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The American Scientific Affiliation Has a Stated Position E ach day of the annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) began with worship: heartfelt and transforming worship. With all the diversity of academic field, hometown, language, citizenship, age, height and width and style, there was, as the Apostle Paul says, clearly one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Eph. 4:5). Brothers and sisters together worshipped the Creator revealed in Jesus Christ.The annual meeting program states that "The ASA encourages thoughtful and provocative scientific presentations and discussions. Presenters and discussants are expected to maintain a humble and loving attitude toward individuals who have a different opinion." The presentations then are not given as official position statements of the ASA. Sometimes several papers in a row will lean one way or another, not to represent all of ASA, but as the compelling and thoughtful perspective of those who happened to present during that particular session.In all its variety then, the meeting as a whole, like the journal, is richly plural with perspectives, but not an infinite number of approaches. Both the annual meeting and the journal are focused by two deep commitments that bring us together. As a group we are always refining and seeking to develop our best understanding of the available science, in conversation with our best understanding of Christian theology. What does our faith, so well articulated in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, have to say with science about the great issues of our day, life, and