Notes

1. . RalphWendell Burhoe, “Religion in the Age of Science,” Science  120 (1954): 522–24.
2. . The Charter Members of IRAS were (members of the executive committee or council of 1954–55 are indicated by an asterisk): *Rev. Carl Bihldorff, minister, First Parish, Brookline, Mass.; *Dr. Edwin Prince Booth, professor of historical theology, Boston University (president of IRAS and chairman of the executive committee); Dr. Marion J. Bradshaw, acting dean, Bangor Theological School; *Ralph Wendell Burhoe, executive officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (IRAS secretary–treasurer); Dr. Karl W. Deutsch, professor of history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Alfred E. Emerson, professor of zoology, University of Chicago; Dr. Philipp Frank, lecturer on philosophy of science, Harvard University; *Dr. Dana McLean Greeley, minister, Arlington Street Church; Dr. Gerald Holton, associate professor of physics, Harvard University; Dr. Roy G. Hoskins, Office of Naval Research, Boston; Dr. A. G. Huntsman, professor of zoology, University of Toronto; *Dr. Edwin C. Kemble, professor of physics, Harvard University; Dr. Henry Margenau, professor of physics, Yale University; Dr. M. F. Ashley Montagu, professor of anthropology, Rutgers University; *Dr. Henry Alexander Murray, Psychological Clinic, Harvard University; Dr. Henry Bayard Philips, professor emeritus of mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; *Rev. Lyman V. Rutledge, minister, Community Church, Dublin, N.H.; Dr. Paul E. Sabine, engineer, Colorado Springs, Colo.; *Dr. Harlow Shapley, professor of astronomy, Harvard University (chairman of the IRAS advisory board); Dr. B. F. Skinner, professor of psychology, Harvard University; Dr. Henry Nelson Wieman, professor emeritus of philosophy of religion, University of Chicago.
3. . Harlow Shapley, ed., Science Ponders Religion (New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1960).
4. . A few examples: Edwin Prince Booth collected and edited several IRAS Star Island Conference papers and a number of other papers in a volume entitled Religion Ponders Science (New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1964). A. G. Huntsman was much stimulated by the discussions at Star Island and used considerable material from his IRAS papers in his Life and the Universe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959). Harlow Shapley likewise was stimulated by IRAS and interwove elements of his IRAS papers in his Of Stars and Men (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958).
5. . See chap. 2 of The Free Church in a Changing World (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 1963), p. 46.
6. . The members of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Center for Advanced Study in Theology and the Sciences at Meadville Theological School were: Sanborn C. Brown, professor of physics and associate dean, Graduate School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chairman); Ian G. Barbour, professor of physics and chairman of the Department of Religion, Carleton College; George Wells Beadle, president, University of Chicago; Theodosius Dobzhansky, Rockefeller Institute; Alfred E. Emerson, professor emeritus of zoology, University of Chicago; Lawrence K. Frank, independent scholar; Ralph W. Gerard, dean, Graduate School, University of California, Irvine; Erwin R. Goodenough, professor emeritus of religion, Yale University; Hudson Hoagland, executive director, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology; Aharon Katchalsky‐Katzir, president, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Chauncey D. Leake, professor of pharmacology, San Francisco Medical Center; Henry Margenau, professor of physics, Yale University; Kirtley F. Mather, professor emeritus of geology, Harvard University; Robert S. Morison, director, Division of Biology, Cornell University; O. Hobart Mowrer, professor of psychology, University of Illinois; Hermann Joseph Muller, professor of zoology, Indiana University; Henry Alexander Murray, professor of clinical psychology, Harvard University; Filmer S. C. Northrop, professor emeritus of philosophy and law, Yale University; John R. Platt, professor of biophysics, University of Chicago; Van R. Potter, professor of oncology, University of Wisconsin; Harlow Shapley, professor emeritus of astronomy, Harvard University; Melford Spiro, professor of anthropology, University of Chicago; George Wald, professor of biology, Harvard University; and Anthony F. C. Wallace, professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
7. . This “Twenty Year View” of IRAS was drawn in part from “A Ten‐Year View” edited by Sanborn C. Brown and published by IRAS in 1963 I have also been substantially helped by Calla and Frances Burhoe, Rachel Davis, and Anne Grant. Various members of IRAS have reviewed and corrected the MS.