Mark Perakh
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Mark Perakh (Russian: Марк Пэрах; born Mark Yakovlevich Popereka, 1924 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a professor emeritus of Mathematics and statistical mechanics at California State University Fullerton.
Perakh taught physics, researched superconductivity, and wrote some 300 scientific papers, but his notoriety particularly comes from his writing about science and religion on Talk Reason, a website he helped found, and from his regular contributions to the blog The Panda's Thumb.[1]
In 2003, Perakh published Unintelligent Design (Prometheus Books, ISBN 1-59102-084-0), a book that is critical of Intelligent Design, and he is particularly skeptical of some of the arguments proposed by William Dembski, which he alleges are pseudomathematical. He has also written criticizing Old Earth creationist astronomer, Hugh Ross,[2][3] and has responded to claims by Jonathan Wells that the lack of published research by creationists contradicting the prevailing scientific consensus is due to a conspiracy he likens to Lysenkoism in the former USSR.[4][5]
Perkah is also interested in Bible codes which he believes are absurd.[6]
Perakh's other published books include a technical volume on the subject of thin films, which has been translated into eight languages, and the novel Man in a Wire Cage (1988, ISBN 1-55547-257-5). His website also has a section on Russian oral jokes (anekdoty) and short stories he has written in English and Russian.
[edit] References
- ^ Bradley J. Fikes (2006-02-25). "Mark Perakh, science defender". North County Times. Retrieved on November 6, 2006.
- ^ Perakh, Mark (1999-12-12. Updated on 2002-05-09). "A Crusade of Arrogance". Retrieved on October 18, 2006.
- ^ Perakh, Mark (2004-05-10). "Cooling of the universe: Pseudo-thermodynamics of Hugh Ross revisited". Retrieved on October 19, 2006.
- ^ Wesley R. Elsberry and Mark Perakh (n.d.). "How Intelligent Design Advocates Turn the Sordid Lessons from Soviet and Nazi History Upside Down". Retrieved on November 6, 2006.
- ^ Mark Perakh (n.d.). "Whose Head is Ugly? Jonathan Wells and Lysenkoism". Retrieved on November 6, 2006.
- ^ Mark Perakh (2000-05). "The Rise and Fall of the Bible Code". Kontinent, no. 103 (translation from Russian by the author). Retrieved on November 6, 2006.
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