the band of brothers

John Ray, B.S.

John was raised in Santa Barbara, California and settled in San Diego after receiving his BS in Mathematics with a minor in Physics from San Diego State University. He is married and has three daughters and one granddaughter. He received his teaching credential in both Mathematics and Physical Science in 1975 and has spent the last thirty plus years teaching at the secondary level. For the past twenty-two years he has been teaching college prep and advanced placement physics at Chula Vista High School. In 2006 John becomes a full time mentor-teacher to first year science and math teachers.
Personal and professional highlights for John include MIT’s Science and Engineering Program for Teachers in 2005, joining the National Educators in Science and Technology (NEST). He is a Toyota Tapestry and Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope grant recipient. John has had the privilege of traveling to Romania with Campus Crusade’s International School Project where he was a group leader and presenter of evidence for intelligent design.
John’s passion is sharing God’s amazing character that is reflected in His creation. John was drawn to RTB’s ministry where God and science work hand in hand. He is the RTB San Diego Chapter vice president and treasurer, and manages the chapter’s resources including books, DVDs, videos, original materials, etc. John leads the chapter’s resource table ministry. During RTB-SD seminars he can usually be found at the book table to help with your selections, answer questions, and provide guidance to additional resources.

James Hauck, Ph.D.

Dr. Hauck received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Mathematics at California State Polytechnic University, his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California Irvine. Dr. Hauck is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of San Diego. He is also principal and chief scientist of J.P.H. Professional Sciences, Inc., (JPHPS) a privately held corporation serving industry and government clients. JPHPS provides technical services in the areas of plasma sciences, lasers, optics, electro-optics, and fiber-optics. Jim gave his heart to the Lord as a preteen, and has been serving Him with increasing diligence over the past ten years. Jim has 5 children from 17 to 29 years of age, and 5 grand-children from 1 to 9 years of age. His personal outreach is directed toward college and university students. He is a co-founder of Reasons to Believe, San Diego Chapter.

Rick Brusch, Ph.D.

Dr. Brusch received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and has had a long career working for Aerospace companies in the San Diego area on mathematical optimization and software development. He currently works part time at Northrop Grumman on Unmanned Air Vehicle programs. He has been a frequent Adult Education teacher at La Jolla Presbyterian Church on Basic Christianity and on Christianity and Science. Rick has reconciled his scientific background with his faith and enjoys sharing that knowledge with others. Rick is a member of the San Diego Chapter of Reasons To Believe, an organization sharing this same goal. His study of the historicity of the Bible is a second apologetics focus. Rick and his wife Nancy have two grown children.

Mark Ritter, M.S.

Mark Ritter earned his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from California State Polytechnic University Pomona. He taught chemistry at Cal Poly for ten years concurrently with teaching science at Walnut High School. Now in his 25th year of teaching, currently he handles chemistry and astronomy at Temecula Valley High School (TVHS) and is an adjunct professor at Azusa Pacific University (fancy talk for part-time instructor). He is also advisor for TVHS’s astronomy club, FirstLight.
Mark is also the founder and principal of a Christian apologetics ministry, swordandspirit.com, a youth/layperson oriented organization enlightening both Christians and skeptics. Mark’s biweekly astronomy column, The Skies Above, appears in the North County Times. Mark has been a volunteer apologist for Reasons To Believe since 1991, and has spoken numerous times on intelligent design, science and the Bible, Genesis One, extra-dimensions, teaching science in the public school, evil and suffering, abortion, and others. Mark and his wife have three children who are home-schooled! He enjoys Celtic music and Switchfoot and P.O.D.. He is a co-founder of Reasons To Believe, San Diego Chapter.

Dr. English is the President of the TESSI Endangered Species Institute, and teaches at Palomar College. He is a lecturer for Reasons to Believe, and a member of the Advisory Board of the IDEA Center (Intelligent Design & Evolution Awareness).  He frequently lectures on Environmental Issues to university, civic, industrial, and church groups.  He   produced a 50-minute video for television entitled “Past, Present & Future of Endangered Species.”  
He co-led the campaign to have the Presbyterian Church adopt a new policy “On Preserving Biodiversity and Halting Mass Extinction.”  He has directed major environmental programs for IBM, GE, JPL, EPA, and the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group.  At the Manufacturing Group, he led an effort to voluntarily reduce toxic environmental releases by 86%.  "This reduction led the entire world," according to William Reilly, former Administrator of the U.S. EPA.  His legislative accomplishments include improving the California Clean Air Act, which resulted in savings of several billion dollars.
Dr. English advised President Carter's Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Government of Sweden on high-level nuclear waste disposal.  At the U.S. EPA, he directed an epidemiological study of 40,000 people to determine the human health effects of air pollutants.  He received a Presidential Award for leading the recovery program to fix the F-111 fighter/bomber after the wings fell off the aircraft.   
His academic background includes a postdoctoral MS in environmental engineering, a Ph.D., and a MS in electrical engineering, and a BS in physics.  He taught environmental courses at Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, the University of North Carolina, West Coast University, and UC Santa Cruz.  Dr. English presented a three-day environmental management seminar in Moscow.  He also taught electrical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University.  Currently he teaches at Palomar College. 

Ken Kimball, D.D.S.

Ken Kimball got his first degree back in 1952, a BA in Natural Science at Westmont College. From 1952 - 1954 he shifted gears and became a navy Line Officer in Korea. Afterwards he kept going academically and in 1959 obtained his DDS from the Univ. of Missouri Dent.
By the time Mark Ritter was born Ken was in a Rotating Medical Internship at Wadsworth VA Hospital. This determined young man had his own private practice from 1960-62. Then from 1962 - 1968 Ken was part of USN Dental (during which, in 1967 at the National Naval Dental School, Bethesda, he did Post Grad and Research.
His longest stretch was from 1968-1999 in which he again entered the world of private practice in La Jolla and Poway.
In 1970 he was co-founder for Masters Swimming (now a worldwide organization in which Ken still competes). Ken retired from practice Jan 2000 after serving longer than most people live. He has been Bible teaching from 1952, when Harry Truman was president, to the present. But he still is working on the RTB apologists course. ;)

Kent Kimberly, M.D.

Dr. Kimberly is a California native, having been raised in Whittier. He attended the University of California, Irvine where he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a B.S. in Biological Sciences in 1977. He earned his M.D. degree from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 1982. He and his wife, Carolyn, returned to the Orange County area where Kent completed an ophthalmic surgery residency at U.C. Irvine. After living in Washington state and near Long Beach, California his family settled in Poway where they have happily lived for the past 13 years. Kent's office-based ophthalmology practice has been centered in the southern San Diego county.
Kent has been a Christian as long as he can remember. Recently with his two children reaching high school age he has seen how skewed public education is towards evolution despite evidence to the contrary. He is attempting to use his extensive science background to bolster the concept that science and creation are not incompatible. He is a firm believer that there are a multitude of REASONS TO BELIEVE!

David Clark M.D.

Dr. Clark received his B.A. in Biology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1974 and his M.D. degree at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis in 1977. After serving as a flight surgeon with the Marines he and his wife settled in San Diego County. David is a physician with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group and is a Captain in the Naval Reserve at NAS North Island. David is active in his church youth ministry and Young Life. His science apologetics interest is in evidence for intelligent design in cosmology and biology. David and his wife have a daughter,15 and a son,12. He is a co-founder and officer of Reasons To Believe, San Diego Chapter.

John Edson, J.D.

Mr. Edson received a B.A. in Political Science at the University of California San Diego in 1992. He received a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995. As part of a joint degree with Harvard, he then obtained a Jurist Doctorate in Law from Boalt Hall at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Currently John is a litigation attorney at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, a prestigious San Diego law firm founded in 1873. John is a home fellowship leader at Horizon Christian Fellowship, and he is completing a book about the harmony between the claims of the Bible and science. He and his wife have an 18-month old son. He is a co-founder of Reasons To Believe, San Diego Chapter.

Ken McCoy

Ken McCoy is the Founder, President and Emperor of JUMPSTART™ – an organization that helps those churches without a full-time youth pastor to get their youth ministries “up and running.” He is one of those rare individuals in youth ministry who have been working with young people longer than today’s students have been alive!
Ken’s ability to communicate God’s truth to today’s young people has made him a popular speaker at camps, conventions, retreats, and high schools. His work in the “real world” of volunteer-led youth ministry puts him in high demand at youthworker conferences. Ken’s creativity and clarity has also made him a respected writer and curriculum developer. He’s a close associate of intelínc — an organization that provides music resources to thousands of youth leaders nationwide. He has been a youth pastor in Oregon, Minnesota, Texas and southern California, and has worked for the National Network of Youth Ministries. He’s also been the Chaplain for the San Diego Padres. He has three kids, five grandchildren, is a private pilot and dreams of being a really good contemporary jazz guitar player (so his wife, Jeannie — who just happens to be the Music Minister at their home church — will keep letting him play in the band.)
JumpStart™ Ministries was founded in 1988 to enable those churches without a fulltime youth pastor build self-sufficient, effective and efficient ministry to and with adolescents. Working with the congregation, JumpStart™ helps the church get their ministry to kids “up & running.”

Terry Remple, M.S.

Terry Remple earned a B.S. in Engineering Physics from University of Saskatchewan in 1978, and a M.S. in Engineering Physics from McMaster University in 1980. His work experience includes two years in fusion research, twelve years in the defense industry developing radar jammers, and the last seven years in telecommunications. Mr. Remple founded and chairs two international standards groups that serve the cellular communications industry.
Terry became a Christian in 1976. He and his wife have settled in San Diego, and have two children in college and one in high school. For many years he found it difficult to reconcile the claims of the bible with the claims of science. In 2001 Terry discovered astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross’ book, Creator and the Cosmos, and has since read a number of similar books in the field of science apologetics. Equipped with this new information in science apologetics Terry developed and taught several science and the Bible classes at his home church. He is a co-founder and officer of Reasons To Believe, San Diego Chapter.