Blog One, August 8, 2025
Welcome to my blog site. In the first few posts, I hope to help you understand who I am. I was born in southwest Louisiana, growing up in small, chiefly agricultural farm towns. My parents were godly, living out their Christian faith in a culture that was heavily Catholic and mostly unchurched. They were proponents of education in the home and in the community. Both of them schooled me on two topics, science and Scripture. These are still the foundational pillars of my life today; they form the basis of my worldview and teaching philosophy.
One historic event shaped me more than any other, and I will never forget the moment. I can take you to the exact place in the house where we were living to the exact place where I sat on the floor. (I have not lived in that house since 1976, yet the moment lives on.) Dad and I were watching TV on December 24, 1968. I was ten years old.
The words, literally from another world, crackled from the TV set.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was
without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there
be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and
God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and
the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first
day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and
let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God
said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas: and God saw
that it was good (Genesis 1:1-10 King James Version).
The watershed event frozen in time? It was during NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, where astronauts Borman, Lovell, and Anders had reached lunar orbit, and were addressing the people of the “good Earth”. (You can still view this event on YouTube!)
Their reading from Genesis 1, as the first images of the lunar landscape ambled by on our TV screen, was beyond fascinating. Dad and I had the gene – we loved science, engineering, things that move and make noise. We needed to know what made things go; we loved the soil and gardening, machines, and all things natural.
We were enthusiastic followers of the Apollo missions, and things we had never seen before – up close pictures of the Earth’s natural satellite – were flowing into our living room!
Glorying in the wonders of His Creation is an innate component of my DNA, and the reading of Scripture as they orbited the Moon closed the deal. Three brave astronauts, darting around the Moon in a small spaceship, chose to bask in the wonder of their position. Their message melded the Creator’s masterful realm and man’s ingenuity in my tender mind. My life course was to study nature.
I was blessed to have a career in product development and research in three different organizations. I became a problem-solving scientist, surely an outflow of the love of learning my parents had given me. I have been even more blessed to have a second career which is still going – teaching science to college students.
Now my life has me on the cusp of yet another career, that of an author. I have collected and composed a book entitled Air, Earth, Fire, and Water: A Glimpse of the Created Earth which contains content from a course I developed at Louisiana Christian University. This book attempts to integrate my two great loves, Scripture and science, by providing a biblical basis for the different elements of the created realm – nature! Mankind is a receptacle of God’s grace – we inhabit an environment, a natural realm which is measurable and ordered so we can learn about it and use it for our good.
The wonder of it all is that we can also glimpse the character of God – whether you believe in a Creator or not, the elements of nature and the teachings of Scripture run in a tight parallel. I am honored to look at these principles in the work I have completed, and I encourage you to read this book – may God be glorified in all that I have done.
D.E.