This little message will depart slightly from the usual format in that this will be more of a news release. This news brings joy to my heart as God gives me encouragement in letting me know my elevator does go to the top floor after all. When an insignificant scientist like myself proclaims his support for the obvious truth of creation, and the accuracy of God's word a few listen; but here is some news about a giant. This will be a verbatum copy from the August 1997 issue of the monthly newsletter of the Institute for Creation Research.

DR. RAYMOND V. DAMADIAN
JOINS TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD

ICR is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Raymond V. Damadian to its Technical Advisory Board.

Dr. Damadian has many accomplishments to his credit, but is best known for inventing the Magnetic Resonance Scanning and Imaging medical diagnostic tool, best known as the "MRI". Less well-known is the fact that he is a witnessing Christian and creationist, and longtime advocate of ICR and its materials.

Dr. Damadian graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1960 after having given up a promising career in music and later as a tennis pro. Later that year, he married the former Donna Terry. From the first he was more oriented toward the technical side of medicine, and after many years of shoestring budgets and poorly equipped laboratories, he received the patent for the MRI in 1974.

Raised in a Christian home, Dr. Damadian lost interest in spiritual things throughout his training and early professional life, being influenced by his heavily evolutionary training into believing that God was disinterested and that the Bible could not be trusted. Meanwhile his godly wife continued to pray. Eventually, he was introduced to the writings of ICR Founder, Dr. Henry Morris, and the research of ICR, and a dramatic turn around ensued.

In accepting the position on the Technical Advisory Board, Dr. Damadian wrote: "It is hard for me to imagine a project in the campaign for souls that could be more on point than amassing the scientific proof of the divinity of the Creator and rescuing the many millions lost to eternity from doubts about the authorship of creation".

Remember, the purpose of creation science is to strengthen your faith. This was prepared from creation science literature by Sidney C. Phillips M.D. 1997.

End of message number 27.