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Andrew McIntosh
Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory
BSc, PhD, DSc, FIMA, CMath, FInstE, CEng, FInstP, MIGEM, FRAeS
Nationality United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Wales
Cranfield Institute of Technology
Known forIntelligent design, biomimetics
Scientific career
FieldsChemical engineering, combustion, thermoacoustics, intelligent design
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
Doctoral advisorProfessor J.F. Clarke

Andrew McIntosh is Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at the University of Leeds. His primary area of notability, however, comes from an area unconnected with his professional qualifications and career: McIntosh disagrees with the scientific consensus on biological evolution and is a young earth creationist.

Biography

McIntosh's research group at University of Leeds has developed a new technology known as µMist which is based on the gaseous "cannon" of the bombardier beetle. In December 2010, this work received the outstanding contribution to innovation and technology title at the Times Higher Education awards in London.

In a debate with Richard Dawkins on BBC Radio Ulster, McIntosh stated his belief that the world was 6000 years old, that marine trilobites were made extinct by Noah's flood and that the Second Law of Thermodynamics contradicts the Darwinian theory of evolution.

McIntosh is on the board of directors of Truth in Science, an organisation which promotes the teaching of intelligent design in British schools. In November 2006, the University of Leeds issued a statement distancing itself from creationism, and noted that McIntosh's directorship of Truth in Science is unconnected with his teaching or research.

Books

  • Genesis for Today: Showing the Relevance of the Creation/Evolution Debate to Today's Society (foreword by Ken Ham) (Day One Publications, 2000) ISBN 9781903087152

References

  1. Professor Andy McIntosh, University of Leeds
  2. University of Leeds press release accessed 12/21/2006
  3. "Andrew McIntosh". Answers in Genesis. 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
  4. BBC News "Beetle defence inspires University of Leeds research", BBC News, 9 December 2010
  5. William Crawley:The Thermodynamics of Andy McIntosh
  6. "Sunday Sequence with William Crawley". Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. December 10, 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
  7. University of Leeds press release accessed 12/21/2006

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