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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.

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

• 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