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The RATE research group gathered in San Diego for its fifth annual meeting on July 27-28, 2001. Left to Right: Bill Hoesch, Stephen Boyd, Donald DeYoung, Steven Austin, John Baumgardner, Russell Humphreys, Andrew Snelling, Eugene Chaffin, John Morris. Front: Larry Vardiman, Chairman.
The RATE research group gathered in San Diego for its fifth annual meeting on July 27-28, 2001. Left to Right: Bill Hoesch, Stephen Boyd, Donald DeYoung, Steven Austin, John Baumgardner, Russell Humphreys, Andrew Snelling, Eugene Chaffin, John Morris. Front: Larry Vardiman, Chairman.


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The Biography portal is the CreationWiki center for the "Who's Who" in the debate over creation vs. evolution. Relevant biographies would include those actively involved in creationism or evolutionism missions, but also scientists of all sorts, Bible characters, Christian apologists, intelligent design theorists, etc.


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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) attended medical school for two years at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he is currently buried and in 2002 he was honored with a memorial plaque by Edinburgh University [1]. While in school he joined the Plinian Society and attended their scientific debates, which frequently centered upon the merits of scientific investigation stemming from natural causes rather than divine intervention. After dropping out of medical school Darwin turned towards the clergy, and began studying theology. During this time he retained a fascination with nature and spent considerable time collecting species of beetles.[2]...Darwin also postulated that the many millions of species alive today arose from a single common ancestor and lastly that the mechanism responsible for this evolution was natural selection. He furthermore theorized that variation could increase an organism's complexity by slow accumulative changes. He took the position that variations, although random, conferred a survival advantage no matter how small, which increased the chances of an organism reproducing.


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"Astronomer Copernicus: Conversation with God" painted by Jan Matejko (1872).
"Astronomer Copernicus: Conversation with God" painted by Jan Matejko (1872).


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Dr. Duane Gish
Dr. Duane Gish

Duane T. Gish has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkley. He is the Senior Vice-President Emeritus of the Institute for Creation Research, and frequently travels abroad to give seminars and lectures on creation science. Dr. Gish is arguably the foremost debater of creation science in the world.

He spent a total of 18 years in biochemical research; with Cornell University Medical College (NYC), with the Virus Laboratory, U of Cal-Berkley and and on the research staff of the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company (Michigan). Dr. Gish has also published approximately 40 articles in scientific journals.



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"A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe." Astronomer Fred Hoyle. The Intelligent Universe (p.19).



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