NEWSLETTER
of the
AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION - CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC & CHRISTIAN AFFILIATION
VOLUME 18, NUMBER 2 APRIL 1976
1976 ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR PAPERS GOES OUT
Members of the American Scientific Affiliation received in February a call for papers
for the 1976 ASA ANNUAL MEETING. The meeting will be held AUGUST 20-23 on the campus
of WHEATON COLLEGE, near Chicago. Titles and abstracts for 20-minute papers are due in
the Elgin office by April 15, according to Executive Secretary Bill Sisterson. Jim
Buswell is Program Chairman for the meeting and Howard Claassen is Local Arrangements
Chairman. Both are on the Wheaton faculty and on the ASA Executive Council.
In addition to papers contributed by ASA members, there will be an invited program on
the basic integration of science and Christianity. Professor Donald MacKay of England
(The Clockwork Image) will give three major addresses.
Many spouses and some scions will enjoy both programs. Child-care will be provided during
the sessions. Sight-seeing trips will interest family members not attending sessions.
Details on housing and registration should be mailed out within the next two months, but
plan now to bring the whole family to this good'un.
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL
The special issue of the JASA entitled "People, Power, and Protein" is now printed and
ready to mail to any who order. This is the proceedings of a Calvin College conference
on the subject last October and includes papers by Dick Bube, John Scanzoni, Karen
DeVos,
Lewis Smedes, and Howard Rienstra.
This issue must be specially ordered by members for you to receive a copy. It is not
sent automatically to anyone. To get your copy send $3.00 now to Editor, JOURNAL ASA,
753 Mayfield Avenue, Stanford, CA 94305. Make check payable to ASA.
This supplement is also a special effort to see what interest there is in timely editions
of the Journal. Indicate your positive interest by placing an order today. (Note - If
you would like extra copies to give to friends, your pastor or church, and interested
people you know, a special price of $2.00 per issue is in effect when you order five (5)
or more copies).
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGISTS EXPECT BIG TURNOUT
Two months before the ASA meets in Wheaton, the Christian Association for Psychological
Studies (CAPS) and the Western Association of Christians for Psychological Studies (WACPS)
will meet in Santa Barbara, California, June 25-29. About 800 people are expected to
attend the joint meeting at the Francisco Torres Conference Center of UC Santa Barbara.
Special group flights have been arranged from New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Oklahoma
City, and Portland.
The CAPS/WACPS program will include papers, symposia, demonstrations, seminars, and
interest-group sessions. Interest groups will draw together those in similar disciplines
(e.g., psychology; clinical social work) or subdisciplines (experimental psych; social
psych), or simply with common interests (e.g., aviation psych). All these items and
details or auxiliary programs for spouses and families are described ina 40-page convention
book (available for $1.50 to nonmembers who wish to attend). Write to Dr. Craig
Ellison, Executive Director of WACPS, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
WHEN MORAL TRADITION CONFLICTS WITH PSYCHOLOGY
Kirk E. Farnsworth, associate professor of psychology and director of counseling at
Trinity College, Deerfield, Illinois, sent ASA News an announcement of a significant
colloquium to be held on Saturday, April 247.-fh-ecolloquium will feature the current
president of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Donald T. Campbell, speaking
on "The Scientific Case for Moral Tradition When it Conflicts with Current Psychology."
In his Presidential Address at the APA national convention in Chicago last fall, Dr.
Campbell argued that when the two conflict, historic moral tradition should take precedence over contemporary psychology. As you can imagine, his address caused more than
ripples among all those contemporary psychologists in the audience. The splash was
written up in Time Magazine and commented on widely and sometimes wisely elsewhere. The
Trinity College Psychology Dept. has invited Dr. Campbell to develop the theme of his
APA address at the April 24 colloquium.
The colloquium will take place on the Trinity campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more
information contact: Dr. Clark Barshinger, Chair, Dept. of Psychology, Trinity College,
Deerfield, IL 60015. Telephone (312) 945-6700 ext. 231.
14HO WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE IF WE DON'T?
Robert E. Jervis, associate dean of engineering at the U. of Toronto, Ontario, has sent
us advance information on an important conference being planned for next fall. Bob,
Harry Leith of York University, and some other members of the Canadian Scientific and
Christian Affiliation (CSCA) have been working with a group of Christians in Deep River,
Ontario--Canada's atomic energy research center. Their concern about the impact of
technology on society has led to a conference to be held in Deep River, October 8-10,
on "SHAPING THE FUTURE: A SCIENTIFIC AND CHRISTIAN CONCERN."
Three areas of concern (nuclear development; human and social engineering; environmental deterioration) will each be addressed by two speakers: 1) a person of scientific
eminence in that field; and 2) someone who will place the topic in the context of social
and moral concerns. Workshops, a banquet, and worship will also be on the program. The
conference is being planned for scientists, politicians, students, teachers, church
leaders, and concerned citizens.
The conference planning committee is not seeking joint sponsorship by Christian or
scientific organizations, but invites active participation by individuals in the CSCA
and ASA. For further details, write to: Shaping the Future, Box 1439, Deep River,
Ontario KOJ 1PO, Canada.
Wilber Sutherland of Imago ministries in Toronto says that when Dr. Arthur Porter was
appointed to chair a Royal Commission to investigate the public interest in Ontario
Power's nuclear power proposals, he asked for the public's help in thinking through
this issue but "above all your prayers." Wilber says, "I wonder if he will get them.
nal
environment) to do it, right?--Ed.)
NAKED AND NOT ASHAMED
Wow. That's the title of a new book by Lowell L. Noble of Jackson, Michigan. Is it
a lurld novel? No, the subtitle describes it an "An Anthropological, Biblical, and
Psychological Study of Shame." It deals with such questions as: "How does a person
preach a guilt-oriented gospel to a shame-oriented culture? Is the gospel of Jesus
Christ as guilt-oriented as we Westerners tend to think it is? Are there any cultures
where the idea of guilt is unknown?"
Lowell says he became interested in the concepts of guilt and shame from a comment in
Eugene Nida's Customs and Cultures: Anthropology for Christian Missions (Harper,
1954).
Lowell himself has both a masters degree in anthropology and a masters in religion,
plus 14 years of experience teaching anthropology, sociology, and missions. In Naked
and Not Ashamed (see Genesis 2:25), he analyzes the nature of shame from both a sociological and a biblical viewpoint, discusses shame's role in a dozen different cultures,
gives practical suggestions for evangelism and preaching based on these considerations,
and then closes with a section on living openly in fellowship as Christians in our own
culture. Lowell illustrates his points with many quotations and provides an extensive
bibliography.
The 142-page paperback was printed privately by Jackson Printing, and is available for
$2.50 ($2.00 if ten or more are sent to the same address) from Lowell Noble, 141 W.
Addison, Jackson, MI 49203. Lowell doesn't charge for postage, so he requests payment
in cash, check, or money order in advance.
And don't worry. Your copy of Naked and Not Ashamed will be sent in a plain wrapper.
HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING No. 14
CoMost. The willingness of some organic gardening enthusiasts to embrace all kinds
of pseudoscientific nonsense may have kept some of us from taking seriously the other
things they've had to say over the years. That's too bad, since composting, the basic
principle of organic gardening, makes a lot of sense. Composting is a way of speeding
up microbial decomposition of animal and vegetable wastes to return nutrients to the
soil and to improve soil condition.
Everybody seems to be "into compost" these days. Composting in the City, a booklet
telling how-to on a household, neighborhood, or even municipalities, is available by
mail for $1.00 from The Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 1717 18th Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20009. "Agribusiness" is getting into the act, producing "revolutionary
new compost tumblers" (Kemp Shredder Co., Erie, PA) and the Rotocrop "Accelerator"
compost bin. The latter is a green polyvinyl chloride structure that "looks good anywhere in the garden" and sells for about $40. However, for free, the same company
(Rotocrop USA Inc., 58 Buttonwood Street, New Hope, PA 18938) will send you a pamphlet
entitled A Lot of Rot on Gardens that tells you all you need to know about small-scale
composting. And you won't need a $40 plastic bin.
We scrounged three old wooden pallets from dumpsters at industrial plants and crudely
nailed them together to make our first compost bin. Now we've added two more pallets
to make an E-shaped structure (seen from above), another to wire in front to make a
four-sided box of half of that E, and an old piece of plywood for a roof.
We keep milk cartons on a kitchen counter to collect all our nonburnable wastes (burnables go into the compost later as fireplace ashes). Several times a week, sometimes
once a day, we take this organic matter out and dump it on the pile, covering it with
a shovel or two of dirt dug from the garden and piled by the bin. Grass cuttings go
in, too, and raked-up leaves, but no layer should be more than an inch or so thick.
Branches pruned from shrubs and trees are piled up until the leaves fall off, since
we don't have a shredder. The leaves go in directly, the branches as ashes after
they've warmed our living room. Fecal matter from our indoor cat boxes and eventually
the urine-soaked kitty-litter itself provide nitrogen. If we had 'em, we'd add manure,
sawdust, sand--all kinds of good stuff between layers of dirt.
Everything goes in fairly moist, or else we wet down the pile a little. Covering
the pile helps keep the sun from drying it out too much or a rain from soaking it.
In a pallet-sized bin, the outside layer acts as an insulator to hold in heat from
the digestive process, which kills weed seeds and roots. The open structure of pallets
lets air get in to encourage the ight kinds of organisms (aerobes). If some compost
falls through the cracks we scoop it back in or let it make its cofitribution right
there. When one bin is full, we remove the front pallet and shift it to the other bin.
Compost that's "made" goes on the garden. If the outside still isn't fully decomposed,
we use it a shovel full at a time as dirt for the pile we've now started in the other bin.
Scientific composters know lots of tricks to speed things up, put in more time and
effort turning the pile, etc. But we're not in that big a hurry.
A year of composting has begun to improve the miserable clay soil of our vegetable
garden, and has so cut down what goes into our garbage can that we could almost stop
paying for garbage service. It also has given us a sense of day-by-day stewardship of
the tiny part of the earth we actually have dominion over--which seems to keep us alert
to other possibilities for stewardship.
"The man who is faithful in the little things will be faithful in the big things,
and the man who cheats in the little things will cheat in the big things too.
So that if you are not fit to be trusted with the wicked wealth of this world,
who will trust you with the true riches? And if you are not trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you property of your own? No servant can serve
two masters. He is bound to hate one and love the other, or give his loyalty to
one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and the power of money at the
same time" (Luke 16:10-13, J. B. Phillips).
PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS
Stephen M. Butt (414 Campus Heights, Flagstaff, AR 86001) is completing an M.S. degree
in biology this summer. His research experience has been in the area of insect ecology.
Steve is interested in a research, technical assistance, or teaching position.
Lynn Mabelle Parson (121-Matoaka Court, Williamsburg, VA 23185) seeks a position in
animal behavior research after completing the M.A. in biology in June 1976. Lynn's
research at the College of William and Mary has included a field study of the homing
ability of the white-footed mouse and laboratory studies under C. Richard Terman, who
suggested that Lynn seek employment through ASA News. Lynn's B.A. is from the U. of
Maine. In addition to a year's experience as a teaching assistant in introductory
biology, Lynn has been a water safety and swimming instructor, and has held a number
of offices in IVCF.
Fred H. Walters (Room 201, Cody Hall, Univ. of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) would
like to teach chemistry in a small Christian university. Fred has a PhD in analytical
chemistry and is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the U. of Windsor.
POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE
Houghton College in New York has a biology position open for fall 1976. They would
like a Christian with.a doctorate, emphasis in microbiology, additional teaching in
other areas, and experience with electron microscopy. Letter and supporting vita
should go to: Dr. Donald W. Munro, Head, Biology Dept., Houghton College, Houghton,
N.Y. 14744.
Calvin College in Michigan has an opening for a faculty member in the field of geology.
Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, transcripts of graduate training, and
names and addresses of several references to: Dr. Clarence Menninga, Professor of
Geology, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49506. (Received 24 Feb. 1976.)
Whitworth College in Washington has an opening for a candidate with a doctorate, with
demonstrated strength in biochemistry and physiology, and preferably with expertise in
histology and other advanced biological courses. "Candidates should have a willingness
to become involved in student advising and departmental administration, and must be in
accord with the high moral ethical stance of the College." Ed Olson of Whitworth's
Earth Sciences Dept. says you should contact: Dr. Robert D. Bocksh, Chairman, Health
Sciences Dept., Whitworth College, Spokane, 14A 99251. (Received 3 March 1976.)
Roberts Wesleyan College in New York needs a theoretical or experimental psychologist
for fall 1976, with a PhD or a B.D. Contact: Dr. Walter Kaufmann, Academic Dean,
Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, N. Y. 14624. (Received 4 March 1976. Walter says
he received half a dozen good inquiries from the announcement of another position in
ASA News last year, by the way. A satisfied customer!)
Midland Christian School in Michigan has a junior high position open for the coming
school year for someone with a Michigan Secondary Certificate qualified to teach in
any two of the following areas: math, science, language arts, or physical ed. Also
several openings in the lower grades. The school has been going since 1960 but now
has a beautiful new building for 175 students and a present enrollment of 140. Contact:
Mr. Barry D. Ter Beek, Principal, Midland Christian School, 4417 W. Wackerly Rd.,
Midland, MI 48640. (Received 13 March 1976.)
Warner Southern College in Florida seeks a committed Christian to teach in the areas
of biology and mathematics. Deryl Johnson of the Bible Dept. says to contact: Dr.
Leslie Ratzlaff, Dean, Warner Southern College, Route 3, Lake Wales, FL 33853.
(Received 13 March 1976.)
"Clinic psychologist is needed for a Christian counseling center in a medium-sized
midwestern city. Excellent opportunity to guide development of recently established
ongoing ministry. Experienced clinician or recent graduate acceptable. Contact: Paul D. Carter,
M.D., 2404 Manchester Drive, Toledo, OH 43606. Phone (419) 536-4700." (Received 30 March 1976.)
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL OFFICE
My recent trip east demonstrated this revival of interest. I was present at the birth of the Delaware Valley section in February and was amazed at the extensive interest (24 at meeting to organize and another 20 wrote to say they were interested). From there I went to the New England section meeting in Boston and strong interest was expressed by several to reorganize the section to continue regular meeting. It was a special pleasure for me to meet Irving Cowperthwaite at the Boston meeting, one of the three living founders of the ASA. I have now had the privilege of meeting personally all three of these founders (Alton Everest and Peter Stoner are the other two) who are all actively interested in an supporting the affiliation.
After Boston and attendance at the AAAS meetings I visited wtih officers in the New
York City section. This is our strongest and most mature section and they have a great
wealth of leadership. They routinely have 150 at their section meetings and engage in
several other activities as well. It was a time of mutual encouragement to rieet with
them.
Finally I met with members in the Washington, D.C. area to see about reactivating
that section. Eighteen came to the organizational meeting and another 25 wrote that
they were interested. After some lively and positive discussion it was agreed to
reorganize and a steering committee was appointed. They will have their first open
meeting since 10 years ago later this month.
These activities indicate the value of having a full-time person around to keep things
stirred up. It has been a real pleasure for me to serve you in this role. I have
especially enjoyed the opportunity of meeting so many of you and I appreciate the kind
hospitality I have enjoyed in the homes of members all over the United States and Canada.
LOCAL SECTION ACTIVITIES
.Joseph C. J. Kim is employed at the Hydrograph Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland, where he does mathematical modeling for watershed hydrography. Before last fall, Joe was teaching at Missouri Baptist College.
John Kroll is now an instructor in applied mathematics at M.I.T. John lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
James F. Kurfees teaches pathophysiology at the U. of Louisville School of Medicine, Eo-uisJille, Kentucky, trains residents in the Dept. of Family Medicine, and does research on serum osmolality. At Louisville Bible College, Jim teaches New Testament, pastoral counseling, and Christian ethics while working on an M.Th. degree. Active in the Christian Medical Society, he also preaches at a local Christian church.
Lane P. Lester of Orlando, Florida, says he's been learning some of the same economic 1-esso'ns as the ASA News editor about starting a new venture. While Lane was a research biologist at theInstitute for Creation Research, he "encountered the biblical counseling methodology developed by Jay Adams." A chain of events led him to return to his home town of Orlando to open a personal and family counseling practice.
Although the Lesters' savings have dwindled since he left the payroll and each bill has been "a new test of faith," Lane feels he has been privileged "to have God use me to bring His answers to people's problems."
Paul McKowen is on the pastoral staff of First Presbyterian Church of Richmond, California. Paul sent us a copy of the sermon he preached at Thanksgiving, his testimony of God's grace in helping him recover from a painful disc injury last year. He referred to the three models of man he heard of in Walt Hearn's paper at the 1975 ASA Annual Meeting in San Diego: "The doctors treated me like a machine, whose parts obey the laws of physics and life sciences. The nurses and other personnel treated me like dn animal, bathing me, feeding me, and giving me pills. Church visitors treated my spiritual self, coming to shake my hand, look into my eyes, pray for me, and boost my spirits." Paul has had to give up volleyball and basketball, but has become an accomplished swimmer (a mile in 33 minutes), and may not need an operation after all.
David J..Neweceral lives in Hampton, Virginia, and has recently been promoted in the management of the Naval Engineering Center of the U.S. Dept. of the Navy. Dave has had special training in management in various cities and is active in naval engineering audits and surveys.
Curtis Nissly is finishing a PhD in agronomy at the U. of Illinois, Urbana, to prepare
for service in research, education, and development somewhere in the developing world.
Curtis asks our prayers that he find the voluntary or government agency of the Lord's
choosing in which to serve.
John Orchanian, trained in chemistry, serves St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
of Tremont in the Bronx, N. Y., as deacon. He sent us a page of the church newspaper
featuring a Christological poem of John's, "The Itan." From meager evidence we deduce
that John's church (a) has been in existence for a good many years (from "Vol. LXXII,
No. 14" on the masthead); and (b) has Spanish-speaking communicants (from "La Iglesia
Luterana de San Pablo"). A few lines from "The Ilan":
They claimed he came from heaven above
To teach mankind to care and love;
He taught the oppressed how to be freeAnd the dignitaries accused him of treachery...
Dean C. Ortner just completed a one-month tour with the military through central and
southern U.S. for "Sermons from Science." Upcoming engagements for Dean include two
months with the military in the Pacific, a possible series in Alaska, the Montreal
Olympics, and several military and civilian meetings in the upper midwest, including
a series in Mankato, Minnesota, September 27-30, arranged by Harold Hartzler.
L. Rebecca Propst is excited about her first job: assistant professor of clinical
psic-hology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. In her developing research program on
the role of religious behavior (particularly Christian faith) in mental health, Rebecca
has been encouraged by having an evangelical graduate student in the PhD program. She's
also found enough evangelical undergrad psych majors to form a "Christian research team,"
complete with weekly seminar discussing the relationship between "Chi & Psi." Rebecca
will offer a summer course for graduate and undergraduate credit on relationships between
theological and psychological concepts.
Ronald S. Remmel moved last summer from Johns Hopkins to the Physiology Dept. of the
U. of Arkansas School of Medicine in Little Rock. Ron teaches neurophysiology and is
very busy investigating neurons which make the eyes of a cat move.
Joe C. Roberts of Pocomoke City, Maryland, has rapidly expanded his family without
expanding the world's population. In November 1975, he and Mary went to New York City
to pick up twin eight-month-old Korea girls whom they are adopting through the Holt
Agency. In February 1976, Joe became a member of the technical staff of Computer
Sciences Corporation. His first assignment is to design and implement a generalized
data-base management system for the Nova Eclipse minicomputer.
R. Waldo Roth is currently director of computer services at Navajo Community College in
Tsaile, Arizona. In March Wally taught a course in BASIC to 50 minority college
faculty at a meeting in Atlanta (GA) devoted to Educational Computing in Minority
Institutions. In May he will discuss his Tasaile experience at the International
Association of Educational Data Systems meeting in Phoenix.
Gary B. Saylor has finished his work for an M.S. in biology from Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland, Ohio, and expects to be awarded the degree in June. He and
his wife, a nurse, are presently at Wheaton College (IL) taking Bible and education
courses in preparation for missionary service. They'll be looking for an overseas
opening for the two of them beginning June 1977.
Alvin J. Schmidt became associate professor and dean of graduate studies at Concordia
Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois, in September 1975. Al was formerly at
Lenoir Rhyne College (Hickory, NC).
William F. Seip is a Baltimore microbiological chemist who has been a member of ASA
for years and usually reticent about his activities. We found out, though, that Bill
will give a paper on redox potentials in culture media at the American Society for
Microbiology in May. Bill's publications have been on such varied subjects as blood
coagulation, crystal structure, agar extracted from red algae, hepatitis detection,
organ transplantation, geothermal springs, and pigeon nests (!).
David S. Shaw is in the Pathology Dept. of Billings Hospital of the U. of Chicago
medical school. With Prof. Godfrey S. Getz, he recently carried out isolation and
quantitation of phospholipids from rat heart ventricles, part of a study on cardiac
hypertrophy induced by aortic ligation. David was married on Dec. 20, 1975, no doubt
after some hypertrophy (or some kind of trophy) of the heart.
Fred R. Skaggs of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was recently re-elected secretary of the
Academy of Parish Clergy. He was pleased to be listed in the Dictionary of International Biography,
but even more pleased that his daughter Debra Jane was just elected
to Phi Beta Kappa at the U. of Richmond.
John H. Stoll is not teaching this year, but living in Westboro, Wisconsin, and writing
two books. One is on the psychology of living as seen in the book of Philippians.
John, who is listed in Who's Who in Religion and Who's Who in the Midwest, is interested
in a teaching position in theology or philosophy of religion, or in an academic deanship--or will be, when he finishes those books.
Richard C. Taylor had an eventful fall and winter. In August 1975 he married Linda
Blanchard in Pittsburgh and moved to Philadelphia, where he is now teaching science at
the middle school level for the Philadelphia Association of Christian Schools. Yick
is very excited about the work the Lord is doing through the Association in the much
neglected and needy inner city. A total of 330 children in grades K-9 are being taught
of Christ's lordship in all areas of life. (Dick would welcome correspondence with
others in similar work. Address: Apt. 7, 5119 North 6th St., Philadelphia, PA 19120.)
Kenell J. Touryan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted Dick Bube at breakfast on March 12
for a kind of ASA mini-symposium. Dick had lectured the day before at the U. of New
Mexico on energy-related materials-limited problems.
Robert W. Trimmer of Elkhart, Indiana, had two papers published with J. P. Ferris in
the same issue of J. Org. Cheri 41 (1976): "Mechanistic Studies on the Photochemical
Reactions of Tsoxazoles"
G..U),
and "Photochemical Conversion of Enaminonitriles to
Imidazoles. Scope and Mechanism" (p. 19).
Daniel R. Tucker is assistant professor of geology at Centenary College in Shreveport,
Louisiana. After receiving his PhD from Miami University, Oxford (OH), Dan has been
frantically preparing for classes while learning the unfrantic southern style of doing
things.
Alvin H. Vanderpol is in the Statistics Dept. of Princeton University. He received a
one-year Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Affairs to explore techniques for large data bases from air pollution and health research. Al recently spent
three weeks as visiting scientist at the International Meteorological Institute and the
Dept. of Meteorology of the U. of Stockholm, Sweden, and three days at the National
Institute for Air Research in Kieller, Norway.
Leslie J. Wiemerslage is teaching human anatomy and physiology at Belleville Area
College, Belleville, Illinois. Leslie had a paper entitled "Lipid Droplet Formation
During Vitellogenesis in the Cecropia Moth" in J. Insect Phvsiol. 22, 41 (1976).
Lawrence C. Wit received his PhD from the U. of Missouri in December 1975 and is
presently assistant professor in the Dept. of Zoology & Entomology at the Auburn
University branch in Montgomery, Alabama.
NEW MEMBERS
IOWA
John G. Verkade, RR3, Ames, IA 50010 PhD - Inorganic Chemistry
KANSAS
Stephen D. Fretwell, 423 Denison Ave., Manhattan, KS 66502 PhD - BioMath
MARYLAND
Jad H. Batteh, 957-D Pentwood Rd., Bel Air, MD 21014 PhD - Engineering
Michael McCommas, 5216 42nd Place, Hyattsville, MD 20781 BS - Biology
MASSACHUSETTS
M. Jeneth Antonucci, 377 Langley Road, Newton Centre, MA 02159 BS - Chemistry
Raymond F. Pendleton, 55 Glendale Avenue, Peabody, MA 01960 PhD - Clinical Psychology
MICHIGAN
Ronald A. Klimp, Essex 3, Canterburry Green Apts., Big Rapids, MI 49307 BS - Psych.
MID114ESOTA
Robert M. Crosbie, Sr., 107 Clark St., Mankato, MN 56001 BS - Geology
Loren D. Fast, 1561 W. Idaho Ave., Apt. 8, St. Paul, MN 55108 BA - Chemistry
NEW JERSEY
Eric L. McLaughlin, 28 W. Granada Dr., Brick Town, N. J. 08723 MA - Rehab. Counseling
NORTH CAROLINA
Mark Skeen, Box 4572, Duke Station, Durham, N. C. 27706 Student
OHIO
Bryan L. McKinney, 2164 Ridgecliff Road, Columbus, OH 43221 PhD - P. Chemistry
Books
From time to time we have added books to our book service for members.
In an effort
to make this service more effective, one of the executive council members (Dewey K.
Carpenter has been appointed to oversee
the service. Dewey is responsible to receive
prospective books and see that they are reviewed for possible addition to the service.
We are working directly with the publishers to obtain pre-publication information
on
strategic books on science and Christianity. The discount will be 10% but there will
be no charge for postage and handling when payment is made with the order. We have a
new book to announce now:
Theology, Physics, and Miracles, by Werner Schaaffs, translated by R. L. Renfield,
Canon Press, Washington, D. C., 1974. 100 pages (List price - $2.95; ASA Member
price - $2.65).
The author, a German physicist, is convinced that most of the conflicts between Christianity and science are related to misunderstanding. In particular,
he chides such
theologians as Bultmann who needlessly accommodate theology to an outmoded science
of
the past century. Schaaffs argues that a knowledge of modern science (by which he
means
primarily physics) is of positive value not only in appreciating the details of God's
working in natural processes, but also in understanding (some readers might say rationalizing) the miracle stories of the Bible. There is valuable
material in the
book on both modern physics and on miracles. At times Schaaffs seems far-fetched in
his interpretation of particular miracles, but this does not detract too much from
the force of his forthright insistence that the modern scientist who is a Christian
should not live a divided intellectual life. The book is short and readable, despite
some awkward expressions which probably are related to the translation from German.
To order this book send your check for $2.65 to the Elgin office (ASA, 5 Douglas Avenue,
Elgin, IL 60120). Make check payable to the ASA and ask for the book by title. Books
will be sent by return mail since we maintain an inventory. If demand is high there
may be a delay while we reorder a new supply.