A great polymath gone.

Plus he no doubt knew almost as much about bible scholarship as echo2 so he wouldn't have been fooled by any of that obey-Jehovah-live-in-paradise stuff; too simple.
Also, I didn't want the casual reader to think I was presenting him as a religious person when he wasn't.

One memory: In 1981 he wrote about strength of materials in reviewing two architecture books: "The Tower of Babel could have been raised two kilometeres high with parallel walls, even higher if it had tapered like a mountain." He said a vertical wall falls from instability, not from crushing of the bottom courses. A stable design, of fired brick, could go higher, even in earthquake country. (?. . .And they began to say, each one to the other: ?Come on! Let us make bricks and bake them with a burning process.? So brick served as stone for them, but bitumen served as mortar for them. They now said: ?Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over al the surface of the earth."- Ge 11:3-4)

Another: About the time I was beginning my bible study he reviewed The Great Dying, by Kenneth Hsu. "Hsu goes further, though ... he finds no validity in natural selection as a driving force for evolution. Adaptaton is real, but not natural selection. That is deeper water." He went on in a vein evoking the discomfort he felt at this. Like the Philistines after the Dagon incident. (1 Sam 5) It helped me to see how ephemeral is the best of man's thinking, as I was learning the depth of Jehovah's mind and power. Later in the same piece he quoted and discoursed beautifully on Ec 9:11!

Another, from the obit. After flying over post-Bomb Hiroshima: "Most of us who hadn't dropped out of this atom project during the last two or three years had developed our own private justifications for staying with it. I know I had done so." Honest man. With faith in Jehovah instead of his great knowledge, he could have had no regrets about his wartime behavior, like these people:
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6130-0.html?forumID=50&threadID=99269&messageID=1143639&tag=cnr
(Pr 29:25b)

Another: He was the first to bring to my attention the "Now we're all sons of *******" quote, post-Hiroshima. Also, he wrote that 'only a couple' of Los Alamos scientists 'had the decency to go into a corner and throw up' on news of the Bomb's terrible destruction.

Martin Gardner, the long-time Mathematical Games editor at Scientific American., was another bible expert. He grew up as a Bible Belt preacher's kid, and got the crap beat out of him for just about anything. He still knows the bible, but doesn't think much of God. He also unwittingly helped me to know Jehovah.

Finally, you might look at this college site, which I came across while researching Morrison:

http://department.monm.edu/physics/people/faculty/ambrose/ISSI479.html
"A major objective of this course is to explore possible answers to the questions, "Where do we come from?", "What is our place in this universe?" and "What is our final destiny?"."
Had to laugh through my tears. Someone with a reasoned faith in God can cover this course with just three scriptures, leaving more time for bible study:
Isa 45:18; Ec 12:13; Ps 37:29.
Or maybe just one: "In the beginning, God ..."
Regards, Doug in New Mexico

I've often said that is the perfect description of the Big Bang.

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circumstantial case, as I recall, but just a few years ago I believe the dust settled, and Morrison was able to vindicate himself. And there was a mole besides Klaus F. (The forum s/w didn't like a good German name.
Our local library discarded a small but meaty book on Oppenheimer. What stands out for me is the foolishness on all sides. McCarthy drank perhaps because he kept hearing bumps in the night, but some of these warm-and-fuzzy guys greatly underestimated Stalin. Highly evolved thinking all around.
Hey- don't knock conservatism! The Telegraph has a dull, pedestrian, and eminently useful web page, but the Guardian/Observer stories are scattered all over the lot. As if their webmaster just tried to throw money at the problem.
Regards, Doug in New Mexico