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| Personal background |
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I am a 50-year-old high school physics and mathematics teacher in Mendenhall, Mississippi, as well as a Baptist minister. My interest in the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe started in my childhood when I began to read the great SF stories of Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, et al.
I grew up watching the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, and will never forget watching Neil Armstrong step out onto the lunar surface. I have spent much time gazing at the stars through my 4.5-inch Newtonian reflector, and find it very difficult to understand people who never look up at the night sky and say, "I wonder what's out there." |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think extraterestrial life exists? I suppose I am undecided. I do think, however it is pure hubris to look at this vast universe and blindly assume it doesn't exist. As with everything else in nature, I want to KNOW; SETI@home provides a way that I can help in perhaps finding out.
Many folks of my acquaintance have questioned why I have such an interest, since I am a minister as well as a physics teacher. I've even had some suggest that my Christianity and my interest in science must conflict. I have not found it to be so. So far as I am concerned, to learn everything I can about the universe is part of my purpose; that is why I run the program -- to seek to know. |
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