| Personal background |
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I am a 59 year old male originally from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
I became a Christian in May 1973 while stationed at Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska.
I retired from the USAF (with 20 years 10 months and 27 days of service) in July 1980.
I work with computers doing just about everything that you can do with them, but specializing in Information Security Issues.
I am married to a wonderful woman who is from West Virginia. We have three great children: 1 daughter (married with 3 sons) and 2 sons (one engaged and the other still unattached); all of our children are living away from us, on their own.
My hobby is working on or with computers and I am also something of a scientist (I like taking things apart and seeing how they work and then putting them back together).
My interests are in scientific areas and in the spiritual arena. That may seem to be at odds with being a Christian, but I don't think so. I think it is perfectly linked because what Science can't answer, God can. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe that there is only one God and that He created everything. If we are the only humans in existance, I can handle that. Just like I can handle it if there were others, like us out there.
I believe that if there are other beings with intelligence out there, then it is our responsibility to find them, contact them, and see if we can learn to live with them without destroying them. Humanity is not as Human as the name indicates. We, humans, have a tendency of destroying that which we don't understand and I would hope that we could restrain ourselves from doing that when we contact other beings (we have to assume that they are intelligent if they have developed communication to the extent that it can be found by us).
SETI@home is a great undertaking which demonstrates how we can all work together with a common goal in mind without getting into the racial, social, or economic differences which tend to isolate and insulate us from interacting with each other. This shows that there is hope for humanity, at least on the intellectual level. |
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