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PERSPECTIVES on Science and Christian Faith JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATION In This Issue … Noah’s Ark near Dogubayazit, Turkey? Science, the Bible, and Human Anatomy Reading Genesis Something Unintended: One Experience of Science and Vocation “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.” Psalm 111:10 VOLUME 68, NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2016 (US ISSN 0892-2675) (CPM #40927506) Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith Manuscript Guidelines © 2016 by the American Scientifi c Affi liation The pages of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (PSCF) are open Editor-in-Chief to original, unpublished contributions that interact with science and Christian J C. P (Roanoke College and faith in a manner consistent with scientifi c and theological integrity. A brief Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine) description of standards for publication in PSCF can be found in the lead 221 College Lane editorial of the December 2013 issue. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes title (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith). For those who wish to to: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, request permission for other kinds of copying or reprinting, kindly write to 218 Boston Street Suite 208, Topsfi eld, MA 01983. the Managing Editor. Editorial Live and Learn James C. Peterson t is a standard phrase that “we live and learn.” rescinds a position that he advocated then. He Indeed, it is usually in that order. I often take thinks that he allowed the Augustinian tradition of I solace in saying to myself, “Well, at least I will interpreting the second chapter of Genesis as a sec- not need to make that mistake again.” Been there. ond account of creation, to blind him to how the Done that. Time to go on to new mistakes. Anyone text actually reads. Clouser now sees Genesis 2 as successful in scientifi c research, experiences such a recounting of Adam and Eve receiving the breath many times. of God in relationship with God—that is, Adam and Eve were the fi rst fully human beings. They are pre- We see a willingness to change an approach and sented as the start of the story of responsibility and interpret things in a new way, several times in this redemption, the fi rst covenant people of God, and issue of PSCF. It is characteristic of genuine improve- not as the fi rst anatomical Homo sapiens sapiens. ment. There is no intellectual growth when we only understand exactly as we did years before. Even In his article, geologist Lorence Collins explains why the most important truths that we hold should gain a formation on Mount Ararat that is celebrated to this nuance and application. David Barnard, President of day by some as the petrifi ed remains of the wood of the University of Manitoba, writes of this in his com- Noah’s ark, is not the ark. While he would be happy munication. It is in looking back that Barnard can to fi nd remains from Noah’s ark, this site is a routine now see our Lord’s plan and work, whereas he was volcanic fl ow. Later in this issue, Collins recounts, not always aware of it at the time. Hindsight might in his letter to the editor, that David Fasold, who not be twenty/twenty, but a person can see now fi rst brought this formation to his attention, spent more than he or she could before. Such is reminiscent his savings and mortgaged his house to spread the of the repeated pattern of the Psalmist who dwells on news that these rocks were what was left of Noah’s how God has provided before, to encourage trust for ark. But when convinced by further investigation his now-tested present and for a hopeful future. that they were not petrifi ed wood after all, Fasold withdrew his own book that was gaining substantial Robert Branson raises a test case for the idea that royalties. Fasold pursued the truth and was willing God chooses to assure the scientifi c accuracy of every to change his mind, even at great fi nancial cost. statement in scripture. He looks in particular at mul- tiple biblical references to the functions of particular There is a cost to testing and developing one’s human organs.