's family left that area's ice and snow and migrated to Plano in the Dallas area, where the Vander Meulens now live.

Wesley Wentworth is an engineer working for Telescopic Engineering, Inc., in Seoul, Korea. He is also helping to develop Christian study groups in various academic disciplines, partly by providing appropriate books and reference materials. Wes says that Korean tradition, which overvalues "experts," has kept many Christians from thinking deeply for themselves. He sent us a copy of his carefully thought-out approach for encouraging truly indigenous Christian scholarship. Graduate students in economics and sociology at the two highest ranked Korean universities have begun to meet together, and the Korean IVCF is publishing a monthly magazine called Gospel and Thought dealing with one area of thought in each issue. Wes would appreciate receiving bibliographies, course outlines, or other materials on science/ faith issues. Regular first-class USA postage is all you need, addressed to Wesley Wentworth, Telescopic Engineering, Inc., APO San Francisco, CA 96301.

Edwin Yamauchi is professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, site of the 1984 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, Aug. 3-6. It's hard to keep up with Ed's scholarly contributions, but we know he spent time in the Huntington Library and at U.C. Berkeley last summer, on his trip to give the 1983 ASA presidential address at George Fox college in Oregon. Evidently he was brushing up on Erasmus's Greek New Testament for a paper on Luther's interaction with Erasmus for the Wheaton College Lutherfest in September. In December he presented a paper on the magi at a special conference on Christ's Nativity at Mississippi State University. Then on to Dallas for the annual meeting of the Institute for Biblical Research and another paper on pre-Christian Gnosticism. Ed has been named to the executive board of the IBR as well as to the editorial committee of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Davis Young reports in Calvin College's Geogram newsletter that 15 students are officially enrolled in the new geology major approved last year by Calvin faculty. Addition in 1983 of new faculty member Jim Clark, introduction of seven new courses, and a remarkable "inheritance" from New York University are all part of the good news. After teaching at NYU for five years, Davis Young left in 1973 when a major financial crisis "rocked" the geology department. When the department was terminated, two geologists were absorbed into biology. More tightening up finally forced one of Dave's former colleagues to dispose of NYU's entire geological research collection. Besides donating 180 crates of rocks and minerals worth perhaps $20,000, NYU sold Calvin several pieces of useful research equipment at greatly reduced cost.