Books

Miracles: Everything That Is or Is To Come Is a Miracle

(Self-Published, 2007, revised 2026). Miracles was pre-selected for the Frankfort Germany Book Exhibit and described as “a thought-provoking and faith-driven work that seeks to bridge the relationship between science, spirituality, and the concept of divine purpose…”

I believe that science and religion are compatible when science leaves room for God in the universe. Everything that is or was or ever will be is God’s miracle.

The alternative is that nothing is miraculous—time and chance created the universe and you.

Without God, the universe is full of sound and fury signifying nothing. With God as creator the universe is filled with purpose and meaning. This extends from the stars to atoms and to you.

What you choose to believe about miracles can be a source of great joy or missed blessing in your life.

Synscicretism in our culture has elevated science over religion. I created this word to call attention to this. Science and religion must be compatible, if only at some deep level of understanding. There cannot be two different sets of truth, one for religious doctrine and one for scientific laws.

Miracles are the link to deeper spiritual understanding. All of creation—the universe, good and evil, faith, choice, life, love, and salvation—depend on miracles from God. All Christians thus believe in the greatest of all the miracles, salvation.

Failure to recognize and credit God with the great but lesser miracles revealed in all of nature is to miss a great blessing. Appreciate miracles in a new light. Apply faith and reason to accept the truths of science and the truths of faith.

Give God the glory for all of creation. Science and religion are compatible when science leaves the ‘universal why’ to religion. Seek revelations about miracles in scripture, science, and distilled from life. Be prepared for great joy. My book is available at: https://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Everything-that-Come-Miracle/dp/1419643576

The Art and Science of Expert Witnessing: The Definitive Guide for Attorneys and Experts

(Cypress Publishing Group, 2002).

Drawing upon extensive experience in biology, chemistry, toxicology, and expert testimony, I provide a resource for both attorneys and expert witnesses involved in criminal and civil litigation.

I cover the scientific, legal, and communication skills required for effective expert testimony and provide a resource for professionals involved in litigation and regulatory environmental issues. My book is available at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5627320-the-art-and-science-of-expert-witnessing

Oxygen: The Breath of Life—Boon and Bane in Human Health, Disease, and Therapy

(Bentham Science Books, 2017).

Oxygen is essential for life, yet it also is metabolically involved in aging, disease, and cellular injury. In this book I examine the complex nature of the role of oxygen in human biology and explore its importance in health, disease processes, and therapeutic applications. One can live without food for a few months, without water for a few days, but without oxygen for only a few minutes. My book is available at: https://www.eurekaselect.com/ebook_volume/2207

The Art and Science of Poisons

(Bentham Science Books, 2018).

Written from the perspective of a scientist and toxicologist, who also is a bystander, in this book I explore the principles of toxicology and the complex relationship between chemicals, dose, exposure, and biological response. Using stories, both imagined and from historical sources, about poisonings—criminal and accidental—I examine the historical and medical nature of poisoning in entertaining and informative ways that capture the science combined with the human element. My target includes the audience that is genuinely interested in poisons but has minimal formal knowledge of chemistry and biology. Also, it is a reference source with practical information. My book is available at: https://www.eurekaselect.com/ebook_volume/2457The Art and Science of Poisons

Once Upon a Time: The Fairy Tale of Evolution

(Self-Published, 2024).

My intent is to write about evolution with humor, and in a style that is understandable to the average person not trained in science, while remaining true to the science content.

A central thesis of this book is the fundamental idea that reasonable scientific challenges to evolutionary theories, like other theories in science, should be explored.

I focus on assessing the weaknesses of survival of the fittest, evaluating alternatives, and proposing new ideas.

Main-stream biology remains opposed to any opposition to the central concepts of evolution. However, the Templeton Foundation on its website in January 2022 described the ‘Joy of being wrong’ and said that Saint Augustine called humility the foundation of all other virtues. My book is available at: https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Time-Fairy-Evolution/dp/B0DSL8JCPX

Don't Blink—You Will Miss Everything

This book invites you to observe the world at the deepest level by focusing on the motion that shapes the world around us. There are mysteries here, often hidden in plain view, which will lead you to a sense of wonder and an adventurous appreciation of science. Let it open the door of exploration into the secret world existing just below the surface of all nature.

Thus, this story is the story of everything, and as the old song says: “time changes everything”—the rate of change is the key to our adventure together. Examine everything through the prism of change. Speed creates a rainbow of possibilities as we relate all of nature through many associations—all connected in some way to how fast they happen; how fast they move in space-time (spacetime).

We shall speak of many things—of cabbages and of kings. We shall take a trip together. Do not expect it to be a trip where we have a predetermined map of each turning of the road. We shall go where the road leads and we will let our road do the leading. Everything in all of nature is connected by our road which is often nearly invisible. As Shakespeare’s Hamlet says: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are Dreamt of in your philosophy.”