A. E. Wilder-Smith

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Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915 - 1995), more commonly known as A. E. Wilder-Smith, was a Young Earth creationist and a chemist.

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[edit] Career

Wilder-Smith is author and co-author of over 70 scientific publications and more than 30 books which have been translated into many different languages. Smith studied Natural Sciences at Oxford, England, received a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at University of Reading, England in 1941, a Dr.es.Sc. in pharmacological sciences from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, and a D.Sc. in pharmacological sciences from University of Geneva in 1964. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a NATO three-star general [1].

He and creationist physicist Edgar Andrews debated biologists Richard Dawkins and John Maynard Smith in the Oxford Union's Huxley Memorial Debate in 1986. The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has made the audio of the debate available.[1]

In 1965 he visited and promoted the false claims that dinosaur and human footprints existed at Paluxy River in Dinosaur Valley State Park.[2] He was criticized by scientists over these claims.[3] These supposed tracks were later discovered to have been forged by creationists who tried to claim humans and dinosaurs lived together.[4]

According to the National Center for Science Education, Wilder-Smith's work The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution contains a variety of falsehoods and errors.[5]

[edit] Memory

In 2005 William A. Dembski, of intelligent design fame, wrote that Wilder-Smith's "intuitive ideas about information has been the impetus for much of my research."[6]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Oxford Union Debate from Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
  2. ^ "On the Heels of Dinosaurs", talk.origins, 1995. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. 
  3. ^ "On the Heels of Dinosaurs", talk.origins, 1995. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. 
  4. ^ "A Tale of Two Teeth", talk.origins, 1995. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. 
  5. ^ "Analysis of the Melvindale Science Curriculum Sub-Committee Book Recommendations", National Center for Science Education, October 30, 1998. Retrieved on 2008-04-06. 
  6. ^ Intelligent Design's contribution to the debate over evolution: a reply to Henry Morris, William A. Dembski, 1 February 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2008.

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