Phillip Gold, Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, wrote:
[...]
PG>Mr. Wells is a member of the Intelligent Design movement,
PG>but concentrates on Darwinism. It's a longstanding interest.
PG>As a graduate student in embryology, Mr. Wells noticed
PG>that evolutionary biology textbooks misrepresented the
PG>development of vertebrate embryos. Now he has a new
PG>book out, "Icons of Evolution" (Regnery) that dissects
PG>10 commonly invoked evidences for Darwinian evolution.
PG>"Writing the book," he says, "I felt like a dentist going
PG>into a very bad mouth. The more I dug, the more rot I
PG>found."
[...]
Gold's implication is that Wells didn't get into
Darwin-bashing *until* he was in his graduate program in
embryology. The above, read by the uninformed, might give the
impression that Wells derived his anti-Darwinian stances from
what he learned in his graduate studies.
Interesting.
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Dr. Jonathan Wells valued his student days at UTS [Unification
Theological Seminary? - WRE] (1976-78) as the occasion for
finding out what God wanted him to accomplish with his
life. "One of the things that Father [Rev. Sun Myung Moon -
WRE] advised us to do at UTS," he said during a recent
interview, "was to pray to seek God's plan for our lives."
Since then, Dr. Wells has been a man with a mission, a mission
which first became clear to him in 1976 and which, 21 years
later, is still the focus of his life. Now, equipped with
doctorates in theology and biology from Yale University and
U.C. Berkeley respectively, he is uniquely qualified to carry
his plan to fruition.
The ambitious plan which began to take shape in 1976 can be stated
today with precision and conviction; "To defend and articulate
Unification theology especially in relation to Darwinian evolution,"
he said. It was a plan which took its first steps in his UTS
thesis. "This was before there was any talk of going on for
doctorates" said Dr. Wells. "My thesis was on evolution and I would
spend two or three days a week at Columbia University using their
biology library to do research on Darwinian evolution. I learned that
the evidence supports Darwin's theory for micro-evolution, or slight
changes which occur within a species or genus, but not for
macro-evolution, or the major changes which mark the history of life
on earth."
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Wesley
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