Edward Granville Sewell is an American mathematician, university professor, and intelligent design advocate. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso.
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Sewell received his PhD from Purdue University in 1972 and an M.S. in mechanical engineering 1977 from the University of Texas, Austin. His BS was from Harding College (now Harding University)
Sewell's primary work is on the solution of differential equations. He published "The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Second Edition," John Wiley & Sons, 2005 ISBN 0-471-73580-9. His major development effort has been the equation solver PDE2D--A general-purpose PDE solver. Sewell similarly published: "Computational Methods of Linear Algebra, Second Edition," John Wiley 2005
Sewell is signatory to the Discovery Institute's A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism petition.[1] In 2000 he had an anti-evolutionary article published in The Mathematical Intelligencer.[2] This is cited by the Discovery Institute as one of the "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design",[3] a claim rejected by critics[4] and the judge in the Dover trial.[5] He also wrote an article in The American Spectator.[6] In these articles he reiterates the view that evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics.[7] Mathematician Jason Rosenhouse wrote a response in The Mathematical Intelligencer entitled "How Anti-evolutionists Abuse Mathematics"[8] and "Does Evolution Have a Thermodynamics Problem?".[9] Physicist Mark Perakh called Sewell's work "depressingly fallacious".[10]
Also listed by the Discovery Institute as one of the "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design"[3] is a postscript to his 1985 book Analysis of a Finite Element Method: PDE/PROTRAN.