NEWSLETTER
of the

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION -CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 25 Number 6  December 1983/January 1984


SECOND SABBATH

As our fourteenth year of editing the Newsletter ends, we look both ways, as befits a Sabbath year. We look back on our fellowship and witness with much satisfaction, We look toward the future of ASA/CSCA with downright enthusiasm, and not just because ASA is out of debt for the first time in years. No, climbing out of that hole has shown us what God can do when we work together; now we want to keep going. Our Affiliations are beginning to see some good ideas bear fruit, and a lot more blossoming.

Even the Newsletter seems to throb with quickened pulse. Putting out an issue used to completely clean out our manila folder marked "Newsletter Items." Then we'd worry about finding enough material for the next issue. Some news items would always dribble in, and we'd invent the rest. Now we have a foot-high stack of mail plus the overflow from past issues to sort through.

The old "empty-file phobia" is gone forever. What grabs us now is not having room. Or coming across an item from one of you that "would have been" important news several issues ago. Some of the PERSONALS in this issue came in eight months ago, for instance. We resolved to get them all in this time-but that didn't leave room for much else.

At the end of 1983 Ipswich is on the upsurge. Maybe in 1984 we'll start meeting our Newsletter deadlines. H .... nnwnrw.-- Anybody out there care to donate a word processor, to keep Berkeley from backsliding?

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Year.  - Walt & Ginny Hearn

HERRMANN-EUTICS

"it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," wrote Dickens of the era of the French Revolution in his Tale of Two Cities. A "Goddess of Reason" was enthroned in Notre Dame Cathedral by the revolutionaries and their leader Robespierre. The era of the French kings was essentially gone, and, with it, the kings' Church. But across the Channel a new movement stirred. William Carey, a minister in Leicester, left for Calcutta under the auspices of the newly-formed Baptist Missionary Society. Over the next century, 100,000 other evangelical missionaries would follow.

Our day is not unlike that of William Carey. We experience unprecedented material and technological wealth but face revolution in the form of international terrorism. And we still grope as a Culture to find meaning but this time we enthrone Eastern Mysticism and superstition instead of "The Goddess of Reason."

I wonder who will be our William Careys for this age? Perhaps they will come back to us out of India or Africa, where the Church is growing so rapidly, or perhaps God will raise up some of us, practitioners of the new technologies, to be His evangelists.

It is God's genius that set the pattern long ago. For in the darkest hour-at the "fullness of time"-God sent His Son into the world. Christmas is our reminder that God can and will renew His people.

MEET OUR NEW EDITORS

When the March 1984 issue of the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation appears, the name of Wilbur L. Bullock will have replaced that of Richard H. Bube as editor on the masthead. Wilbur is professor of zoology at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. He received a B.S. from Queens College in New York in 1942 and began graduate work at NYU before serving in Europe in World War 11 in a U.S. Army Medical Detachment with the Combat Engineers. He completed graduate work at the U. of Illinois (M.S., 1947, Ph.D., 1948) before joining the faculty at New Hampshire, where he became full professor in 1960. He has had research sabbaticals in Florida, Texas, and Costa Rica to work on parasites infesting fish and humans. He has taught parasitology, vertebrate histology, and the natural history of human disease.

Wilbur has served on the editorial boards of J. Parasitol. and Proc. HelminthoL Soc. Washington. He has published some 50 research papers, generally on unpronounceable little creatures like Neoechinorhynchus prolixoides, Octospiniferoides chandleri, and Rhabdospora thelohani. A member of ASA since 1950, Wilbur has served on the Executive Council and was vice-president in 1958. He is an elder and coordinator of discipleship for Durham Evangelical Church (Conservative Baptist). He has written and spoken on creation/ evolution and environmental issues from the perspective of a Christian biologist.

The new JASA editor will be assisted by managing editor Ruth A. Herr, a graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) with a degree in anthropology and interests in cross-cultural communications, Bible, and literature. Ruth's husband David is a student at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. Before the Herrs moved to Massachusetts, Ruth worked at Tyndale House Publishers for a year.

Once our managing editor in the Ipswich office, our editor in New Hampshire, and our printer in Pennsylvania get JASA production running smoothly, Ruth will probably be unleashed on our haphazard ASA CSCA Newsletter editor. She's already called Berkeley once to find out why this manuscript hadn't arrived in Ipswich- The editor told her piece it got lost in the mail. She asked when it was - a i i e a, E r. uh. we meant in the mail on our desk. but we'll ge* right on it. -Ed. -

DELTA S: READY WHEN YOU ARE

Jerry Albert responds to Jack McIntyre's request for a "thermodynamic assist" in the Aug/ Sep 1983 Newsletter:

"In Iliya Prigogine's 1972 statement on 'the apparent contradiction between biological order and the ... second law of thermodynamics,' Jack has substituted 'evolution' for 'biological order.' He could just as easily and correctly have substituted 'crystal growth,' or 'convective systems' in which large entropy deficiencies develop spontaneously as a result of the simple influx of solar energy (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning storms, the water cycle), or 'the growth of a seed or egg into a mature organism,' where one observes a large and spontaneous increase in the entropy deficiency of a localized system."

Jerry recommends several articles for those wondering if there really are inconsistencies between the entropy law and evolution: , 1, Stanley Freske, "Creationist Misunderstanding. Misrepresentation, and Misuse of the Second Law of Thermodynamics," Creation Evolution, Issue IV, pp. 8-16, Spring 1981 (CiEs address: P.O. Box 5, Amherst Branch, Buffalo. NY 14226); (2) William Thwaites and Frank Awbrey, Entropy and Evolution, the second Law, ibid.5-8.and (3) Jeffrey S. Wicken, "Entropy and Evolution: a Philosophical Review," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 22, No. 2, Part 1, pp. 285-300, Winter 1979 (published by U. of Chicago Press).


OBITUARY: CHARLOTTE L. JONES

We learned some months ago that Charlotte L. Jones of the University of Arizona, Tucson, had terminal cancer. She died on August 29 at the age of 33. Charlotte was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and received her bachelor's degree in biology in 1972 from Purdue, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. She received her Ph.D. in 1979 from U.S. San Diego, then did postdoctoral work in the Dept. of Cellular, Viral, and Molecular Biology at the U. of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City before moving to Arizona. While at Utah Charlotte contributed her comments, "No Line Between Safe and Dangerous Knowledge," to a symposium on recombinant DNA in the June 1978 JASA (included in the ASA reprint collection, Making Whole Persons: Ethical Issues in Biology & Medicine, edited by Robert L. Herrmann). Charlotte Jones was buried in Peel, Arkansas, where her parents now live. She is survived also by two brothers who live in Portland, Oregon.


PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

Edward B. I "Ted") Davis (Dept. of History & Philosophy of Science, 130 Goodbody Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405) seeks a teaching position at a Christian college for fall 1984. Ted is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate expecting to finish his dissertation next summer on the interaction of science and Christian faith in the 17th century. He has a B.S. in physics (Drexel, 1975), in history of science (Indiana, 1981), and a number of years of teaching science and math at the undergraduate level and at Cedar Grove Christian Academy in Philadelphia ( 1976-79). Ted is married, with one daughter, and would prefer to stay in the east if possible. He has several reviews and a paper in press in JASA and is active in the History of Science Society.

James Garner (460 Nantucket Place, Apt. V, Vermilion, CH 44089. Tel. 216-967-5103) is available (immediately, we gather) for a teaching position in physics at a Christian college. He has a B.S. in physics ~ magna cum laude, Cleveland State U., 1978) and a Ph.D. from Ohio State ( 1983), and has taught first-year physics. His area of specialization is solid state physics theory.

James Wolfe (Dept. of Biology, U. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 028-81. Tel. 401-792-2161) seeks a biology teaching position in a small college. He has a B.A. in biology from Gordon (19751, an M.S. in botany from Oklahoma ( 1978), and expects his Ph.D. in botany in May 1984. His dissertation will deal with allelopathy (competitive "chemical warfare") in seaweed. Jim considers himself a physiological ecologist familiar with oceanography, with teaching experience in introductory  botany and genetics. He could also teach marine botany and biology. At Rhode Island he has worked with Chi Alpha, a campus Christian group.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Hope College in Michigan has a number of positions open. The two open for January 1984 are a one-semester sabbatical replacement in biology (to teach a general microbiology course, with labs), and in nursing, a tenure track position requiring an M.S. in nursing with clinical preparation in community health and two years of clinical practice, but Ph.D. preferred. For August 1984, tenure track positions are open in computer science (Ph.D. required); geology (Ph.D., ability to teach mineralogy, general geology, and economic geology, and direct undergrad research); mathematics (Ph.D. strongly preferred, must teach advanced undergraduate courses); and engineering (mechanical engineer, Ph.D. strongly preferred, especially with research interest in computer methods of analysis and design). Hope College, affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, has over 2,400 students and 140 faculty. Submit curriculum vitae, graduate and undergraduate transcripts, and ask three references to write to: Dr. David Marker, Provost, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423. Tel. 616-392-5111-X2010. (Received October 1983.)

Taylor University in Indiana has an opening in biology for September 1984. Ph.D. required with a broad background in biology with specialization in molecular and cellular biology, to teach cell biology, microbiology, genetics, introductory life-science offerings. Five faculty members, biology major, broad range of biological sciences including environmental science. Commitment to the Taylor University philosophy of education necessary. Direct inquiries to. Dr. Richard J  Stanislaw, Vice President for Academic Affairs', Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. (Received October 1983, from Tim Burkholder, professor and head of biology at Taylor.)

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

OTTAWA

The Ottawa section has been having small home meetings for fellowship and discussion of a specific JASA article, the June 17 discussion at the home of Richard Herd being devoted to Dick Bube's December 1982 article on "Biological Control of Human Life." The regional task assigned to Ottawa by the CSCA Executive Council is maintaining an up-to-date annotated list of books on science/faith issues.

TORONTO

The section is off to an energetic start this fall. A September meeting featured CSCA president Bob VanderVennen speaking on "Science and Christian Commitment." The section hosted the CSCA Annual Meeting in October, with visiting geneticist V. Elving Anderson giving two public lectures on "Divine Providence and Human Control" in the Lecture Theatre of U.T.'s Library and Information Science Faculty. On November 28 physiologist Dan Osmond is scheduled to speak on "Ethical Issues in a Research Scientist's Daily Work" at Knox Presbyterian Church. Future meetings are scheduled for February 13 and March 26 at the same church. Toronto's task for CSCA this year is to produce a brochure on science and faith for mass distribution on campuses and in churches.

GUELPH

The annual business meeting was held on September 26, followed by a panel of Christian professors discussing "Can I Be Both a Christian and a Scientist?": W. D.

Morrison of Poultry Science, T. T. Carey of Computing and Information Sciences, W. D. Woodward of Nutrition, and R. E. Vosburgh of Consumer Studies. Campus chaplain Ed den Haan encourages Guelph students to attend such meetings. The noon-hour Book Club continues its regular meetings, currently discussing papers on science and miracles in the December 1978 issue of JASA. The Guelph section is putting together a paper on "Biblical Guidelines for Biotechnology," as its contribution to CSCA efforts.

METROPOLITAN NEW YORK

The section has begun to publish a spiffy Newsletter this fall, following the lead of the Washington-Baltimore section. The first issue carries the program for a November 12 joint conference with IVCF. Morning sessions are devoted to "Sharing Christ on Campus'' with Paul Earl and Edward Habert in charge. In the afternoor, Charles E. Hummel speaks on The Galileo Connection: Modern Scientific Method" and in the evening on "The Galileo Connection: The Biblical View of Nature," with the section business meeting and supper in between. This conference is being held at the Boon Campus Center of Nyack College in Nyack, New York.

Nominees for two-year terms on the local Executive Council are Wayne Ault, Rudolph Blaum, Elio Cuccaro, and J. Zacharias. Remaining on the Council for another year are Richard Harrison, Gary Allen, Jack Haynes, and Ghillean Prance. Bob Voss is executive secretary (and no doubt the unnamed editor of the Newsletter).

The 1984 spring meeting will be held April 7 at Nyack College, with Dr. Peter Cook, research staff member at IBM, as speaker.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

A potluck supper and discussion of goals and activities of the section is planned for November 20 at the home of Ken Lincoln in Redwood City. Dues are being increased from $3 to $5 to cover additional costs of mailings.

PERSONALS

Joseph P. Bassi is working toward a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the U. of Colorado in Boulder while serving on active duty as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. Joe responded to "Moving Toward Peace" in the Jun/Jul 1983 Newsletter by recommending the Harvard Study Group's report on How To Live With Nuclear Weapons as a thought-provoking balance to Jonathan Schell's Fate of the Earth. Joe, who regards his military service as part of his Christian obligation to keep the peace, also suggested that mention of such groups as the Committee on Present Danger (COPE), National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), and the Hoover Institution on War and Peace would have balanced things out a bit. (Our crack about Jesus being crucified to "keep the peace" was based on Mark 15:15,

by the way, which says that Pilate was "afraid of a riot and anxious to please the people"; it certainly wasn't intended as a slam at people who serve in the armed forces.-Ed.)

Stephen Bell of Dundee University in Scotland has been teaching physical chemistry at Wheaton College in Illinois this fall. In the summer he spent some time at U.C. Berkeley, where he has worked in the past on computer programs for quantum mechanical calculations with professor Fritz Schaefer, winner of the American Chemical Society's 1983 Baekeland Award.

Richard H. Bube of Stanford University has been teaching a Fuller Seminary Extension course in the Bay area this fall on "Science and Faith: When Push Comes to Shove." We always seem to be months behind reporting on Dick's travels; maybe he stays on the move because that's less painful with his bad back than standing still. Anyway, in April he spoke at the U. of Minnesota at the invitation of Bill Monsma of the Maclaurin Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and participated in a faculty Bible study usually ed by A)dert van der Ziel. He also got together with Bob Boton of 3M and a dozen other ASAers interested in reviving local section activities to discuss -Science and Pseudoscience" from his recent paper in The Reformed Journal. On that same trip Dick was a Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar at Bethel College, hosted by campus pastor Jim Spickelmier. May was "photovoltaics month" for Dick, with papers given at a Sonoma State University symposium and the Electrochemical Society meeting in San Francisco, meetings at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) in Colorado, and publication of Fundamentals of Solar Cells by Academic Press. That massive work, six years in preparation and co-authored with A. L. Fahrenbruch (Dick's senior research associate), costs $68.00 but has "everything you've always wanted to know about photovoltaics."

J. Frank Cassel of Fargo, North Dakota, an ornithologist and ecologist, is director of the North Central Region of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Frank's retirement from his long-time zoology professorship at N. D. State last year seems to have gone unnoticed by this Newsletter, as ,did his replacement surgery the day after Easter this year. After a smooth recovery he was up and about his "territory.'* including visits to faculty at the U. of Minnesota, Macalester College, and Winona State in Minnesota. "It's all been fun except for the fund raising," Frank says (which shows that you can teach an old bird-dog new tricks.-Ed.)

Donald G. Davis, Jr., spent several weeks this summer as consultant to the library of Biola University in La Mirada, California. Don helped the 3,500-student institution survey its resource collection and examine the roles of library staff members. Don is associate professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the U. of Texas in Austin and editor of the Journal of Library History. This year he is serving on the American Library Association's jury for the H. W. Wilson Periodical Award, given to a periodical making an outstanding contribution to librarianship.

Edward B. Davis, Ph.D. candidate in the history and philosophy of science at Indiana University, is one of 46 winners of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships awarded this year. The fellowships, administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, provide a year of support to Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences willing to "view their own subjects in the light of ethical or religious values." Winners receive a stipend of $7,500 plus dependency allowances while completing their dissertations. This year there were 498 qualified applicants at 96 graduate schools. Ted, whose undergraduate work was done at Drexel in Pennsylvania, is studying "Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science: The Impact of Voluntaristic Theology on 17th Century Natural Philosophy."

Marilyne Sally Flora is teaching middle-school science at Elgin Academy in Elgin, Illinois, after a year of commuting into Chicago from Batavia for graduate study. She enjoys teaching in a well-balanced prep school stressing academics, with small classes and a warm faculty open to her Christian stand. The only negative thing, Marilyne says, is that it isn't a Christian school. (Considering that she was fired a couple of years ago from a Christian school for teaching about creation from more than one point of view, that 's a remarkably positive attitude.-Ed.)

Archibald Daniel Hart has been named dean of the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He came to Fuller in 1971 with an engineering degree from England, a B.S. from the U. of South Africa, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from the U. of Natal. Word published his two latest books, Children and Divorce ( 1982) and Depression in the Ministry and Helping Professions ( 1983).

H. Harold Hartzler, professor of physics and astronomy retired from Mankato State in Minnesota and ASA's first executive officer, keeps trying to build bridges to recent creationist organizations. An earlier date for our Annual Meeting this year enabled him to attend the 1983 National Creation Conference held August 10- 13 at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Annual creation conferences are sponsored by the Bible-Science Association, publishers of Bible-Science Newsletter (2911 East 42nd St., Minneapolis, MN 55406). Other ASAers at this year's conference included Jerry Bergman, Bob Gentry, Wayne Frair, and Marvin Lubenow. Harold was especially interested in a paper by Australian Barry Setterfield claiming that evidence for a decrease in the velocity of light since creation eliminates problems recent-creationists have had with the vast time-spans required for light from distant galaxies to reach the earth. Harold has "serious doubts," however. Setterfield's paper, "The Velocity of Light and the Age of the Universe," appeared in Ex Nihilo 1, 52-93 ( 1982). Ex Nihilo is a new quarterly journal published by the Creation Science Foundation of Australia, available in the U.S. at $15 a year from Ex Nihilo, Box 6064, Evanston, IL 60202.

James C. Hefiey of Signal Mountain, Tennessee, is a prolific professional writer who discovered ASA years ago and included a number of ASA members in his book on scientists who are Christians, Adventurers with God (Zondervan, 1967). Jim says he hasn't kept up with ASA for the past three years; he was working toward his Ph.D. in mass media (print and broadcast journalism) at the U. of Tennessee and writing "six or eight books plus a dissertation." Now he's back. His most recent book is Life Changes (Tyndale House, 1983), about responding to the great transitions of life. This year Jim has served as executive director of the Jerusalem Congress on the Bible, a combination of a week of Holy Land tours with meetings of the World Bible Congress held in the Convention Hall of Jerusalem, Israel, Dec. 26, 1983, to Jan. 3, 1984. One of the speakers is John Warwick Montgomery, and Jim was hoping to have some other ASA members at the congress. (We owe Jim Hefley a big apology for blowing our chance to publicize in the Oct i Nov Newsletter this "Year of the Bible" event. The Year of the Bible, 1983, has celebrated the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Bible in America. Jim's June 29 letter reached us in Oregon and was literally "left by the roadside" in our abandoned VW; eventually it was recovered but fell in with less timely Newsletter items-and was again left behind. Obviously the Weary Old Editor deserves a public flogging with adjectives tipped with exclamation points. WOE is me.-Ed.)

Harold Henthorn of Denver, Colorado, is a geologist with the Rocky Mountain Division of Chevron (Standard Oil Company of California), exploring for petroleum in southeast Utah. In September 1982 Harold married Lynn Rishell of Potomac, Maryland, whom he had known when they were both undergraduates at James Madison University. While Harold was doing graduate work at the U. of Kentucky, Lynn, who studied social work in college, worked with senior high students in her church in the D.C. area. In December 1982 the Henthorns moved to Denver, where Lynn now teaches multiply-handicapped children.

Richard K. Herd of Ottawa, Ontario, has become Curator of Natural Collections at the Geological Survey of Canada. That puts him in charge of 14,000 mineral specimens, a meteorite collection of some 600 pieces/falls, and hundreds of thousands of kilos of rock specimens from all over Canada and elsewhere. We heard from him four months into the job, when he was still discovering collections going back as much as 140 years that need to be sorted and catalogued, and was beginning to make contact with many amateur and professional geologists and mineralogists in Canada and the U.S. Richard's job includes a mandate to continue his present research and initiate new research projects. Under a grant from NATO last year, he and two European co-workers put together five papers on sapphirine and related topics, and have several others in preparation. In May, the same week that Stephen Jay Gould's new collection of essays was featured in Time magazine, Richard looked up Gould during a visit to Harvard to try to give him a broader Christian perspective on the creation /evolution controversy. Gould was impressed that Christians like Richard are disturbed and saddened by the controversy, and that ASA/CSCA tries to approach it with full respect for both science and the Bible. Having heard from a Boston friend that Gould had been sick with cancer, Richard says he felt great compassion "for this agnostic who is so famous but so lost, about my age, with children just older than mine, who may face death in the near future." (A moving reminder not to get so wrapped up in the exhilaration of controversy or the intensity of our own work that we forget to pray for our colleagues. -Ed.)

Robert A. Herrmann (no kin to our ASA executive director) teaches mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy and is founder and director of the Institute for Mathematical Philosophy. Bob sent us a copy of his manuscripts on Nature: The Work of a Supreme Mathematical Logician, on The Word, and on Mathematics and the Word. The first was given as an invited address at the Second Baltimore Creation Convention in June 1983. That paper ends with an offer of $25,000 to any individual or group who can "locate any unrepairable error within the mathematics that had led to these interpretations and conclusions." The conclusions include establishing that "the major premises of Christian doctrine are logically consistent" and that "the foundational philosophical canons or premises of certain branches of modern natural science are logically inconsistent." Further, the logical controversy within quantum physics known as the multi-world view is solved "by showing that the discrete and continuum models are compatible." The Institute for Mathematical Philosophy will supply the two papers containing the mathematics in question. Write to I.M.P., P.O. Box 3410, Annapolis, MID 21403.

Charles E. Hummel of Grafton, Massachusetts, IVCF's director of Faculty Ministries, used his three-month study leave this summer to work on a book on the biblical and scientific views of nature aimed especially at students and the Christian public who do not have a scientific background. Charlie says that "I am convinced that much of the controversy, exemplified by the 1981 Arkansas creation-evolution trial (McLean vs. Arkansas), was due to a misunderstanding of the purpose and limitations of each perspective."

D. Gareth Jones has moved from the University of Western Australia to New Zealand, where he now has the Chair of Anatomy at the medical school of the University of Otago in Dunedin. Gareth brought several of his research colleagues with him from Perth, hoping to build on the strong teaching reputation of his new department by expanding its role in research in the neurosciences. While restructuring the Department of Anatomy at Otago, he is also thinking of setting up a Bioethics Centre in the university. Gareth sent us a clipping from the Otago Daily Times under the headline "Professor Seeks Debate," about the new professor's interest in such ethical issues as in vitro fertilization, therapeutic abortion, and euthanasia: "These are the sorts of things we all have to face up to and we cannot escape from them. Medical students should be forced to think through these issues before they have to face them in a real life situation -because then it's too late. You have to make rapid decisions. Real life is very emotional."

Janet Lee is one female member of ASA who won't "disappear" by virtue of changing her last name on marriage. In June 1983 Janet received her M.S. degree in physical therapy at Stanford and in August she married ASAer Gary Lee, whom she had known in her undergraduate years at Berkeley when Gary was a biochemistry student there. Now they live in La Jolla, where we presume Gary is doing graduate work at U.C.-San Diego. (This isn't the first time that Gary has roomed with another ASAer named Lee. At Cal he shared an apartment with Geoffrey Lee, a civil engineer. -Ed.)

Sid Macaulay of Decatur, Georgia, is not only director of the Southeast Region of the Christian Medical Society but also editor of the CMS Journal ($12 a year from CMS, P.O. Box 689, Richardson, TX 75080). The Journal received the 1983 "Award of Excellence" in the organizational category from the Evangelical Press Association. Called "a journal of superb professionalism," the CIVIS quarterly was commended for having a broad range of content that "provides both inspirational and substantive material in a combination rarely equaled in evangelical magazines,'' Congratulations to Sid for a magazine that is beautifully laid out but definitely not "laid back" on controversial issues such as abortion and nuclear war. Ed.)

R. Clyde McCone, professor of anthropology at Cal State University, Long Beach, sent us copies of the April and May 1983 issues of The Informant, a regular publication of CSULB's Anthropology Students' Association. Those issues contained as special supplements an invited twopart article by Clyde entitled "in the Beginning, God." The article tries to set forth clearly the Biblical account of origins, contrasting it with the accounts of both atheistic evolutionism and "scientific creationism." Why do we read "Science" back into Genesis 1 and 2? "Events were understood by the Greek mind as either a process in time, i.e., science, or as a process through time, i.e., history. As the Greek world was evangelized by Christianity, the Hebrew account of creation was then forced into the Greek mold of explanation." Having pointed out that the first two versus of Genesis take us directly to the Creator, the "who" rather than the "how," Clyde says, "The days of creation which follow in the account are days of creation and therefore cannot be days of time. Time, matter/energy, and space are integral aspects of our conception of the finished order of nature.... These days then cannot be 24-hour days, or thousand-year days, or geological-age days. They are not even a "fiat" point in time."

W. Douglas Morrison, executive director of the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation, chairs the Poultry Science Department of the University of Guelph in Ontario. In July 1983 Doug received two professional awards. He was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, the highest honor the Institute confers on its members for distinguished service to Canadian agriculture. Doug was also given the Award of Merit from the Canadian Society of Animal Science for "outstanding contributions to the livestock industry and to the attainment of the goals and objectives of the Canadian Society of Animal Science." Doug spent 1982-83 on sabbatical leave in Illinois and Scotland.

W. Jim Neidhardt of the New Jersey Institute of Technology attended the fourth "Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective" sponsored by the Association of Christian Mathematicians, May 25-28, 1983, at Wheaton College. For a physicist, Jim says, the conference was something of a transcultural experience because so many papers dealt with foundational (pure) mathematics. He found the two invited lectures by William Kuyk of the University of Antwerp-one on the theory of mathematics learning, the other on a complementarist philosophy of science-very helpful. ACM has produced an Annotated Bibliography of Christianity and Mathematics: 1910- 1983 (citing many papers from JASA, Jim says), available for $2 (checks made out to Dordt College Press) from Dr. Calvin Jongsma, Dept. of Mathematics, Dordt College, Sioux Center, 1A 51250. Jim also appreciated a session on computer science and mathematics moderated by R. Waldo Roth of Taylor University.

William J. Rogers is chair of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This summer he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, no small honor. Nomination requires 20 years of active practice or teaching experience in agricultural engineering; election is based on "unusual professional distinction and extraordinary qualifications." Bill, an extension specialist (equivalent to a full professor) at Rutgers since 1972, is the first extension specialist ever to serve as a department head at that institution. One of his contributions to agriculture was development of the double-plastic film cover now widely used on greenhouses. He is a director of the National Agricultural Plastics Association. Bill was honored at ASAE's June meeting at Montana State University in Bozeman. 

R. Waldo Roth is chair of Information Sciences at Taylor University in Indiana. He was program chair for the 16th annual summer conference of the Association of Small Computer Users in Education held at Taylor June 13- 15. At the ASCUE meeting Wally discussed his department's recently developed curriculum in artificial intelligence and robotics. Taylor students continue to place well in national and regional programming competitions in both FORTRAN and BASIC. Taylor offers direct help to Christian organizations through its Computing Assistance Program (CAP). A current CAP project is helping the Children's Education Department of Wycliffe Bible Translators develop "courseware" for a computer-aided instructional program for missionary parents who must teach their own children. The "MK" (missionary kid) project will bring together the skills of experienced educators and data processing professionals. To contribute professionally or financially.write CAP, Taylor University,  Upland, IN 46989.

Calvin Seerveld of the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto taught for a week this summer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity in England, an international summer school directed by John Stott. Cal was scheduled to give a plenary lecture course on art and a more advanced course on art history from a Christian perspective. The London Institute's address is 12 Weymouth St., London, England WIN 3PB.

Terrell Smith, representing the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Marburg, Germany, had a busy summer. Terrell and Mary participated in the Manchester '83 Conference in England, came back to a 12-day evangelistic mission in Marburg (which made contact with Muslim, Marxist, and mainland Chinese Students), and topped it off with a graduates conference at Schloss Mittersill in Austria. Terrell is quoted in a new book on the history of IFES, The Day of His Power, by Pete Lowman, published by IVP in England.

Jeanette M. Sorduyl represents the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in Tokyo. Japan, She is on the staff of KGK (the Japanese equivalent of lVGF)and for the past year has been trying to encourage a group of graduate students calling itself the Christian Scientists' Fellowship. Jan wrote to ASA some months ago to invite any ASA or CSCA members visiting Japan to contact her. Such visits could encourage Japanese brothers and sisters who are preparing to serve Christ through their scholarly pursuits. Professor Iganaki is a biophysicist who has done much to encourage young Christian scholars. He spent some time at L'Abri while studying in Europe and has written a book whose title Jan roughly translates as The Decapitation of Evolution. Its main theme is the necessity for distinguishing between evolution as science and evolution as philosophy (what many call "evolutionism"). Jan thinks the book might be a contribution to the discussion of creation /evolution in the West and wonders if ASA might have any way of publishing a translation or finding another publisher for it. For you world travelers, Jan Sordyl's address is: KGK (c / o OSCC), 2-1 SurugadaiKanda, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101, Japan.

Brian Sutherland of Victoria, B.C., received in May 1983 the first honorary Doctor of Divinity degree ever awarded by Regent College in Vancouver. Brian, retired after a long technical career in the Canadian mining and metals industry, was one of Regent's founders and was the first chair of Regent's Board ( 1968-72). We learned about Brian's honor from the summer issue of Regent's quarterly Bulletin (2130 Wesbrook Mail, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1W6), which also had a brief article by Miriam Adeney, adjunct professor of missions and cross-cultural communication. (In the article Miriam mentioned that her manuscript and her third child were both due on the same day, April 30. A footnote added in press reported that Michael Wilderforce Adeney didn't make his appearance until May 10-but the article was delivered on time.-Ed.)

Frank Tichy teaches science at the American Cooperative School in Monrovia, Liberia. This Spring he was in the U.S. trying to increase financial suppoiry for several Liberian young people who serve as traveling secretaries for Scripture Union, visiting schools and churches throughout Liberia. Scripture Union seeks to present the Word of God to young people especially and to promote thoughtful Bible reading among people of all ages. Worldwide, more than 2 million Bible readers use S.U. notes in more than 150 languages and dialects. The U.S. address is Scripture Union, 1716 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19103.

Kenneth J. Van Dellen, who teaches geology at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, showed up in a different geological T-shirt each day of the ASA Annual Meeting at George Fox College this summer. He promised to supply those interested with the name and address of his tailor. It turns out that the entrepreneur behind Softwear Unlimited International (Star Route Box 38, Winthrop, WA 98862) is also a geologist, but the catalog he will send you on request pictures all kinds of crazy T-shirts, only a few of them risque. Some are as subtle as the one that has "The Doppler Effect" printed in blue in front (approaching) but in red on the back. Other mottos include "Entropy Isn't What It Used to Be," "Friction is a Drag," and "if you can read this. thank a teacher." Another piece of data Ken offers to supply was the source of a poem, "Calvinist Farming," quoted by keynote speaker Loren Wilkinson. The poem by Sietze Bunting (a.k.a. Stanley Wiersma of Calvin College's English Dept.) appears in a collection of his poems called Purpaleanie and Other Permutations (The Middleburg Press, Box 166, Orange City, IA 51041. $5.95). Ken also recommends from the same source Bunting's Style and Class ($7.95) and a cassette tape of his reading from Purpaleanie ($5.25, all items postpaid if payment accompanies order).

John Van Zytveld is on an 18-month leave of absence from Calvin College in Michigan, serving as associate program director of solid state physics at the National Science Foundation. John left Grand Rapids for Washington, D.C., last January. His family joined him in June after his oldest daughter graduated from high school. He thinks that when he gets back to Calvin in July 1984 he'll probably stay awhile. It was only a couple of years ago that John spent ayear as a senior Fulbright-Hays lecturer at Yarmouie University in Irbid, Jordan. The U.S. capital is a somewhat different environment. of course, but John says it has been interesting to spend some time on the other end of the research funding process.

A. Kurt Weiss, professor of physiology at the U. of Oklahoma College of Medicine, has been elected to another four-year term on the Council of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine. Kurt reported months ago that the April 1983 meeting of the Federation Christian Fellowship in Chicago was one of the largest and best ever, with some 90 scientists present from the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Chief attraction was speaker Walter C. Randall of Loyola Medical School in Chicago, current president of the American Physiological Society. Dr. Randall had reserved the entire evening to speak to the FCF gathering on "Is Medical Research in Jeopardy?" Having just recovered from coronary bypass surgery, he told how certain procedures used to restore him to health had been known to him only a few years earlier in their experimental stages. He was introduced by his son, David C. Randall, professor of physiology at the U. of Kentucky, who spoke of his father as not only an early scientific mentor but also a strong Christian influence in his life. In the discussion period, physiologist Dan Osmond of the U. of Toronto made a plea for a simpler lifestyle for scientists. Afterward, many friendships were renewed in informal conversations. Besides Kurt, Gordon Searle of Iowa and Theodore Cole of South Carolina have attended most of the FCF get-togethers, and David Bruce of Wheaton and Quinton Rogers of U.C. Davis have made arrangements for earlier meetings. This year's meeting was arranged by Kenneth Dormer of Oklahoma's physiology department, who has agreed to make the arrangements for the 1984 FASEB meeting in St. Louis. Richard Huston of Ross Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, sent out notices to the FCF mailing list. Largest contingent ( 18) was from the Oral Roberts medical and dental schools but others came from as far away as Switzerland. One medical scientist from France came, who has only recently begun work in the U.S.-and still more recently accepted Jesus Christ as the Lord of his life.