Words at the Fault-Line of Faith and Science (ePub)

J. Donald Chapman was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of a grocer who taught him much about stacking shelves, checking out groceries, driving the delivery truck and working on the business books. It could be said that this apprenticeship was as great a part of his education as his formal schooling. It is unfortunate that most kids today never get such a chance. His university training was in engineering physics, radiation physics and biophysics and was not a path that he predetermined. Doors were opened by making the required grades and accepting scholarships. He was mentored and trained during his university years by four icons of the radiation research field; in radiation physics (Doug Cormack), radiation chemistry (Ged Adams), cell biology and biophysics (Ernest Pollard) and charged-particle radiotherapy (Cornelius Tobias). His career has been blessed with success in obtaining peer-reviewed grants, mentoring several brilliant graduate students and medical residents, serving on several editorial boards and receiving six international research awards. Much of his research is summarized in the medical physics textbook, "Radiotherapy Treatment Planning - Linear/Quadratic Radiobiology" that was published in 2015 by CRC Press.


Don was raised in a Christian family with five other kids, was taken to Sunday School every Sunday, doted over by a loving mother and nurtured by the greater family of aunts, uncles and grandfather. He was supported during his university years by participation in functions of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. It can be said that he was as diligent in seeking understanding about matters of his faith as about his science. From graduate school days, he began writing his musings on specific themes of nature and faith in poetry of free verse and rhyme. This became his personal habit for fixing his current thoughts in words that others would understand. So words and language were an important tool for both his development as

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