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VOLUME 34 NUMBER 2 APRIL/MAY 1992

NEWSLETTER of the ASA/CSCA is published bi-monthly for its membership by the American Scientific Affiliation, 55 Market St., Ipswich, MA 01938. Tel. 508-356-5656. Information for the Newsletter may be sent to the Editor: Dr. Walter R. Hearn, 762 Arlington Ave., Berkeley, CA 94707. (D 1992 American Scientific Affiliation (except previously published material). All rights reserved.

AN ISLAND BECKONS

The Call for Papers for the 1992 ASA ANNUAL MEETING has been mailed. Meeting date: JULY 31-AUGUST 3 (plus AUGUST 4-5
for field trips). Place: UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS, on the Big Island of HAWAII. Transportation and registration details will follow
Join fellow Christians in science "LOOKING TO THE FUTURE AND ACROSS THE GLOBE." On Hawaii? Far out!

Plenary speakers will address future prospects for science; ethical and theological implications; opportunities for Christian witness. Hear Harvard astronomer/historian Owen Gingerich on the future of physical science; biochemist Robert L. Herrmann on biological science; cardiologist Jay Holman on medical science. Be challenged by Princeton physicist Robert Kaita and science writer Forrest Mims on opportunities and obstacles for Christian witness in scientific work.

Hear Mark Hartwig of Access Research Network on roles for Christians in science education; Walt Hearn on the Committee for Integrity in Science Education's writing project directed to grad students; U.C. Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson on the reception of his Darwin on Trial. Brainstorm with David Swift of ASA's Long Range Planning Commission on future ASA projects.

Take part in these stimulating discussions. Help plan ASA's next 50 years. Contribute a paper or a poster session. Heed the siren call of the Big Island, of nwuna (mountain) and moana (ocean)-and of program chair Tomuo Hoshiko.

HAWAII? FINE! AND YOU?

Why go so far out on an ocean (if not on a limb) for the 1992 ANNUAL MEETING? In past years ASA has met in Toronto' Canada, and Oxford, England. Hawaii isn't another country. it's our westemmost state-and this is the year in our four-year cycle for ASA to go west. From SFO, the distance to the sunny Kona coast of Hawaii is several hundred miles less than it was to Toronto. From Chicago's O'Hare, Kona is no farther than Oxford.

One year after ASA turned 50, why not meet in the 50th state? Mid-Pacific is a great place to consider ASA's global outreach. And after papers and discussions and worship together, we can see flowing lava in Volcanoes National Park; wild orchids in tropical jungles on the island's Hilo side: a world-famous observatory atop 14,000-ft Mauna Kea. All at a bargain price for lodging and meals at a prominent training center for Youth With A Mission. YWAM's University of the Nations (formerly PACU: Pacific Asian Christian University) may not be the luxurious Kona Village Resort, where rooms start at around $350/night-but it's in an equally beautiful place, and you'll be in great company.

With winter Olympics just past, it's hard to plan a summer vacation in Hawaii. But don't play hooky when Team ASA needs you to tend (to) our goals. On 31 JULY 1992, hie your pale hide to the beach: Go for the bronze!

ASA IN PRINT

If you missed mention of ASA in the 23 Dec 1991 U.S. News & World Report, maybe you saw the one in Science (17 Jan 1992) or Christianity Today (10 Feb 1992). The two latest stories stemmed from a press release on the sounding of "A Voice for Evolution as Science" by ASA's Executive Council (Fcb/Mar Newsletter, p. 3).

The Science squib, a "Briefing" headed "Could Creationism Be Evolving?" began with this paragraph:

Classical creationists fight to get evolution out of the classroom-at least that's what many scientists think. Now comes a species that is seeking to keep it in!

The four-paragraph story included a quote from ASA Newsletter editor Walter Hearn cautioning that some people use science "to promote a secular or atheistic view." That was vigorously denied by National Center for Science Education director Eugenie Scott-given the last word, as usual.

Walt later explained to Science writer Richard Stone that 11creationists" get classified like serum cholesterol: there's "good" cholesterol and "bad" cholesterol. Believers in God's creative work who aggressively denounce "scientific creationism" are considered "good" by NCSE. Because Stone called ASA a "creationist" organization, Walt sent him a compilation of similar 11 creationist" Voices for Evolution already circulating in the NCSE publication of that name.

In CTs "North American Scene under the heading, "Evolution as Theory," the ASA resolution rated two paragraphs. The CT writer said that ASA, "a 50-year-old national organization of evangelical scientists, has for the first time backed teaching evolution as scientific theory, but denounced teaching it as ,naturalistic religion.' " CT did not cloud the issue by labeling ASA members as "creationists."

We're getting there. If we keep explaining who we are, people may eventually get the point. Ironically, not one of the three national stories gave readers a hint of how to find ASA. Science described NCSE as "Berkeley-based" but failed to locate either the Ipswich, MA-based ASA or its Berkeley-based Newsletter editor. (The good-natured, Washington, DC-based Stone thanked Walt for pointing out the base inequity in the Science squib. Ed.).

Some people find us anyway. Walt first learned of the Science piece via a phone call from a Missourian who tracked him down by calling AAAS. At least one person who wanted to join ASA somehow dug up the Ipswich address after reading the U.S. News & World Report story. Another new member found ASA's address in the writeup in the Summer 1991 issue of The Crucible.

Incidentally, that issue of the "journal for Christian graduate students" featured an article on "Relating Science and Theology" by Richard Bube. Bube cited ASA's Perspectives and his own Science and the Whole Person as ASA publications, the latter with "Ipswich, MA" as the publisher's address. The "Current Issues" article, "Toward a Christian Response to Our Environmental Crisis," was written by Alan Rabideau, grad student in Environmental Sciences & Engineering at the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. And Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen's Gender and Grace was one of three books reviewed in the issue.

We're getting there.

ASA IN (BIG) PRINT

Stumbling across a reference to ASA occasionally happens, but now there's a logical place to look for us. ASA and CSCA have just received unprecedented coverage in a major reference work tying science and religion together: the first (1992) edition of Who's Who in Theology and Science, compiled and edited by the John Templeton Foundation.

The 400-page, hard-cover, "International. Biographical and Bibliographical Guide to Individuals and Organizations Interested in the Interaction of Theology and Science" is handsomely printed and bound, with text (except for a biographical paragraph after each name) set in large, readable type.

A Preface by compiler John Wilfred Webster of Princeton's Center of Theological Inquiry describes the contents. Together, Directory A ("Individuals Actively Publishing in the Field") and B ("Individuals with an Active Interest in the Field") list nearly a thousand scholars. Citations in A include "Some Relevant Publications." Directory C lists nearly 70 organizations- with a full page devoted to ASA. Directory D lists a dozen journals-with a full description of Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith. Alphabetical, geographical, and subject indexes make it easy to locate names in directories A & B.

John Templeton's Introduction cites such scholars as Thomas Torrance, Walter Thorson, and the late Donald MacKay and Harold Nebelsick to illustrate varying perspectives despite a common interest. Templeton acknowledges that his Foundation's views of "the strong interpenatration of theology and science" are not shared by everyone, perhaps not even by "a majority of those included in this Directory." ASA members helping to compile it included Torrance, W. Jim Neidhardt, and Robert L. Herrmann. Scholars who list ASA among the societies to which they belong appear on almost every page of directories A & B.

This Who's Who is truly international. About 40 percent of the individuals and 52 percent of the organizations are located outside the U.S. in some 41 other countries. Not all the individuals, nor organizations, identify themselves as Christian. But ASA is in there (big), with our actual address (complete).

The Templeton Foundation has done some wonderful things, and Who's Who in Theology and Science is one of them. It is available from Winthrop Publishing Company (P.O. Box 2881, Framingham, MA 01701-6345) for $25 plus $2.50 shipping & handling.

WHEREVER GOD WANTS US: 21.

U nimaginable is an apt description of recent changes in Eastern Europe and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, formerly USSR). Who could have imagined that the Soviet Union would dissolve so quickly that their 1992 Olympic winners would stand on a podium with no flag of their own above them?

Over the years we've noted Dave Fisher's broadcasts of scientists' testimonies into the Soviet Union for the Slavic Gospel Association, Kenell Touryan's shortterm faculty appointment in the Armenian SSR, and other "points of light" penetrating the darkness of official anti-theism. Almost 30 years ago Texas A&M's Jack McIntyre lectured at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and later sent a New Testament to his official Russian guide.

Few could have foreseen today's (choose-your-own-adjective) opportunities to make a spiritual impact in those formerly "restricted access" countries. University of Georgia (our Georgia!) chemist Fritz Schaefer went to the (then) Soviet Union with other Christian faculty in April 1991 under Campus Crusade for Christ auspices. When a bad snowstorm detoured their Russia bound plane to Helsinki, they continued by overnight bus to the city of Peter the Great (then called Leningrad, now once again St. Petersburg). Fritz lectured on quantum chemistry and spoke of his faith in Jesus Christ. He was much encouraged by response to his lectures on "The Way of Discovery" and "Modern Science and the Christian Faith" at what was then the Leningrad Technological Institute.

Charles Thaxton heard from Christians at Craiova University in Romania that after his lectures there last year a group of over 20 faculty members have been meeting regularly to pray and study the Bible. Charlie had challenged nonbelievers to validate for themselves the truth of the Bible. Now he and wife Carole ("Cich") are back in Eastern Europe for a whole year of campus witness. In February he was scheduled to teach at Slovakia Technical University in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and in May he's due back at Craiova in Romania. He expects to lecture also in Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, and the CIS (still the USSR when he wrote). To support the Thaxtons' Czech based witness, make your checks to: Konos Connection, P.O. Box 991, Julian, CA 92036.

Charlie Thaxton's lectures in Eastern Europe were highlighted on "Breakpoint," Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship radio broadcast, on 24 Sept 1991. Colson contrasted Thaxton's stress on the information content of DNA (in The Mystery of Life's Origin, 1984) with Academician A. 1. Oparin's coacervation theory of life's origin. Oparin's ideas, now of historic interest, were first published in 1924 in the Soviet Union-now also of historic interest. Colson ended by saying that "The heavens do indeed declare the glory of God - and so does the tiny DNA molecule."

Where Lenin and Stalin once reigned, confusion now reigns. Compare Philip Yancey's moving cover story of genuine Christian influence, "Praying with the KGB," in the 13

Jan 1992 Christianity Today with other stories in that issue on the inroads of various Eastern religions, cults, and aberrant Christian groups. The Feb 1992 issue of Religion Watch quoted human rights activist Mikhail Kazachov as acknowledging that almost any aggressive group can gain at least a temporary following because Russians seek a new identity. In his native St. Petersburg, Kazachov and others founded an organization called Open Christianity, hoping to inculcate religious values into Russian society. Kazachov urged American Christians to "fine-tune" their message into "a trust-inspiring mode of behavior."

In that same issue, Religion Watch editor Richard Cimino noted that Campus Crusade has reached more than 90 million Russians with the "Jesus" film and has been asked to supply Christian curriculum materials for public schools. Other evangelical groups are effectively using television and magazines in the Russian language. Christian College Coalition faculty members are helping faculty counterparts from six Russian universities set up graduate programs in business administration, to lay a firm ethical foundation for the new market-based economy. (Religion Watch newsletter, $17.50/yr; P.O. Box 652, No. Bellmore, NY 11710)

Before heading for that part of the world yourself, request a copy of Jirn Sire's Dec 1991 "Report from Eastern and Central Europe" from InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515. Jim spent eight weeks giving his "Why Believe?" and other evangelistic lectures at various academic institutions (52 lectures in 23 cities in 9 countries). The report's title ("Lecturing Under Lenin") came from his experience speaking under a huge bias-relief bust of V. 1. Lenin at the Kiev State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. Jim's comments on what to expect when things go well-and when they don't-should be helpful to others. Polish and Czech editions of Sire's The Universe Next Door sold well during his tour. A Bulgarian edition is on its way this spring.

SQUIBS

- In Oct 1991, the Bible Society of the Soviet Union changed its name to the Bible Society of Russia, and in Nov 1991 dedicated its newly remodeled Bible House in central Moscow. At the dedication ceremony the president of the society's board, Alexander Borisov, an Orthodox priest and member of the Moscow City Council, said that the celebration of the millennium of the conversion of Rus in 1988 began a new era of freedom in spreading the Word of God. Vicepresident Alexei Bichkov, a Baptist leader, said that the Bible is the most popular book in Russia today, after 70 years of being prohibited. The vice prime minister of Russia, Yevgeny Saburov, said, "I am deeply grateful to God for his divine intervention which stopped the horrible regime. In the past the Bible was passed on underground as if it were a bomb. Now it has become natural, helping us to glorify God." According to the Jan 1992 American Bible Society Record, other Bible Societies (affiliated with the United Bible Societies) also exist in Armenia, Latvia, Moldavia, and Ukraine, and may soon be established in Estonia and Latvia.

- According to SPAN, newsletter of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS) in Berkeley, California, the National Institutes of Health has awarded "its first grant ever given for specifically theological research" to a three-year project at the Center for Theology & the Natural Sciences (CTNS) in Berkeley. Ile over-$300,000 grant will fund a study of "Theological and Ethical Questions Relative to the Human Genome Initiative." Ted Peters, PLTS professor and president of the CTNS Board of Directors, is principal investigator. The first semiannual research conference supported by the grant brought biologists, theologians, and ethicists to CTNS in Jan 1992. U.C. Berkeley biochemist David Cole was an invited participant.

- Christian Scholar's Review devoted its entire Sep 1991 issue to "Creation/Evolution and Faith." Put together by CSR editor William Hasker of Huntington College, the stimulating symposium-by-mail was built around a major paper by philosopher Alvin Plantinga of Notre Dame. In "When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible," Plantinga expressed strong skepticism toward the "Thesis of Common Ancestry." Wheaton biologist Pattle Pun supported Plantinga's skepticism; Calvin physicist Howard Van Till and Notre Dame philosopher Ernan McMullin criticized it; Plantinga responded to those criticisms. Hasker's review of Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life concluded the issue. (Copies available at $3.00 each from: Circulation Dept, CSR, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546.)

- The Winter 1991-92 issue (No. 29) of Creation/Evolution was the first to be produced exclusively by the Berkeley-based National Center for Science Education. Editor John Cole's efforts to give the spunky little quarterly a more positive tone showed in "How Not to Argue with Creationists." In that article, U. of Arizona grad student and pseudoscience-researcher Jim Lippard documented some counterproductive rhetorical abuses by Australian anticreationism activists Ian Plimer and Barry Price. (CIE, included in NCSE membership, $18/yr: NCSE, P.O. Box 9477, Berkeley, CA 947090477.)

- In 1986, ASA member Ken Smith, senior lecturer in the Dept of Mathematics, U. of Queensland, teamed up with Martin Bridgstock of the School of Science of Griffith University, also in Australia, to respond to activities of the Queensland-based Creation Science Foundation (publisher of the journal Creation Ex Nihilo). The two edited a booklet, Creadonism-An AusiraIlan Perspective. Ken contributed to its Introduction (calling young-earth creationism religion masquerading as science) and to its Conclusion (that the political success of such pseudoscience can harm Christianity as well as science and education). The Bridgstock & Smith booklet collected responses to specific creation-science proposals. Ken contributed about a third of them, plus one of five longer treatments of special issues. Ken's in-depth treatment of "Creation Physics and the Speed of LightC refuted fellow Australian Barry Setterfield's claim that the speed of light has decreased. Creationism-An Australian Perspective is now in its 2nd or 3rd edition, published by Australian Skeptics (Australian section of CSICOP, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: GPO Box 1555P, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia).

MORE ON MIMS

In the Feb/Mar, Jun/Jul, and Aug/Sep 1991 Newsletters, you read of Scientific American's withdrawal of Forrest Mims's assignment as a columnist. The Scientist kept receiving letters on the exchanges it published between Mims and philosopher Martin Caplan. In its 22 July issue, Thomas Jukes chimed in again with a litany of how foolish Mims's writing of that column would be if Mims holds "creation science" views. On 19 Aug, one letter writer said that Mims's writing should be judged on its merits. On 2 Sept, another said that in science there should be no litmus test of beliefs nor of agreement with "correct scientific opinions":

Imagine what would have happened to Isaac Newton if he had been forced to accept the current opinion about what influences planetary motion as a condition of acceptance of the post of mathematics professor at Cambridge.

Adding that many of Newton's religious writings were suppressed for 200 years lest his image as a scientific genius be tarnished, the writer wondered if personal beliefs would have kept Newton "from working as a science writer at Scientific American."

Jukes, an associate editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, used his regular "Random Walking" editorial column in the July 1991 issue for a diatribe against Mims. After Mims insisted, J. Mol. Evol. gave the editorial space in its Jan 1992 issue to Mims for a reply - with a codicil by Jukes. In the 20 Jan issue of The Scientist, Jukes hammered away again, believing, no doubt, that a "real scientist" is entitled to the last word.

CSICOP's Skeptical Inquirer covered the affair in two articles in its Summer 1991 issue: a fairly objective piece by Robert Felt and an opinion piece by famed science writer Martin Gardner. In the Winter 1991 issue, SI let Mims reply at equal length. His rather whimsical reply was followed by a response from Gardner, insistent on having the last word:

Mims may consider all this a joke at which he laughs last. To me, even funnier is the fact that a handsome new science magazine, Science Probe! is being edited by Mims, a Southern Baptist fundamentalist who believes that our earliest ancestors had no parents.

(Gardner thereby demonstrated how hard it is to get in the last smirk, or the final intelligent word on a subject. For, whatever one's view of creation or evolution, it seems clear that if "our earliest ancestors" had parents, they couldn't have been our earliest ancestors, right? -Ed.)

In that issue, SI printed four letters on Mims's dismissal. One argued that Mims's published writings constituted the evidence on which Scientific American's judgment should have been based. Another said that plenty of distinguished scientists have had "quirks"; when editor Jonathan Piel fought "the image of creationism," Scientific American readers lost a good columnist "over a mere quirk."

A Texas correspondent wrote that Mims couldn't be "a fundamentalist Baptist" if he believes the days of Genesis are not 24-hour time-spans; that makes him what "fundamentalist Baptists would call a heretic or worse, a liberal." And Laurie Thomas of Norfolk, Virginia, pointed out that American evangelicals may not be "mainline" (i.e., wealthy, privileged, well educated), but they are certainly "mainstream," since most Americans are Protestant and almost half of all Americans consider themselves Evangelicals. Thomas went on:

Perhaps the lack of awareness of the importance of Evangelical Protestantism in America is yet another example of innumeracy. Even educated persons seem unaware of the demographics of the American population. Evangelical Protestants are overlooked except when a creationism statute is passed by a state legislature or a television preacher is caught in some peccadillo or tries to run for the presidency. If advocates of evolutionary biology are ever to make headway in the mainstream of America, they must address the moral and theological concerns of Evangelical Christians. Otherwise, the biologists will just end up "preaching to the choir."

Meanwhile, a seemingly quirkless article by Mims on nuclear fusion appeared in World magazine (Nov 1992). And the Science Probe magazine he edits has some 15,000 paid subscribers and sells three times that many copies off of newsstands.

LOOKING FOR BOOKS

The new Who's Who in Theology and Science cites "The ASA Resource Directory" as one of three other important bibliographic sources. The 1992-93 edition of ASA's useful volume is called Contemporary Issues in Science & Christian Faith: An Annotated Bibliography. ASA members will not receive a free copy, but can order a copy for $8.50 each, plus $1.50 s&h, from ASA, P.O. Box 668, Ipswich, MA 01938. Nonmember price is $10.50 plus $1.50 s&h. Publication is slated for this spring.

LOOKING INTO BOOKS

Secing ASA mentioned in national periodicals made us wonder how our Affiliation has been treated in recent books. Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial (IVP, 1991) devoted three pages to ASA; Johnson cited some of the negative responses to Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy as illustrations of rampant naturalistic bias (pp. 126-8). David Livingstone, toward the end of Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (Eerdmans, 1987), cited ASA's 1959 Evolution and Christian Thought Today as evidence of ASA's breaking away "from its strictly creationist stance" (p. 176).

A strictly "creation stance" informs Loren Wilkinson's 1991 update of Earthkeeping (Eerdmans, 1980). The 1980 subtitle, "Christian Stewardship of Natural Resources," has been changed in Earthkeeping i . n the '90s to "Stewardship of Creation" because "nature" suggested elevation of the earth to divine status, and "resources" suggested a mere stockpile of raw materials. To call the earth creation, wrote Wilkinson, reminds us of the Creator, of our status as creatures, and of our task as stewards. Johnson, Livingstone, and Wilkinson are not ASA members but each has been a plenary speaker at an ASA Annual Meeting. ASA member Vernon Ehlers was a co-author of Earthkeeping, first volume from the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship at Calvin College.

A more recent Calvin Center volume, Portraits of Creation (Eerdmans, 1990), likewise made no mention of ASA, though Howard Van Till was principal author and Davis Young one of the co-authors. ASA also escaped mention in Hugh Ross's Fingerprints of God of God (Promise, 1990). Christopher Kaiser's Creation and the History of Science (Eerdmans, 1990) stopped at Einstein and Bohr. Another history, George Marsden's Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Eerdmans, 1991), got as far as Carl Sagan's Cosmos, but didn't mention ASA.

Our batting average may have been better in secular works. ASA was mentioned favorably in two oftcited collections we found recently as remaindered paperback versions. In Scientists Confront Creationism (Norton, 1983), edited by Laurie Godfrey, ASA was credited for its open stance in an essay by Alice Kehoe (p. 8). Even in Did the Devil Make Darwin Do It? (Iowa State U. Press, 1983), edited by David Wilson, the difference between ASA and the Creation Research Society was pointed out by Warren Dolphin (pp. 21, 34-5). That book included Judge Overton's 1982 decision in the Arkansas Balanced Treatment case (p. 206).

(The Weary Old Editor had forgotten that ASA was cited in Overton's preamble. -WOE.)

In the same pile of books on the Newsletter desk are others we've barely thumbed through. Cosmos as Creation (Abingdon, 1989) is a collection edited by theologian Ted Peters of Berkeley's CTNS. From Britain's Lion Publishing came another beautifully illustrated volume, Evolution: The Great Debate (1989), by Lion editor Vernon Blackmore and Sheffield Polytechnic biologist Andrew Page. We're anxious to get into Real Science, Real Faith (Monarch Ltd., 1991), edited by R. J. ("Sam") Berry. Its 16 essays by "leading British scientists" included two by ASA members: Ghillean Prance and the late Donald MacKay.

THE EDITOR'S LAST WORDS: 20.

Editing this Newsletter isn't all fun and games. It's more like fun and names-the names of ASA/CSCA members whose activities we report. Reading about each other keeps us in touch, inspires us, and shows us how other followers of Jesus honor the Lord with their scientific training.

Despite illegible handwriting and our own stumble-thumb keyboarding, we try to spell proper names properly. But is it Schaefer, Schaeffer, or Shaeffer? Check the ASAICSCA Directory-which lsts one of each. Is it Van Der Vermen, Van der Vennen, van der Vermen, vander Vennen, or some other permutation? We keep alert for double-Dutch vowels in names like Klaassen and Maatman, recalling that Dooyeweerd spelled correctly "doo look weerd."

We anticipate a rise in our orthographic anxiety index as we report this summer's ASA ANNUAL MEETING in HAWAII. One reader thanked the Weary Old Editor for translating kanaka in the Dec/Jan issue "for the rest of us haoles." The WOE can also throw around lanai, lei, and luau, but gives up on Hawaiian proper names, from King Kamehameha and Queen Liliuokalani on down.

Last summer, some friends gave their new baby three names, including Ho'omaluhiaokeakua. His mother, of Chinese ancestry from Hawaii, says the tad's name means "Peacemaker of the Lord." It sounds beautiful when she says it but even she tends to use the shorter version, Maluhia, which serves as young Noah's official middle name. Noah also has a Chinese name: the two pictographs Kai Jung C'Revealing Honesty"). Noah's aunt, incidentally, is engineer and ASA member Anne Lau, now teaching in Oakland, California. (Oops. Is that Anne or Ann?-WOE.)

PERSONALS

Gary 1. Allen, neurophysiologist and director of the Christian Mission for the United Nations Community for the past 11 years, is seeing increased openness to the message of the gospel among U.N. diplomats. The collapse of Marxism has stirred a spiritual hunger in some. Trouble in the Middle East and elsewhere has caused others to reflect on ultimate realities. Some positive responses to the Christian message made 1991 a satisfying year for the Allens. Gary and Elaine are praying for guidance in seeking an appropriate facility near the U.N. in NYC to facilitate interaction with individuals and small groups. For three fruitful years CMT JNC had access to a nearby apartment. The Mission (P.O. Box 159, Monroe, CT 06468) is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, devoting 89.9% of its income directly to ministry (as compared to an ECFA average of 75.9%).

William F. Campbell of Marseille, France, was a missionary doctor for 36 years with Arab World Ministries. He has retired from the doctor part but continues as a missionary to Muslim North Africans, whose language he and his wife know. Having worked in "limited access" countries, they've found it thrilling to be able to preach openly in Arabic at street meetings in Marseille. Some 40 North Africans listened attentively to the gospel as Bill preached at one meeting last year.

Mildred V. Carlson of Des Moines, Iowa, retired at the end of 1991 after 15 years as a biochemistry professor at the University of Osteopathic Medicine & Health Sciences. She's ready to do a lot of new things. (Like a trip to Hawaii this summer? -Ed.)

Philip S. Clifford does cardiovascular research at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He learned about ASA through attending meetings of the Federation Christian Fellowship at FASEB and joined recently at the urging of fellow physiologist Ken Dormer. Phil was glad he could attend the 1991 Annual Meeting at Wheaton but says he also enjoys the networking possibilities provided by the ASA Newsletter.

William W. Cobern is a science educator at the Phoenix campus of the U. of Arizona. An article of his in the Spring 1991 issue of the Journal of Science Teacher Education described a sort of learning game that can serve as an introduction to the philosophy of science. According to a squib in NSTA Reports!, a copy of that issue can be obtained from the Association for the Education of Teachers of Science, on request to David L. Haury, College of Education, University of Lowell, One University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854.

Gary R. Collins of Kildeer, Illinois, is a consulting psychologist and former ASA president. He is the general editor of the Resources for Christian Counseling series of books (Word DMS, Inc., P.O. Box 10829, Des Moines, IA 503800829), bringing professional help to pastors and other Christian counselors. Gary's own book, Innovative Approaches to Counseling, is part of the series. He also edits the "Christian Counseling Newsletter," sent to series subscribers.

Harold W. Darling is professor of psychology at Spring Arbor College in Michigan. He and Michael Boivin have studied the relation between Christian commitment and attitudinal prejudice in adults in various academic and church settings. Their studies appear as a chapter in Ethnic Minorities and Evangelical Christian Colleges, co-published in 1991 by the Christian College Coalition and University Press of America. The volume of ten essays, edited by D. John Lee, attempts to assess how well the more than 80 Coalition colleges serve ethnic minorities.

C. R. Dickson lives in Capetown, Republic of South Africa. He is currently working toward a Master's degree at the U. of Pretoria, doing an exegetical study of the meaning of Hebrew words for .4 poor" in the Psalms.

David A. Fraser is professor of sociology at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Dave is co-author with his colleague Tony Campolo of Sociology Through the Eyes of Faith, released in February by Harper & Row. The $11.00 paperback is the latest in the popular Christian College Coalition series that has already looked at biology, history, psychology, business, and literature through the eyes of Christian faith. Richard Wright of Gordon College wrote the biology text and David Myers of Hope College co-authored the psychology text.

Burford J. Furman works in machine design for IBM Corporation in Mountain View, California. He has B.S. and M.E. degrees from U.C. Davis and received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford last June. He edits the newsletter of the Santa Clara Valley Section of ASME and works with the college ministry of the Peninsula Bible Church. Burford was excited about discovering ASA and is anxious to explore ways to use his training to glorify God in the scientific and technical communities.

Tomuo Hoshiko of Case Western Reserve in Ohio does research on the epithelial sodium channel. At the Biophysical Society meeting in Houston in February he enjoyed the get-together of the Fellowship of Christian Biophysicists. Wife Barbara, now an associate professor of nursing and coordinator of a graduate nursing program, has begun collaborating with him on another project, measuring physiological effects of the "Valsalva maneuver." (We're not sure what it is, but it seems to be named for a 17th-century anatomist-Ed.) Tom hopes to present a poster session on Valsalva effects at the April FASEB meeting in Anaheim. Then in JULY it's on to HAWAII, of course. Tom is program chair for the ASA ANNUAL MEETING.

Charles E. Hummel has retired from serving InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as director of its faculty ministry but continues to write for InterVarsity Press. His latest IVP publication is a pocket-sized booklet, The Prosperity Gospel, analyzing what has come to be known as the Faith Movement. The movement stems from writings of E. W. Kenyon and has been promoted by Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth & Gloria Copeland, and others.

Richard L. Humphrey of Glendale, California, has taught science for many years at the Harvard School (a private school for boys) and now also runs computer operations for the school. In 1991, the Harvard School completed a merger with Westlake, a nearby private school for girls, to form a coed school on what had been the Harvard campus.

Wendell H. Hyde refired a couple of years ago after a career of teaching high school and college physics in Santa Barbara, California. Wendell's picture was in the Summer 1991 issue of Mission Frontiers, bulletin of the U.S. Center for World Mission in Pasadena. Wendell has been commuting to Pasadena two days a week to do volunteer work at USCWM. He also coordinates the Santa Barbara offerings of a USCWM course on "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement." That special issue of Mission Frontiers painted a detailed picture of the Center and asked readers to consider joining their effort to catalyze a surge of evangelism among unreached peoples. (William Carey University is an arm of USCWM; anthropologist Jim Buswell was mentioned as vicepresident for academic affairs, but we didn't spot his picture.-Ed.)

Sherman P. Kanagy, now associate professor of physics at Charleston Southern University in South Carolina, was mentioned in the Oct 1991 Omni magazine (p. 25) as "one of the best-known researchers in the Star of Bethlehem debate." Sherm has been appointed editor of Stargazer's Gazette, a publication of the local division of the Astronomical League.

Dong-Eon Kim has left the plasma physics lab at Princeton to take up a faculty position in physics at Pohang Institute of Science & Technology (Postech) in Pohang, Kyungbuk, Korea. He is working on development of soft X-ray lasers using plasmas created by high power lasers. Dong-Eon, his wife, and 4-yr-old daughter have found a small evangelical church that strongly supports campus ministry. The Kims are grateful for God's guidance in all aspects of their move.

Joseph Miller of Gainesville, Virginia, is employed as an environmental analyst for the Bionetics Corporation. He analyzes landscape patterns for Bionetics, an in-house contractor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

H. Miriam Ross is spending her sabbatical from Acadia Divinity College at home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, but traveling to various archives and libraries. An anthropologist and former missionary, she is publishing a series of papers on missionary activities of Maritime Baptist women. For The Enterprise, journal of Canadian Baptist International Ministries, she also wrote an account of "the reluctant service and sacrifice" of Mary Carey, first wife of the "father of Protestant missions." (Next year is the bicentennial of the 1793 departure for India of pioneer English missionary William Carey, who translated the Bible into Bengali, produced an important Bengali-English dictionary, and founded the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India. -Ed.)

F. LeRon Shults of Minneapolis is a relatively new member of ASA, looking forward to his first Annual Meeting. He is assistant dean for academic affairs at Walden University and an educational consultant in the area of theological education, specializing in adult learning and nontraditional programs. At the 13th annual Conference on Integrative Studies last fall he analyzed integrative adult learning theory as a matrix for epistemological transformation. In Feb 1992, his paper at the U. of Chicago NUCEA Conference ("Teaching Adults in Changing Times") was titled "Toward a postcritical paradigm for transfonnative adult learning in graduate education."

Joseph L. Spradley is taking a sabbatical from his physics post at Wheaton College to teach at the American University in Cairo. As a visiting professor of science he teaches two large lecture classes in a required first-year course on "Scientific Thinking." Since his classes are too large for good blackboard presentation, he's glad he took along a notebook computer and printer to make outlines and diagrams for overhead projection. The Spradleys anticipated heat, dust, and noise in Cairo but are housed in an air-conditioned ninth-floor apartment in a new AUC dormitory for international students. The building is located on Zamalek Island in the Nile, about three miles from AUC's pleasant campus in the center of Cairo. Joe has three or four days a week to devote to research (and sight-seeing).

Gary Strahan is a post-doc in pharmaceutical chemistry at U.C. San Francisco, doing NMR spectroscopy on drugs and nucleic acids. After undergrad work at La Salle University in Philadelphia he earned a Ph.D. at the U. of Oregon and got his first post-doc: experience at Marquette. Gary has worked with the IVCF grad group at UCSF to organize a symposium on healing as seen from several perspectives, including a Christian perspective.

C. Davis Weyerhaeuser is president of the Stewardship Foundation of Tacoma, Washington, which has been generous in support of many Christian enterprises, including such ASA-sponsored projects as Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy. World Concern (19303 Fremont Ave N., Seattle, WA 98133), a charity organization with an outstanding record for keeping its overhead low, publishes a newsletter called Loveline. A 1991 issue on rescue work in Thailand among untouchable" children showed the faces of many Asian waifs. One face looked familiar: Dave Weyerhaeuser's. Dave's photo accompanied his statement praising "World Concern's ability to combine a witness for Christ with a very effective relief program which commits to instilling a sense of selfreliance and dignity in the world's poorest people."

Edwin M. Yamauchi of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, has been editing papers from a conference he organized last spring at Miami on "Ancient Africa and Africans." In Nov 1991 he read a paper on "Africa and the Bible:

Cush and Meroe" at the Near East Archaeological Society (NEAS) meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. Ed chaired a session of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) and serves on committees for both NEAS and IBR.

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR POSITIONS. Chemistry/physics: John P. Chan (617 Madison St., Albany, CA 94706. Tel. 510-525-8140), new ASA member, seeks teaching or research position. Born in China in 1936; B.S. in chemistry at Oregon State, M.S. in physical metallurgy and Ph.D. in physical chemistry (1964, under Nobelist W. F. Giauque) at U.C. Berkeley. Two yrs NMR research as chemistry lecturer at U. of Hong Kong, 6 as research scientist at Sandia Labs in Livermore (CA), then 5 as dean of science & engineering at Hong Kong Baptist College (where he met Alton Everest and first heard about ASA). Product development for Shell (1977-79), technical marketing for Perkin-Elmer Physical Electronics (1979-89); directed quality assurance in large factory in China (1990-91); currently teaching advanced physical instrumentation (scanning tunneling microscopy, HPLC, GC, IR, UV- Vis, DSC, TGA, DTA) at Hong Kong City Polytechnic, new university with 10,000 students. John is a U.S. citizen living in Hong Kong (the Albany, CA, address is his mother's), with many contacts in China from his travels for Perkin-Elmer there; married, two grown children. Biology/agriculture/Gonetics: Kenric M. Johnson (8 Pintail Rd., Sheridan, WY 82801. Tel. 307-672-5120), new ASA member, seeks Christian college position emphasizing teaching, research, or leadership opportunities. Ph.D. in agronomy/plant physiol. plus 8 yrs of college teaching, 7 of university & industrial research, and 5 of international development.

POSITIONS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE. Mathematics: Fall 1992, Ph.D. preferred, Master's required; course load negotiable; replacement for teacher of trig, precalculus, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, numerical methods; send c.v. to: Dr. Jack Anderson, V.P. for Academic Affairs, Mount Vernon Nazarene College, 800 Martinsburg Rd, Mount Vernon, OH 43050. Biology: June 1992, Ph.D. with emphasis in vertebrate physiol. & anat.; tenure-track position, 9 mo. plus possible summer teaching; strong pro-med programs in growing Christian college near U. of Mississippi Medical Center; apply to Dr. Daniel C. Fredericks, V.P. and Dean, Belhaven College, 1500 Peachtree St., Jackson, MS 39202. Computer science: June 1992, M.S. or Ph.D. to teach undergrad courses and assist in curriculum development in relatively new degree program; tenure-track, 9-mo. plus possible summer teaching; contact Dr. Daniel C. Fredericks, V.P. and Dean, Belhaven College, 1500 Peachtree St., Jackson, MS 39202. Mathematics: August 1992, Ph.D. or Ed.D. required. Contact: Dr. C. Larry Wilson, VicePresident/Dean, Montreat-Anderson College, Montreal, NC 28757, 704/669-8011.