Welcome to the web site of John W. Burgeson (Burgy), retired physicist,
retired IBMer, retired
Stephen Minister.
My last church family was the
Rico Community Church located
in Rico, Colorado.
I live in Houston, Texas, with Rev. Carol Lee Burgeson, my beautiful and remarkable wife of more than 50 years, the love
of my life, an MDiv graduate from the
Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado, PCUSA Minister of Word and Sacrament, retired pastor of
The Rico Community Church,
located at an altitude of 8827 feet in the San Juan mountains of
southwestern Colorado.
I write articles about baseball, energy issues and global warming for Rico's newspaper,
the Rico Bugle.
On this site you will find articles and links to sites which have
RESPONSIBLE information on issues of global warming and
origins. "Creation-Evolution" is not a good name for this issue;
a better one is "Purpose-Accidentalism." There is also
information on baseball, pathological science, corny humor,
Colorado jeep trails, fine automobiles, politics, tolerance,
quantum mechanics, gay/lesbian issues, Sunday School courses
on Religion and Scientific Naturalism,
ethical issues, Habitat for Humanity projects and some pictures
of me for use if you are constructing a dart board.
This site is at version 4.66, updated 11/3/2009
Recent changes/additions
Page 2. Main page; 13 sections.
Page 3. Quantum Mechanics material used in
a Ph-D level class at Denver's Iliff seminary in the spring of 2001.
Page 4. Sample pages from a SS class
curriculum written by my wife, Carol, for developmentally challenged adults.
Page 5. A true story I want to share with you
Page 6. updated
9/8/2003. Materials for my class "Religion & Scientific Naturalism"
Page 7. updated
10/1/2003. A short version of the class
designed for high school age persons.
Page 8. On money management
The place God calls you to be is the place where your deep gladness
and the world's deep hunger meet. -- Buechner
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure
that it is right; it is the spirit which seeks to
understand the minds of
other persons; which weighs their interests alongside
its own, without bias ... ." -- Judge Learned Hand, 5/21/1944
Most study physics to satisfy some requirement.
Some study physics to learn the tricks of Nature
so they may find out how to make things bigger
or smaller or faster or stronger or more
sensitive. But a few, a very few, study physics
because they wonder -- not how things work,
but why they work. They wonder what is at the
bottom of things -- the
very bottom, if there is a bottom. -- Lewis Epstein, in THINKING PHYSICS, 1989
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is.
Physics concerns only what we can SAY about nature. -- Neils Bohr
These two quotations sum up why I entered the study of physics,
why I hold it in such high regard,
and at least partially why I first began to examine the claims of
Christ at the age of 31. The interface between science, and what I
claim to be true as a Christian has fascinated me ever since.
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find the strength
and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and, if he
is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable
fact, would rather disbelieve his own senses, than
admit the fact. Faith does not spring
from miracle, but miracle from faith. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
More quotations
Link to a web site with responsible
information on origins issues:
The American Scientific Affiliation
"Nobody makes a greater mistake
than one who does nothing because only a little
can be done." -- Edmund Burke
Email: HossRadbourne at Gmail . com (written that way to avoid spam)
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