Word: brobeck
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Physicians attending the joint annual meeting of the British and Canadian Medical Associations in Toronto last week hardly expected to hear a lecture on miracles, and certainly not one from a fellow scientist. But Dr. John R. Brobeck, 41, professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania, surprised a group of them at a breakfast session with a discussion of the subject that turned out to be the sensation of the convention...
...Many scientists have become a lot less positive about the prerogatives of science and the scientific method," said Dr. Brobeck (who classifies himself as an "evangelical Protestant like Billy Graham"). "More and more we hear talk about the limitations of science. But science is not the only way to get information. Many fields of human experience are not susceptible to scientific analysis...
Changing Point. "The Christian," said Dr. Brobeck, "thinks of miracles as something improbable, and so does the scientist. Both Christian and scientist also agree that it is impossible to explain miracles in terms of our present understanding. This doesn't mean miracles are impossible, and the Christian accepts them by faith . . . The attitude to science of the scientist who is not a Christian is rapidly approaching that of the scientist who is a Christian...
...reporters who wanted to hear more, Dr. Brobeck added: "Most scientists don't accept miracles because they are not Christians. But the thoughtful scientist would not say that miracles are impossible, only improbable. Most scientists are not Christians, but not because they're scientists. Most businessmen or most reporters are not Christians either; in fact, most people are not Christians...
HERMAN PHLEGER, 62, to be legal adviser to the Secretary of State. A prominent San Francisco lawyer (Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison), a graduate of the University of California and Harvard Law School, he is a director of numerous banking and business enterprises (American Trust, Union Oil. Moore Dry Dock, Matson Navigation, etc.), a trustee of Stanford. He served as a Navy lieutenant in World Wrar I, and as a legal expert with the U.S. occupation forces in post-World War II Germany...