![]() ![]() ![]() My favorite science fiction authors, Azimov and Heinlein, plus Star Trek, tended to focus on broad themes of expressing a vision for a hopeful future for humanity, in which we survive, and even thrive, for eons. Having abandoned my parents’ faith, I tried to assemble a world view and a purpose to my life that made sense, that felt right. I felt a need to make a choice, and chose science over a belief in the supernatural. As I also studied more science classes, especially biology, I came to find the theology of my Episcopal church upbringing to be in conflict with the science that I found much more compelling and meaningful. ![]() I found it to be profound to dwell on the long sweep of history, on the origins of the universe, the galaxy, our solar system, our planet, life on Earth, humans, and civilization. I was devouring books on human evolution and science fiction, National Geographic, Psychology Today, Omni, and Scientific American. A few years later in middle school, I did a research project on the hydrogen economy, by which renewable sources of energy plus water would be turned into power for our utilities, homes, factories and cars. That summer we watched Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the surface of the Moon, and our family named our new kitten Apollo 11, or Polly for short. I moved to Freehold, New Jersey, in 1969 at age 10. ![]()
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