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John Corrigan "Jonathan" Wells, PhD., is a biologist with dual degrees in theology (Wells is a member of the Unification Church) and Molecular and Cell Biology. He is most known for his support of Intelligent Design theory.

After graduating the Unification Theological Seminary in 1978, Well earned for two doctorates - one in theology at Yale University and the other in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Wells is a Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.

In 2001, Wells wrote the book Icons of Evolution discussing ten examples of fraud in the promotion and teaching of the theory of evolution. The book has caused a storm of debate with in the scientific community. For a list of critiques and Well's responses, see Icons of Evolution.

Quotes

• "Empirical science requires theories, somehow and at some point, to be compared with evidence. Prudence will dictate that theories long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. But when a long train of exaggerations and distortions evinces a desire to promote an idea regardless of the evidence, then it is our right, it is our duty, to criticize that idea as a philosophical doctrine rather than a scientific theory."

• "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

• Discovery Institute biography
• articles by Wells
• New Mexicans for Science and Reason debate Jonathan Wells
• ARN page with essays
• The Words of the Wells Family
• Talk Origins on Wells
• The antievolutionists - Wells

• Intelligent design
• Unification Church