NEWSLETTER

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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 23 Number 1                                                                                              February/March 1981

MUNRO IN; HERRMANN UP

Donald W. Munro is the new member of our five-person ASA Executive Council. Elected to a regular five-year term by the entire membership, Don replaces physicist Howard van Till whose term expired at the end of 1980. Don is professor and head of the Department of Biology at Houghton College in Houghton, New York. He has a B.S. in biology from Wheaton, M.S. in zoology and Ph.D. in physiology from Penn State, and has been active in ASA affairs at the local and national level since joining the Affiliation in 1962.

The fou rmembers remaining on the Council are physiologist A. Kurt Weiss of the U. of Oklahoma medical school, biochemist Robert L. Herrmann of Oral Roberts University medical school, Del Monte Corporation food chemist Chi Hang Lee, and historian and ancient Near East expert Edwin M. Yamauchi of Miami (OH) University. At its December meeting in Colorado Springs the Executive Council elected its own officers, who become the officers of the Affiliation for the coming year.

Elected president of ASA for 1981 is last year's vice-president, Robert Herrmann, succeeding two-term president Kurt Weiss. Other ASA officers elected are Chi-Hang Lee, vice-president, and Ed Yamauchi, secretary-treasurer.

We'll let retiring president Kurt Weiss break that news in his own words in his personal letter, which you should read all the way through-and take some action on while we're all jubilant and expectant.

We'll stoop to scoop Kurt on one item reported in his letter: relocation of our national office. According to Interim Executive Secretary Harry Lubansky, the office equipment, files, etc., were safely moved on January 3 to space in a building belonging to Judson College, right there in Elgin. The rent is very reasonable and the whole deal is made possible because of Harry's part-time faculty status at Judson, another indication of the Lord's provision for ASA in a difficult time of transition. Maybe we can learn to praise God even for the fire that wiped out our office in 1979. Look at it this way: It meant we had a lot less stuff to move.

Secretary Martha Wildes has reorganized the office and is once again cranking out correspondence. Our address remains the same: P.O. Box 862, Elgin, IL 60120. So does the ASA phone number: (312) 697-5466.

At midnight to-night (December 31, 1980) 1 turn over the presidency of theASAto Dr. RobertHerrman of Oral Roberts University. The two years I have just completed were possibly the most turbulent ever for the ASA as well as for myself. I believe that the future is bright and that we are now standing on the threshold of an enlarged ministry and a potentially greater impact on the scientific community and on society in general than we have ever had before.

In this letter I want to give you a progress report of the affairs of the ASA.

In 1979 a tragedy occurred. The office building in downtown Elgin in which our office was located was destroyed by fire. Many of our records, possessions, and most of our office equipment was destroyed, but fortunately, since the fire occurred at night, no lives were lost and no one was injured. Our insurance company reimbursed us for part of our loss, but our financial situation was precarious. That summer we had a good Annual Meeting on the campus of Stanford University near Palo Alto, CA. Our own Dr. Dick Bube was our main speaker and did a superb job. It was good to become reacquainted with old friends from the western part of the U.S. and to make new ones. Council met with all past presidents in attendance and reassessed the good things we have in operation in the ASA as well as the problem areas. The annual deficit which developed toward the latter part of the year was soon taken care of by contributions from the membership.

The year 1980 began well enough and a marvelous scientific program was arranged for our Annual Meeting a tTaylor University at Upland, IN. A large attendance helped make it one of our most successful meetings. Again old friendships were reinforced and new acquaintances were made. A few days before the meeting Mr. Sisterson tendered his resignation as executive director of the ASA; further, he wanted to assume his new position as pastor of administrative and business affairs at Pulpit Rock Church in Colorado Springs, CO, before the end of the month. Council was again faced with an emergency.

Divine Providence brought us in contact with Dr. Harry Lubansky, a biochemist, who was about to conclude a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology of the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago and had accepted a temporary appointment as a part-time faculty member at Judson College in Elgin, IL. Arrangements were quickly made at Taylor University whereby Dr. Lubansky would become the Interim Executive Secretary of the ASA on a part-time basis and Ms. Martha Wildes, Mr. Sisterson's sister-in-law, who had worked in the ASA office for a few months, would continue to perform the day-by-day affairs in the office.

It must be mentioned that after the fire Mr. Sisterson kindly allowed the ASA to locate its office in the basement of his home. Hoping to retain our telephone number and mailing address for the time being, we continued our activities in Mr. Sisterson's home even after his moving to Colorado. He has recently found a buyer and we must now vacate these premises. In January 1981 we shall relocate our office to a building in Elgin whose use-for Christian purposes has been donated to Judson College, which is renting these facilities to us at a lesser cost than we have had before. Our mailing address and phone number will continue to be P.O. Box 862, Elgin, IL 60120 and (312) 697-5466.

The big question confronting the Executive Council in August was who might in the long term take on the leadership in the ASA. A search committee, consisting of Dr. McIntyre of Texas A & M University and myself, was appointed by Council. There were only a few inquiries, but the calibre of the individuals who inquired was so high that I was frankly astounded. There are obviously a number of us who believe that the ASA has a very bright future which only needs to be launched. The search committee recommended one individual to the Executive Council who unanimously and enthusiastically invited Dr. ROBERT HERRMANN to become our next Executive Director.

Dr. Herrmann plans to terminate his affiliation with Oral Roberts University and his offices with the Christian Medical Society to become the next Executive Director of the ASA around June 1, 1981. He will spend about two thirds of his time in this activity and hopes to spend the remaining third of his time in some kind of academic affiliation, yet to be worked out. When he takes over as Executive Director, the ASA offices will probably be moved from Elgin. At present it seems likely that the greater Boston area will become the site of our headquarters during the latter part of 1981.

Dr. Herrmann recently discussed with Council some of his future plans for the ASA. I am deeply impressed that in Dr. Herrmann we have the kind of individual whom we need as our leader and that he is aware of our strengths, deficiencies, and needs and knows in which direction our ministry needs to be enlarged. Please pray for Bob as he assumes a heavy responsibility.

An Appeal

I cannot conclude this report without calling your attention to the one problem uppermost on my mind for the entire two years of service as your president: our precarious financial condition. At the present time we are heavily in debt. At the end of November our savings account balance was $211.70, while our outstanding bills to Lakeland Press amounted to $15,914.71 and our outstanding indebtedness to the D. William Berry Associates for their services in connection with our direct marketing attempt was $17,800.00 (we did gain over 2,500 new subscribers for the Journal).

Early this month I arranged for an $8,000.00 loan to allow us to begin paying off the Berry Associates and also sent a letter of appeal for financial help to all who had previously contributed to-the ASA. As of  Christmas It brought us a response of $4,000.00. May I appeal here to every member and friend of the ASA to help us get out of debt NOW, so that we can give Bob Herrmann a clean ledger as he takes over as our Executive Director later in the year? I can assure everyone that our finances are accounted for in an orderly manner and that Council's stewardship of our resources is with care. YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED NOW. Please use the form provided in the back of this Newsletter and mail it with your gift to our office in Elgin. Or send a contribution without using the form. Martha will send you a receipt for income tax purposes. ASA is worthy of our sustained support.

Allow me to write a few more lines in praise of our wonderful God and Savior who has so abundantly blessed the Weiss family this year with His grace and mercy. Our only son Tom got engaged to a fine Christian girl in Arizona whom he met three years ago while both attended the University of Arizona. Tom had planned to fly to Tucson on Easter Sunday 1980 to present his fiancÈe Trudy an engagement ring. Earlier that week Trudy became sick . On Wednesday evening before Easter a large ovarian tumor was removed surgically. The pathological report received on Easter Monday was grim: a fast-growing and lethal cancer; the doctor gave her between two weeks and one year to live.

Trudy told us then that she believed in miracles and that she was claiming one for her, but I have to admit that my attitude was more neutral than expectant. Many individuals in many churches from Oklahoma to California, and also in the East, began to pray for Trudy.

After two chemotherapy treatment series the cancer indicators in Trudy's blood (the a feta proteins) had subsided and after five months of treatment an exploratory operation was planned. This came right after our Taylor University meeting. The operation lasted five hours and more than 100 tissue biopsies were taken. When all the results were in, Trudy was declared CURED. It made somewhat more of a believer out of me regarding what our God can and cannot do. It brought both Tom and Trudy closer to the Lord and they have just spent the happiest Christmas ever. I know that not everybody who has cancer is cured. Why did HE love US so? I know now much better than ever before what Paul and Silas meant when they said: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, ANY THY HOUSE" (Acts 16:31).

To God be the glory!

I consider it a privilege to have been the president of the ASA during these last two eventful years and I look toward an enlarged ministry of the ASA in the years ahead. -A. Kurt Weiss, Ph.D.

DECLARE GOD'S GLORY WITH US

The theme of the 1981 ASA ANNUAL MEETING, to be held AUGUST 14-18 at EASTERN COLLEGE in ST. DAVIDS, PENNSYLVANIA, will be "THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD." Already lined up to fit that theme (taken from Psalm 19:1) is keynote speaker Owen Gingerich of the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory and Harvard University.

Chairing the program committee for 1981 is Gerald D. Hess of the Department of Biology at Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027. He is working on plans for a symposium on the theme, with such potential ASA astronominees as Kyle Cudworth of the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin and Bob Newman and Herman Eckelmann, authors of Genesis One & the Origin of the Earth (IVP, 1977). Gerald would appreciate your suggestions for other symposium participants. We suspect that Paul Arveson has already been asked to put on one of his superb astronomical slide shows or to bring us something brand new from his "NASA connection."

No telling when you'll receive the official call for papers, with our office somewhere between Mars and Venus and with cosmic rays beswitching our computer's circuits but why wait? If you have a paper to contribute on the meeting's theme, or on any other aspect of the relationship of science to faith, send Gerald Hess the title and about a two hundred-word abstract now to be sure of getting on the program.

Jay W. Moore of the Department of Biology of Eastern College (St. Davids, PA 19087), chairing the local arrangements committee, is already at work preparing hospitality for us. The Philadelphia area and nearby Washington, D.C., are centers of natural beauty, human accomplishment, and historical treasure. Plan a vacation your family will long remember. Come ring the Liberty Bell-and help ASA declare the glory of God.

Our Al Smith, professor and chair of the Department of Biology at Wheaton College in Illinois, has a B.A. in biology from Wheaton, B.D. from Northern Baptist Seminary, M.S. in ecology from Northern Illinois, and Ph.D. in plant ecology from the U. of Chicago. Active in Evangel (General Conference) Baptist Church in Wheaton, Al has served as secretary for the Chicago ASA section, worked on various local ASA projects, and given a paper at the 1973 Annual Meeting. In addition to professional publications he has written on science and faith for Moody Monthly and Universitas.

A member of ASA since 1965, Al wants both our theology and our science to be good. He recognizes that Christians called to a scientific vocation have different gifts. Some of us focus on witness to scientific colleagues of the saving grace of the Creator, others on witness to Christians of "their need to live knowledgeably and fruitfully in a scientific world." Still others have the gift of offering "guidance toward solution of great problems in bioethics, world hunger, and human rights." Al, thankful "for these and more," has hope that ASA will lead the way in all these areas. We know Al will be in there helping us take that lead.

Here's a great opportunity to fill out your run of this outstanding publication, replace your loaned copies that never returned, keep extras on hand to give or lend, or endow a school or church library with a (nearly) complete set.

In "NABT on the Alert" in the last issue of the Newsletter we described an editorial on "The Challenge of Creationism" in American Laboratory, written by Wayne Moyers, executive director of the National Association of Biology Teachers. Thanks to Mary Jane Mills of Galveston, Texas, and Richard Humphrey of Glendale, California, we received copies of a reply to that editorial by ASA member Donald F . Calbreath of Durham, North Carolina. Don, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, serves as a clinical chemist in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Durham County General Hospital aAd as adjunct professor at Duke University Medical Center.

Don's guest editorial, "The Challenge of Creationism: Another Point of View," (American Laboratory,  Vol . 12, No. 11, Nov 1980), begins by discussing the effect on human values of one's answer to Moyer's "fundamental question": "Have we descended from the beasts or were we divinely created in God's image?" Then he addresses the present educational situation: "The child is not presented with evolution as a theory. Subtle statements are made in science texts as early as the second grade (based on my reading of my children's textbooks). Evolution is presented as reality, not as a concept that can be questioned. The authority of the educational system compels belief and the attitudes are gradually molded without an honest statement of ultimate purpose."

Then Don chides Moyer for implying that objectivity is all on the side of the scientists, who are evolutionists, whereas creationists are all religious dogmatists. After mentioning the Creation Research Society he says: "Another organization not mentioned in Dr. Moyer's letter is the American Scientific Affiliation, composed in part of scientists from a variety of disciplines who profess Jesus Christ as their Savior. The ASA does not officially take a strong anti-evolutionary position, but the issue has been seriously and thoroughly debated by its members."

Don's concluding statement: "The questions are more complex than Dr. Moyer indicates and will not be resolved by grandiose statements and pressure by scientists, but by permitting the free and open debate which is supposed to be a part of the scientific process."

Glenn Kirkland of Bethesda, Maryland, sent us a clipping of two letters to the Washington Star responding to comments of religion editor Jim Castelli ("Reagan Remark on Evolution Not Helpful," Sept 6, 1980). Stephen J. Darling of Sterling, Wrgin-4, -and-E4gin Groseclo" of Washington, D.C., argued that evolution is only a theory, no more scientific than special creation, and in serious question by many scientists.

Glenn also sent us the Sept 1980 issue of The Dial, published by WETA/26 and FM 91 in Washington but also going to subscribers to public TV stations in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles (a circulation of 650,000). In Vol. 1, No. 1 of The Dial, a major section called "The Folks Who Hate Darwin" features photos of Duane Gish and Richard Bliss of San Diego's Institute for Creation Research, engineer Luther Sunderland of Apalachin, New York, and mining developer William Ball of Indianapolis, Indiana, plus capsule quotes from each on the superiority of special creation over evolution. The section also contains a small side-bar ("The Creationists' Clout") with relatively accurate information on recent-creationist organizations and activities, and a five-page article by ecologist Garret Hardin on "What to Say to These People." Hardin acknowledges that Darwin's theory has triumphed only among professional biologists, "but in the public domain, things are quite otherwise." He puts "scientific creationism" and astrology both in the category of "watertight hypotheses," citing Philip Gosse's Omphalos (1857) as containing the basic creationist hypothesis, which "can never be proved false."

On the west coast, several creationist stories appeared in Bay area newspapers this winter. In January the Berkeley Independent & Gazette reported that the school board in Livermore, California, site of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory operated for the government by the U. of California, had received complaints that teacher Ray Baird was "teaching scientific creationism to fifth- and sixth-grade students." District officials said the materials "often asked students to choose between believing in God and believing in evolution." Baird (who evidently used materials from the Institute for Creation research intended for Christian schools rather than public schools) "has denied trying to indoctrinate students and conceded that some of the material might have been inappropriate for a classroom."

In a December story probably picked up from San Francisco papers, the Independent & Gazette reported that Dean Kenyon, a "controversial San Francisco State University professor who believes 'there are no errors in the Bible' instructs his evolution class that the entire cosmos came into existence by supernatural means." (Yes, this seems to be the same Dean Kenyon who co-authored Biochemical Predestination with Gary Steinman in 1969.) The story says that in the last four years Kenyon has shifted to creationism, quoting him as saying that "In the relatively recent past, 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, the entire cosmos was brought into existence out of nothing at all by supernatural creation." Evidently Kenyon took a leave in 1969 to do study at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. The story surfaced as an internal conflict at S.F. State, quoting professor Lawrence Swan, "one of Kenyon's most outspoken campus critics," as being "embarrassed" to have such teaching on the campus, and Biology Department chair William Wu as saying that he "has limited the time Kenyon may spend on his theory during a given class." Wu said that Kenyon's classes are "audited by another faculty member" but did r1VtUV1r1l!VCIMc111. TW5Ml`V#rS-.F-.State professors are quoted as saying that Kenyon's views made the teaching of science ,'more interesting."

The Study Group for the Anthropology of Christianity is a group of Christians who meet for discussion and fellowship every year at the American Anthropological Association (AAA). The meeting held in December 1980 in Washington, D.C. featured Marvin Mayers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics on patterns of authority in the Bible. Marv's comments on Paul's view of male-female relationships "evoked considerable discussion and debate," according to our informant, James H. Stirling of Baltimore, Maryland. At a second evening's gathering in Ken Tollefson's room both the fellowship and continued discussion were "warm."

Plans were laid to have another meeting of the Study Group in December 1981 when the AAA meets in Los Angeles. The William Carey Institute was proposed as a likely group to sponsor that session.

Jim didn't know which Study Group participants were ASA members because ASA wasn't mentioned. In fact Jim wonders if ASA is the American Sociological Association. We've sent him a brochure on the American Scientific Affiliation, and asked him what anthropologists were doing at the American Automobile Association. Everybody knows what Triple-A stands for.

HOW TO SERVE GOD OVERSEAS. NO. 14

1. Via Arnold Dyck of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines we've received this note of interest (on the investment some of you have made in brothers and sisters overseas):

"Ms, Norie Payawan and the rest of the IVCF Grad Team at the University of Southern Mindanao wish to thank the members of ASA and CSCA who have sent books for the IVDF Reading Room and Library. Some parcels arrived without return addresses so they aren't able to thank you individually.

"If others wish to send used textbooks, please note that books related to agriculture are particularly needed."

2. Carrie Grable Bare, serving with husband Randy on IVCF staff in Santa Cruz, California, calls attention to a significant book from Inter-Varsity Missions: In the Gap: What it Means to be a World Christian (1979, paper, $4.25), by David Bryant, IVCF missions specialist. Bryant agrues that Christians should be giving their best thought to figuring out how to reach the "unreached people groups" comprising about 2.5 billion people. He calls that infinitely more stimulating, challenging, and satisfying to tackle than anything the American "success system" is likely to come up with. "World Christians" don't all go overseas; some stay at home and send textbooks to the Philippines or witness to international students on their own campuses, What unites them is a vision of the world as a whole, in need of continuing demonstrations of God's love in Christ.

3. Our Dec/Jan issue took note of opportunities in Muslim countries. A reminder: there are 700 million Muslims throughout the world, not all in the Middle East, Asia, or Africa. France has more Muslims at the present time than evangelical Christians. In the February 1981 issue of His magazine, Abd-al-Masih (a pseudonym meaning "servant of the Lord" for an Arab Christian missionary to Islam) discusses "Why Is It Difficult for a Muslim to Become a Christian?" Muslims associate Christians with both the brutality of the Crusades and western materialism, and are offended by several basic Christian doctrines. Further, the social struc ture in Islamic countries militates against conversion, which may literally sentence a new believer to death.

Yet the Good News is reaching Muslims. One breakthrough has been the multi-language printing of The Life and Teaching of Jesus the Messiah, written especially for Muslims by Dennis E. Clark, who has had years of experience in witnessing to Muslims. Copies of the Arabic edition, printed in Lebanon, are spreading throughout the Middle East, where Arabic is spoken by about 50 million Muslims. A Farsi edition of 3,000 copies was printed in Tehran for the 16 million Iranians who speak that (Persian) language; that edition will be reprinted in the U.S., where 18 percent of all foreign students are from Iran: 51,870 of a total of 286,265 in 1980 (according to the Institute for International Education). A Pushtu edition is for Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan (15 million), a Swahili edition for the 6 million Muslims in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Other African languages include Somali, Hausa, and Yoruba.

In Asia the Messiah book will be available in Urdu, Sindhi, Indonesian, and Bengali. An English edition was the first

to be printed, a special English version has recently appeared, and a French version will be printed this spring. Some 24 million Muslims are working, studying, or traveling in Europe, 1 million in Latin America, and 2 million in the U.S. and Canada. (Most of this information on the Muslim world is from a recent Prayer Calendar of the David C. Cook Foundation of Elgin, Illinois-Ed.)

For more information on the Muslim world and how it can be reached for Christ, see Unreached Peoples '80: The Challenge of the World's Unfinished Business (David C. Cook, 1980, paper, $6.95). Compiled by World Vision's MARC staff and edited by our own C. Peter Wagner and Edward R. Dayton, the '80 volume in this excellent series focuses on worldwide evangelism among Muslim people groups.

1. The Institute for Christian Studies announces publication of a book examining key problems of physics in the light of a new theoretical paradigm based on the Christian philosophy developed by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. T. Vollenhoven. M. D. Stafleu of the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands wrote the 237-page book, entitled Time and Again: A Systematic Analysis of the Foundations of Physics. "After a lucid presentation of his frame of reference, Stafleu deals with number and space, metric and measurement, the theory of relativity, wave packets, probability in quantum physics, and related problems." Time andAgain ($19 .95 plus $1.00 for mailing, sent with order) is available from Institute for Christian Studies, 229 College St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R4.

2. The Christian Free University Curriculum announces the latest addition to its series designed to address the tension points between modern academic and orthodox Christian viewpoints in a scholarly manner. Former ASA member Arthur C. Cusfance is the author of The Mysterious Matter of Mind (Probe/Zondervan, 1980, paper, $2.95), which also contains a response by ASA member Lee Edward Travis. Custance, a Canadian physiologist and anthropologist, has also written the 1 0-volume Doorway Papers on science/ faith issues; Travis is the physiological psychologist who founded the Graduate School of Psychology at FullerTheological Seminary. Custance's new book, exploring what is called "mind" and evaluating the various monistic and dualistic theories, is intended primarily for use as supplemental reading material in the university classroom.

Christian Free University books should be ordered from Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI 49506, but further information about Probe's materials and ministries may be obtained from Probe Ministries International, Box 5012, Richardson, TX 75080. From Probe are available the six earlier CFU paperbacks with a cassette tape to accompany each (called the "Pathfinder" series, $4.95 each), and "Campus Compass," a notebook of study materials plus six other cassettes of basic information for Christian young people struggling to find Biblical answers to constant questions against their faith ($19.95 a set).

Douglas Bulthius (5 Frank St., Newtown, Victoria 3220, Australia) seeks a faculty position in biology at a Christian liberal arts college or university in the U.S. He has an A.B. in education (biology & chemistry) from Calvin College (1970), and an M.S. in limnology from Michigan State (1973); he expects to receive his Ph.D. in botany at LaTrobe University in 1981. Doug was born in Bellingham, Washington, has seven years in research experience in marine biology and several publications, plus international experience (ten years in Nigeria where his parents were missionaries). He is married and has two children. He is interested in good teaching and good scholarship integrated with an active faith in Jesus Christ.

John Crellin (574 WIDB, Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University, Provo, LIT 84602) also seeks a faculty position in biology at a Christian college. John is finishing his Ph.D. in zoology at Brigham Young. His specialty is environmental science with an emphasis on environmental health. He is a born-again Christian who has already taught a year at a Christian college. He would be glad to hear about open positions, at (801) 378-4145.

The King's College in New York anticipates an opening for a full-time faculty member in biology commencing August 1981. Contact: Dr. Wayne Frair, Biology Department, The King's College, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510. (Received 5 Jan 1981.)

Northwestern College in Iowa is seeking to fill four faculty positions: (1) an economist to teach in the Dept. of Business & Economics; (2) a chairperson for the Dept. of Physical Education, with teaching and some coaching responsibilities; (3) an instructor or assistant professor of physical education; (4) a resource specialist with educational background in computer science or mathematics and responsibility to help faculty develop computer-based instructional materials for curricula in the natural and social sciences. Masters degrees required for all positions, Ph.D. preferred. Equal opportunity employer. Letters of application to: Dr. Harold Heie, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA 51041. (Received 23 Jan 1981.)

Taylor University in Indiana seeks a professor of information sciences to begin August 29, 1981. Interest and ability in undergraduate teaching is mandatory; a Ph.D. in computer science or a related field is desirable, but extensive experience in business or industry would be considered favorably; breadth of knowledge is also desirable. The appointee (rank and salary dependent on qualifications and experience) will teach data structures, computer organization, data communications, data bases, simulation, and perhaps an occasional course in systems analysis. Additional time will be spent supervising student programming, student practicurns in business and industry, and programming teams or a club activity. This is a tenure track position at a four-year liberal arts college with a strong evangelical tradition. Contact: Dr. Robert D. Pitts, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Taylor University, Upland, IN 46989. (Received 30 January 1981.)

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

GUELPH

On Tuesday evening, January 13, the annual business meeting of the section was followed by presentation of the "Creation and Evolution" tape-slide show prepared by Toronto CSCA members. One of them, Dan Osmond, associate professor of physiology at the U. or Toronto, was on hand to respond to questions.

A study group meeting every other Wednesday at noon in Room 301 of the University Centre began on January 21, tek*q "19 HeNg0eii and Mo Rise of Modern Science by R. Hooykaas. Copies were available at the annual meeting. Margaret Fallding is the president of this active young section , Ed Den Haan the secretary.

The first meeting of 1981 was scheduled for Friday evening, February 6, at Glenn Kirkland's home in Bethesda, Maryland, to hear Bill Lucas speak on "Varieties of Holistic Medicine."

A preliminary announcement has gone out for the spring meeting, to be held April 3 at Marion College in Marion. Speaker will be V. Elving Anderson, professor of genetics at the Dight Institute of Human Development, U. of Minnesota. Elving is tentatively scheduled to speak at the Marion College chapel in the morning, on "Genetics and Christian Values" at 4 p.m., and on "Genetics and the Future" at7 p.m., with supper and business meeting between his afternoon and evening talks.

The "South Bay Subsection" held its second meeting of 1980-81 on Saturday, January 31, at Peninsula Covenant Church in Redwood City. Speaker was Dr. Rob Johnston, professor of religion at the U. of Western Kentucky at Bowling Green, currently visiting professor of theology at New College for Advanced Christian Studies in Berkeley. Johnston's lecture on "Curing Homosexuality" considered two questions, one from the social sciences ("is it possible?"), the other Biblical ("Is it appropriate?"). The Newsletter editor missed that one because his 1966 VW was sick, causing him to consider two questions, one mechanical ("Can it be fixed?"), the other economic ("Can we afford it?").

Annual dues of $3.00 are payable to the secretary, Carol Lind, 3727 Hamilton Way, Redwood City, CA 94062.

Miriam Adeney completed work for her Ph.D. last spring, then spent two months accompanied by young son Daniel in the Philippines, where she worked with Christian writers on various projects and saw her 1972 book, How to Write, republished. Miriam teaches cross-cultural subjects at Seattle Pacific University, is currently co-authoring two books, one on Christian development projects in Third World countries with Arthur Beals, director of Seattle-based World Concern, the other on preparing for life in a society hostile to Christians with her father-in-law, David Adeney, pioneer missionary to students in China years ago. With all that, Miriam finds time to work with internationals and those who want to befriend them. She points out that in Seattle alone are nearly 2,000 Muslims from other countries, and 20,000 Filipinos.

M. J. Chambers teaches soils and climatology on the agricultural faculty of Indonesian National University in Bogor, Djawa, Indonesia. John has his Ph.D. in geography and geomorphology and he and Ruth serve under Overseas Missionary Fellowship. We received news of them recently through entomologist Arnold Dyck, whose professional travels on behalf of the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines took him to Indonesia in September. Betty Mae Dyck says the Chambers' story ought to be written up for HOW TO SERVE GOD OVERSEAS, because they've been at it long enough to be good at it.

Gary R. Collins is editor of Christian Counselor's Library published by Word, Inc., of Waco, Texas. The library consists of 28 cassettes, covering the whole range of counseling topics, drawing from the experience of both professional psychologists and pastoral counselors, plus Gary's book, Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide. Gary, professor of pastoral psychology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, is a past president of ASA.

Gordon Edward Fish of Falls Church, Virginia, married Patricia May Balsam on January 10 at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland. Glenn Kirkland of Fourth Pres sent us a copy of the wedding invitation, which had a feature we'd never seen before. In addition to a brief paragraph of tribute to their parents "for their love, encouragement, and faithful Christian example," the bride and groom included a paragraph of descriptive information about each of their attendants, including the circumstances of their friendship with them, a lovely touch.

Reid Judd is a computer programmer at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, California. In his spare time recently Reid has been exploring the nature of statistical inference and the evidence for randomness in such classical "psi" experiments as card-guessing, seeing if his computer will ring a bell-shaped curve.

Arthur W. Kac is an M.D. and author of The Messiahship of Jesus: What Jews and Jewish Christians Say, published by Moody Press. The Messiahship of Jesus is the message Arthur has been trying for many years to get across to the Jewish people. The little quarterly magazine he edits for Jewish readers, The Interpreter ("Dedicated to the interpretation of the religious message of the Bible") is now in its 22nd year of doing just that. The address of the magazine is Arthur's home address, 2419 Eastridge Road, Timonium, MD 21093.

Glenn Kirkland of Bethesda, Maryland, is such a faithful reporter of news from the Washington, D.C., area, that we'll reward him with a plug for a new book written by his son-in-law, M. Blaine Smith, director of Nehemiah Ministries, Inc., a Washi gton-based program providing resources for pastors and churches. Blaine's Knowing God's Will: Biblical Principles of Guidance (IVP, 1980, paper, $3.95) has a foreword by Fourth Presbyterian Church pastor Richard C. Halverson.