Richard H. Bube (August 10, 1927 – June 9, 2018) was an American scientist.

Academic career

Bube received his B.S. in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1946 and his M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1950) in physics from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

.Richard H. Bube in ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Reproduced i
Biography Resource Center
Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. He was a researcher at

RCA Laboratories The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Comp ...

Princeton, New Jersey Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of whi ...

, from 1948 to 1962. Thereafter he taught at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

where he was an

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from 1962 to 1964, when he became professor of materials science and

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

. He served as his department's chair from 1975 to 1986 and is now an

emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

professor For over twenty years he also conducted an undergraduate seminar at Stanford University on "Issues in Science and Christianity",Ed.

J.P. Moreland James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948), better known as J. P. Moreland, is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology at Biola Univ ...

and John Mark Reynolds. ''Three Views on Creation and Evolution''. Zondervan, 1999. . pp.283-284. until it was cancelled in 1988 by

Professional affiliations

Bube is a member of: * The

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

(fellow) *The

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

(fellow) *The

American Society for Engineering Education The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education. The purpose of ASEE is the advancement of education ...

*The

American Scientific Affiliation The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) is a Christian religious organization of scientists and people in science-related disciplines. The stated purpose is "to investigate any area relating Christian faith and science." The organization publi ...

(fellow, member of executive council from 1964 to 1968, vice-president in 1967, president in 1968, editor of its journal from 1969 to 1983,The Harmonious Dissonance of Evangelical Scientists: Rhetoric and Reality in the Early Decades of The American Scientific Affiliation
''PSCF'' 50 (December 1998): 241-249 emeritus fellow from 2009)

Defense of theistic evolution

In the 1970s, whilst he was editor of the ''

Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation ''Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith'', subtitled ''Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation'', is the academic publication of the American Scientific Affiliation. Background The ASA's original constitution provided two goals for th ...

'' Bube defended the viewpoint of

theistic evolution Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution) is a theological view that God creates through laws of nature. Its religious teachings are fully compatible with the findings of modern science, including biological ...

in that journal. One such article on this topic would receive in-journal peer-review by

Baptist Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...

theologian Bernard L. Ramm, Canadian historian and Reformed scholar W. Stanford Reid, Fuller theologian

Paul King Jewett Paul King Jewett (1920–1991) was a Christian theologian, author and prominent advocate of the ordination of women and of believer's baptism. He taught systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is credited wi ...

, and Christian apologist

Alvin Plantinga Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 1982, ...

Personal life

Bube was born in

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

, to Edward Neser Bube and Ella Elvira (Baltteim) Bube. He married Betty Jane Meeker on October 9, 1948, and they had four children: Mark Timothy, Kenneth Paul, Sharon Elizabeth and Meryl Lee. His son Mark T. Bube is the General Secretary for Foreign Missions of the

Orthodox Presbyterian Church The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) is a confessional Presbyterian denomination located primarily in the United States, with additional congregations in Canada, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. It was founded by conservative members of the Presbyteri ...

. He married Mary Anne Harman September 9, 2000. He died on June 9, 2018, at the age of 90.

Theology

His views on religion have been discussed by theologian

Stanley J. Grenz Stanley James Grenz (1950–2005) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist in the Baptist tradition. Early years Grenz was born on 7 January 1950 in Alpena, Michigan. Grenz graduated from the University of Colorado in 1973. He then earn ...

Bibliography

Engineering

*''Electrons in solids : an introductory survey'' (1982, 1992), Richard H Bube *''

Photoconductivity Photoconductivity is an optical and electrical phenomenon in which a material becomes more electrically conductive due to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation such as visible light, ultraviolet light, infrared light, or gamma radiation. Wh ...

of solids'' (1960, 1978) *''Fundamentals of solar cells : photovoltaic solar energy conversion'' co-authored with Alan L Fahrenbruch(1983) *''Electronic properties of crystalline solids: an introduction to fundamentals'' (1974) *'' Photoelectronic properties of semiconductors'' by Richard H Bube (1992)
''Photovoltaic materials''
(1998), *''Photoinduced defects in semiconductors'' co-authored with David Redfield (1996) *''Annual review of materials science'' (1971-onward)

Religion and science works

*''Putting it all Together: Seven Patterns for Relating Science and the Christian faith''.

University Press of America University Press of America is an academic publisher based in the United States. Part of the independent Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the ...

, 1995. . *''The Encounter between Christianity and Science'' (1968) *''The Human Quest: a New Look at Science and the Christian Faith'' (1971, 1976) *''To Every Man an Answer: a Systematic study of the Scriptural basis of Christian Doctrine'' (1955) *''One Whole Life''. (self-published autobiography). 530 pages. 1995.ASA Newsletter, Nov/Dec 1994

Book chapters

*"Man in the Context of Evolutionary Theory". ''Horizons of science : Christian scholars speak out''. Ed.

Carl F. H. Henry Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry (January 22, 1913 – December 7, 2003) was an American evangelical Christian theologian who provided intellectual and institutional leadership to the neo-evangelical movement in the mid-to-late 20th century. His earl ...

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, 1978. . *"Scientist as Believer". ''Expanding humanity's vision of God : new thoughts on science and religion''. Ed. Robert L. Herrmann.

Templeton Foundation Press The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy via a career as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious an ...

, 2001. . *"Postscript: Final Reflections on the Dialogue". Summaries by Richard H. Bube and Phillip E. Johnson. ''Three Views on Creation and Evolution''. pp. 249–266. Zondervan, 1999. .

References

External links

Faculty page
on

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Bube's Worldcat identity
* in '' Contra-Mundum'', Fall 1993, Volume 9. pp. 42–44. (pdf pages: 44-46).
List of ''JASA'' articles
(Findings of ''Putting it All Together'', Richard H. Bube, Univ. Press of America (1995).)

Richard H. Bube. Newsletter of the ASA. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bube, Richard H. 1927 births 2018 deaths Stanford University School of Engineering faculty American Christian writers Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Theistic evolutionists People from Providence, Rhode Island