Science and Religion: 250 Anecdotes and Stories

This book consists of many anecdotes and stories about science and religion. It is, I hope, interesting with some humor. For example: 1) When aerospace engineer Burt Rutan was growing up, he was obsessed with aircraft. He would take the model airplanes his older brother crashed and use their parts to create his own designs. To test the aircraft, he persuaded his mother to drive the family car at high speeds while he held his newly designed aircraft out the window to see how it acted. Later, he started designing plans for aircraft that could be built at home by hobbyists. To test the designs for parts, he would tie the parts to the top of his car, and then drive the car at high speeds. His business was very successful, and he enjoyed working there so much that he called his aircraft factory the "candy store." 2) Larry J. Crocker, minister of the Marbach Christian Church in San Antonio, Texas, had a daughter named Jennifer who was impatient. When she was five years old, she saw her brother get baptized, so she wanted to get baptized, too. He explained to her that she needed to be older to be able to understand the commitment that baptism represented, but she still wanted to get baptized right away. That night, he heard a lot of splashing coming from the bathroom where Jennifer was taking a bath, so he called to her, "Jennifer, what are you doing?" She shouted back, "I told Jesus I loved Him and baptized myself."