About this ebook
Dr. Smith — a tenured professor — spent decades thinking about the intersection of the spiritual and scientific. His inquiry delved into the origins of life, molecular biology, protein structure, and DNA sequencing.
In this book he attempts to answer relevant questions being asked today. Does our biology impact our morality? Do values construct our society, or is it the other way around? Where does morality originate?
Glean the wisdom of Plato, Socrates, and Tacitus; C.S. Lewis, Francis Crick, and Michael Denton. From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Damascus Road, follow the author as he traverses the globe — and history — in the search for truth.
In this book, the questions won’t surprise you, but the conclusions might. If you’re willing to think outside the box and tackle issues that most people avoid, pick up this book and join the conversation.
About the author
Dr. Robert W. Smith is a professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he has taught chemistry and physics since 1990. He earned a B.A. from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1979 and, after five years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-submarine officer, earned a Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1989. He has also been a researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve as a commander in 2002.
Professor Smith has an eclectic list of favorite authors, including Winston Churchhill, Homer, C.S. Lewis, Mark Twain, and General William T. Sherman. Books that have affected him greatly include Apology of Socrates by Plato, The Robe by Lloyd Douglas, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift—particularly Part IV, which deals with Gulliver in the land of the Houyhnhnms—and The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. The Reader may discover aspects of each in the volume herein.
He and his wife, Carol, have six children and live quiet lives in Omaha. He enjoys playing basketball, gardening, chess, and beating his kids at card games.
