Built on Sand The Collapsing Creationist Tower

May 24, 2005 -- Robert T. Pennock is Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where he is on the faculty of the Lyman Briggs School of Science, the Philosophy Department, and the Department of Computer Science, as well as the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, and the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior graduate program.

He graduated with Honors in Biology/Philosophy from Earlham College and received his Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He has received two Mellon Foundation Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a N.S.F/N.E.H. Fellowship. He won the Michael R. Bennett Prize, and an Apple for the Teacher award.

Dr. Pennock is the author of Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, which critiques attacks by advocates of "creation-science" and "intelligent design theory" upon the evidential basis of evolution. Tower of Babel has been reviewed in over fifty publication; the New York Review of Books called it "the best book on creationism in all its guises." He also published Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives, which is the most comprehensive sourcebook on the topic.

His work on artificial life and evolutionary computation has been featured in many magazines, including a recent cover story in Discover. Pennock speaks regularly around the country on issues of science and values, and was named a national Distinguished Lecturer by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. He is currently working on a book that examines how Darwinian evolution, as an abstract theoretical model, can be applied in practical applications beyond biology.




Built on Sand The Collapsing Creationist Tower



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