Meet the Author of
The Heavenly Time Machine
Morris Engelson
Photo by Deborah Seldner, Jewish Review.
Used by permission.About the author
Morris Engelson was educated as an electronics engineer specializing in spectrum analysis and communications theory, and elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics engineers "for contributions to the practice and applications of spectrum analysis." He is a former Chief Engineer at Tektronix, Inc., and Adjunct Professor at Oregon State University. The author of several books and a number of technical papers in his specialty, Morris Engelson is currently a consultant located in Portland, Oregon. You can reach the author by email at:
How this book came about
The seeds of this book were planted when, as a boy, I asked a rabbi why everything didn't fly off the world if the sun stood still in the sky (meaning the earth had stopped turning) as described in the book of Joshua. The rabbi declined to discuss the matter on the grounds that this was not an appropriate question.
Haunted by that experience, I jumped into research mode when my own son asked how the age of the universe is given as less than 6,000 years according to Torah, and billions of years according to science. Because of what happened to me, I wanted to be sensitive. I didn't want to just tell him to go away. I felt there had to be an answer. So about 20 years ago, I began a serious search to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable. I discovered that the seeming contradiction is actually easy to reconcile once we understand that the first six days of creation are not counted in the age of the universe. The Torah starts the count from the beginning of mankind and not from the beginning of space and time.
The result is the book The Heavenly Time Machine which is a synthesis of science and religion, just like my library at home. I avoid making original points in the book because, it's very dangerous for someone of my level of Torah study to make original points. While my juxtaposition of points is original, my contribution is a synthesis of others contributions.
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