Henry Zuill is Professor emeritus at Union College
(Nebraska), a Seventh Day Adventist college whose science and mathematical division states, among other things,
that it “… concentrates on helping students to know God as the Creator while
providing plenty of practical experience.” That may not sound particularly
scientific to you, and indeed, it isn’t. Zuill apparently does have a biology
degree (from Loma Linda University), but he is also signatory to the CMI listof scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation,
as well as to the Discovery Institute’s petition A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism.
Zuill may otherwise be relatively lowkey, but writes articles for various
religious organization – and no, he does not seem to have done any scientific
research at least for the last 30 years, which is no surprise given the
antipathy he apparently harbors toward that enterprise. He is also affiliated
with Answers in Genesis,
it seems.
Among his main objections to evolution is that, according to
him, evolution cannot explain the emergence of ecology. It is a bit unclear
what precisely he has in mind, but it seems to be a rather blatant application
of a teleological fallacy.
Diagnosis: Lowkey madman, and a perfect way to round up round
two of our encyclopedia with an appropriately feeble whimper.
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