NEWSLETTER
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AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 25 Number 1  February/March 1983


HUNT TO COUNCIL; YAMAUCHI PRESIDENT

Ann H. Hunt of Greenwood, Indiana, has been elected by the ASA membership to serve a five-year term on the Executive Council, replacing David L. Willis (whom you elected last year to fill out Bob Herrmann's term when Bob resigned to become Executive Director. Got it?). Ann is a physical chemist in Eli Lilly and Company's central research lab in Indianapolis. As she has moved about the country in her scientific career Ann has served as an officer in both the Gulf-Southwest and New England local sections. Currently she is president-elect of the Indiana section.

The Executive Council elects its own officers, who serve as officers of the Affiliation for the coming year. Our ASA president for 1983 is Edwin Yamauchi of the Dept. of History of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Vice-president is Donald W. Munro of the Dept. of Biology of Houghton College, Houghton, New York. Secretary is Russell H. Heddendorf of the Dept. of Sociology of Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee (having moved this fall from Geneva College). Remaining on the Council is retiring president Chi-Hang Lee, research chemist for Del Monte Corporation in Walnut Creek, California.

(One important person sometimes overlooked is the candidate for Council who got the second-highest number of votes. This year that was Paul Arveson, a sparkplug of the Baltimore-Washington local section well-known to those who attend ASA Annual Meetings for several superb audiovisual shows he has produced. We're grateful to Paul, a physicist for the U.S. Naval Ship R&D Center, for his role in the election. We expect to hear-and see-more from him in the future.-Ed.)

HAPPY NEWS YEAR

Happy news: ASA has shifted to a different printer for both Journal and Newsletter, Science Press of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, which already prints such journals as Blood and J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. Their office in Woburn, Mass., is convenient to Ipswich, and several Christians on their staff seem to appreciate what ASA is trying to do. The shift may have caused some delay with the last issue but we hope this one sets a record in reaching you. The copy is leaving Berkeley on the last day of 1982.

Meanwhile ASA keeps whittling down its debt to Lakeland Color Press, hoping to pay it off early in 1983. We can do that easily if more "sustaining members" will join those who're trying to give roughly 1 percent of their income to the Affiliation's work. (Note that the third ASA office is "secretary." Didn't that used to be secretary-treasurer, back when we had a treasury?-Ed.)

Well, silver and gold have we none, maybe, but our Newsletter files runneth over with good stories for coming issues. (That's a switch, too. Maybe we should pass this job on while we have a backlog to make it easier for a successor.-Ed.)

So far there's been no rush of applicants for the JASA editorship that's open, but then this Newsletter is a fun job. We're keeping an eye on John Knapp If of SUNY Oswego, after seeing his new book of Bible nursery rhymes, A Pillar of Pepper (David C. Cook, 1982: illus. by Dianne Turner Deckert, $10.95). Anybody who'd rhyme "Oh me ah, Oh my ah" with "Thyatira" and "Oh my ah, Oh me ah" with "Laodicea" could do wonders with the creationist/ evolutionist controversy. In fact, his poem "The Creation" is a reverent but rollicking rhyme that might get both sides singing together. For sheer fun, though, try this stanza from "The Food from God":

"Could I have an orange or banana? 

I've just had enough 

Of this fluffily white stuff;

It's boring to eat only manna!


KEYNOTER SET FOR ANNUAL MEETING

Great news: LOREN WILKINSON will give the three keynote addresses at the 1983 ASA ANNUAL MEETING at GEORGE FOX COLLEGE, NEWBERG, OREGON, AUGUST 5-7. Wilkinson, professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., is perhaps best known as the editor of Earthkeeping: Christian Stewardship of Natural Resources (Eerdmans, 1980).

Theme of the meeting is NORTH AMERICAN RESOURCES AND WORLD NEEDS. Wilkinson will discuss the implications of three .,visions" of North America, as ( 1) Frontier, (2) Wilderness, and (3) Garden. His lectures will be rooted in biblical understanding but face today's circumstances. Many papers at the meeting will undoubtedly provide specific illustrations of the theme, but papers on other topics where science, technology, human values, and Christian faith meet are welcome.

Born in Oregon, Loren Wilkinson has traversed the intellectual as well as the geographical landscape. After receiving a B.A. in anthropology at Wheaton (you can't get that kind anymore! Ed.), he did an M.A. in writing at Johns Hopkins and another in philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School before earning his Ph.D. in humanities at Syracuse University. For several years after that he directed an environmental studies program at Seattle Pacific University's "outdoor campus" on Whitby Island. After the 1977-78 year at Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship (which resulted in the Earthkeeping book), he taught at the Oregon Extension campus of Trinity College before moving to Regent.

At Regent Wilkinson has taught a range of courses, including Christianity and the foundations of science, Christian apologetics, the theology of public discipleship, and the Christian imagination. This versatile Christian scholar has an enduring love for his native land. One article on "The End of the West" appeared in Pacific Search, another on "Language and Land in the Pacific Northwest" in the U. of Western Washington's literary magazine. Come see the Northwest he loves and hear the challenge of his keynote lectures, at our 1983 ANNUAL MEETING.

ENLIGHTENING FLASHES

News Flash No. 1: At presstime, Howard Claassen has graciously stepped in as acting program chair for the 1983 ANNUAL MEETING at the request of appointed chair David Willis. This fall Dave faced several setbacks including the unexpected resignation of a key assistant in his department at Oregon State and the sudden death of a colleague whose classes he had to take over. Now Dave and Earline have been called to California where her brother is in what seems to be a terminal phase of cancer, and where they may have to make new arrangements for care of Earline's mother.

In the light of these uncertainties, please address communications about the program of the 1983 ANNUAL MEETING to Howard Claassen, 15097 Highway 66. Ashland. OR 97520: tel. (503) 482-1576. How about organizing a symposium?

News Flash No. 2: ASA will officially support the evangelical conference on THE CHURCH AND PEACEMAKING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE in Pasadena in May. The Executive Council voted to do so after enough of you sent in "peace-bucks" to cover the $250 donation asked of affiliate organizations, plus a bit over $100 travel money for ASA workshop leaders. More on that conference in the next issue.

Meanwhile, the technology of war and peace seem to be on the Executive Director's mind (see below):

HERRMANN-EUTICS

Recently I read a New York Times article expressing concern about America's transcendent position as weapons purveyor to the world. It reminded me of a 1975 account in the Journal of the Victoria Institute (something like a British counterpart of JASA) of the famous German chemist Fritz Haber, discoverer of the process for the industrial synthesis of ammonia. In 1914 Haber was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Despite the violent protestations of his family and the resignation of several close colleagues, he agreed to use the Institute's resources to develop gas warfare.

While perfecting the chlorine and mustard gases for battlefield weapons, Haber also supervised development of several prussic acid derivatives as pesticides for fumigating barracks. After Germany's defeat, those agents, called "zykions," went "on the shelf" as too dangerous for commercial use as fumigants. Later, though, when Hitler came to power, anti-Semitism was unleashed, and a new and diabolical application was found for the zykions.

Haber, a German Jew and in his last years a proud Zionist, died in 1934, leaving three half-sisters. All three went to concentration camps. Two survived, possibly out of deference for the name Haber, but the third died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. She died from a lethal dose of Zykion B, as did one-third of all the Jews slain by the Nazis. Noting that "zykion" is the German word for "cyclone," the writer recalled the words of the prophet Hosea: "they sow the wind, and reap the whirtwbrid"

At the beginning of this new year it is appropriate to take stock. Many people are asking where our personal lifestyles, corporate goals, and national policies are taking us. Those of us who seek to follow Jesus are faced daily with challenges to compromise our beliefs and ideals. It is my fervent hope that members of ASA, as individual Christians in science and as citizens of the most powerful nation on earth, will find strength to speak for God and His Son, and to sow truth and love in all we do, that a harvest of peace may come-and not the whirlwind.  -Bob Herrmann

COMING EVENTS IN TORONTO

The fifth annual Christianity and Learning lecture series will be held at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies on 9- 11 February 1983. Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Georgia-Harkness Professor of Theology at Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, will discuss "Women's Experience and Christian Thought.'' drawing on her recent work on a feminist critique and reconstruction of systematic theology.

Later in the year. Dr. Anthony B. Cramp. professor of economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, will conduct a one-week seminar at the Institute on "Economics in Christian Perspective," ICS principal Bernard Zy1stra says the seminar. beginning June 27. should appeal to undergraduate and graduate students who have just begun to struggle with issues in that field from a Christian perspective. For more information, write: Institute for Christian Studies. 229 College St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1 R4.

HUNTING FOR MICROBE HUNTERS

Will any ASA or CSCA microbiologists be attending the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans, 6-11 March 1983? According to Wheaton College's Pattle P. T. Pun (whose new Zondervan book, Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict? was noted in the last issue', quite a few Christians have been able to meet for fellowship during ASM annual meetings.

To find other Christians at the meeting, first locate Pattie Pun. Easy. He'll be presenting a paper on "Cloning of the gene of Bacillus subtilis on a temperate bacteriophage p 11. " He did that work last summer at Wheaton under a Research Corporation grant, exploring the splicing of a sporulations pecific gene from B. subtilis i involved in the regulation of transcription  onto the DNA of a temperate B. subtilis phage.

Incidentally, Pattie Pun recommends the Research Corporation Foundation as a source of small grants under which undergraduates can be trained in research. (So does the Newsletter editor. That's where his first research money came from, 25 years ago. Then their address was 405 Lexington Ave, New York 17, N.Y.; now their ZIP must be 10017.-Ed.)

Students helped study the intracellular synthesis of ppApp (similar in structure to the famous second messenger cAMP) in sporulating cells of a conditional sporulation mutant. That work has recently been published in "Regulation of ppApp synthesis during sporulation of a conditional rifampin mutant of Bacillus subtilis," Experientia 38, 663-4, 1982. Now Pun is investigating the possible role of ppApp on sporulation, using genetic cloning techniques.

CHRISTIAN MATHEMATICIANS TO MEET

The Association of Christian Mathematicians will hold its fourth biannual conference at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 25-28 May 1983. Featured speaker will be Willem Kuijk, professor of mathematics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and author of Complementarity in Mathematics: A First Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics and its History.

As in past conferences, several other papers and discussion groups will round out the program. Copies of the Proceedings of the 1977 and 1981 Conferences are still available on request. For information, contact Dr. Robert L. Brabenec, Chair, Dept. of Mathematics, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187.

LOUISIANA LAW LAID LOW

On 22 November 1982 Federal Judge Adrian Duplantier in New Orleans declared that Louisiana's "Balanced Treatment" act is in violation of the state's 1974 constitution. The judge ruled that authority to determine the details of school curricula lies with the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, not the state legislature, which had passed the "creation-science" law in July 1981.

Attorney General William Guste, aided in his defense of the law by creationist lawyer Wendell Bird, has said he will appeal Judge Duplantier's decision. According to reporter Roger Lewin ("ACLU 2, Creationists 0," Science, 10 Dec 1982), if the decision is overturned on appeal, the ACLU's original suit against the law could still be revived.

The ACLU suit was stayed pending the outcome of a creationist suit filed in Baton Rouge, but not revived when the creationist suit was dismissed, because Judge Duplantier decided to go the route of a summary judgment instead. (These legal complexities of the "creationist-evolutionist" controversy begin to make scientific matters like "punctuated equilibria" and genetic "transposable elements" seem like, well, elementary school curricula. -Ed.)

CONFRONTERY AND EFFRONTERY

In June 1982 the annual meeting of the AAAS Pacific Division in Santa Barbara featured a two-day symposium entitled "Evolutionists Confront Creationists." At the ASA Annual Meeting in August we asked Wendell Hyde of Santa Barbara about that confrontation. "it was awful," he said, shaking his head, which was about all we could get out of him. David Siemens of Thousand Oaks sent us a long report of his impressions of the symposium, however, and we've also read the account in the August 1982 Acts & Facts from the Institute for Creation Research.

The symposium was organized by biology professors Frank Awbrey and William Thwaites of San Diego State University. According to Acts & Facts, ICR's Duane Gish accepted Awbrey's invitation to present the creationist position months before the symposium. Later Awbrey suggested that there ought to be two creationist speakers, so Harold Slusher of IGR also accepted his invitation. When Gish and Slusher saw the final

program, with eight evolutionist speakers, Slusher withdrew in protest. Robert Gentry of Columbia Union College in Tennessee, scheduled to give a paper in another session, filled in for Slusher.

Dave Siemens says that Bob Gentry seemed to have the respect of the audience even though his explanation for the anomolous polonium halos he has been studying is a non-uniformitarian one. On the other hand, although Gish came across as a formidable debater, Dave felt embarrassed that Gish and some of the evolutionists seemed willing to exchange "cheap shots" with one another. (That's probably what Wendell meant when he said "It was awful."-Ed.)

The evolutionist speakers were R. S. Root-Bernstein of the Salk Institute on philosophical issues; John Patterson of Iowa State on probability and thermodynamics; Russell Doolittle of LIC San Diego on the origin of life; C. Brent Dalrymple of the U.S. Geological Survey on the age of the earth; Patrick L. Abbott of San Diego State on stratigraphy: Joel Cracraft of U. of Illinois Medical Center on systematics and fossil evidence; Vincent Sarich of UC Berkeley on human evolution; and William Thwaites on evolution vs. design.

In his final comments, Duane Gish challenged the AAAS to provide a meaningful confrontation of evolutionists and creationists by arranging a symposium with equal time for each side. That seems fair enough-though it might merely prolong the embarrassment.

Is it possible that anyone is helped to a better scientific or religious understanding of how our present world came to be by public confrontations? Frankly, it seems unlikely. Of course, at our present stage of knowledge, human life itself seems highly improbable. Yet here we are, praise God-by whatever mechanisms.

In a related session at Santa Barbara, Bradley Sheer, a physiologist and Episcopal presbyter now at Westmont College, expressed hope for a truce between theologically oriented and scientifically oriented persons. He noted that some "antique dealers" want to deal with Darwin instead of current evolutionary theories and use an outdated hermeneutic. Some polemicists abuse science, waste energy trying to prove the unprovable, and try to limit the Almighty to working only by certain kinds of miracles. On the other hand some militant defenders of evolution seem to hold the principle that ''any stigma will do to beat a dogma. "

In the ASA and CSCA we should pray for the "costly grace" to honor those with whom we disagree, to seek the truth and rejoice with whoever finds a piece of it-and to avoid cheap shots.

WORLD VISIONARY

In his capacity as vice-president for mission and evangelism of World Vision International, Edward R. Dayton participated in the annual executive retreat of the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association in September. World Vision president Ted W. Engstrom and MARC director Samuel Wilson also participated. MARC stands for Missions Advanced Research & Communication Center, an outfit that Ed Dayton founded years ago to modernize research in missions.

This will be the eleventh year that Ed Dayton and Ted Engstrom have co-edited Christian Leadership Letter, which now goes to 50,000 people who have requested it. CLL avoids the use of paid-for subscriptions because of the high cost overhead, but a good many readers send in a contribution to help with the cost. You can request CLL from MARC, World Vision International, 919 W. Huntington Dr., Monrovia, CA 91016.

No freebie but a valuable resource available from the same source is the Unreached Peoples series begun in 1979. The '79 issue described the concept of whole groups of people unreached by the Christian gospel; each issue since has focused on a particular group: '80 on Muslim peoples, '81 on Asian peoples; '82 on urban peoples. Unreached Peoples '83, edited by Edward R. Dayton and Samuel Wilson, is subtitled The Refugees Among Us. Write to MARC for a price list of these and other MARC publications.

SIGNS OF THE (GEO)TIMES

After seeing Job 26:7 exegeted in Chemical & Engineering News (ASA News, Aug/ Sept 1982, p. 3), geologist Ken VanDellen of Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, showed us a similar exchange of letters in Geotimes. The verse in question was Zechariah 14:4, about the formation of a valley when the Mount of Olives is split in two. According to Kenneth Verosub of U.C. Davis, that verse is now sometimes cited as an early description of a "strike-slip fault." Verosub commented that the description was really of "an east-west trending rift valley associated with north-south extension, and therefore normal faulting" (Geotimes, June 1981, p. 16).

R. B. Evans responded from Aukland University in New Zealand that "formation of a graben" (long subsided area between two faults) in the passage is of less interest than "the unusual tectonic style and extreme rapidity of the event, involving instantaneous formation of a wide valley into which none of the original land surface is downfaulted.- Also of interest to Evans was rapid establishment of a "horst" (raised rock mass between two faults) in v. 10 and "the associated leveling of all topography upon it-clearly unexplainable by any established geological laws" (Geotimes, Jan 1982, p. 10).

Evans argued that the Zechariah passage should be taken seriously as a prophecy of future events at the time of Christ's return: "it may be current scientific doxy to scorn the Bible and its prophecies as myths and fables: but who knows? We may yet be privileged to see that graben formed."

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

James L. Garner (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; tel. 614-422-2767) seeks a college or university teaching position in physics. He has a B.S. (magna cum laude) in physics from Cleveland State U. ( 1978) and an M.S. from Ohio State, where he is expecting to complete his Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics in August 1983. His research has been mainly in the field of inhomogeneous superconductivity, under professor David Stroud. They have one paper on "Influence of Macroscopic Defects on Transport in Anisotropic Conductors" in Phys. Rev. B 25, 3199 (1982), another in preparation on "Ginzburg-Landau Study of Composite Bimetallic Conductors." James has also investigated the effects of Van der Waal forces in composites and estimated Tc for a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in Josephson Junction arrays. He is familiar with metal physics in general, which he discusses with Ohio State's Amdahl 470 computer in FORTRAN IV. He has been active in the IVCF grad group at Ohio State and attended the 1982 ASA Annual Meeting.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Goshen College in Indiana has a tenure-track position in physics beginning fall 1983. Candidates should have doctoral-level solid state research experience plus dedication to "teaching and inspiring students in the liberal arts setting of a Mennonite college that emphasizes service and peace." The physics department operates the endowed Turner Precision X-Ray Measurements Laboratory. Resum6, transcripts, and letter of application naming three references to: Victor Stoltzfus, Dean, Goshen College, Goshen, IN 46526 (by Feb 15). For information, call prof. Robert Buschert, (219) 533-3161. (Received 3 Dec 1982.)

Whitworth College in Washington has two openings in physics, one of them a joint appointment in computer science, for fall 1983. The first requires a Ph.D. in a recognized branch of physics and knowledge of at least one computer language, the second a Ph.D. in either physics or computer science or M.S. and appropriate experience in both fields. Both positions require demonstrated teaching ability and commitment to the Christian orientation and educational goals of the college. The department has emphasized laboratory teaching and is hence well equipped. Internships for upper-division students in regional laboratories and industries are actively promoted by the physics faculty. Whitworth is "an independent liberal arts college related to the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A." with a setting 11 especially conducive to intellectual and personal growth." Search remains open at least until 7 Feb 1983. Send letter of interest, vita. three references (with addresses and telephone numbers) to: ; 1) Physics Search Committee OR (2) Physics/ Computer Science Search Committee, c/o Personnel Office, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 9925 1. (Received 8 Dec 1982 from Edwin A. Olson, professor of geology and physics, who says: "The physics opening came about as a consequence of the untimely accidental death of our physics chair, Glen Erickson, last June. I had to postpone my sabbatical year to teach physics this year while my sabbatical replacement, Gary Pauckert, a Whitworth graduate with an M.S. in geophysics from the U. of Alberta, handles the geology program.")

Miami University in Ohio has an opening in zoology for a Ph.D. with advanced training in endocrinology. Contact: Dr. Robert G. Sherman, Dept. of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 (by Feb 14). (Received 10 Dec 1982 from history prof Ed Yamauchi, who would like to draw Christian faculty to his institution.)

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

WESTERN MICHIGAN

From section president Dan Anderson we have an enthusiastic report of the fall meeting held October 14 in Grand Rapids. After dinner (at the Pier-28 restaurant) and a brief business meeting chaired by Dan, vice-president Henry Triezenberg introduced the speaker, Hope College psychology professor David Myers. Dave's topic was "Extrasensory Perception." He began with a series of ESP demonstrations:

1. Dave asked the audience of about 30 to try to determine a number he would try to communicate to them by ESP, first a number from 1 to 4, then 1 to 10, then 1 to 50. He would try to "project" the number to the audience by concentrating intently on it. An overwhelming majority got the number each time.

2. Then Dave held a newspaper clipping and a pair of scissors, moving the scissors up and down the clipping until someone in the audience yelled "Stop." He clipped the article at that point, handed the clipped part to John VenZytveld, and asked John to choose a word from the top line, specifying that it should not be a common work like "a," "and," or "the" but a more substantial word. John picked a word and let it be known to the audience. Another person then opened a sealed envelope that Dave had earlier placed on a table. Inside the envelope was the correct word.

3. One of the audience was sent out of the room Another picked a card randomly from a deck of playing cards and made it known by sight and sound to the audience. The person who left the room without knowing the card returned and was given the phone number of a "psychic" in Holland (25 miles away) and called her. The card was correctly identified.

With this audience somewhat boggled of mind already, Dave stated that the amazing "ESP" demonstrations he had performed could be found in "books of magic" at the 5th grade level and could be performed by anyone. He claimed to be only an amateur at them, using them only to demonstrate the ease with which even a scientifically sophisticated audience can be mystified. An individual can perfect such tricks and put on "ESP" and "psychic" demonstrations with polish and persuasion to convince people of the reality of paranormal experience. Dave then launched into his talk on "Why People Believe in ESP: Grounds for Skepticism."

Dave pointed out that gambling houses in Las Vegas and Atlantic City flourish on an average favorable probability just 1.4 percent higher than the 50-50 of pure chance. So a psychic who could beat 50-50 by just 3 percent (by knowing ahead what will turn up, or by using "psychokinesis" to make the right numbers turn up) could divert great sums of money from the gambling industry-and perhaps use it to fund further research in parapsychology! Professional magician and debunker James Randi has a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who can perform a genuine feat of ESP or some psychic activity as judged by impartial witnesses, but the $ 10,000 remains unclaimed.

Dave outlined six basic grounds for skepticism toward psychic claims, then summed up his arguments for a healthy skepticism on the part of Christians: ( 1) ESP and psychic phenomena preempt genuine science and religion; our craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, and the supernatural should feed on true religion and true science, not pseudo-versions. (2) To pursue truth requires both skepticism and imagination. (3) We should guard against attributing God-like qualities of omniscience (reading others' minds or foretelling the future), omnipresence (out-of-body travel), or omnipotence (moving objects with one's mental powers) to mere human beings.

As a psychologist, of course, Dave is impressed with how much we have learned, and how much we have yet to learn, about ordinary perception-the amazing powers and mysteries of our sensory faculties, which are "fearfully and wonderfully made."

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

At presstime flyers for the January 15 one-day symposium on "Christian Faith and the Science Teacher" co-sponsored by New College have been mailed out. The symposium will be held in the same location as last year (Karpe Hall of the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley). The morning program features Stanford professor and JASA editor Richard H. Bube on "Teaching Science: Communicating A Hermeneutic" and ABSW theologican Bernard Ramm on "Varieties of Explanation: A Theologian's Perspective on Science Teaching."

After a break for sack lunches or research into Telegraph Avenue eateries, the program continues with LIC Berkeley genetics prof Philip Spieth on "Teaching Science in the University" and Bob Miller of Independence High School in San Jose on "Teaching Science in the Public High School." After a coffee break two teachers from Contra Costa Christian High School in Walnut Creek, Randy Agadoni and Jim Feenstra discuss ''Teaching Science in the Christian High School" and UC Berkeley biochemist David Cole offers a summary and leads a concluding discussion of all the papers.

Sounds like a full day and an event that could grow into a major Berkeley tradition. Incidentally, New College has moved next door, to a more suitable building on the ABSW campus. Its address is almost the same as before: 2600 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704.

PERSONALS

Jerry D. Albert of San Diego's Mercy Hospital continues to study the biochemistry of human prostate tissue in benign and malignant disease. Among tidbits from the Albert family Christmas letter: praises to God for two research grants, four publications, and Jerry's fastest mile yet (5:08) "in a 100-mile relay of over-40-year-olds."

Austin Anthis desi gns paper mills and does feasibility studies on such designs for Brown and Root Engineering in Houston, Texas, where he is also active in the Spring Branch Community Church. In San Francisco recently for an engineering conference of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Institute, Austin gave the Newsletter editor a call. He mentioned that the Scandinavian countries are ahead of the U.S. in design of energy-efficient plants because they've had to be, with much higher energy costs than U.S. industrialists have had to face until now.

Jack Balswick has left the University of Georgia faculty to become professor of sociology and family ministries at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

Marie H. Berg of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has traveled the world, more or less, in the interests of fire safety. Two weeks in Japan this fall convinced her that "one cannot be a missionary to people whose language and customs one does not know thoroughly," but she found facing such a different world "very educational." Marie has moved from a walkout basement to the top floor of a highrise where the view from her room is "almost like out of an airplane." She likes it "close to heaven," even though as a fire scientist she has often argued that fire safety stops with the 6th floor.

Richard H . Bube of Stanford University had a good trip to Davis and Chico in northern California in November. At U.C. Davis his talk on "Creation and Evolution: A Synthesis," sponsored by the Religious Studies Program Committee, drew an overflow crowd. At Cal State in Chico Norm Lofgren chauffeured him around for two days of lectures to various groups, from one on "Photovoltaics" for science and engineering students to a session with Christian faculty and their spouses. On the last day in Chico he was sponsored by the CSUC Religious Studies Department for a two-hour "Conversation on Science and Christian Faith." Then he delivered the second annual Christian Perspectives Lecture at Bidwell Memorial Presbyterian Church, where Lynn Boliek is pastor. Dick's topic there was "Faith and Reason: Inseparable Partners." (Tidbit from the Bube family Christmas letter: In 1982 Dick got a 7 a.m. phone call from the White House, asking if he'd like to apply for the NSF Directorship! -Ed.)

James 0. Buswell of William Carey International University in Pasadena, California, has been on the board of directors of Trans World Radio for about 20 years. In that time TWR has grown from one Christian station in Tangier, Morocco, to six major transmitting centers around the world, broadcasting the gospel in nearly 80 languages. This fall Jim and Kathleen attended the international board meeting hosted by TWR's German branch, Evangeliums Rundfunk, Wetzlar, West Germany, with visits to Switzerland and Berlin. Able to meet with a group of evangelicals in East Berlin, Jim was impressed by the "fractured, fervent witness" of evangelicals on both sides of the Berlin wall.

Charles E. Chaffey of the University of Toronto had an enriching experience this past summer while on leave at the U. of Massachusetts in Amherst. In July several thousand participants in the "Macro 82" conference on macromolecular chemistry (sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) descended on Amherst. On the Sunday evening when the conference convened, the university's Episcopal chaplain, Rev. Ian Montgomery, and the pastor of Amherst's First Baptist Church, Rev. Edward Jager, held a combined worship service for the conferees. An announcement was made in the registration area (after some reluctance by conference organizers) but those who attended seemed to be mostly people who had been invited personally. Ferdinand Rodriguez of Cornell (author of Principles of Polymer Systems~ sang two of his own gospel songs. Gerald Coles (zoology, U. of Mass. I preached, comparing the reality of Christian experience to the empirical reality of science. Overseas visitors included Peter Tait from Manchester and Ken Walters from Aberystwyth. The fellowship was very warm, says Charles, wondering why conference organizers ought not to be expected to make provisions for the spiritual dimension while trying to meet other needs of participants. He asks, "Should believers not request that details of religious services be included in conference information, and seek to meet in fellowship as a testimony to others?''

James A. Clark joined the geology faculty of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this tall. His specialties are geomorphology and geophysics, Jim has a Ph.D. from Colorado with postdoctoral experience at Cornell.

Donald G. Davis of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the U. of Texas in Austin was an invited participant in a conference on "Helping the Humanities Journal Survive" in St. Louis, Missouri, in November. Don edits the Journal of Library History. In August he was a delegate to the 48th general conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions in Montreal, Quebec. Don stayed over for an IFLA Round Table of Editors seminar, where he spoke on the use in library journals of book reviews and notes.

Edward R. Dayton of World Vision International in Monrovia, California, was in Africa in November. In Nairobi, Kenya, he conducted a management seminar for representatives of over 30 Christian organizations and participated in a World Vision conference on evangelism with leaders from eight countries. That conference emphasized reaching unreached peoples, relationship between evangelism and social action, and need to review theology continuously in light of contemporary changes. The evangelism conference was followed by another management seminar in Zimbabwe sponsored by World Vision.

Dennis L . Eggleston is now a postdoctoral fellow in physics at LIC San Diego. In March he finished his Ph.D. in experimental plasma physics at UCLA under a Christian professor named Alfred Wong. Dennis is full of praise "for God's faithfulness and guidance over the years." He adds that "the ministry of ASA is helping me formulate respectable Christian positions in the areas where religion and science interface."

Charles M. Flynn is a chemist with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Reno, Nevada. This fall he dropped in on the Newsletter editor while doing some library research at UC Berkeley and checking out the Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley. Chuck has found good Christian fellowship in Reno despite the town's reputation as a gambling center.

Norman L. Geisler, professor of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas, spent several weeks in Australia in September, lecturing at the Anglican College on "Creation, Evolution, and Humanism." Norm's documentary account of the Arkansas "balanced treatment" trial, The Creator in the Classroom ( 1982), is available from Mott Media, Milford, Mi.

Glenn /. Kirkland of the Applied Physics Laboratory of The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland appeared on CBS television news in August with this wife Grace, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. In a 5-minute sequence originally shot for Walter Cronkite's "Universe" program (which was cancelled), Grace was given a mental status test by Dr. Peter Robins of Johns Hopkins, a center for Alzheimer's disease research. Glenn continues to be active with the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Maryland (ADAM), with Fourth Presbyterian Church, and with the ASA local section.

Russell L. Mixter is teaching general biology at Judson College in Elgin, Illinois, as a replacement for a faculty member on leave. Russ has taught biology at Wheaton College for longer than most of us can remember and was the editor of ASA's Darwin centennial volume, Evolution and Christian Thought Today (Eerdmans, 1959).

David Myers of Hope College has written a social psychology textbook just released by McGraw-Hill (January 1983) and is beginning work on an introductory psychology text. He would be glad to correspond with ASA/CSCA members with ideas about what should go into such a text (address: Dept. of Psychology, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423). After that he plans to spend a year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California.

Patrick Nolan received his Ph.D. at UC San Diego last February for studies on X-ray emission from three objects in our galaxy believed to be "black holes." Since then he has been working at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., on a National Research Council fellowship. Pat is analyzing data from a gamma-ray spectrometer on the Solar Maximum Mission satellite, concentrating mostly on cosmic gamma ray bursts. When we heard from Pat he was enjoying the singles' group at Fourth Presbyterian Church and looking forward to "exciting new things like SNOW."

Kenneth L. Pike is back in Texas after his African adventure year with Evelyn and after giving papers at linguistics meetings in Toronto and Tokyo. As an adjunct professor on loan from the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Duncanville, Ken teaches discourse (and dat course?-Ed.) at the U. of Texas at Arlington. His teaching was interrupted this fall by a substantial number of newspaper, radio, and television interviews when he (along with SIL, with which he's been associated for 47 years) was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Illinois state senator Alan J. Dixon and an international group of professors. (Thanks to Mary Jane Mills of Galveston for a newspaper clipping about that.-Ed.) When we heard from Ken he thought that Pople John Paul probably had a better chance at the Peace Prize. He was much more excited about his new Linguistic Concepts book for nonlinguists due off the press about then. Ken expects to stay in Texas two academic years, probing the principles of human nature on whicn language is based.

Ghillean T. Prance is now senior vice president of the New York Botanical Garden. Gil has made many journeys to study tropical plants and has contributed to international symposia of the Association for Tropical Biology. He edited the volume of papers from the 1979 symposium in Caracas, Venezuela, entitled Biological Diversification in the Tropics (Columbia Univ. Press, 1982). A reviewer in Science (6 Aug 1982) commended Gil for a find editorial job and "for allowing the tropics to be revealed to be as enigmatic as ever."

Miriam Ross is now on the faculty of nursing at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. She should have great rapport with her students: after getting a Ph.D. in anthropology she prepared herself to teach again "at the bedpan level" by doing a refresher stint of nursing.

Robert J . Schmitz is a curation associate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He works in the Division of Fishes, which is expanding its collection storage space by 150 percent. Bob has also been fishing in his M.S. thesis on the functional morphology of the teleost vertebral column for some papers to write up for publication, while beginning a systematic study of the family Harpadontidae (a group of Indian Ocean fishes known as Bombay Ducks). Bob recommends the following references for people who want to find out what ''cladistics'' phylogenetic systematics) is all about: , 1, E. 0. Wiley, Phylogenetics (Wiley-Interscience, 1981); (2) N. Eldredge & J. Cracieft;  Phylogenetic Patterns and the Evolutionary Process (Columbia Univ. Press, 1980); (3) J. Cracraft & N. Eldredge, Phylogenetic Analysis and Paleontology (Columbia Univ. Press, 1979).

John R. Snarey is a research fellow in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a research associate in the Dept. of Human Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He received his Ed.D. from Harvard in March 1982 with a dissertation on "The Social and Moral Development of Kibbutz Founders and Sabras." The National Council of Social Studies selected John's dissertation for its 1981-82 Exemplary Dissertation Award, which was presented to John at the annual NCSS meeting in Boston on November 24, 1982. Our congratulations go not only to John Snarey but also to RussellHeddendorf under whom John began his undergraduate studies, and to ASA "alumnus" Marvin K. Mayers, who guided John through his master's degree.

David L . Swift of Johns Hopkins University was another ASA visitor to Berkeley this year who dropped in on the Newsletter editor. Dave was attending some sort of conference on environmental engineering, with a side trip to Stanford. But he took time to check out New College and the well-stocked Logos Bookstore in Berkeley, where he found "even some ASA Journals."

Paul A. Twelker of Oregon, whose "Church Leaders Seminar" was described in the Newsletter some issues back, is now chairing the Teacher Education Division of Judson Baptist College-an opening he heard about through the Newsletter. Paul was ready to take a job in Saudi Arabia but when that fell through he was impressed that the Lord turned up something "much better, and much closer to home." Evidently our report that one can find great fishing without leaving the Judson campus was somewhat exaggerated, however: "The campus actually sits high atop a hill overlooking The Dalles and the Columbia River several miles away."

Robert VanderVennen has been executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarhsip in Toronto, Ontario. The year 1981-82 was the 25th anniversary of AACS, which they hoped to celebrate by raising $500,000 to pay off the mortgage on the building housing the Institute for Christian Studies. In his annual report Bob says they received $330,000, a cause for rejoicing even if not the whole amount. The report also outlines a shift in responsibilities beginning in January 1983. Bob will become director of educational services, responsible for all educational work reaching beyond the ICS, and Bernard Zy1stra will become president of AACS/ICS, with central executive responsibility for the whole organization. The legislative challenge to the Institute's authority to grant degress is still unresolved, by the way.

Waylon 0. Ward is executive director of Dallas Christian Counseling Services in Richardson, Texas. DCCS is a "non-profit, tax exempt organization, governed by a Board of Trustees and served by an Advisory Board of lay and professional people," providing a "safe, confidential relationship to enable people to become whole persons emotionally and spiritually." Five other staff therapists besides Waylon and four consulting therapists provide professional counseling services to individuals, couples, and families on a sliding fee scale. The address of this new venture is 324 N. Central Expressway, Suite 106, Richardson, TX 75080.

Kurt Wood and wife Debby are on their way to Africa with North Africa Mission. They took a course in language and culture acquisition at Fuller Seminary that whetted their appetite for plunging into a new culture. Cutting it a bit close, they arrived at the airport in New York to discover that $18 more than the money required for airfare to France was on hand. Now they're in Rueil Malmaison in a large house owned by Union Chretienne Biblique, studying French at L'Alliance Francaise in Paris. Kurt and Debby collect postcards, offering prizes for the "most" in three categories: tacky, bizarre, and beautiful (c/o Union Chretienne Biblique, 50 Ave Victor Hugo, 92500, Rueil Malmaison, France)-and of course enjoying any messages on them, too.

Brian Yamauchi of Oxford, Ohio, won awards in physics, trigonometry, and social studies at the end of his sophomore year in high school last year. He's also used his computer skills to help his father, Edwin Yamauchi, compile an index for a book. For the last few years Brian has brought his father to ASA Annual Meetings. He thinks his dad gets a lot out of the meetings, too, and in fact in 1983 his dad will even be president of ASA. One of his dad's new books, called Foes From the Northern Frontier (Baker, 1982) is about alleged and real references to invaders from Russia in the Bible.

David C. Ziegler is teaching chemistry and math at Columbia Community College in Columbia, Tennessee. When we heard from his dad, chemist Robert G . Ziegler, Dave had completed his research on the properties of novel forms of glass under professor Angell at Purdue and was writing his dissertation.