Steve Carman was a firm believer-but not in God. He believed instead in the reality of scientific facts.

As a member of the engineering team that had worked on the ill-fated Apollo I space project, Steve Carman knew all too well the years of dreams and work-and the lives of three men-going up in flames. Yet his faith in empirical facts remained solid, as did his assertion that God existed only in the minds of the uneducated.

But Steve and his wife, Joan, felt that their lives lacked something. Together they at-tended a church and read parts of the Bible.

All they found was a list of seemingly unan-swerable questions-"Pastor Stumpers," they called them. They found it difficult to accept religion when none of it seemed to make any logical sense!

If God was real, they thought, he was just going to have to prove himself.