NEWSLETTER

of the

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2                                                                             APRIL/MAY 1987

ON CAMERA: TV NEWSCAST

On January 15 the American Scientific Affiliation received a substantial gift from long-time member and supporter Kenneth H. Olsen of Lincoln, Massachusetts. ASA Executive Director Robert L. Herrmann accepted the gift "with deepest gratitude." The amount of the gift is sufficient to fund Phase 2 of ASA's proposed television series. ASA can thus move ahead with preproduction scripting for the video series while continuing to search for major financial backing. If Phase 2 is successful, filming (Phase 3, the really expensive part) could begin in 1988. Phase 3 will require approximately $1,200,000.

It is some years now since Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series first appeared on PBS television, blending good science and magnificent visual images with Sagan's own ideological views. Last year a 6-hour, edited-down "Cosmos" was shown on network television. Although that version cut some of Sagan's most egregious posturing as a prophet of "secular religion," it fell far short of what ASA hopes to do with its TV series. A 1985 PBS special on "The Creation of the Universe", written and hosted by Timothy Ferris, came a lot closer to the mark. Harvard astronomer and science historian Owen Gingerich wants to present good science in a way that implicitly, perhaps explicitly, "declares the glory of God" as Creator of the universe. Owen's many lectures in support of the ASA project have generated enthusiasm from Christians across the U.S. and Canada who care about science.

Besides funding and content, a third term in the equation is quality of production. Bob Herrmann has felt God leading in his explorations of the complex media world, to make contacts and to "tell a vision." Now Bob is delighted to have a commitment from Dr. Vincenzo Labella as Senior Script Advisor for the ASA series. Labella is a distinguished TV producer whose credits include "Moses the Lawgiver" (with Burt Lancaster in the title role); "Jesus of Nazareth" (directed by Franco Zeffirelli); and "Marco Polo" (which received 8 nominations for Emmy awards and won 2 of them). Stay tuned!

According to Bob Herrmann, ASA is sponsoring the Gene-Splicing Conference "to bring quality scientists, ethicists, and theologians together with teachers, writers, and representatives of the media to achieve some understanding of the tremendous promise of recombinant DNA technology, while at the same time examining the legitimate concerns for its misuse."

The Gene-Splicing Conference will definitely be (as we say in TV Newstalk) a Biggie.

In addition to fine keynote addresses by Michigan State Senator Vernon Ehlers on "APPLIED EARTHKEEPING," there'll be much to learn and much to discuss. The program is being organized by ASA's Global Resources & Environment Commission, chaired by Wheaton College biologist Ray Brand. It will include symposia and contributed papers on many areas of science/faith. The ANNUAL MEETING is the best place to get the big picture of what's going on in ASA-and to exert your influence on that picture.

Our beloved Journal's new name will take some getting used to. We haven't figured out how to abbreviate it, let alone pronounce an acronym. POSACF looks like the legend on a postage stamp from Poland; rhymes with "Cossack" as pronounced by an inebriated Russian. PSCF reminds us of that SPQR inscription on Roman public works; sounds like air escaping from a tire or somebody selling French postcards. No, thank you. We'll probably call it Perspectives, with apologies to the longer established Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, officially abbreviated Perspec. Biol. Med.

(Actually, ASA'ers also disagreed on abbreviation of the old name. Some shortened it to J. Amer. Scient. Affil., others to Journal ASA. We always preferred JASA, but seldom pronounced it "Jassah," as in "Jassah, boss." Perspectives will likely be pronounced "Jay-A-S-A" by old-timers for some time.-Ed.)

At presstime the 1987 ASA China Tour is GO! (Go may be an abbreviation for "Gung Ho," possibly a short form of "Gung Hay Fat Choy," which means Happy New Year-this being the Asian Year of the Rabbit.Ed.) By February 15 at least 19 people had signed up. If you're eager to go this summer (departing San Francisco August 7, returning August 21), there might still be room, especially if someone has to cancel. Contact tour leader Chi-Hang Lee, 120 Brandywine Way, Walnut Creek, CA 94598; tel. (H) 415-939-8155; (W) 415-933-8000.

If you're climbing the walls (in this Year of the Rabid), Ed recommends a few days of transit between the tranquil walls of the Grand Canyon. First come, first served; write or call with your questions and get your name on the list: Dr. Ed Olson, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251; tel. (H) 509-466-0383; (W) 509-466-1000.

The weather? Sunny and warm-weather you're at the Great Wall of China or the great walls of the Grand Canyon, USA.

Changes in the name of ASA's Journal and of our post office box number in Ipswich forced the reshooting of certain pages. The Committee for Integrity in Science Education took the opportunity to correct a few errors and change the wording of two or three paragraphs on other pages. On p. 21, description of work at the Paluxy River site was expanded a bit to include the names of investigators other than Glen Kuban. On p. 42, two paragraphs critical of statements about human evolution in the NAS booklet, Science and Creationism, were rewritten in the interest of clarity and fairness. In the Appendix, dropping Davis Young's now out-of-print Christianity and the Age of the Earth made room for a couple of additions and an explanation of the reason for such a highly selected book list.

Those changes were made in light of various criticisms of TEACHING SCIENCE IN A CLIMATE OF CONTROVERSY. The JOIN US! postcard insert was replaced by a form for ordering extra copies and other ASA literature, including membership information. The GRADE US! postcards continue to come in from teachers, a large majority still rating the booklet A or A+.

The price also had to be increased, from $2.50 to $3 each for 1-9 copies and from $1.50 to $2 each for more than 10 copies. Single copies are still $4 each. The booklet will now be available from bookstores in the Logos chain as well as from the ASA office in Ipswich.

Since early in February, ASA members and other friends have been sending Walt clippings from newspapers all over the country. Cornell's wire story appeared the weekend of February 6-7 under a fascinating variety of headlines supplied by local editors. Gold Medal for Jumping to Conclusions goes to some editor at the Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel, from which Bob Shacklett clipped a Religion Page headed "CONFLICT OVER CREATION-SCIENCE." That banner flew over two stories, one by Cornell on the Supreme Court case, the other his story on our ASA booklet, subheaded, "Guide to teaching creation written for biology teachers." An accompanying photo of Wait was captioned, "Berkeley biochemist edited book on teaching creation-science"!

Most editors came up with more appropriate headlines. The Galveston (TX) Daily News ran the booklet story under "SCIENTISTS WHO ARE CHRISTIANS SEEK OPENNESS IN CLASSROOM." (Thanks to Gordon Mills for that clipping.) The Albuquerque (NM) Tribune used a banner, "SCIENTISTS TACKLE CREATION-EVOLUTION," with subhead, "Booklet sent to teachers urges more balance." The St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press Dispatch said "CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS CONDEMN ABSOLUTES." The Ithaca (NY) Journal used a short banner, "FINDING MIDDLE GROUND," with a long subhead, "Scientists of faith claim differences between creation and evolution theories not absolute." (Jim Sire was sent that one after speaking at Cornell.) The Illinois Valley Weekly of La Salle ran the story on February 18, under "SCIENTISTS ADVISE TEACHERS ABOUT EXPLOSIVE SUBJECT."

When the story appeared in the Northwest New Jersey Daily Record, it was followed up by a letter from Jim Neidhardt. Under "A SAFE WAY BACK TO WHERE WE CAME FROM", the subhead read "Scientists urge accuracy, openness." Ever on the alert, Jim shot a short letter to the Record thanking them for publishing the A.P. story and giving ASA's Ipswich address so readers could obtain a copy of the booklet. Published 10 days later, Jim's letter also mentioned that the ASA local section "has two meetings a year on topics relating science and the Christian faith."

According to People for the American Way, "today's censors are more likely to be part of a nationally organized effort" and are increasingly turning to the courts and the legislatures for remedies. One evidence of increased sophistication is a booklet that has been distributed to public school science teachers in North Carolina by the American Scientific Affiliation, "a fellowship of Christians in the sciences." Entitled "Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy," it contains a section urging caution in the teaching of evolution. After sober explanation of why, for example, "strong pressures seem to have existed against the evolution of walking on the hind feet," the account concludes that "too many problems remain unsolved and too many pieces of evidence are missing to say with certainty that we share a common ancestry with the apes."

ASA past-president Ann Hunt wrote a personal letter to Holden, explaining the booklet's purpose in supporting science education. Holden had noted that religious fundamentalists distrust the public schools, sometimes with good reason, but hadn't recognized the ASA booklet as a tool for rebuilding trust among such parents as well as for helping teachers cope. Walt Hearn rushed a brief letter to the editor saying that TEACHING SCIENCE indeed urged caution in teaching evolution-to avoid the kind of religious backlash that does lead to censorship. John Wiester called Holden's association of the ASA booklet with censorship unfair, noting that Science headed the list of sources of information recommended in TEACHING SCIENCE. "Does that sound like censorship?" he asked. Almost two months later, no letters commenting on the Holden story have appeared in Science.

One of the best letters to Science was sent by Raymond E. Grizzle of the Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies of Rutgers University. Ray described the ASA booklet as "an attempt to clarify the issues" rather than as censorship, summing up with this paragraph:

In my estimation, issues involving science and religion are sorely distorted in most discussions today as is evidenced by the "us vs. them" approach that seems to be generally taken (e.g., the so-called creation/evolution debates). I feel that the ASA is one organization that is making substantial efforts at being a peacemaker by promoting careful analysis of the issues while holding both science and religion in the highest regard.

Meanwhile, the editor of Creation/Evolution Newsletter received an outrageously negative review of TEACHING SCIENCE from an outraged defender of evolution, William J. Bennetta of San Francisco. (We're not sure about Bennetta's position or scientific training, but it's rumored that his hardline approach in the California textbook controversy annoyed even some members of the Bay Area Committee of Correspondence. -Ed.)

Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy is a travesty that insults every scientist whom it mentions, from Galileo forward, and insults every teacher whom it seeks to manipulate and mislead. For all its slickness and sanctimony, it Is nothing more than an attempt to push the A.S.A.'s private brand of religion and private brand of creationism into public-school science classes.

Walt Hearn has corresponded personally with Bennetta and sent a reply to his review for publication in CIE Newsletter after assurance by Fezer that such a reply would be welcome. At presstime, John Wiester, Ed Olson, and probably other ASA'ers have submitted responses to Bennetta's review, which seems so intemperate as to cause its own kind of backlash, even within the Committees of Correspondence.

All the bricks aren't flying from the same direction, however. TEACHING SCIENCE IN A CLIMATE OF CONTROVERSY was reviewed by Paul M. McKinney in the Winter 1986 issue of Midwest Creation Fellowship Newsletter. After pointing out a number of positive aspects, McKinney wrote:

As one who may be oversensitive, I bridle at the reference on page 13 that "creation-science, based on an earth only a few thousand years old provides no theoretical basis sound enough to serve as a reasonable alternative." This statement can only be made by a group who have decided in advance that either there was no universal flood and reject Genesis 6-9 and the words of Christ in Matthew 24, and the record of nearly every culture around the globe (descendants of Noah) or foolishly believe the flood was a tranquil event of no geologic significance.

What the ASA writers actually said was that "most scientists agree" about a young-earth position providing no reasonable alternative. McKinney's mixed review of TEACHING SCIENCE is followed immediately by his enthusiastic review of Paul Ackerman's It's a Young World After All

NSTA should not be confused with NCSE, the National Council for Science Education. NCSE is the national sponsor of the Committees of Correspondence (CC's) and publisher of the Creation/Evolution Newsletter mentioned above. A two-year grant of $150,000 from Carnegie Corporation has enabled NCSE to set up a national office and hire a half-time executive director. The newly appointed NCSE head is anthropologist Eugenie Scott. Dr. Scott has a good impression of ASA from her earlier contacts with Claude Stipe at anthropology meetings and with Richard Aulie, who helped found the Chicago-area CC. She later met Walt Hearn at the initial meeting of the Bay Area CC (and jogging in the same Berkeley neighborhood-Ed.).

The NCSE is setting up shop in Eugenie Scott's home, four or five blocks from the ASA Newsletter office in Berkeley. Publication of CIE Newsletter may eventually be shifted from West Virginia to the NCSE office, so Ginny Hearn, who designed the ASA booklet for teachers, has been helping Eugenie learn the local publishing ropes, recommending a good typesetter, printer, and so on.

With a foundation of good personal relations to build on, one might envision some future collaboration between ASA and NCSE on specific projects. The two organizations share a concern for science education even though they have different goals and different constituencies. ASA is united by a common faith, but our members disagree on many theological and social issues. NCSE is united around a political agenda rather than a common religious commitment, so its membership includes theists, atheists, and agnostics, who carry on wide-ranging internal discussions in the pages of CIE Newsletter. Some members of each organization might strongly disapprove of ASA and NCSE working together on anything; other members of each would probably applaud certain kinds of cooperation.

Meanwhile, TEACHING SCIENCE IN A CLIMATE OF CONTROVERSY has "brought us together"-if only to examine our differences. At the February AAAS meeting in Chicago, NCSE and the CC's held their annual meeting and sponsored a public symposium. The symposium, entitled "Scientific Creationism: Facing Up To It! Active Strategies for Countering Creationism," drew about 50 people. Speakers included theologian Langdon Gilkey, legal historian Edward Larson, Eugenie Scott, and none other than Charles Darwin himself (impersonated, of course). Several ASA members were in the audience and Dick Aulie was there to pass out copies of the ASA booklet, especially to the "liaisons" (contact persons) of each state CC. ASA's Committee for Integrity in Science Education has written to all CC's in the U.S. and Canada, offering a complimentary copy to any liaison unable to attend the AAAS meeting. The Committee felt that after reading William Bennetta's outrageous review in CIE Newsletter, they should have a copy to make their own judgments.

To keep up with the "climate of controversy" over teaching evolution, the Weary Old Editor (WOE is me. Ed.) highly recommends the bimonthly CIE Newsletter-if you can stomach an occasional "Vendetta" against ASA's efforts to seek a middle way, or some writer's occasional putdown of Christian faith. The editor, an agnostic, is not in the same place we are, but he is clearly in the middle and tries hard to maintain some balance. (Subscriptions: $7 per year, checks to NCSE, Box 32, Concord College, Athens, WV 24712; also from the same source, the quarterly Creation/Evolution journal, at $9 per year, or both for $15.)

The NCSE/AAAS symposium is available on audiocassette. Three tapes cover the 4-hour session, with discussion. The set can be ordered for $12 from NCSE, Box 9477, 1218 Milvia Street, Berkeley, CA 94709-0477. (Tell Eugenie Scott that ASA sent you-Ed.)

Donald VanOstenburg, professor of physics at DePaul University in Chicago, ordered 10 copies, and sent two of them to the Moody Broadcasting Network. One went to Bob Murfin of WMBI's "Morning Clock" program, the other to Radio Pastor Donald Cole. Don wrote to Pastor Cole of his concern about the attention given to the "young-earth" view of creation on WMBI. Cole replied that he intended to obtain more copies of the ASA booklet to distribute to various faculty members at Moody Bible Institute.

Albert Strong, an engineer and former missionary to Ethiopia, is now a senior representative of the PresbyteriAn Minister's Fund. In January he preached a sermon on "Science and Scripture" at First Presbyterian Church of Westminster, California, drawing on some of Dick Bube's thoughts on complementarity and using Walt Hearn's poem, Scientist's Psalm, as a responsive litany. At the end, Al offered a free copy of TEACHING SCIENCE IN A CLIMATE OF CONTROVERSY to anyone in the audience with teaching responsibilities. What a guy: Al used his honorarium to purchase copies for the 45 people who signed up for them!

About 50 college deans received copies in February, at the request of Dave Bryant of Messiah and Bob Fischer of Biola. The booklets were mailed in advance of a meeting of Christian College Coalition Academic Deans, which included a session on "The Origins Debate: What Happens When We Disagree." Coalition vice president for programs, Karen Longman, congratulated ASA for publishing the booklet.

Students for Origins Research (P.O. Box 203, Goleta, CA 93116-0203) recommended the ASA booklet in its member newsletter, will review it in Origins Research and make it available to that larger readership in the SOR book catalog. SOR executive director Dennis Wagner says they're even offering a free copy to SOR members who send in a donation of $10 or more.

Reviews or announcements are beginning to appear in more .general evangelical publications. For example, TEACHING SCIENCE was listed in the "Resources" section of the February Youthworker Update, newsletter of Youth Specialties of El Cajon, California.

Chiles's article tells how Lawrence Hyland of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) near Washington, D.C., first noticed in 1930 that a distant airplane could reflect enough continuous radio energy to reveal its position. Then NRL switched from continuous waves to pulsed waves, a move "led by a young physicist named Robert M. Page." The caption of a photo of Bob standing by an antenna credits him with installing the Navy's first working radar. Chiles describes the complex history of radar's development, saying of Bob:

Page, the seventh of nine children in a Minnesota family, had first trained for the ministry but, on the urging of his college physics professor, transferred into science. He joined the NRL in 1927 and left forty years later with sixtyfive patents in the radar field, including postwar innovations such as over-the-horizon radar. Nobody did more than Page to bring forth working radar from the mass of theoretical possibilities.

(The Weary Old Editor cut his electronic teeth in 1944 on the old ASB airborne radar, singing with fellow Aviation Electronics Technician's Mates, "The grass grows green/On the indicator screen." Younger ASA members won't remember that, or even the Doubleday Anchor paperback Bob Page wrote in 1962, The Origin of Radar. But, of course, they understand computers.-Ed.)

Paul estimates that an index enabling students and scholars to access the entire 38 years of ASA literature might contain over 20,000 citations, no problem for a computer-based system these days. He has compiled a preliminary list of 453 words commonly found in titles of Journal articles or of special ASA interest, plus 67 proper names commonly mentioned in Journal articles. After that subject/keyword index has been edited for maximal usefulness, Paul estimates that a team of ten volunteers can probably assign keywords to all Journal items in about 16 hours of work. Each volunteer will be allotted certain issues to survey carefully, assigning no more than 10 keywords to each article, book review, and communication.

Paul has compiled some samples of how the keyword data will look when that step is completed. The next step will be for someone with access to a good "relational data base system" to key all that data into a computer. It would be nice to have several thousand dollars to pay students to do that tedious task. (Any ideas?) The next step is to create a compact format for printing the data and produce a catalog on a highspeed letter-quality printer. The catalog will be sold as an ASA publication, advertised to libraries, submitted to University Microfilms, Inc., etc. The data base will also be available on-line, of course.

Paul Arveson would like to see the whole project completed by the 1987 ASA ANNUAL MEETING. He's not a computer scientist, he says, but he's coordinating the project to get the ball rolling. His letter invites suggestions from members of the ad hoc committee who are experts in various phases of the work. (it's not too late to join that committee; write to Paul at 10205 Folk St., Silver Springs, MD 20902.) The committee already contains some very competent computerers, so who knows? Come to the 1987 ASA ANNUAL MEETING in COLORADO SPRINGS, AUGUST 2-6, and see if they made it.

2. CAPS-West, the large western division of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, meets in Seattle on 18-21 June, 1987. Mack Goldsmith of Modesto, California (tel. 209-522-1518), president-elect of CAPSW, has been asked by the program chair, Grant Martin, if ASA would like to have a booth or other presence at that meeting. Anybody interested in making those arrangements? Or arranging for a CAPSW presence at the 1987 ASA ANNUAL MEETING in COLORADO SPRINGS, AUGUST 2-6?

3. Now College Berkeley announces that from 1 September to mid-October, D. Gareth Jones of the Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand, will be in residence as a visiting professor. Widely known for his writings in biomedical ethics, neurobiology, and science/faith issues, Dr. Jones will be teaching a course on "Science, Ethics, and Belief: Realities in Tension." He will also contribute to continuing education in the Bay Area health care community. For information, contact: Dr. Joel B. Green, Dean, New College Berkeley, 2600 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 (tel. 415-841-9386).

4. An interdisciplinary Congress on Christian Counseling will be held on 7-14 February, 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia. The American Scientific Affiliation is one of a half dozen sponsoring or supporting organizations. Among the coordinators of various categories are a number of ASA members, including Gary Collins of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (contemporary therapies); Newton Malony of Fuller Theological Seminary (psychology of religion); and Mansell Pattison of Medical College of Georgia (biomedical aspects of therapy). Inquiries about submitting papers should be addressed to: Congress on Christian Counseling, 1147 South Hairston Rd., Suite D, Stone Mountain, GA 30083.

6. The Creation- Research Science, Education Foundation, Inc. sponsors a Paluxy Project for further technical investigation of human-like footprints in Cretaceous strata of the Paluxy riverbed near Glen Rose, Texas, under direction of consulting geologist John DeVilbiss. John is convinced that fresh excavations should be done, but some $3,000 in additional funds is needed. Tax-deductible contributions to: C.R.S.E.F., P.O. Box 292, Columbus, OH 43216.

2. Psychological anthropologist George Jennings offers ASA members discounts on his two most recent books. Welcome into the Middle East (1986), a general introduction for missionaries and others who plan to work in the Middle East or have interests there, lists for $14.50 plus $2 shipping cost, but is available postpaid to members for $12. George's 400-page study of midwestern American culture, Americans in the Le Mars Mold (1986) focuses on Le Mars, Iowa, location of George's headquarters for Middle East Missions Research. It lists for $12.50 plus $2 shipping cost, but is available postpaid to ASA members for $11. Send orders to Middle East Missions Research, Box 632, Le Mars, IA 51031.

Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, Ph.D., F.Inst.P., emeritus professor and professorial research fellow in the Research Department of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, died early in February at age 64. In recent years Donald had been undergoing cancer chemotherapy, the effects of which sometimes interrupted a busy speaking schedule. He had accepted, but later was forced to cancel, a major lectureship at Fuller Seminary's School of Psychology for the spring of 1987.

A leading figure in the Research Scientists Christian Fellowship in the U.K. and an honorary ASA Fellow, MacKay was internationally known for both his technical work and his scholarly writings about Christian faith. He was an editor of Experimental Brain Research and International Handbook of Sensory Physiology. MacKay, the son of a general practitioner from Lybster, Caithness, in Scotland, received his degree in natural philosophy (physics) at St. Andrews University in 1943.

An interest in computers, stimulated by wartime research on radar, led MacKay to investigate the similarities and differences between computers and the human brain. He founded his department at Keele in 1960 to draw computer and information theorists into closer contact with neuroscientists. Many of his writings argued for a principle of "logical indeterminacy," a sophisticated approach to the age-old problem of reconciling human free will with determinism. MacKay strongly opposed the idea that physical (Heisenberg) indeterminacy had any bearing on the question of human freedom.

Many ASA members first encountered the clarity of Donald MacKay's thought in his essay on "Man as a Mechanism," in Christianity in a Mechanistic Universe (IVP, 1965), which he also edited. More widely read, perhaps, was another IVP paperback, The Clockwork Image (1974). In 1979, when his Human Science and Human Dignity (IVP) was published, the count of books to which he had contributed chapters was up to 48. Most recently, Donald's "Summing Up of the ASA/RSCF Conference" appeared in the Sept 1986 issue of JASA, and "The Health of the Evangelical Body" in the Dec 1986issue.

Donald MacKay's carefully thought-out ideas, gentlemanly demeanor even in debate, rich Scottish brogue, and-most of all-his partnership and leadership in the evangelical enterprise will be missed on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. We're grateful for every hour we could spend in his presence, and for the legacy he leaves behind. Donald is survived by his wife, Valerie, two sons, and three daughters, to whom we send our sympathy.

(Our thanks to David Bruce of Wheaton College, on sabbatical at St. Andrews, for sending us the obituary notice appearing in The Scotsman of Edinburgh for 12 February, 1987.-Ed.)

Dr. McNally approached his topic in a scholarly manner, with careful attention to sources. From the rise of modern science to the early 19th century, science and "natural theology" were closely connected. For example, courses on how natural science reveals the glory of God were obligatory at the U. of Toronto until 1871. In the Victorian era, however, the scientific community claimed autonomy from constraints imposed by the religious establishment, as illustrated in the Darwinian controversy.

PERSONALS

David S. Bruce began a six-month sabbatical from Wheaton College in January. He and Jan and their two teenage sons are in Scotland, where David is working at the U. of St. Andrews with Dr. Colin Nicol on endocrinology and skeletal muscle research. Jan is on leave from her position as coordinator for the departments of Educational Ministries (grad school) and Christian Education (undergrad) at Wheaton. Rob and Scot are enrolled in Madras College, St. Andrews' excellent high school. Steve Bell and Moira, of Dundee, have shown the Bruce family much hospitality, but David would like to hear from any other ASA'ers in the vicinity (address til July 15: 4 A Queen's Gardens, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TA, Scotland.).

Robert K. Clifton of Waterloo, Ontario, is interested in the philosophical foundations of physics. Concerned about the current proliferation of Eastern religious interpretations of quantum mechanics, he hopes to do an article for Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (you know, the new JASA-Ed.) showing that a Christian world view is as adequate as a Buddhist or Hindu one for interepreting quantum phenomena. In April, Rob joins the Dept. of the History & Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge (address: Free School Lane, Cambridge C132 3RH, England).

James C. Peterson of the U. of Virginia is "on the Luce" in Korea. That is, he's a Henry R. Luce scholar, one of 15 young professionals awarded a scholarship this year by the Luce Foundation to study and work in the Far

East. After briefings in Princeton, San Francisco, and Hong Kong, Jim settled in at Ewha University in Seoul to teach and do research. In September 1987 he will return (via Europe) to the U. of Virginia to complete his dissertation on the ethics of genetic intervention in the human germ line. Meanwhile he would welcome ASA visitors at 24-3 Yonhi-dong, Sodaemun-gu, Seoul 120, Korea.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE: Whitworth College: contact personnel office (tel. 509-466-3202) to see if these positions were filled: math/ computer science; family studies; director of institutional research (sociology/ computing) ... Calvin College: 1-yr sabbatical replacement in geology for 1987-88, possibility of extended appointment; teach historical geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, possibly paleontology; Ph.D. preferred. Contact: Dr. Clarence Menninga, Dept. of Geology, Geography, & Environmental Studies, Calvin Collge, Grand Rapids, MI 49506; tel. 616-957-6370 ... The King's College: 1-yr position in biology, F 1987, possible further appointment. Contact Dr. Wayne Frair, Chair, Dept. of Biology, The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510; tel. 914-941-7200 ... Goshen College: director of computing services beginning F or W 1987; responsible for long-range planning, establishing & implementing policy, integration of administrative & academic computing. M.S. in computer science or administration preferred; experience with larger computer systems desired; strong management & interpersonal skills, commitment to liberal arts education in Christian context essential. Women & minorities encouraged to apply. Information from Arthur Smucker (present director, retiring Dec 1987), tel. 219-S33-3161-x550. Apply to: Alice Roth, Exec. Vice-president, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 46526 ... Pepperdine University: F 1987 position in art history; Ph.D. required to co-teach large lecture course, upper-division courses, direct art gallery. Apply to: James Smythe, Chair, Humanities-Fine Arts Div., Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 90265. (Political scientist Stan Moore would welcome evangelical colleagues at Pepperdine.)