David Watson (creationist)

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David C. C. Watson, M.A., (1920–2004) was an English creationist and author.

Watson studied in Cambridge where, in 1947, he graduated as a Senior Scholar from Trinity College.

After serving as a missionary in India, he returned to England to teach. He was dismissed from his post in Rickmansworth because he held a creationist position. He lost his court battle for reinstatement. For a time he served as director of the Midwest Center of the Institute for Creation Research (in the Chicago area).

He proposed the Huxley Memorial Debate at the Oxford Union in 1986, whose participants included Professor Arthur E Wilder-Smith, a CSM Vice-President, and Dr. Richard Dawkins.

He authored The Great Brain Robbery, Myths and Miracles, and others which were widely read and translated. He died in January 2004.