JUNE, 1959 35' Astronomers Open New Windows on the Stars Everett E. Duncan WHAT ABOUT EVOLUTION? Dr. George McCready Price Adventures of the Spirit—No. 4 HOW GOD AND HUMANITY LIVE TOGETHER • 1••••7--tr. t ECTEntidE By Adlai Albert Esteb We cannot live by bread alone, We cannot live by bread alone, We cannot live by bread alone, For man is more than flesh and bone. Or by the gains our books have shown. Or by the things we call our own. We live by beauty—flowers that please Instead by harmonies that charm our ears, We live by faith, by hope, by peace the eyes— Like whispering pines dissolve our haunting and rest, The glory and the peace of tranquil skies; fears; When sunset's glory paints the golden west. By fleecy clouds when etched with silver light, By songbirds singing songs which so enthrall Our sweetest moments conic at eventide, By twinkling stars that scintillate all night. Or majesty of some great waterfall. When we meet Christ and find Him satisfied. JUNE This Time ••••• 1959 OLD SOLDIER (eighty-eight Volume 68 years) George McCready Price (What About No. 6 Evolution? p. 18) has spent the better part of a lifetime (fifty years plus) on the firing line, combating evolution and A RELIGIOUS MAGAZINE dedicated to the strengthening of the mental, physi- supporting the Bible story cal, and spiritual life of the individual reader. Basing its recommendations on the living truths of the entire Bible, THESE TIMES promotes evangelical Christianity, of creation. A thorough- the care of the needy at home and abroad, religious liberty, the systematic study of going scholar and teacher the Bible, the exaltation of Jesus Christ, and the glad news of His literal soon coming. ("I will not tolerate a grade-school-level per- formance from students ARTICLES taking college work"), Astronomers Open New Windows on the Stars __ Everett E. Duncan 4 Price has become a rec- ognized authority on the No Place to Hide Don Johnson 7 subject of creationism. What About Evolution? George McCready Price 18 Most of the forty-three Why I Don't Want My Boys to Smoke Irmgard McLendon 20 lines he rates in Who's Who in America list the What Do We Find in Responsible Motherhood? _ Elsie Landon Buck 24 more than twenty books he has authored. "Doing Your Best" Won't Get You Into Heaven A. D. Bohn 34 Born in Havelock, New Brunswick, in 1870, Price was a teacher at the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda, California, during REGULAR FEATURES its beginning years, giving instruction in nurs- ing. From there his career of service took him 16 This Time 3 "Apples of Gold" to a number of educational institutions, includ- Events of These Times 8 Editorials 17 ing Walla Walla College, where he retired from Adventures of the Spirit 12 Let's Ask the Doctor 32 his professorship in philosophy and geology in 1938. But his "retirement" has been studded with achievement, including the publication of POETRY numerous articles and several books, among At Eventide Adlai Albert Esteb 2 them a modern, authoritative commentary on the Book of Daniel. Cover: Camera Clix QUOTES FROM THIS ISSUE "Astronomers are eagerly opening new windows on the stars—windows that are giv- KENNETH J. HOLLAND, Editor ing us a clearer, closer peek at the universe, revealing astounding secrets of the depths of Associate Editor Layout Artist space." (Page 4.) GORDON F. DALRYMPLE SHIRLEY C. ELDRIDGE "The theory of evolution is not so much Art Director Copy Editor a question of science as it is an attitude of ROBERT M. ELDRIDGE JAMES JOINER mind, a philosophy." (Page 18.) Editor, Braille Edition Circulation Manager CLAUD W. DEGERING IRVIN H. IHRIG "The most common sin of all ages—our day included—is not murder, thievery, or adul- Contributing Editors: Daniel Walther, Rodney E. Finney, Jr., Cecil tery, terrible as they are. God says it is the Coffey, R. D. Vine, Wesley Osborne, Roland Hegstad, E. A. Moon, sin of presumption." (Page 34.) Merlin L. Neff, C. A. (Bill) Oliphant, H. M. S. Richards, Siegfried H. Horn, Mary Hunter Moore, Herbert Ford, Fenton L. Hopp. INSIDE front cover photo, Member of Associated Church Press by Religious News Service: With vivid, dra- Served by the Religious News Service matic colors of orange, red, and gold, the hand Address all correspondence to Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee of the master Artist has taken the brush of twilight and painted an unforgettable sunset Established in 1891. Published monthly (except September, when semimonthly) by the Southern Publishing Association, 2119 Twenty-fourth Avenue, North, Nashville 8, masterpiece, its intricate design testifying the Tennessee. Entered as second-class matter January 19, 1909, at the post office in Nash- ville, Tennessee, U.S.A., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 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THESE TIMES, JUNE, 1959 STRONOMERS are eagerly Mount Palomar in southern California ing of the American Astronomical So- opening new windows on the practically never has the full, effective ciety in Madison, Wisconsin, Naval stars—windows that are giv- viewing power which it would have if Research Laboratory scientists reported ing us a clearer, closer peek it were housed in an artificial satellite on one of the new sky windows— at the universe, revealing astounding 500 miles above the earth. rocket astronomy. secrets of the depths of space. Lyman Spitzer, Jr., writing in The Dr. Herbert Friedman of NRL de- "Through all history mankind has American Scientist, April, 1955, says, scribed how the new astronomy began viewed the universe through a tiny "There is no question that a 23-inch with the single, successful ninety-mile- chink in an immense curtain," states telescope high above the earth could, high firing of an Aerobee rocket at the Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the in principle, do better than the 200- White Sands, New Mexico, missile Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical inch telescope on the earth's surface range. Observatory in Cambridge, Massachu- in photographing small detail on the The spinning, sky-searching Aer- WINDOWS ON THE STARS setts. "And now, only now," he con- surface of any of the planets." obee, equipped with photon counters tinues, "are we preparing to thrust the The logical solution to the astrono- sensitive to ultraviolet radiation (nor- curtain aside and view the universe mers' problem would be to place a tele- mally masked from the earth by the without impediment." scope in an orbiting satellite high above protective shield of the atmosphere), This curtain is real, and it is hun- and entirely free from atmospheric dis- telemetered back some startling find- dreds of miles thick. We call it the at- tortion. Balloons—and rockets—carry- ings. Most surprising was this: mosphere, and though very necessary ing small telescopes have soared twenty Although telescopes have been un- for life on earth, it is the astronomers' to one hundred miles above the earth, able to detect any sign of atmosphere worst enemy. It is the greatest single and the resultant photographs have surrounding Spica (a bright star well obstacle to the advance of astronomy. been most revealing. Up there, the known to navigators), the Aerobee dis- As one looks at it, the atmosphere stars do not twinkle. The atmosphere is covered a glowing gaseous cloud of seems clear and transparent. Light free from distortion. No doubt marvel- ultraviolet light billions of miles wide penetrates it, and the stars shine ous aesthetic experiences would be the and so intense that it completely through. But "this 'transparency' is an rewards of observations from space. masked the star. illusion," says Dr. Whipple. Mr. Spitzer envisions sending up a Dr. Friedman speculated that inter- As visible light from the stars hits forty-inch telescope that would meas- stellar space is filled with such clouds. the atmosphere, it bends back and ure light by the ultrasensitive photo- Additional Aerobee shoots undoubt- forth and becomes distorted, causing a electric cell. He feels such a telescope, edly will disclose still more secrets. shimmering condition, which is the operating above the atmosphere, could Another new window opened re- bane of every astronomer. This shim- "see" objects that are only one tenth cently on the stars is radioastronomy. mering is easily detected by the naked as big as the smallest object which the In this new science astronomers do not eye as one looks at the distant stars. 200-inch telescope can now record on look at, but listen to, the stars, and a The atmosphere transmits visible a photograph. It could detect galaxies flood of new knowledge is released.