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

Academic career

Bube received his B.S. in physics from

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in 1946 and his M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1950) in physics from Princeton University.Richard H. Bube in ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Reproduced i
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Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. He was a researcher at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1948 to 1962. Thereafter he taught at

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where he was an

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

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

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

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(fellow) *The

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(fellow) *The American Society for Engineering 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'' Bube defended the viewpoint of

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in that journal. One such article on this topic would receive in-journal peer-review by Baptist theologian Bernard L. Ramm, Canadian historian and Reformed scholar

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, Fuller theologian

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, and Christian apologist Alvin Plantinga.

Personal life

Bube was born in Providence, Rhode Island, 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. 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.

Bibliography

Engineering

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

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, 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.

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. Harper & Row, 1978. . *"Scientist as Believer". ''Expanding humanity's vision of God : new thoughts on science and religion''. Ed.

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, 2001. . *"Postscript: Final Reflections on the Dialogue". Summaries by Richard H. Bube and

Phillip E. Johnson Phillip E. Johnson (June 18, 1940 – November 2, 2019) was a UC Berkeley law professor, opponent of evolutionary science, co-founder of the pseudoscientific intelligent design movement, author of the "Wedge strategy" and co-founder of the Disco ...

. ''Three Views on Creation and Evolution''. pp. 249–266. Zondervan, 1999. .

References

External links

Faculty page
on

website
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).)

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