... This oral history with Dr. Charles T. Bourland is being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project in Houston, Texas. ... The professor would bring reprints to class every day, every time we met almost, and she brought some reprints on space food, and she said, ?You boys would be interested in this.? ... One was with Kraft Foods, and they interviewed every graduate from the University of Missouri, just as a compliment, so I didn?t expect anything from that. ... Bourland: Oh, no. ...

... But what about the origin of the universe and its laws, the origin of ethics and the purpose of life? ... Dennett 2006, p 30) As science begins to address more fundamental and previously taboo issues (the origin of the universe, the origin of life, the origin and evolution of humanity, the evolutionary biology of human nature, sexuality, consciousness and morality), the magisteria of science expands and increasingly overlaps with the traditional monopoly that religion has had on these areas. ...