Alfred Kracher

Alfred Kracher, Ph.D. is retired Staff Scientist at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, and Affiliate Scientist of the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arkansas. He studied the chemistry of meteorites and lunar rocks, first at the Museum of Natural History in his native Vienna, later at UCLA and the University of New Mexico. At Iowa State University he also worked on the analysis of advanced materials. Aside from cosmochemistry and materials science, his interests include philosophical questions pertaining to religion and natural science. In this field he has contributed chapters to Investigating the Biological Foundations of Human Morality, Creation’s Diversity, and Is Religion Natural? He is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Science and Theology. [from pages 314-315 of Extraterrestrial Altruism, published in 2014]