Carl Glen Henshaw

CARL GLEN HENSHAW {[email protected]} received a BS degree in computer science from BYU and his MS and PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, He currently works as a roboticist at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. He lives on a small farm in southern Maryland with his wife, Angela, two children, a flock of conceited chickens, six gentle sheep, and one cranky goat.

God as Engineer | A. Scott Howe and Richard L. Bushman, eds., Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 2

Albert Einstein famously wrote: “I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details.” Einstein did not believe in a personal God, of course, but A. Scott Howe and Richard L. Bushman do, and ask the same questions in their book, Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision. Written from the point of view of faithful LDS scientists and engineers, Bushman and Howe (an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab) attempt to tackle a question that has long fascinated me: what can we learn if we analyze God’s creations as the master work of the master Engineer?