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| Nationality |  United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Wales Cranfield Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Intelligent design, biomimetics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical engineering, combustion, thermoacoustics, intelligent design |
| Institutions | University of Leeds |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor 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 discussion 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 principles of thermodynamics contradict the Darwinian theory of evolution. He has since substantiated this with a scientific article published in 2009 referenced below.
The issue at stake is that the second law of thermodynamics concerns entropy increasing in an isolated system. The proponents of evolution insist that because the earth is in an open system (where heat and mass transfer are allowed through the boundary) that entropy could readily decrease in such a system since outside there will be a compensatory overall increase, and that this could lead to the development of the necessary sophistication for living systems. Those scientists arguing against this hypothesis maintain that even in an open system, random energy input will not produce complex and mutually dependent systems required for life without there being an existing or embryonic system there to begin with. A full discussion is in the paper Information And Entropy – Top-down Or Bottom-up Development In Living Systems?
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
- Professor Andy McIntosh, University of Leeds
- University of Leeds press release accessed 12/21/2006
- "Andrew McIntosh". Answers in Genesis. 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
- BBC News "Beetle defence inspires University of Leeds research", BBC News, 9 December 2010
- William Crawley:The Thermodynamics of Andy McIntosh
- "Sunday Sequence with William Crawley". Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. December 10, 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
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- University of Leeds press release accessed 12/21/2006
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