Raúl Erlando López is another one of those precariously few young-earth creationists with a real degree so cherished by the creationist community and who are therefore
heavily used, promotion-wise, to try to give creationist a sheen of scientific
legitimacy to the scientifically illiterate. Of course, López’s degree in
atmospheric science is irrelevant to the scientific disciplines creationists
most explicitly reject, such as biology, geology and astronomy, but choices are
limited when you’re a young-earth creationist. Also, López is hardly a
scientist – he might have published some articles in the 1970s, but he
currently seems to be publishing exclusively in the Journal of Creation
Research, Answers Magazine and similar young earth creationist venues. He is nevertheless a signatory to
most of the creationist petitions and lists,
such as the Discovery Institute’s bankrupt A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism and the CMI list of scientists alive today who accept the
biblical account of creation.
Diagnosis: Yet another denialist who
rejects science because of his commitment to religious extremism, but notably
for being among the vanishingly few of those who have a real degree, albeit of
course in a completely unrelated discipline. Not among the loudest or most
flamboyant participants in the anti-science brigade, he still deserves an
entry.
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