Dr. David A. DeWitt, a neuroscientist with some background
in biochemistry, is nevertheless on CMI’s list of scientists who accept a Biblical account of creation.
Those who suspect a modicum of compartmentalization, dishonesty, and
self-delusion are thus in for some easy predictions. DeWitt is a frequent
contributor to Answers in Genesis, and responsible for a lot of AiG’s most
egregious bullshit on evolution. He has also had some publications in Answers
in Genesis’s House Journal, Answers,
and his work has been used as a source in Ray Comfort’s legendary “Evolution: A Fairy-Tale for Grownups”,
which is not something good people would mention on their CVs.
So where do you take your career when you have a real degree
but no real understanding of the method of the field in which you have your
degree? Yes, DeWitt is no less than the Director of the Center for Creation
Studies at Falwell’s Liberty University,
and teaches their mandatory “creation studies” course. You can see a report
from an “advanced section” of his class (for biology majors) here,
where he uses the movie “March of the Penguins” to illustrate that the penguins
that get eaten are the ones who are unlucky (or, more likely, evil), not the
ones who are less adapted. Hence evolution is false. Duh.
His book, Unraveling
the Origins Controversy, is reviewed here.
The reviewer (Rosenhouse) had to take issue with some examples of quote-mining,
dishonesty, and distortions. Who would have suspected.
DeWitt and one Jed Macosko were also biological advisors to
the free webgame CellCraft, and it
sort of shows, in a rather subversive manner.
He was also credited in Frank Peretti’s novel Monster,
which really tells you all you need to know.
Diagnosis: Standard, zealous fuckwit, responsible for
churning out shitloads of ignorant addleheads through his classes at Liberty U,
and hence a significant negative force in the world these days.
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