Biographica, version 1.00b, 960429

A summary of dramatis personae of the online biology/creationism debate.

Compiled by Wesley R. Elsberry

The following text gives brief descriptions ('terse' might be more accurate) of various and sundry names that one encounters in online discussion of biological topics and abiogenesis where these cross with religiously motivated anti-science partisans. Some of the people mentioned are participants, others would not be caught dead or otherwise near a computer keyboard, and others are mentioned because of historical interest (i.e., if they were near a computer keyboard, they would still be dead).

The descriptions are intended to allow the new participant to get some picture of the associations others have with a particular name without having to waste bandwidth in asking, "Who is this Stephen Jay Gould fellow, anyway?"

General notes:

Names appear between colons. The software listed in the Jargon File will also work to extract entries from Biographica.

The date field is enclosed in square brackets. A question mark at the start indicates that the compiler doesn't know/hasn't looked up/hasn't been informed of the date of birth of the person named in the name field. A question mark at the end indicates that the compiler is pretty sure that the person named is, indeed, dead, but didn't have at hand the year of death. No question mark and no date at the end means that the person named is probably still alive at the date of the version's compilation.

Primary categories of association come next. Persons will be identified as to either their most recent profession or their stance on the creation/evolution debate, or both.

Further information concerning the named person follows. This is intended to include basic items of interest to people involved in the creation/evolution online discussions, but may exclude otherwise important biographical data. The training and educational background of online discussion participants is considered of interest.

Names enclosed in {} indicate that an entry exists for that person in Biographica. Words or phrases in {} indicate that an entry for the enclosed word or phrase exists in the t.o./Evolution Echo Jargon file.

Contributions:

If you wish to contribute a description to Biographica, format the complete entry as current entries are formatted. Send the resulting text via email to welsberr@orca.tamu.edu with a subject line that includes "Biography Update". Items sent unformatted or without the indicated subject line will not necessarily even be noticed, much less included in future versions of Biographica. This file has proved to be more work than I had thought possible, and it isn't anywhere near complete yet. Your help and consideration in making changes easier to make will make it possible for me to go through more revisions faster, which should make the final product that much more useful.

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:Name: [Year-of-birth - (Year-of-death)] Profession(s) and/or position on creation/evolution debate. If an online participant, which forum or fora, past education or training, associations such as CWACK or U. of E. faculty. Authorship of FAQs or publications relevant to the online debate. Any memorable contribution or involvement in controversy which garners current references.

Contents

:Aardsma, Gerald:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Faculty in physics at the {ICR}. Ph.D. nuclear physics, Univ. of Toronto. Critical of bad creationist arguments against radiocarbon dating and tree-ring dating. Argues that the Flood must have taken place more than 20,000 years ago.
:Acker, James G.:
[1959-] 1. Oceanographer. T.o. regular, Christian. Founder of the acronymic CWACK (Christians Who Aren't Creationist Krackpots) affiliation, {U. of E.}. Proponent of viewpoint that the Christian God is actively involved in all natural processes, but cannot be analyzed by science. Also a proponent of the facetious "Laminar Flood Theory", a global flood scenario in which the effects would be difficult to distinguish from normal geophysical data. Noted or notorious for leaving no opunnings through which humor can escape. 2. Incorrigible punster; don't incorrige.
:Adams, Douglas:
[1952-] T.o. participant in threads concerning the aquatic Ape Hypothesis (AAH), {U. of E.} (Hon.). Author of various books, including "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1979), "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" (1982), "Life, the Universe, and Everything" (1982), "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" (1984), "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" (1987), Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul" (1988), "Meaning of Liff" (1984), "Mostly Harmless" (1992), and "Last Chance to See" (1991).
:Agassiz, Louis:
[1807-1873] {Creationist}. Harvard fish taxonomist, opponent of natural selection. Author of "Bibliographia zoologia etgeologia" (1848), "Contributions to the natural History of the United States of America" (1857), "Geological Sketches" (1858), "Lake Superior" (1850), "Principles of Zoology" (1851), "Professor Agassiz on the Origin of Species" (1860), and "Methods of Study in Natural History" (1863).
:Agney, Michael:
[?-]
:Alter, Walter:
[?-] Velikovskian with very large active vocabulary and wild associations.
:Amundson, Ronald A.:
[?-] Philosopher at the Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo. Author of the widely reprinted debunking of the "hundredth monkey" phenomenon in _Skeptical Inquirer_.
:Arandia, Joel:
[?-]
:Ashlock, Daniel A.:
[1962-] Mathematician. T.o. regular, U. of E.
:Asimov, Isaac:
[1920-1992] Biochemist. Prolific science and science fiction author. Too many books to even attempt listing. {Douglas Adams} thinks space is big; maybe he should have used Asimov's bibliography as an analogy.
:Ault, Thomas Galen:
[?-] {U. of E.}
:Austin, Steve:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Chair of Geology department at the {ICR}, especially noted for "rapid coal formation hypothesis" and "the Grand Canyon Project", an {ICR} reinterpretation of Grand Canyon geology along {SciCre} lines. Used to publish under the pseudonym "Stuart E. Nevins" while in grad school (Ph.D. geology, Univ. of Pennsylvania).
:Ayala, Francisco:
[1934-] Biologist. Faculty in biology at a UC school. Author of "Modern Genetics" (1984), "Molecular Evolution" (1976), and "Studies in the Philosophy of biology: Reduction and Related Problems" (1974). Testified for the plaintiffs in the Arkansas Act 590 trial, 1981.
:Baalke, Ron:
[?-]
:Bales, Bob:
[?-] {TAE}. Long-time t.o. participant, noted for posting critiques of evolutionary theory but refusing to either support or retract his claims. See {Balesian inference}.
:Barnes, Thomas:
[1911-] {SciCre}-ist. Faculty at UTEP, of decreasing magnetic field strength fame. Author of "Foundations of Electricity and Magnetism" (1965). President of the CRS in the mid-1970s. Physicist; has honorary D.Sc. from Hardin-Simmons Univ. M.S. in physics from Brown Univ.
:Battin, Laurence Gene:
[?-]
:Baugh, Carl:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Self-awarded Ph.D. with a hammer. Operates the "Creation Evidences Museum" in Glen Rose, Texas, near the Paluxy River dinosaur trackway site.
:Bertsche, Kirk:
[1957-] Physicist (PhD, Univ. of CA, Berkeley), with experience in radioisotope measurements (including radiocarbon); now involved with particle accelerator design. CWACK.
:Bethell, Tom:
[?-] {TAE}. Columnist for "American Spectator" magazine. Has claimed that natural selection reduces to a tautology, regularly baits {Stephen Jay Gould} in print.
:Biele, Arthur:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Participant on Evolution echo, some posts from a local religion echo were reposted in t.o. Aggressively arrogant in denouncing evolutionary mechanism theories, asserted that no transitional forms existed. Given transitional form challenge in June, 1994, has not yet made a substantive response.
:Bishop, Sue:
[?-] T.o. regular, author of file on "Mammoths".
:Bliss, Richard B.:
[?-1994] {SciCre}-ist. Formerly Chair of Science Education department at the {ICR}.
:Botha, Stephen:
[?-]
:Boxhorn, Joseph E.:
[?-] Biologist. Author of FAQ on species concepts and speciation events.
:Boyden, Aaron:
[?-] Philosopher. Evolution Echo regular.
:Bradley, Seth J.:
[?-] Computer scientist. T.o. regular, {U. of E.}.
:Brannan, Jack:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist, Velikovskian. Reposts refuted arguments, usually in a different distribution channel from the last time he posted the same argument. Active in the Evolution Echo and the Biogenesis Echo.
:Brasfield, Barbara:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Fond of posting "quotes" of scientists, usually out of context. Was active in the Evolution Echo in spring 1993.
:Brawley, John:
[?-] ?. Author of FAQ on Gentry's Po-halo research, basically found that Radon 222 could leave the same signature as Polonium given the tests which Gentry conducted. Advances a "quantum god conjecture" which posits that one emergent property of quantum effects could be a universal intelligence.
:Brinkman, Matt:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of FAQ listing, and FAQ on "Ice core dating".
:Broughton, Wayne:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of file on "Evolution and creation seminar at Caltech".
:Brown, Michael Rogero:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of file on "Flat Earth Society flyer".
:Brown, Walter:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Author of much-copied (and plagiarized) list of reasons why evolution is false.
:Bryan, William Jennings:
[1860-1925] {TAE}, politician. Populist candidate for president, noted for "Cross of Gold" speech in favor of free silver. Also noted for his participation in the prosecution of the {Scopes} trial. Bryan died shortly after the Scopes trial ended.
:Burdick, Clifford:
[?-?] {SciCre}-ist. Was a geology grad student at the University of Arizona, denied degree when he failed prelims. Has claimed it was because he was a creationist, but also admitted he wasn't well prepared. Early advocate of Paluxy footprints.
:Cardona, Dwardu:
[?-] Velikovskian. Has been seen on t.o.
:Carroll, Corey:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of file on "Review of JW book, 'Life'".
:Chick, Jack:
[?-] {TAE}. Author of religious comic pamphlets attacking evolution.
:Christensen, Jens Peter Reus:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Active on t.o.
:Clausen, Aaron:
[?-]
:Clippingdale, Simon:
[?-]
:Cochran, Keith:
[?-] T.o. regular, {U. of E.}. An early and consistent user of the "geek index" in his .sig.
:Cochrane, Everett "Ev":
[?-] Neo-Catastrophist. Editor of Aeon Journal. Has been arguing the claim that {Charles Darwin} was an "ardent" supporter of {Lamarck}ism; so far, Ev has supported the claim that Darwin did use Lamarckian concepts, but not the "ardent" part.
:Colby, Chris:
[?-] Biologist. Graduate student in biology at Boston University, working on quantifiable index of extent of directed mutagenesis in cell lineages. Author of introductory FAQs: "Animal development", "Common descent", "Creationist dishonesty", "Evolution research", "Introduction to evolutionary biology", and "Evidence for jury-rigged design". Dean of the {U. of E.} (10/1994: colby@bu-bio.bu.edu)
:Conner, Bill:
[?-]
:Cook, Suzanne:
[?-] {TAE}. Forwards the {Gosse assertion}.
:Cox, Ken:
[?-] {U. of E.}.
:Cranford, Michael:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of files on "Creationist credentials", and "{Forrest Mims}".
:Crick, Francis:
[1916-] Biochemist. Co-discoverer with {James D. Watson} of the double helix structure of DNA. Noted for musings about panspermia.
:Cumming, Kenneth B.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Dean of the Graduate School at the {ICR}.
:Cummins, Andrew:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Participant on Controv echo and Evolution echo. Notable for ad hoc creation of assertions contrary to {EMT}s. Admitted that he had never read {Eldredge} and {Gould}'s original paper on {punctuated equilibria}, but then castigated a correspondent for not considering that he might have disagreed with the arguments therein rather than just being totally ignorant of them.
:Cuvier, Georges Baron de:
[1769-1832] {Creationist}. Anatomist, opponent of Lamarck. Author of "The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization" (1827-32) and "Essay on the Theory of the Earth" (1815).
:Darrow, Clarence:
[1857-1938] Attorney. Famous as a defense lawyer, and especially as attorney for the defense of {John Scopes}.
:Darwin, Charles:
[1809-1882] Naturalist, geologist. Co- describer with {Alfred Russell Wallace} of natural selection in July 1, 1858 presentation to the Linnean Society. Noted for many books, including "The Origin of Species" (1859), "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" (1871), and "The Voyage of the Beagle" (1839).
:Das, Anil:
[?-] {TAE}. Krishna consciousness anti-evolutionist.
:Dasa, Anadi:
[?-] {TAE}. Krishna consciousness anti-evolutionist, Evolution echo participant.
:Dasa, Kalki:
[?-] {TAE}. Krishna consciousness hive entity whose .sig is probably the most parodied one in t.o. history, which basically said, "Don't forget to chant, [Hare Krishna chant]". Fond of making scathing remarks on other's posts which were much more aptly applied to his own posts. See {Kalki Syndrome}.
:Dasa, Sadaputa:
[?-] {TAE}. AKA Dr. Richard Thompson, author of $40 anti-evolutionary book. Refused to give {Kalki Dasa} permission to post extracts of his book.
:Davis, Lawrence Drew:
[?-] T.o. regular, author of file on "Speciation".
:Dawkins, Richard:
[1941-] Ethologist. Noted for his over-the- top style of debate with {SciCre} and {TAE} opponents, and his books, including "The Selfish Gene" (1976), "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986), and "The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection" (1982).
:Day, Robert P.J.:
[?-] T.o. regular. Author of FAQs on "Decay of C-decay", "Public debate with a creationist", "Fishy experiment", "The Flat Earth Society", and "Dishonesty of Jehovah's Witnesses".
:Dehner, Benjamin:
[1966-] graduate student in astrophysics at Iowa State Univ., Ames, Iowa. T.o. regular, especially in anti-velikovskian threads.
:Denton, Michael:
[?-] Medical microbiologist who doesn't know molbio, as evidenced by his book, "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" (1985).
:DeYoung, Donald B.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Professor of Astrophysics at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Derrick, Robert:
[?-] T.o. regular, author of file on "Jehovah's Witness dishonesty".
:Dobzhansky, Theodosius Grigorievich:
[1900-1975] Geneticist. Specialist in fruit-fly genetics, one of the architects of the Modern Synthesis. Author of "Evolution, Genetics, and Man" (1955), "Genetics and the Origin of Species" (1937), and "Mankind Evolving" (1962).
:Dodson">:Dodson, Edward Ottway: [1916-?] Biologist. Co-author of "Evolution:
Process and Product" (1952, 1976).
:Dodson">:Dodson, Peter: [?-] Biologist. Co-author of "Evolution:
Process and Product" (1952, 1976).
:Donnelly, Ignatius:
[1831-1901] Lawyer, populist, Baconian, catastrophist. Author of "Atlantis: the Antediluvian World" (1882), "Ragnarok" (18??), "The Great Cryptogram" (1888), "Caesar's Column" (1890).
:Doyle, Keith:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Dr Pepper:
[?-] Computer scientist. Active on the Evolution Echo, and also at one time a t.o. regular. Author of FAQs on brief introduction to evolution, "So you want to challenge evolution", and "The SciCre Game" (which includes among its point- getting items a scientific theory of creation). Often requests of SciCre-ists, "Now please state the theory of creationism."
:Drory, Alon:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Dunn, Brendan:
[1974-] 1. T.o. semi-regular. Mechanical engineering student, amateur cartographer, part time parodist of creationists.
:Durden, Glenn:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Eldredge, Niles:
[?-] Paleontologist. First author of paper introducing punctuated equilibria, with {Stephen Jay Gould}. Noted for several books, including "The Monkey Business" (1982), "Time Frames" (1985), and "Life Pulse" (1987).
:Ellenberger, Leroy:
[194?-] Former Velikovsky confidant, former staff member of Kronos (now defunct), now renegade Velikovskian. Occasional contributor -- now barred -- to Aeon. Occasional post-by-proxy to t.o.
:Ellington, A.D.:
[?-] Abiogenesis researcher. T.o. regular under the pseudonym "Deaddog".
:Elsberry, Wesley R.:
[1960-] Zoologist, computer scientist. Graduate student in Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences at TAMU, has MSCS (UTA, 1989) and BS Zoology (UF, 1982). Author of the t.o./Evolution Echo Jargon file, the "Chuck Maier Whopper Database", and compiler of this file. Active in artificial neural network technology, sysop of the Central Neural System BBS (409- 737-5222), founder and moderator of the FidoNet Evolution Echo. (10/1994: welsberr@orca.tamu.edu)
:Englin, Dennis L.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Professor of Geophysics at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Fargher, Robert:
[?-] Biologist. Evolution echo and t.o. regular.
:Farrar, Paul D.:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of file on "Water Vapor Canopy".
:Faust, Scott:
[?-] Active in the NCSE and Evolution echo.
:Feuerbacher, Alan M.:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of files on "International creation conference in Beaverton, OR", "Francis Hitching", "Dishonesty of Jehovah's Witnesses", "Jehovah's Witnesses and evolution", and "Jehovah's Witnesses in general".
:Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer:
[1890-1962] Biologist, statistician. Published much seminal work in the field of population genetics. Author of "Design of Experiments" (1935), "Genetical Theory of Natural Selection" (1930), and "Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (1956).
:Fliermans, Carl B.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Professor of Biology at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Floryan, Thad:
[?-]
:Fox, Rich:
[?-] Anthropologist at University of North Dakota. Author of good criticism of "Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark" in _Free Inquiry_.
:Franks, Robert H.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Associate Professor of Biology at the {ICR}.
:Frog, Crunchy:
[?-] Pseudonym for {Alan Morgan}.
:Futuyma, Douglas:
[1942-] Biologist. Author of "Evolutionary Biology" (1979, 1986), "Coevolution" (1983), and "Science On Trial" (1983).
:Gaitonde, Dinesh D.:
[?-]
:Garwood, Bob:
[?-] T.o. regular, author of file on "Creationist credentials".
:Ginenthal, Charles:
[?-] Velikovskian.
:Gish, Duane:
[1921-] {SciCre}-ist. Professor of Biochemistry at the {ICR}. Noted for his books, including "Evolution? The Fossils Say No!" (1978), "Evolution: The Challenge of the fossil Record" (198?), and "Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics" (1994); and also for smaller works, like "Have You Been Brainwashed?" (1974). Skilled debater, a master of quick wit, the ad hominem, the strawman, and the non sequitur argument.
:Glenn, Steve:
[?-]
:Godowski, John:
[?-] {TAE}. Catastrophist.
:Goldschmidt, Richard:
[1878-1958] Geneticist. Noted for his book, "The Material Basis of Evolution" (1940), in which he advanced a hypothesis of macroevolution via systemic or macro- mutations. This is popularly known as the {Hopeful Monster} hypothesis.
:Goltz, Pat:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Participant on the Science echo circa 1990.
:Gould, Stephen Jay:
[?-] Paleontologist. Co-author, with {Niles Eldredge}, of paper introducing punctuated equilibria. Specializes in Bahamian pulmonate snails. Author of many books, including "The Mismeasure of Man" (1981), "Ontogeny And Phylogeny" (1977), "Ever Since Darwin" (1977), "Darwin's Legacy" (1983), "The Panda's Thumb" (1980), "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes" (1983), "The Flamingo's Smile" (1985), "Bully For Brontosaurus" (1991), "An Urchin in the Storm" (1987), "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle" (1987), "Book Of Life" (1993), "Eight Little Piggies" (1993), and "Wonderful Life" (1989). Wrote a review of {Phillip Johnson}'s "Darwin On Trial" for the July 1992 Scientific American which sparked much controversy online. {Tom Bethell} apparently considers himself a self-appointed nemesis for Gould.
:Gonda, David:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Gosse, Philip Henry:
[1810-1888] Author of "Omphalos" (1857), which advanced the idea that God created the earth with "the appearance of age". See the Jargon File entry for {Gosse Assertion}.
:Graf, Claus:
[?-] {TAE}. Forwards the {Gosse Assertion}.
:Grahm, Mats:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Grasse, Pierre:
[1895-?] Zoologist. An anti-Darwinian zoologist often quoted by SciCre-ists. Author of "Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation" (1977) and "Larousse Encyclopedia of the Animal World" (1975).
:Grubaugh, Bob:
[?-] Engineer, Velikovskian. Originator of the Grubaugh Model.
:Grumbine, Robert:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Hahn, Karl:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Hall, John Calvin:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Student at Penacola Christian College.
:Ham, Kenneth A.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Formerly high in administration at the {ICR}, adjunct faculty Instructor of Science Education. Books include "The Lie: Evolution" (1987), and "Evolution and the Decay of Nations" (199?).
:Hamilton, Bill:
[1942-] 1. Electrical Engineer, {CWACK}, ASA member. T.o. regular, author of file on "{Gish}/{Ross} debate". Contributor to file on critiques of "{Phillip Johnson}".
:Hanes, Joel:
[?-] Computer engineer. T.o. regular, author of files on "Darwinism", and "Lewis overthrust". Owner of Iowa land with copious Devonian marine invert fossils; amateur collector of same.
:Harper, Brian D.:
[?-]
:Hart, Jim:
[?-]
:Harter, Richard:
[?-] T.o. regular, self-proclaimed "conscience of t.o.", and designated "anti-Chris" to the U. of E.
:Hartman, Brian:
[?-]
:Hastings, Ron:
[?-] Author of file on "Paluxy man-tracks".
:Hatunen, David W.:
[?-]
:Hausmann, Maddi:
[?-] T.o. regular, humorist.
:Heiny, Chris:
[?-]
:Henley, J.P.:
[?-]
:Henling, Lawrence M.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Posted extensively on 2nd Law of thermodynamics, left when responses started coming in droves.
:Hennig, Willi:
[1913-?] Systematist. Founder of taxonomic techniques we now call cladistics. Author of "Phylogenetic Systematics" (1966).
:Henry, David R.:
[?-]
:Hilman, Harlan:
[?-] {TAE}. Hit and run poster.
:Ho-Stuart, Chris:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Holden, Ted:
Computer programmer, Velikovskian. Frequent poster to t.o., known for his insults of correspondents and biologists in general and astronomers in particular. Has a conceptual model of effort required for organisms to stand up under gravitational influence predicated upon the weight-lifting capacity of Kazmaier, claims that this shows that dinosaurs must have lived in an era of "reduced felt effect of gravity".
:Holland, John:
[1929-] Computer scientist. Pioneering researcher in field of genetic algorithms. Author of "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems" (1975).
:Hooker, Joseph:
[1817-1911] Botanicist. Close friend of {Charles Darwin} and one of the first adherents to his theories.
:Horn, Dave:
[?-] Biologist, computer programmer. Participant in the Evolution echo and Biogenesis echo. Moderator of the Biogenesis Echo. (960314: http://www.henge.com/~dhorn/biogen.html)
:Hoyle, Sir Fred:
[?-] Noted British astronomer and crackpot. Books include "Evolution From Space" (1981). In the mid-1980's, Hoyle advanced and publicized the claims of Lee Spetner that two Archaeopteryx specimens (British and Berlin Museums) were faked to show feather impressions. Research by Charig et al. showed the charge to be groundless.
:Humphries, D. Russell:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Assistant Professor of Physics at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Hunt, Kathleen:
[1965-] 1. T.o. regular, author of FAQs on "Transitional Fossils", and "Horse Evolution". Ph.D. student in zoology at the University of Washington, studying physiology and animal behavior.
:Huston, Herb:
[?-] T.o. regular. Resident {Gould} expert, with an ever-ready source of quotes.
:Huxley, Julian:
[1887-1975] Biologist. Grandson of {Thomas Huxley}. Author of books including "Evolution In Action" (1953) and "Evolution, The Modern Synthesis" (1942).
:Huxley, Thomas Henry:
[1825-1895] Anatomist and naturalist. Known popularly as "Darwin's Bulldog" since Huxley was involved in much public debate, which the reticent and invalid Darwin assiduously avoided. Author of "Man's Place in Nature" (1894) and "On the Origin of Species; or, The Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature" (1862).
:Hyde, Bill:
[?-] Oceanographer. T.o. regular. Author of file on "Water Vapor Canopy". Especially noted for responses to {Ted Holden}.
:Ijaz, Tahir:
[?-] {TAE}.
:Isaak, Mark:
[1959-] 1. Computer programmer, entomologist. T.o. regular, author of the file on "Problems with a Global Flood". Creator of the Once Hollow Earth theory, a catastrophist theory which attempts to drive Velikovskianism underground.
:Jackson, Michael:
[?-] {TAE}.
:Jefferys, Bill:
[1940-] 1. Astronomer, T.o. regular. Professor of Astronomy at UT Austin. Writes a lot about uses of Bayesian statistics. {CWACK}, Pdtofessor of Astrology and Lunacy at the {U. of

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:Johnson, Mark Arvid:
[?-] {SciCre">{SciCre}-ist. Active on the Science echo, AI echo, talk.origins, and Evolution echo. Fond of misquotations.
:Johnson, Phillip E.:
[1940-] {TAE}. Law professor at Berkeley. Author of "Darwin On Trial" (1993). Hit and run poster on t.o.
:Johnston, Eddie:
[?-] {TAE}. Krishna consciousness anti- evolution poster on the Evolution Echo.
:Jones, Davey:
[?-] {TAE}. Active on Evolution Echo.
:Jones, David M.:
[?-]
:Kaufmann, Stuart:
[?-] Computer scientist. Author of "Origins Of Order" (1994).
:Kazmeier, Bill:
[?-] Weightlifter. Used by {Ted Holden} in a model of sauropod muscular effort.
:Keck, Paul:
[?-] T.o. regular, author of file on "Feathers: created or evolved?". {U. of E.} faculty in media representation.
:Kelvin, Lord William Thomson Baron:
[1824-1907] Physicist. Noted for his estimate of the age of the earth based on heat radiation. This estimate gave an age of less than 100 million years. However, radioactivity had not yet been discovered, which invalidated Kelvin's assumptions. One absolute temperature scale has divisions named for Lord Kelvin; as it is an absolute scale, it is a mistake to refer to "degrees kelvin"; rather, the appropriate reference is simply "kelvins".
:Kemere, Caleb Tilo:
[?-] {TAE}. Posted a "Theory Of Creation" that turned out to be a "Bunch Of Unverifiable Assumptions Of Creation".
:Kettenring, Thomas:
[1963-] Physicist. T.o. regular, U of E, designated hitter for logical errors and scholarship.
:Kitcher, Phillip:
[1947-] Philosopher. Author of books including "Abusing Science" (1983) and "The Advancement of Science" (1993).
:Kjinnly, Leif Magnar:
[?-]
:Kluge, Karl:
[?-]
:Knapp, Dave:
[?-] Physicist, magician. T.o. regular, CWACK. Author of FAQ on SN1987a.
:Koestler, Arthur:
[1905-?] Philosopher and anti-darwinian author. His books include "Janus: A Summing Up" (1978), and "The Case of the Midwife Toad" (1971). Asserted the "natural selection is a tautology" argument in "Janus".
:Krasel, Cornelius:
[?-]
:Kroger, Seth L.:
[?-] Computer scientist. T.o. regular.
:Krueger, Ted:
[?-] {TAE}. Imported from one of the Limbaugh groups. "Rush rules" kind of guy.
:Laird, Cameron:
[?-]
:Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de:
[1744-1829] Naturalist. Early evolutionary theorist, proposed a teleological method of evolutionary change summarized as "inheritance of acquired characters". Author of "Encyclopedie methodique: Botanique" (1783-1808) and "Philosophie Zooligique" (1809).
:Lamb, Peter:
[1955-] 1. Computer scientist. T.o participant. Dr. Tech. Sc. (ETH Zurich, 1991) Spatial information systems. (10/1994: prl@csis.dit.csiro.au).
:Lecointe, Darius A.:
[?-] {TAE}. Liked to answer questions about his posts with other questions or completely non sequitur responses. Pinning down Darius on a question was about as easy as nailing jelly to a wall.
:Leipzig, Marty:
[?-] Geologist. Participant in the Science echo and the Holysmoke echo.
:Lerner, Asia Z.:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:LeRoy, Merlyn:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Lester, Lane:
[?-] Biologist, {SciCre}-ist. Eastern regional representative of the {ICR}. Author of "Natural Limits of Biological Change (19??). Participant on the Evolution Echo.
:Levchenko, Vladimir F.:
[?-] Author of file on "Simulation of evolutionary process".
:Lilje, Anneliese:
[?-] Author of file on "Speciation". Multiple requests from the compiler to get an email of the mentioned "huge database of [speciation] references" have not netted so much as a reply.
:Limbaugh, Rush:
[?-] Debate exists over whether Limbaugh, noted radio personality, is a
:Lindsey, George D.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Associate Professor of Science Education at the {ICR}, adjunct faculty.
:Linneaus, Carolus (Latin form of Carl Von Linne):
[1707-1778] Taxonomist. Proposed and developed the binomial system of nomenclature still in use today. Had a firm belief in the fixity of species. Author of "Systema Naturae per Regnae Tria Naturae" (1758-1759).
:Lippard, James J.:
[1965-] 1. Philosopher (B.A., ASU; M.A., ABD, Univ. of Arizona), t.o. regular. Frequent contributor to _Creation/Evolution_ and _Skeptic_; author, co-author, or contributor to t.o. FAQs on the "Noah's Ark Hoax", "Lucy's Knee Joint", "Evolution and Racism", and "dtPhillip Johnson}". WWW Administrator for Primenet

: http:

//www.primenet.com/~lippard/).
:Liu, Q.P.:
[?-]
:Loucks, Jim:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Proclaimed on t.o. that he would provide a scientific theory of creation. Six months later, he admitted that the task was beyond his capabilities.
:Lumsden, Richard D.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Chair of the Biology department at the {ICR}.
:Lyell, Sir Charles:
[1797-1875] Geologist. One of the principal architects and proponents of the uniformitarian view. {Charles Darwin} viewed Lyell as a mentor and friend over much of his career.
:Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich:
[1898-1976] Polemicist. Proponent of Michurianism, an officially sanctioned Soviet variant of Lamarckism. Due to Lysenko's efforts, many real geneticists were sent to the gulags or simply disappeared from the USSR.
:Maier, Chuck:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Active in the Science echo from June, 1991 to May, 1992. Would often repost the same previously refuted argument. This led to the creation of the "Chuck Maier Whopper Database", which documented already-refuted arguments which Chuck had made.
:MacRae, Andrew:
[?-] T.o. regular, author of files on "Footprints in coal" and "{Ted Holden}'s world".
:Malthus, Thomas:
[1766-1834] Author of an article which pointed out that populations grow in geometric proportion, but food production only increased arithmetically. Concluded that without some interference, there would be a calamitous crash in population when food supplies failed to keep up. Both Darwin and Wallace credit Malthus with triggering their central insights on the mechanism of natural selection.
:Margulis, Lynn:
[?-] Biologist. Originator of endosymbiotic hypothesis of eukaryote cell origin. Former spouse of {Carl Sagan}.
:Marlowe, Thomas:
:Matheson, Stephen:
[?-] Neuroscience graduate student at the University of Arizona. Defender of Forrest {Mims} III on the Net.
:Mayr, Ernst:
[1904-] Ornithologist, evolutionary theorist. Promulgated the Biological Species Concept (BSC). His books include "The Growth of Biological Thought" (1982), "Toward a New Philosphy of Biology" (1988), "One Long Argument" (1991), and "Animal Species" (1963).
:Mazumder, Bobby:
[?-] {TAE}. Islamic fundamentalist anti-evolutionist.
:McCulloch, Michael:
[?-] {TAE}. Forwards the {Argument from design}.
:McGowan, Christopher:
[?-] Zoologist. Professor at University of Toronto. Author of "In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists are Wrong" (1984).
:McIver, Tom:
[1951-] Anthropologist (Ph.D., UCLA), did dissertation on creationism. Author of "Anti-Evolution: An Annotated Bibliography" (1988).
:McKenzie, Johnathon:
[?-?] Consultant in planetary science and archaeological redating areas of the Velikovsky/Mainstream debates.
:Mendel, Gregor:
[1822-1884] Abbot. Founder of the field of genetics. Published results of his well-designed experiments in 1865, but the consequences of that work were not recognized until 1900. {Fisher}'s critique accusing Mendel of fudging his data ignored the basic biology of the species of pea which Mendel used.
:Meritt, Jim:
[?-] T.o. regular. Author of broad-ranging FAQ covering many {SciCre} claims, and file on "Speciation".
:Meyer, John R.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Professor of Biology at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Meyer, Mark:
[?-]
:Mims, Forrest M. III.:
[1944-] Science writer, {TAE}. 1. Mims is well known for his prolific writings about electronics projects. Mims is also well known for his complaints against Scientific American magazine and former SciAm editor Jonathan Piel, wherein he charges that he was denied a columnist position writing The Amateur Scientist column due to religious discrimination. During the interview, Jonathan Piel asked what other writing Mims did and Mims listed various articles, among them two articles about organizing long-distance bicycle field trips for church kids. This prompted the question, "Do you believe in Darwin's theory of evolution?" to which Mims replied, "No, and neither does Stephen Jay Gould." SciAm declined to hire Mims but published three of his columns--which editor Piel declared to be "fabulous" and "outstanding". Mims decried the decision not to hire. Mims also later taped without consent a telephone conversation with Piel, of which a transcript was published in Harper's Magazine in reponse to denials made by Piel. Every now and then, the Mims/SciAm flap is brought up in online discussion.
:Moran, L.A.:
[?-] Biologist. T.o. regular and author of FAQs on "Evolution fact and theory", "Evolution definition", " {Dmitri Kousnetsov}", "Modern Synthesis", and "Genetic drift".
:Morlan, Joe:
[?-] Ornithologist. Cites Mayr like SciCre-ists cite scripture. Tends to delete relevant context from correspondent's posts in replies leading to misrepresentation of their positions. His response to {Dr Pepper}'s SciCre Game ignores the -5 penalties for lying about evolution.
:Morgan, Alan:
[?-] (aka C. Frog)
:Morgan, Elaine:
[?-] Author of "The Aquatic Ape" (1982).
:Morris, Henry Madison:
[1918-] SciCre-ist. Founder and president of the {ICR}, also Professor of Hydrology there. A hydraulic engineer by training and profession, has written many books involving biblical exegesis and hermeneutics. His books incude "The Genesis Flood" (Whitcomb & Morris 1961), "The Long War Against God" (1989), "Scientific Creationism" (1974, 1895), and "The Scientific Case for Creation" (1977).
:Morris, John:
[1946-] SciCre-ist. Son of {Henry Morris}, trained in geological engineering, Professor of Geology at the {ICR}. Noted for his excursions to Turkey looking for traces of Noah's Ark.
:Morton, Glenn:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Mullins, Scott H.:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Munch, John:
[?-]
:Nanson, Paul:
[?-] {TAE}. Participant on Startext Forum (late 1980's), GEnie, and t.o. Displayed a touch of the {Kalki Syndrome} in accusing t.o. correspondents of "censorship" while simultaneously calling for a moderated newsgroup which would exclude any and all corrections to SciCre misinformation.
:Nedin, Chris:
[1958-] 1. Palaeontologist, studying Ediacaran and Early Cambrian palaeontology and palaeoecology. T.o. regular, {U. of E.} (faculty and admin), author of files "Marsupials", "Archaeopteryx" and "Archaeopteryx is not a hoax".
:Neff, John:
[?-] {TAE}. Imported from soc.religion.christian.bible-study.
:Nicholls, Philip A.:
[?-] Anthropologist. T.o. regular, participant on GEnie and FidoNet Evolution Echo.
:Nicoll, James Davis:
:Numbers, Ronald L.:
[?-] Historian. Author of "The Creationists" (1992). Professor of History of Science and Medicine at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
:Nyikos, Peter:
[1946(?) - ] T.o. regular, Mathematician (set theoretic topology), Professor at University of South Carolina, self-proclaimed evolutionist. Self-proclaimed reformer and skeptic. Maintains and periodically posts several lists of people he disapproves of, including "pro-choice Yahoo" (talk.abortion), "Bandar-log" (talk.origins), "Black Knights" (t.a. and t.o.), and "Incorrigibles" (t.a. and t.o.). Engages in long-running feuds with several other t.o. regulars (mostly people on the Nyikos-Bandar-log list, the author included).
:O'Rear, Greg:
[?-] {TAE}.
:Ogden, C.:
[?-] {TAE}. Placed an artificial error into the Anthropomorphic Principle, then said "Hey, there's an error in there!".
:Osborn, Henry Fairfield:
[1857-1935] Paleontologist. Proponent of "aristogenesis", a variant of orthogenesis. Part of the group which misclassified {Nebraska Man} (Hesperopithecus), also the leader of the group which did more field work and discovered the misclassification.
:Osborne, Chris D.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Assistant Professor of Biology at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Otto, Jeff:
[?-] Geneticist. Graduate student at Marquette University. Regular on the Evolution Echo, former co-moderator of the Evolution Echo, and t.o. participant. Author of FAQ on abiogenesis.
:Overton, William:
[1939-1987] Jurist. Presided over the 1981 Arkansas Act 590 "Balanced Treatment" trial. His decision in this case is considered a lucid exposition of why SciCre is religion, not science.
:Owen, Richard:
[1804-1892] Paleontologist. Creationist; at first friend, then main opponent of {Charles Darwin}.
:Paley, William:
[1743-1805] Preacher and promulgator of the "Argument from design". Archdeacon of Carlisle.
:Patterson, Colin:
[?-] Paleontologist. Works at the British Museum, and a "transformed cladist" (people who hold that phenotypic similarities cannot ever establish phylogenetic relationships).
:Paul-Jones, Russ:
[?-]
:Parker, Gary E.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Professor of Biology at the {ICR}, visiting faculty.
:Payne, Vick:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Septagenarian retired EE who defends SciCre probability analyses. Evolution echo participant.
:Pepke, Eric:
:Peters, Andy:
[?-] Biologist. T.o. regular, U. of E. faculty. Author of t.o. Welcome FAQ, and the file on "Creationist dishonesty".
:Peterson, Andrew J.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Assistant Professor of Science Education at the {ICR}.
:Petrich, Loren I.:
[?-] T.o. regular, "the Master Blaster".
:Popper, Sir Karl Raimund:
[1902-] Philosopher. Has tried to establish objective criteria by which science can be distinguished from pseudo-science; his principle of "falsifiability" is the most notable concept from this work. Popper made some comments that {natural selection} was perhaps tautologous and not really scientific, but retracted them in a 1978 article in Dialectica.
:Poropudas, Hannu K.J.:
[?-] Author of file on "Using coral as a clock".
:Potter, Mr:
[?-] {TAE}. Active in the CompuServe DINO forum, transmitted by Monrovia Communications.
:Price, George Macready:
[1870-1963] {TAE}. Seventh-Day Adventist and geologist who published many books advancing "Flood Geology", most notably "The New Geology" (1923).
:Prigogine, Ilya:
[?-] Physical chemist. Nobel laureate for work on dissipative structures, which are self-organizing constructs which arise in non-equilibrium systems.
:Publius:
[?-] {TAE}.
:Raup, David M.:
[?-] Biologist. Co-discoverer of the data which led to the "Nemesis" hypothesis, which tries to explain mass extinctions by a dark companion of the Sun that regularly comes close to it and thus causes large amounts of meteors. Also well known for research into artificial phylogenies controlled by stochastic rules.
:Rawlins, Bill:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist.
:Ray, Tom:
[?-] Ecologist. Noted for his 'Tierra' artificial life simulation. A file on Tierra can be found in the ftp archive maintained by {Brett Vickers}.
:Regen, Joel H.:
[?-] {TAE}. Humbly apologized before disappearing. Kudos!
:Reinoso, Ivan Ordonez:
[?-]
:Rice, David:
[?-] Anti-religionist. Evolution echo participant.
:Rice, Robert:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Evolution Echo participant. Posts have little content, much sarcastic tone. Responses generally ignore substance, accuse respondents of "insults" or "foul and abusive" language.
:Rogers, Alan R.:
:Rose, Lynn:
[?-] Philosopher, Velikovskian. Professor at SUNY Buffalo whose avocation is the promotion of Velikovsky.
:Ross, Hugh:
[?-] {Creationist}. Old-earth creationist.
:Rowe, Mickey:
[?-] Neuroscientist. T.o. regular. Author of FAQ on vision.
:Rupright, Mark:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Ruse, Michael:
[?-] Philosopher. Author or editor of books including "Darwinism Defended" (197?), and "But Is It Science?" (1988). Testified for the plaintiffs in the 1981 Arkansas Act 590 "Balanced Treatment" trial. Ruse's philosophical viewpoint is clearly reflected in {Judge Overton}'s decision. Ruse came under fire from fellow philosophers Larry Laudan and Philip Quinn for his testimony in the Arkansas trial; he has subsequently backed away from the stance he took. (See "But Is It Science?" and Ruse's talk at the 1993 (?) AAAS session sponsored by the NCSE.)
:Sagan, Carl:
[1934-] Astronomer. Much maligned by Velikovskians as the archetypal uniformitarian. Hosted the "Cosmos" television program. Former husband of Lynn Margulis.
:Salem, Bruce:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Sand, Tero:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Sarfatti, Jack:
[?-] Physicist gone bizarre. Tends to crosspost wildly. Has rubbed shoulders with Werner Erhard. Self-nominated for a McArthur "genius" Award. Martin Gardner has mentioned him.
:Schaffner, Stephen F.:
[?-] Physicist, t.o. regular. Works at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
:Scharle, Tom:
[?-] T.o. regular, specializes in analyzing sciCre illogic. Author of files on "Frequently Asked But Never Answered Questions", and "Stumper questions for creationists".
:Schnitzius, Mark:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Schumacher, Richard A.:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Scopes, John Thomas:
[?-?] Teacher. Participated in a scheme to put the town of Dayton, Tennessee on the map, to wit: violate the recently passed Butler Act, and have the ACLU test of the constitutionality of the act tried in the Rhea County courthouse. Scopes asserted that he had taught about evolution from a newly proscribed biology textbook, and was charged. The rest, as they say, is history. In 1925, the case of the State of Tennessee vs. John T. Scopes was tried. The defense was not allowed to produce witnesses. Statements from experts on biology were read into the record, but in the absence of the jury. A common {SciCre} claim is that "Nebraska Man" was prominently featured in expert testimony. However, several readings of the relevant sections of the transcript have convinced me that no mention of Nebraska man was made. Scopes was found guilty and charged $100. The plan to continue the constitutional test was derailed when review found that the amount of the fine exceeded the limit where the jury did not specify the fine, and the charge was thrown out. The Butler Act prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee remained on the books until 1968. See also {William Jennings Bryan} and {Clarence Darrow}. The case "inspired" the movie, "Inherit The Wind".
:Scott, Alan:
[?-] Physicist. T.o. participant.
:Scott, Bruce D.:
[?-]
:Sedgwick, Adam:
[1785-1873] Geologist. Creationist who spent many years searching for Diluvial gravel deposits in a worldwide distribution. He publically admitted that no such deposits existed. Friend of {Charles Darwin} before publication of "Origin of Species".
:Segraves, Kelly:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Heads the Creation Science Research Center, which was created after a schism within the early {ICR}. The CSRC has been more concerned with legislation and litigation, while the ICR has focused on research and education.
:Sellin, Erik D.:
[?-] {TAE}. Says Archaeopteryx is distinctly a bird.
:Setterfield, Barry:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Co-author of paper claiming that the value of 'c' has been exponentially decreasing (actually using a cosecant function for his curve fit) since the time of Creation. Roundly criticized for ignoring inconvenient data points and claiming correlation coefficients of 1.00 and 0.999. Even the {ICR} has renounced use of Setterfield's work.
:Seymour, Burch:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Sharpe, Richard:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Shaw, Henry:
[?-] Physicist. T.o. and Evolution echo regular. Author of FAQs on radiometric dating, dendrochronology.
:Siemon, Michael:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Siivonen, Antti:
[?-] {TAE}, ornithologist. Finnish participant on t.o. Particularly fond of palindromes and one line content free responses to posts.
:Sikkema, Henry:
[?-] {TAE}. - Wanted to have his Omphalos and eat it too. That is, the Earth looks young but God could make it look old too.
:Silver, Yehuda:
[?-] {TAE}. Fundamentalist anti-evolutionist.
:Silverio, C.J.:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of file on "Jehovah's Witness dishonesty".
:Smith, Ken:
[?-] T.o. regular, {U. of E.}.
:Smith, Walter:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of file on "Jehovah's Witnesses in general".
:Solovay, Andrew:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Spencer, Herbert:
[?-?] Philosopher, economist.
:Stassen, Chris:
[1962-] 1. T.o. regular, NCSE and ASA member, with an interest in isotope geology and the age of the earth. Author of many FAQs and related files, including the "Age of the Earth", "Earth-Age debate", "Abiogenesis books", "Book reviews" "ICR grand canyon dating project", "Isochron dating", "Periodicals", "Reading-list", and indices of NCSE publications. Contributor to "Speciation" and "Creationist dishonesty" FAQs.
:Talbott, David:
[?-] Velikovskian, co-editor of Aeon, author of "The Saturn Myth", a book which supposes an alternate solar system with Earth orbiting Saturn.
:Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre:
[1881-1955] Paleontologist, theologian. Author of "The Appearance of Man" (1965), "Christianity And Evolution" (1971), "Early Man in China" (1941), "The Making of a Mind" (1965), and "The Phenomenon of Man" (1975). Describer of "Peking Man". Accused by {Gould} of complicity in the {Piltdown Man} hoax.
:Thomas, Julie:
[?-] Anti-evolutionist of unknown origin. Takes a skeptical stance of evolutionary mechanism theories while refusing to make clear what her real beliefs are.
:Thompson, John:
[?-] Biologist. Evolution echo and Science echo regular, Evolution echo co-moderator.
:Thompson, Timothy J.:
[1949-] 1. Physicist & astronomer. T.o. regular, U. of E. faculty. Author of two t.o. FAQ files: "magfields", which criticizes the young earth argument of {Thomas Barnes}, and "venus-young", which criticizes {Ted Holden}'s Velikovskian argument that Venus is a young planet. B.S. (1978), M.S. (1985), both physics, both from California State University, Los Angeles. 14 years at JPL, specializing in radio astronomy, atmospheric physics, and planetary magnetic fields. Active amateur astronomer and public speaker. (10/1994: timothy.j.thompson@jpl.nasa.gov)
:Throop, Wayne:
[?-] T.o. regular. Especially involved in threads concerning Velikovskian conjecture.
:Timm, Steven:
:Toumey, Christopher:
[?-] Anthropologist, did dissertation on creationism. Author of "God's Own Scientists" (199?).
:Trigo, Gerard:
[?-] Science echo and Evolution echo regular.
:Trott, Richard:
[1969-] T.o. regular, author of file on "Creationism implies racism?". Has personally perturbed {Duane Gish} via an article critical of Gish's lecture at Rutgers University in 1994.
:Tun, Lionel:
[?-] {TAE}. Contributes to talk.origins in a hit- and-run fashion. Especially noted for single sentence howlers. See Jargon File entry under {ForTun}.
:Tyler, Tim:
[?-] Sysop of the Farpoint BBS, and regular contributor to the Evolution Echo.
:Ussher (or Usher), James:
[1581-1656] Devised the chronology that dates the creation to 4004 BC widely accepted by YEC's.Irish Protestant (Anglican) - 1605 he was chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Bishop of Meath about 1620 and about 1625 became Archbishop of Armagh.
:Vardiman, Larry:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Chair of the Astro/Geophysics department and Professor of Physics at the {ICR}. Appeared on "The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark."
:Varughese, T.V.:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Associate Professor of Mathematics at the {ICR}, adjunct faculty.
:Velikovsky, Immanuel:
[1895-1979] Psychologist. Proposed a view of mythology which turned the movements of the planets of the solar system into a kind of celestial pinball game. Velikovskian scholarship appears to consist of ignoring data in favor of myth and the aggressive {ad hominem} denunciation of any who disagree with their interpretations.
:Vickers, Brett J.:
[?-] Computer scientist. Maintains the talk.origins ftp site and WWW page (02/1995: http://rumba.ics.uci.edu:8080/). Author of file on "{CRS} creed".
:Vonroeschlaub, Warren:
[1966-] Mathematician. T.o. regular. Author of the "God and Evolution" FAQ, {ForTun}, and Creavolov.
:Wallace, Alfred Russel:
[1823-1913] Naturalist. Co-discoverer with {Charles Darwin} of the theory of natural selection. Wallace attributed a moment of insight to a fever dream. He wrote up a paper describing the action of natural selection, then sent a copy to Darwin for review and possible publication. Wallace's paper and a letter of Darwin's to Asa Gray were presented to the same meeting of the Linnean Society in 1858. Darwin's publication of "The Origin of Species" in 1859 eclipsed Wallace. Arnold Brackman's "A Delicate Arrangement" (1980) explores this topic in detail, but presses for conclusions unwarranted by the evidence. Discoverer of "Wallace's Line" separating the biota of Asia from Australia.
:Watson, James D.:
[1928-] Biochemist. Co-discoverer with {Francis Crick} of the double helix structure of DNA.
:Watson, Seanna:
[?-] T.o. regular, CWACK.
:Watson, Stephen:
[?-] T.o. regular, CWACK.
:Webb, Max:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Wegener, Alfred Lothar:
[1880-1930] Geologist. Proposed continental drift in 1912. In the 1960's, evidence emerged giving rise to plate tectonics, which vindicated the concept of continental drift, but by a mechanism incompatible with Wegener's proposal.
:Whitcomb, John Clement:
[1924-] {SciCre}-ist. Co-author with {Henry Morris} of "The Genesis Flood" (1960). (Retired) professor of theology at Grace College.
:Wickramasinghe, Nalin Chandra:
[1939-] Mathematician. Co-author with {Sir Fred Hoyle} of "Evolution from Space" (198?), which advocates a panspermian scenario and the interesting notion that insects may be more intelligent than people, but just do not let on that this is the case. Witness for the defense at the 1981 Arkansas Act 590 "Balanced Treatment" trial, on cross-examination testified that no rational scientist could believe that the earth was less than a million years old.
:Wiener, Matthew P.:
[?-] Biologist. T.o. regular. Noted for number and quality of {flame}s, see also the AI Jargon File under {weemba}. If you wish to avoid being flamed, make sure to spell his name correctly and completely.
:Wilder-Smith, Arthur Ernest:
[?-] {SciCre}-ist. Triple doctorate whose books include "The Creation of Life: A Cybernetic Approach to Evolution" (197?).
:Williams, Tom:
[?-] Contributor to talk.origins.
:Willis, Bruce:
{SciCre}-ist. Participant in the Controv echo. His aggressive assertions denying the existence of transitional forms led to the formation of the transitional form challenge, presented to Willis in March, 1994; Willis disappeared from the Controv echo at that time. Probably not the actor of the same name.
:Wilson, Carl:
[?-] Evolution Echo regular.
:Wise, Kurt:
[?-] Paleontologist, {SciCre}-ist. Assistant Professor of Paleontology, adjunct faculty at the {ICR}. M.S. Univ. of Chicago, Ph.D. Harvard (paleontology). Professor at Bryan College in TN.
:Woodward, Chris:
[?-] T.o. regular.
:Wright, David:
[?-] Computer scientist. T.o. regular.
:Wright, Sewall:
[1889-?] Geneticist.
:Zuber, Robert:
[?-] T.o. participant, author of files on "Creationist dishonesty", and "Clarence Darrow misquote".
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:Contributors: 

  Ken Cox
  Stephen Guerke
  Bill Jefferys
  Thomas Kettenring
  James J. Lippard
  Steven Price
  Tero Sand
  Tom Scharle
  Richard Trott
  Matthew P. Wiener

:Requested Biographies: 

  Bishop of Ussher

:Version History:

Version 1.00 notes:
Just fixed up.
Version 0.52 notes:

Thanks to other contributors (list at end of file) for helping to correct my errors.

I've made a pass through the Vicker's site file list, and hope that I've accurately stated associations between authors and files. "Author" referencing files can mean a single author, or a co-author.

Version 0.51 notes:

Many thanks to James Lippard and Tero Sand, who provided early reviews and additional information for the file.

Most of the date fields are filled only with question marks. This initial version seeks to get some platform for further contribution out into the open. I assume that many people offended by my poor scholarship in not knowing the birth and death years of various and sundry entries will write to let me know what they are. Many of the same people will no doubt expand upon entries of their favorite famous/infamous notable persons. Fine, I like it that way.

I have tried to give some commentary on all names of people associated with a {TAE} or {SciCre} stance. I have not done so for most other names of online participants in this list. If your name appears without a description, and you resent the oversight, please send your own autobiographical description for inclusion in future versions of Biographica.

Future versions will have numbered descriptions, where the first entry under a name of an online participant will be an autobiographical account, edited for consistency of format. Secondary and further entries will be biographical information from the compiler or other contributors.

A relatively easy set of additions which I nevertheless have not yet made is to use the t.o. FAQ filelist to fill out entries of contributors.

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Please make corrections by extracting the offending entry, correcting it, and emailing the corrected complete entry to welsberr@orca.tamu.edu with a subject line of "Biography Update".

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