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John Corrigan "Jonathan" Wells, PhD., is a theologian in the Unification Church devoted to "destroying Darwinism" .

After graduating the Unification Theological Seminary in 1978, he went for two doctorates - one in theology at Yale University and the other in biochemistry and became a Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture.

His book Icons of Evolution purports to uncover ten examples of fraud in the promotion and teaching of the theory of evolution, a claim thoroughly refuted in an analysis carried out at the behest of the National Center for Science Education and derided in the reviews of biologists .

Quotes

• "Father's words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism, just as many of my fellow Unificationists had already devoted their lives to destroying Marxism." (Words of the Wells Family)

• "As a graduate student at Yale, I studied the whole of Christian theology but focused my attention on the Darwinian controversies. I wanted to get to the root of the conflict between Darwinian evolution and Christian doctrine. In the course of my research I learned (to my surprise) that biblical chronology played almost no role in the 19th-century controversies, since most theologians had already accepted geological evidence for the age of the earth and re-interpreted the days in Genesis as long periods of time. Instead, the central issue was design." (ibid)

• "All the peppered moth pictures were staged ... Scientists have known since the 1980s that the moths do not normally rest on tree trunks."

External links

• NMSR Debates Intelligent Design proponent Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute
• ARN page with essays
• The Words of the Wells Family
• Talk Origins on Wells
• The antievolutionists - Wells
• Discovery Institute biography
• articles by Wells

• Intelligent design
• Unification Church