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, 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 (those in 2008 about baseball) 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 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, corney humor, Colorado jeep trails, fine automobiles, politics, tolerance, quantum mechanics, 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 4.55, updated 6/15/2008
Recent changes to the site
Page 2. Main page.
Page 3. Quantum Mechanics material used in a Ph-D level class at Iliff, spring 2001.
Page 4. Sample pages from a SS class curriculum written 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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