NEWSLETTER

of the

AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION

Volume 25 Number 5                                           October/ November 1983


YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE ...

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And we should have, too-at the 1983 ASA Annual Meeting at George Fox College in Newberg, Oregon. But it must have been the editor's turn to soak up statistical anomalies of God-s grace, Early in July. wife Ginny called our Oregan writing hideaway with news that she had fallen while jogging, breaking her right wrist. Next morning, climbing up the long Siskyou Summit grade south of Ashland, our 1965 VW slammed a snapped valve through a piston. The Weary Old Editor (WOE is me!) limped into Yreka, California, on three cylinders, left the exhausted Bug in the hands of a mechanic who seemed trustworthy, and tried to hitchhike the 300 more miles to Berkeley, finally making it after midnight on a bus.

By then Ginny was in a traction device, a steel outrigger holding three long self-tapping screws drilled into a handbone at a fixed distance from three more in her arm-bone. Walking around with that gadget made her look like a Bionic Woman with parts poking through her skin. Alas, that was her editing wrist and she was in the middle of a couple of editorial projects. Guess who took over as her "right-hand man" for the next eight weeks (?).

Eventually we managed to ransom the Bug with its rebuilt engine for a good bit less than the cost of Ginny's rebuilt wrist. The car was still packed with a month's gear, our typewriter, and ASA correspondence from the July/Aug issue. Then, just before the ASA meeting, Ginny developed back pain and high feaver._

Although that flareup turned out to be from a kidney infection probably unrelated to the shattered wrist, it was a final hint that maybe the Lord didn't want us at this particular Annual Meeting. That seemed ironic when the meeting won't be back to the west coast for another four years. But with two or three months' mail stacked up and lots of other things gone by the boards while "taking care of business," it may have been for the best.

The Newsletter editor always tries to write up an Annual Meeting in such a way that you'll be sorry if you missed it-and resolve to attend the next one. This year there was a slight twist (of the wrist, you might say). A number of ASAers called us to tell us what we missed. Ann Hunt of the Executive Council stopped in San Francisco on her way back to Indiana, Ray Brand on his way back to Illinois, and Judy Manley on her way back to New Jersey. With their helpful reporting, and that of Bay area residents Chi-Hang Lee and especially Scott Moor, we can assure you-almost first-hand-that the 1983 ASA Annual Meeting was an outstanding experience.


CANADIAN AFFILIATION MEETS OCTOBER 29

Before getting carried away with reports of the ASA Meeting, we note that the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation will hold its 1983 Annual Meeting in Toronto on Saturday, October 29. Featured speaker will be a past president of ASA, geneticist V. Elving Anderson of the U. of Minnesota. Elving will address the CSCA while in Toronto for the annual meeting of the scientific research society of Sigma Xi, of which he has been national president this year.

THERE'S GOOD NEWS, AND MORE

Our editorial cup runneth over with news, not only of the ASA Annual Meeting but from that meeting. Instead of his usual editorial, ASA executive director Robert L. Herrmann sent us an annotated copy of his 1983 Annual Report prepared for the official Business Meeting held Saturday afternoon, August 6. After years in which "the good news" has always seemed shadowed by "the bad news," we can see why the mood after the Business Meeting seemed "euphoric" to one of our peripatetic reporters.

First, there is good news about JASA. In 1984 Wilbur Bullock, professor of zoology at the U. of New Hampshire and long-time member and former vice-president of ASA, will take over the editorship from Stanford University professor Richard H. Bube, keeping our Journal in distinguished academic hands. Further, the new editor will for the first time in ASA history have a managing editor to work with in the national office. Mrs. Ruth A. Herr is already on the job in Ipswich. She will also have time to work with Local Sections and Commissions on local newsletters, meeting announcements, mailing labels, and so on. (Who knows? She may even speed up production of the Newsletter. -Ed.) We'll have more details on the new editors in the next issue.

Financial news was remarkably encouraging (if we're reading the figures right). The auditor reported a surplus of $38,000 of income over operating expenses for 1982, enabling us to gain substantially on our debt. In the first six months of 1983, income from dues was up and income from subscriptions and contributions down slightly, for a total of some $43,000 (about the same as in 1982). Expenses of $46,700 for that period were under budget. But, in July, contributions picked up considerably, including foundation grants from C. Davis Weyerhaeuser ($6,000) and Wallace Erickson ($2,000) and a personal gift of $11,000 from Kenneth Olsen of Digital Equipment Corporation. Then at the Annual Meeting Donald Boardman pledged a gift of $4,000 to erase all the rest of ASA's indebtedness!

No wonder hymns of praise were sung that Saturday evening. And the fact is that our financial base is steadily broadening as more and more members see ASA's role as deserving their substantial support. Bob Herrmann reported that we now have approximately 110 Sustaining Members who give something on the order of one percent of their incomes (averaging about $200 per year.). He still hopes to build that number to 200.

Unaccustomed to so much good news all at once, we called the national office to check it out. Secretary Joan Lipsey told us the DECMATE word processor was printing out the new ASA Directory of Members while she was talking to us. And it would be mailed out before an editor could say "Newsletter," she said. What's more, she added, in a month or so the ASA office would be fully automated. That means we can do our own billing without hiring an outside subscription service any longer. And a new arrangement for Bob Herrmann's part-time teaching and advising duties has been negotiated with Gordon College. Bob is bouncing around with plans to travel next spring to stir up ASA activity, particularly in Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Sounds like ASA is becoming solvent, salient, and ebullient.

FUTURE STUDIES

Bob Herrmann is also working with the Executive Council on plans for a joint Annual Meeting in late July 1985 in Britain with our counterpart, the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship, followed by a "history of science" tour of Britain and the continent. Bob says, "I hope hundreds of ASA and CSCA members will start making plans to attend and, if you are able, to contribute toward a special fund being set aside for travel support."

Before packing your bag for England in 1985, though, there are some other ASA matters to attend to. First of all will be election of a new Council Member for a five-year term beginning in 1984. Aware that the new member will replace food chemist Chi-Hang Lee of Walnut Creek, California, the nominating committee picked two physical scientists located in the west: biochemist Jerry Albert of San Diego and geologist/ geochemist Ed Olson of Spokane, Washington. You'll probably have a ballot with full information on both nominees in hand before you're reading this. Do vote as an expression of your interest in ASA, even though either candidate would be an excellent choice. No other nominations were made from the floor at the Business Meeting.

And don't forget the 1984 ASA ANNUAL MEETING. It will be held next AUGUST 4-6 on the campus of MIAMI UNIVERSITY in OXFORD, OHIO, home base of our current ASA president, Edwin Yamauchi. Details of program and keynote speaker are still in the works. The theme may be something like "Future Studies and Present Realities" with overtones of George Orwell's 1949 prophetic satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four. If so, a social scientist would be a good choice for program chair. (Wasn't it Council member Russell Heddendorf who chaired that symposium

"1984: The Future Becomes'-the Present" in the March 1981 issue of JASA?-Ed.)

SOME INSTANTISTICS

Attendance at the 1983 Annual Meeting: Registered ( 186); total attendance (235); present at banquet (2 10, capacity crowd).

ASA categories: Member ( 1,306); associate (290); fellow ( 171); student member (563); student associate (75); family (8); missionary (39); JASA subscriber (995); student subscriber (53); institutional subscriber (300); exchange (53); exp. assoc. (6). Total ASA (3,859).

CSCA ( 189); Other non-USA (68). Grand total, ASA/ CSCA/foreign (4,116).

ASA 1982 income ($142,760.80); expenses ($103,962.40).

ASA 1983 budget: Income ($140,180); expenses ($130,055).

HITTING THE HIGH POINTS

Ask about the high points of a meeting in western Oregon and what do you hear about? Mountains, of course. The Executive Council took a special trip to Mt. St. Helens on the Thursday before the conference because Chi-Hang Lee (just returned from a trip to Taiwan) couldn't make the Council meeting until Friday. They were able to drive within four miles of the mountain to the foot of Spirit Lake, on a just-opened logging road. "The mountain still steams and spouts while building up a 700-foot dome inside the cone. The massive landslide at the time of the eruption raised the level of Spirit Lake 300 feet. The devastation is awesome, with a few sprouts of lupine almost the only signs of life in a huge area in which regrowth is being allowed to occur naturally."

The Friday trip to Mt. St. Helens was less spectacular, partly because time limitations kept the two buses from getting so close and partly because the sky turned hazy that day. But the 65 who took that trip were still impressed by the degree of devastation and by the power of the eruption. The next day, when no ASAers were there to see it, the mountain made the TV news by sending a geyser of steam a thousand feet into the air. (Oh well, every conference has scheduling problems.-Ed.)

On Tuesday after the conference a busload of 40 people traveled along the Columbia River Gorge to pay their respects to Mt. Hood. Wheaton College biologist Ray Brand was so fascinated by the monitoring of the various species using the fish ladders on the river that he almost lost interest in seeing the mountain. But rising out of the plain to an elevation of 11,235 feet, solitary Mt. Hood definitely rates as a high point.

Most of our correspondents called the Saturday morning session a high point of the meeting. Wesley Granberg--Michaelson was unable to attend because of a death in his family, moving Jim Titus of the Trinity College extension campus in Ashland, Oregon, to the lead-off slot. He was followed by Stan Moore of Pepperdine University in California on "Military and Social Funding in Third World Countries: Guns vs. Bread" and by Wilbur Bullock of New Hampshire on "From Nuclear Deterrence to Nuclear Freeze: The Journey of a Christian Biologist." All three papers had a lot of personal feeling in them and impinged on controversial political questions. For that reason, or because dropping one paper gave more time for discussion, that session seemed to get people thinking and talking for the next three days.

Jim Titus's paper on "Christian Stewardship in an Ambiguous World" was a humbling message needed by anyone eager to "solve the world's problems." Jim pointed strongly to our Savior's life, death, and resurrection as the one thing that speaks clearly to a world where death rules. An ecologist, Jim called on both his scientific understanding of the world's functioning and his biblical understanding to show that all of our actions, no matter how well intentioned, result in both good and bad. In reality, only God himself ever "saves" anything. It is pride to think that we can solve the world's problems where generations before us have tailed.

Yet those strong words were not presented as an excuse for not acting to help those in need: "Although God will accomplish his task with or without my help, I believe he still demands my obedience to him in the events he places in my path both in my private life and in my response to the needs of the world at large." We act to help our neighbors not because we will be a great success, earn their favor, or maybe even make the cover of Time magazine-but rather because it is the right thing to do, and because God requires it of us.

Jim is part of a community church that sponsors three agricultural development workers in a rural poverty pocket in Honduras. This spring he visited the project to build a better water system, using a hydraulic ram pump built of locally available materials and without electrical tools so that local campesinos could use the project's pump as a model to build their own. When someone in the audience asked if in the light of his sense of ambiguity he would go back to Honduras again to try to help, Jim's response was an unhesitating "Yes."

FRONTIER, WILDERNESS, OR GARDEN?

Regent College professor Loren Wilkinson turned out to be the perfect keynoter for this year's Annual Meeting. When program chair Howard Claassen introduced him as a generalist who teaches interdisciplinary studies rather than a scientist "who learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing," Wilkinson responded that his problem was "learning less and less about more and more until he knew nothing about anything." It was clear from his three addresses that Loren knows a lot-and has thought deeply about what he knows. As an Oregon farmer's son raised only 40 miles from Newberg, he has also thought about his own roots. His talks seemed to spring as naturally from that background as seedlings from good topsoil.

A major theme in his three talks on "The Natural World" was the connection between the way we know something and how we treat it, or the relationship between our epistemology and our technology. The first talks examined two extremes in knowing and acting. "Frontier" epistemology and technology emphasize subduing for human need and greed. A frontier approach sees the wild thing as needing to be tamed: humans redeeming the fallen earth. The same attitude is seen in some today who work at the "frontiers of science."

A "wilderness" approach is a reaction to the frontier mentality; if fallen humanity would just leave the wild things to themselves, a better situation would emerge. Whereas the first approach eventually exhausts and limits the land, the second leaves the land wild but of little utility. In the end it often results in a kind of earth-religion. Having edited the book on Earthkeeping (Eerdmans, 1980), Wilkinson expressed some sympathy for the wilderness viewpoint, but noted ttiat ''the way, to combat the ax-tman of the pioneer intellect is not to become a tree."

Instead, the speaker proposed a biblical way between the two extremes: a "garden" epistemology in which the land is developed but with due regard for its intrinsic value. The gardening concept is a relational one, acknowledging our relationship to the things of this world. We are interdependent and connected to what we know and use, yet distinct from it. With that viewpoint we go beyond the idea of taming and using to concern for what is best for the resources we are using.

Not everyone agreed with all of the speaker's arguments. Several questioned the degree of destructiveness he attributed to the frontier approach. Yet his proposal for a balance between development and preservation could not have been more appropriate to the theme of using North American resources to help meet world needs. The fact that he left plenty of room for determining how to apply the principles he outlined fueled many discussions among those who attended the conference.

UNIFYING EXPERIENCE

Amid the friendly controversy characteristic of an ASA Annual Meeting were a number of papers showing a strong unity of viewpoint. Independently developed strategies for helping Third World people showed that practical "hands on" experience tends to draw caring Christians together. Roy Clunes of Corvallis, Oregon, described the Christian Medical Society's program of eye care using castoff eyeglasses contributed by North Americans. Ray Brand, just returned from a trip to Central America, told how Wheaton College's HNGR program prepares interns to serve in the Third World. Martin Price of ECHO - Educational Concerns and Health Organization) challenged college science teachers to team up with their students for research on Third World problems.

ECHO tries to "strengthen the work of other Christians in behalf of the world's subsistence farmers." It uses its five-acre farm in southern Florida as a tiny agricultural experiment station and source of new seeds and technical information. From intimate contact with Third World development workers and missionaries, ECHO picks up ideas for research projects that urgently need doing. The land grant colleges do millions of dollars worth of research to help North American farmers but neglect the needs of the world's marginal farmers. Currently work needs to be done on such things as converting biomass to cooking fuel, developing potentially useful but seldom cultivated tropical plants, and applying hydroponic and other techniques for producing food where soils are poor.

Such problems are regularly outlined in ECHO's Academic Opportunity sheets. Martin welcomes inquiries from strategically located ASA CSCA members. Write to Dr. Martin L. Price, Director, ECHO, Inc., R.R. 2, Box 852, North Fort Meyers, FL 33903.

On Sunday afternoon, between Loren Wilkinson's last two talks, Martin gave a special slide presentation of ECHO's trials of some of the plants the National Science Foundation has identified as underexploited food plants. Afterward the keynote speaker said that Martin's work was exactly what he had been talking about in theory, put into practice. Even if presently unable to engage in "research for the Third World," any ASA/CSCA member can help. One way is to send ECHO the names and addresses of Christian workers in Third World countries who can benefit from receiving ECHO's Development Notes, possibly feeding useful information back to ECHO. We can also support ECHO's work with our prayers and financial contributions.

MEET OUR NEW ACE REPORTER

Much of the material for the preceding stories was supplied by Scott Moor of San Bruno, California, who has his own business as a chemical and biochemical process development consultant. Scott has a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering from M.I.T. and has spent a year at Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., working on a diploma in Christian studies. After staying three months at L'Abri in Switzerland in 1978-79 he has been in close contact with the U.S. L'Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts, where he has lectured on "Experimental Science: Methods and Epistemology."

Scott has participated in several Christian communities in the U.S. and Canada, including Link House, devoted to outreach to international students. Currently he is director of Emmaus, an emerging Christian community located just south of San Francisco and associated with Church of the Highlands of Pacifica and its fledgling St. James College. The community, which can eventually house about 25 people,  non-Christians asking honest questions about biblical faith, its intellectual basis, and its relevance to the modern world." Enquiries should be addressed to Scott Moor, P.O. Box 1339, Pacifica, CA 94044.)

When we heard that at Regent, professor Wilkinson had encouraged Scott to develop his latent interest in writing, we asked Scott to try his hand at reporting the 1983 ASA Annual Meeting. For a newcomer to ASA who used to believe that "engineers can't write," he did a first-class job of making us feel that we'd actually been there. The following story is Scoff's first-person account of his first ASA Meeting.

AN ENCOUNTER WITH ASA

"Before this summer. procrastination (one of my chief gifts in life) marked my relationship with the ASA. I first heard about ASA in 1974 when I was still in college. Nine years, 13 moves, and 3,000 miles later I've finally stopped thinking about it and gained some first-hand impressions.

"To get me there, though, took a conference theme I had long considered, a new ministry that requires me to keep informed, a chance to hear two of my favorite instructors from Regent College (Loren Wilkinson and Miriam Adeney), a location I could afford to get to, and friends in that area I wanted to visit (ASA member Tom Olsen and wife Debbie).

"I left my things at the Olsens' and drove to George Fox College with Tom. My first look at the schedule showed me that this conference was different from all other science conferences I had attended. It was designed as a unit for those who stayed at the college and I realized I would definitely be missing something by not staying on the grounds. This conference was clearly more than an exchange of technical ideas. It was a place of fellowship.

"Even though I wasn't staying on site, however, I found it fairly easy to get to know people. I particularly remember one afternoon break where I found myself in the midst of an informal Rutgers reunion. I was talking to Judy Manley,

whom I had just met, when ASA president Ed Yamauchi decided to gather up all the Rutgers alumni attending the conference. It didn't seem to matter much that I had never met him or any of the others-or never even set foot on the Rutgers campus. I met three or four other alumni and heard a little about their time at Rutgers. I didn't feel at all left out. That kind of atmosphere seemed typical of the whole conference.

"I found the various threads of my life being pulled together. Here was a science conference that had a spiritual focus. The commitment to Jesus Christ was evident throughout and I was deeply affected by talks such as that by Jim Titus which pointed so strongly to the need for Christ's redeeming work.

"I also observed a balance in the meeting and in the Affiliation itself, That came through in the great a great variety of viewpoints and disciplines represented, as well as in the balance of practical and theoretical discussions. On Saturday morning I saw friendly controversy over three thought-provoking talks. Yet the contrasts clearly came from people who cared about the world and its people and who wanted to do something for them. That afternoon I heard Martin Price and Ray Brand and others present practical areas in which they're working and I could see unity in support of their work.

"I found the meeting thoroughly enjoyable and its quality quite impressive. Some papers seemed weaker than others but as a whole it was one of the best meetings I've ever attended. The sessions fit together very well and many were directly relevant to my concerns. My major disappointments with the meeting were over the things I missed-the dorm life and fellowship and the tours.

"For sure, in the future it will take far less to motivate me to attend the ASA Annual Meeting." -Scott Moor

NOTES WE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN

Several Atoms were shifed around this year. The first keynote address wasn't given until the Saturday nig ht banquet. Friday night's opener was Ed Yarnauchi's lecture on biblical archaeology, a more scholarly presidential address than some in the past, making a plea for a balanced assessment of archaeological claims. Afterward Mark Biedebach of Cal State Long Beach tried out his new multimedia show on "The Christian's View of Science," receiving a lot of good feedback via written critiques. After such a solid evening the mixer and its refreshments were welcomed.

This year the usual Sunday evening special interest groups were moved up to late Sunday afternoon, which also seemed to work. The late evening slot was given to Hector-Munn's geological preview of the Mt. Hood/Columbia River field trip.

Friday-through-Monday Annual Meetings have always ended on Monday afternoon. This year the three (!) parallel sessions on Monday afternoon were well attended, even with one vanload of registrants visiting the Tektronics plant and another at the Oregon Regional Primate Center. At the Monday evening "footprint" session, some viewers judged the cinematic quality of the "Footprints in Stone" film as better than the quality of its evidence for human footprints in cretaceous limestone. Ronnie Hasting's videotape, "Footprints in the Mind" drew the opposite criticism; its more amateurish production techniques provided a rather close look at those "human" tracks. Gerhard Nickel of Newton, Kansas, a high school science teacher who has been digging around at the Paluxy River and several other sites where dinosaurs left tracks, commented on both presentations. Certain that the smaller Paluxy tracks weren't made by humans, he thinks some may have been made by dinosaur species smaller than those two-ton, three-toed, heel clawed big guys.

Other creation /evolution questions rated one parallel session Saturday afternoon, three of the ten discussion groups Sunday afternoon, and of course many spontaneous conversations. Parallel sessions were also devoted to the social sciences, philosophy of science, and miscellaneous topics.

All hands thought the sell-out salmon bake at Tillicurn Retreat Center was great. In the pavilion, a replica of a northwest Indian long house, the fresh-caught salmon were cooked on three spits with several fish spread out on upright grills arranged around each fire. It was an eyeopener and a mouth-waterer for those who thought salmon is something you got out of a can.

A few glitches gummed up the works, as usual. Evidently morning devotions got off to a shaky start on Saturday when everybody showed up except whoever it was some body thought was supposed to have been in charge. "No-shows" threw several sessions off schedule but at least opened up more time for discussion. Dave Moberg didn't make it from Wisconsin but Claude Stipe read his paper unless we -got that backwards-Ed.,. Papers by
Davrd of Michigan and David Dye of Washington had to be scratched. Jack Balswick of Fuller was able to incorporate some of Douglas Kennard's ideas about Third World dependency into Jack's paper on the sociology of development when he found out Doug couldn't make it.

Dick Bube's notorious vertebral column caused one memorable glitch. The Council had authorized president Yamauchi to have a plaque produced by a calligrapher and framed to commemorate Dick's 15 years as JASA editor. Dick's back flared up on Saturday and, hearing that no more tickets were available, the Bubes passed up the banquet. Left holding the plaque, Ed then planned to present it on Sunday afternoon. Dick skipped that one, too, but finally showed up for the Sunday evening plenary session, where Ed made the presentation. Taking such precautions with his temperamental back enabled Dick to give his Monday afternoon paper on science teaching (which, our sources say, was excellent-Ed.).

Other rumors we've heard: Although a full-size ASA crosscountry expedition didn't materialize, both Ann Hunt and Harold Hartzler came via Amtrak and were enthusiastic about it. Harold added another star to his crowning record of attendance, also giving a paper about "The Time Problem" in creation. He was sorry to miss two other old-timers unable to attend, John Howitt and Irving Cowperthwaite. (Even Harold may be feeling his age; so far we've had no report of a Hartzler headstand at this year's meeting.-Ed.)

Ken Van Dellen of Michigan, vocal "pro-lifer," reportedly added life to the meeting by sporting the wildest assortment of T-shirts, each with a message appropriate to the subject of the meeting. Gordon Lewthwaite also livened things up as panjandrum of puns; when Roy Clunes said Bob Herrmann should donate his poorly fitting reading glasses to the CMS eyeglass project, Gordon accused Bob of making "a public spectacle."

It's easier to pay tribute to Howard Claassen for a great program than to Hector Munn for the local arrangements, which all seemed to find comfortable and pleasant. That's because Hector listed just about everybody in Oregon as serving on his committee: Glenn Clark (and Vera) of Philomath; Howard Claassen (and Esther) of Ashland; Dwight Kimberly of Portland; Dennish Feucht (and Dottie) of West Linn; Hendrick Oorthuys (and Ruth) and David Willis (and Earline) of Corvallis; and Hector Munn (and Verna), Dale Orkney (and Jan), and Elver Voth (and Barbara Jean) of Newberg. Thanks to all.

Dwight Kimberly of Warner Pacific College coordinated transportation between Portland and Newberg. Elver Voth of George Fox took care of the audio-visual needs of the speakers, Hector's American Chemical Society friend Lewis Haisch of Vancouver, Washington, efficiently taped all the sessions. Lewis and his wife purchased hundreds of dollars worth of equipment to make it possible to duplicate tapes from master copies right on the spot. Hour-long tapes are available postpaid at $3.50 each. Request them from Dr. Hector Munn, George Fox College, Newberg, OR 97132, before October 30. After that, send your order to the Ipswich office.

HOW TO BUY SCIENCE/FAITH BOOKS

The Adeney family of Seattle made a double hit at the Annual Meeting. Miriam Adeney gave a well-received paper on cross-cultural medicine. Her husband Michael ran the conference booktable, selling about $1,600 worth of books in four days and impressing Bob Herrmann and the Executive Council so much that the bookstore Michael manages has been asked to handle the ASA Book Service.

While Miriam has been teaching at Seattle Pacific and Regent and making a name for herself in cultural anthropology, Michael has made quite a name for himself as a Christian bookseller. Eight years ago he took over a little cubbyhole (The Alternative) in a superb location for foot and bus traffic a block from the U. of Washington. Under his management the tiny store has sometimes had higher sales per square foot than the B. Dalton mass-market bookstore. As is true for many stores in the Logos chain,

Logos in Seattle became a focal point for Christian outreach to the university community. Michael sought out Christian faculty members and helped to coordinate several faculty Bible study groups.

A year or so ago, Walt Hearn visited the store when speaking to a regional Logos managers' conference. Michael began using the annotated list of science/faith books Walt prepared, and stocking more such titles. Michael is an alert observer of what's happening in publishing. For example, we learned from him recently that Bob Fischer's independently published God Did It, But How? has been taken over- by Zondervan.

hotcakes at the meeting. Another hot seller was Martin Gardner's Science, Good, Bad, and Bogus, which Michael had discovered in a new $3.95 Avon edition. He had checked Books in Print for titles authored by all speakers on the ASA program; Miriam's book wasn't out yet but Earthkeeping sold very well.

It was that kind of thoughtful merchandising, no doubt, that impressed the Executive Council. At any rate, you should now send your orders for science/faith books to:

ASA Book Service

c/o Logos Bookstore

4510 University Way

Seattle, WA 98105

For ASA members, the Book Service will ship and bill, with payment due ten days after the books arrive. Nonmembers are requested to prepay with their orders. Payment by VISA or MASTERCARD is accepted. For billing, please give your name, address, and telephone number, and state that you are an ASA member.

ASA members will receive a 10 percent discount on every title in print on the ASA booklist that existed before Logos took over from the ASA office ~ over two dozen titlesi. Additional titles added to the list from major Christian publishers (e.g., Baker, Eerdmans, IVP, Zondervan) or available from Spring Arbor (largest wholesale Christian book distributor) will also be discounted 10 percent to members. Closeout titles from publishers will be sold at 20 to 50 percent off as long as a supply lasts. (For example, Donald McKay's fine Brains, Machines, and Persons has been remaindered to Christian Book Bargains, Michael says.)

All orders will be billed at $1.50 handling charge for the first book and 50c for each additional book. Sales tax will be charged to Washington state customers only. The new ASA Book Service will ship and bill members for any book reviewed or mentioned in JASA or the Newsletter, giving a 10% discount for books from major Christian publishers. Price increases from publishers will be passed on by the Book Service. To be realistic, the Book Service will

probably purge titles from the list that sell only two or three copies a year, to make room for new titles. A new Book Service list will be published from time to time to reflect such changes. (Some good books on science/ faith issues seem to go out of print just about the time we've read them and start recommending them to others.-Ed.)

Michael Adeney prepared a six-page handout for the Annual Meeting. More about that next time.

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS

Roy E Cameron (3433 Woodridge Dr., Woodridge, IL 60517; tel. 312-964-5788) is an accomplished scientist (with over 120 publications) and technical manager seeking a supervisory or managerial position in environmental affairs, but open to other possibilities. He is internationally recognized for his arid and polar land studies. He has a Ph.D. in plant sciences from the U. of Arizona. He spent 1961-74 on the technical staff of Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, 1974-75 as director of research at the Darwin Institute in Dana Point, California, and 1975 to present at Argonne National Lab in Illinois, where he is director of energy resources training and development. He has worked with Native American tribal groups on developing energy resources and environmental protection. Clearly competent and versatile, he may look overqualified to some prospective employers. Write or call Roy if you know of a job he might fill.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Westmont College in California still has a tenure-track position open in physics beginning fall 1984. Prefer a Ph.D. in solid state, materials science, or spectroscopy to teach and supervise undergraduate research. Resume to: Dr. Allan Nishimura, Dept . of Chemistry & Physics. Westmont also has a tenure-track position open immediately in mathematics. preferably for a Ph.D. in analysis able to "or science courses. Write: Dr. David. F. Neu, Chair, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science. Westmont College, 955 La Paz Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108. (Received July 1983.)

Wheaton College in Illinois needs someone in anthropology for a one-year sabbatical replacement, 1984-85. At least a Master's degree and proven teaching ability required. Contact: Dr. Dean E. Arnold, Dept. of Anthropology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187. (Received August 1983.)

LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES

WASHINGTON- BALTIMORE

Speaker for the June 10 meeting at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Maryland, was James A. Bridger, associate professor of biology there and consultant since 1975 on human values and medical ethics to the National Presbyterian Church. Jim's topic was "BioEthics for the '80s."

The May issue of the section Newsletter also announced the 2nd Annual Baltimore Creation Convention held June 2-4. It contained Edward Allen's letter of resignation as section president, necessitated by his father's death and Ed's assumption of responsibility for his mother's affairs. His letter exhorted others to serve the Lord in the context of ASA, "a unique opportunity for Christian fellowship across church traditions." And in an article on "The Unity of the Universe as Seen Through Science," editor Bill Lucas argued that secular assumptions in the physical sciences have led to false theories incapable of "portraying the unity of the universe as depicted in Scripture." Bill thinks Christians should be encouraged by attempts in progress to reconstruct the theory of electrodynamics, replacing atomistic assumptions with many-body assumptions "more compatible with Scripture."

CHICAGO

A committee is being formed to reactivate the Chicago area section. Volunteers should contact Marilyne Flora, 815 Greenwood Court, Batavia, IL 60510 (tel. 879-5079) or Robert Schmitz, 5938 W. Lake St., Chicago, IL 60644 (tel. 378-5889).

OREGON

Dennis Feucht got out a mailing in the spring announcing a May 7 meeting in Corvallis. Regent College student Jim Fodor presented an overview of Thomas H. Torrance's lectures at Regent on the relationship between science and theology; Hector Munn gave a preview of the 1983 Annual Meeting; and the film "The Timeless Issues of Life: Creation or Evolution" (produced by T-Q Productions in Eugene~ was shown. The 18 people in attendance discussed possibilities for renewed activity, possibly quarterly meetings if the national meeting at George Fox College sparked enough local interest.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY

Paul Baba, director of research and development for the Magnetic Tape Division of Ampex Corp. in Redwood City, and Rich Borghi, senior project manager at Teledyne Microwave in Mountain View, were nominated this summer to replace Dick Bube and Hugh Vander Plas, retiring from the Executive Committee. Remaining on the committee are Larry Kells, president, Ruth Euler, Ken Lincoln, and Dave Sheriff,- Roy Gritter is executive secretary.

The last meeting of 1982-83, held on May 21, featured Ralph D. Winter, director of the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena. Ralph, who holds a B.S. in engineering from Caltech as well as a B.D. from Princeton Seminary and Ph.D. in structural linguistics from Cornell, spoke on ''Science in the Service of the Christian Mission,'' He referred to missions as a -S2 billion industry'' needing scientific skills and knowledge as much as any other industry. He also surveyed the mission task from an anthropological perspective and reviewed current debates in missions.

Ralph Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission in 1976 after ten years as a professor at the Fuller School of World Mission. Its purpose is to help existing agencies focus strategy and mobilize eff orts to reach those populations still without an indigenous Christian church. Some 42 agencies are now at work at the center, which occupies a former college campus worth 20 million. On September 1 a final "balloon payment" of $6 million was due. Ralph and Roberta Winter are convinced that God has a unique plan for financing the center, a plan that calls for finding enough Christians who care about missions to make a one-time-only gift of S 15.95. The 95c goes for the cost of materials sent to each "Founder." including Roberta's moving book about the U.S. Center, Once More Around Jericho. Whether or not the $6 million came in on time, the center wants a million Christians to become Founders. You can enroll as a Founder by sending $15.95 to U.S. Center for World Mission. 1605 Elizabeth St., Pasadena, CA 91 104.

The Winters' "holy boldness" is fed by their global view of the Christian mission, which has spawned 85 percent of all schools in Africa, 600 hospitals and half the nurses in India (even though only 3 percent of the population of India is Christian), the largest agricultural experiment station in Asia, the largest women's university in the world, twice as many Presbyterians in Indonesia (a "solidly Muslim" country) as in the U.S., three times as many Baptists in India as in England, and on and on.

Did you know that in Africa and Asia a thousand churches are born each week? Or that in Russia, 97 million (36 percent!) of the population doggedly profess Christian faith? And in China, we are learning, despite strong opposition by the Communist regime over the years, the church has grown from one or two million to perhaps 50 million Christians. Yet some 16,750 identified "people groups" are still unreached by the gospel of Jesus Christ.