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Robert G. Brown

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born

March 29, 1955

gender

male

place of birth

The United States

website

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Science

influences

Heinlein, Rand, Zelazny, Farmer, Brin, Forward, Clarke, Asimov, Bradbury, E.E. Smith, Tolkein, Chant, Barth, W. B. Yeats, Tennyson, Shelley, TSE, Poe, Lovecraft, Derleth, and others too numerous to mention.

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October 2007

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My real biography is way too long and complex for a few hundred words, so this is the reader's digest version. I've lived in Skaneateles, New York, New Delhi, India, West Springfield, Virginia, and for 34 years now in Durham, NC where I teach physics at Duke. I'm married (to Susan F. Isbey MD) and have three boys. We live with three dogs, one cat, and sundry transient animals of all classes.

In addition to doing physics, math, statistics, computing, predictive modelling, and geekstuff like that, I write. A lot. Daily.

I write magazine columns and articles, usually in the field of computing. I've written lots of "learned papers" in physics, mostly published in Physical Review. I've written two books of ...more

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The Book of Lilith
by Robert G. Brown (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2007
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The Book of Lilith (Literature & Fiction)

1 chapters — updated 01/25/2008 08:32PM

description: Lilith was the first woman to be given a soul by God, and her purpose is to give all the rest of Creation a soul by means of her love, beginning with Adam. Adam has a job too -- to create the rules that define sin and bring about a world governed by reason and law. Unfortunately, Adam insists on being on top whenever they have sex, which leads to problems... Alternately funny, serious, and thought provoking, The Book of Lilith is just plain fun to read! Visit The Book of Lilith Website at: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php to find reviews, previews, links, and much more!

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July 02

rgb made a comment in the group I live for Jesus and Jesus alone!! —Discussing Religion topic:

rgb wrote: "Coyle wrote: "I'd just like to point out that this may in fact be the first time that a practical at...more "

rgb made a comment in the group I live for Jesus and Jesus alone!! —Debating on Christianity topic:

rgb wrote: "♥Pudding♥ wrote: "Yes,but Jenn,there are actually many explanations for that,not to mention the ...more "

rgb made a comment in the group Evolution vs. Intelligent Design —*Debate Here* topic:

rgb wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Some Christians also believe that a day in Genesis was not a literal 24 hour day. I ...more Jessica wrote: "Some Christians also believe that a day in Genesis was not a literal 24 hour day. I wish to disprove this as well. Read through the first chapter of Genesis and you will see that it says "there was evening and there was morning: the first day." This statement is repeated throughout the days, "there was evening and there was morning: the second day" and etc. A day then, is defined in the Bible itself as an evening and a morning...a literal 24 hour day.

Also, I am getting sick of the "plants can't survive without light" argument. If you would just READ THROUGH GENESIS you will see that plants were never without light! The very first thing God says is "let there be light." LIGHT WAS CREATED BEFORE PLANTS."

Oh, Jessica, you have no idea how sick I get deconstructing Genesis. I've read through Genesis hundreds of times, and rarely in the course of human affairs has anything been so thoroughly been proven wrong as Genesis has. And I do not mean "evolution" -- that's just a sidelight.

How do you feel about radiometric dating, Jessica? How do you feel about parallax and the measured distances to the stars? What grade did you get in geometry in high school? What do you think of the view from the Hubble?

And how, exactly, do you work out that whole night and day thing without a Sun? Or haven't you realized that the Earth is a round ball that rotates, where "day" is the period when a part of the Earth happens to face the Sun, and "night" is the period when a part happens to face away from it?

How do you feel about the fact that the moon isn't a "light" but rather a ball illuminated only with reflected light?

How do you feel about the fact that when one examines the rocks of the earth and the fossil record they encapsulate, flowering plants lie far, far above the advent of plants and occurred billions of years after plants? Oh wait, you simply reject all of the evidence! It doesn't exist! It can't exist! If it exists it must be wrong! It's all part of the Great Satanic Conspiracy against Christianity, or would be if it weren't heresy to grant Satan the power to create.

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. There has never been a good excuse for believing the Bible to be true -- it has never been well-supported by evidence, which is why even today only around 1/2 the world's population are Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. But today it is simply shameful to believe in the literal truth of the Bible. And you don't -- you think you do but you don't. If you did, you'd think that the Earth is fixed, immobile in the sky in the center of everything, and not even you can manage to make yourself think this in this day and age.

rgb(less) "

July 01

rgb made a comment in the group Questioning Society—What Happens When You Die? topic:

rgb wrote: "BTW, I'm on vacation, and will only participate in conversations at random hours for some days, and ...more "

June 25

rgb made a comment in the group Evolution vs. Intelligent Design —Why Intelligent Design is not Science topic:

rgb wrote: "Abby wrote: "i suppose that would not be one's guess at first sight. HOWEVER, we DO have the book of...more "

June 18

rgb joined the I live for Jesus and Jesus alone!! and Duke University Goodreads groups.

June 01

rgb voted on the poll: The following statement is...
"This is one of those things I hate about girls, they can never tell you anything but the fact that there's something they can't tell. "

May 11

rgb read and liked a piece of writing titled "POEMS!" by Lauren

"Whenever
you open a book, it’s like opening an old friend
Whatever
you thought while you read it or
Wherever
you were, the book remembers, your memories pressed into it" ...read more »

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