Guy's Books and Thoughts

I think a good example that faith and science are NOT contradictory
can be seen in the faith of and lives of people. In modern times and our own denomination (Lutheran Church Missouri synod) we had people such as John Klotz, who taught at Concordia Seminary St. Louis. Dr. Klotz held both a Divinity degree (M.Div) and a science degree (PhD. Biology). He did not believe in evolution. His specialty was genetics.

A second modern example of someone who practised his faith and did science was
Alfred Rehwinkel (died 1979). Dr. Rehwinkel also taught at Concordia St. Louis. He was concerned that young people with a Christian upbringing were being
brainwashed by evolutionary teaching in schools. He wrote a book
entitled THE FLOOD. This book, though written around 1950 is still in
print. In the biography of Rehwinkel, by Seltzer, the author mentions
John Whitcomb being influenced by the Rehwinkel book and converted
to six day creationism. Mr. Whitcomb, later went on to co-author the
classic creation book THE GENESIS FLOOD. While doing a web search, I ran accross a website which talks about Dr. Rehwinkel and his wife.
The article was surpisingly found in a non religious publication:
Real Estate Weekly. The article stated that Alfred Rehwinkel was
the founder and President of the Zoological society of Edmonton, Alberta
Canada. He was also instrumental in getting the first Zoo established
in Alberta. Does this sound like someone who is anti-science?

Another example who comes to mind is Dr. Raymond Damadian. He is on
the technical board of ICR (Institute for Creation Research). He is
not only a creationist, he is a medical pioneer. He is the inventor
of the M.R.I. He was profiled in the book THEY MADE AMERICA by Harold
Evans. The book was tied in with a PBS TV series. PBS is not noted
for being a religious broadcaster, quite the contrary. The TV series, unfortunately, did not profile Dr. Damadian, only a fraction of the
people covered in the book. I do not know if Mr. Evans, who wrote the
book, was aware that Dr. Damadian was a creationist. Mr. Evans did seem
to know that Dr. Damadian was a person of faith, for Evans records that
Damadian was at one point in his life where all he could do was read his
Bible and pray. Dr. Damadian was snubbed by the Nobel prize committee
and the award was given to two people who made IMPROVEMENTS on the machine. When Dr. Damadian was struggling to build his invention, he received a lot of ridicule. People said the machine would not work. But now that the machine is part of medical practice, he is ignored and credit is given to others. Typical hypocrisy of the world. As the book of Romans stated the people did not acknowledge God or his benefits. I guess one should not be surprised if the world has chosen to ignore the contributions of one of his servants.

Guy