Biography:Percival Davis
Bill Davis | |
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| Born | Percival William Davis United States |
| Education | DePauw University (BA) Columbia University (MA) University of South Florida (MS, PhD) |
| Title | Former professor at Hillsborough Community College[1] |
Percival William Davis, also known as Bill Davis,[1] is an American author, young Earth creationist, and intelligent design proponent.[2]
Education and career
Davis graduated from DePauw University with a Bachelor of Arts in zoology in 1958. He then earned a Master of Arts in zoology in 1961 from Columbia University and a master's degree and then his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida in 1993 in instructional technology.[1]
Beginning in 1968, Davis was a professor of Life Science at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida but has since retired.[1][3] Since 2006, he has been a visiting professor of biology at Clearwater Christian College.[1]
Intelligent design
The term "intelligent design" came into general usage following the publishing of the 1989 book Of Pandas and People co-authored by Davis and Dean H. Kenyon.[4] The pair suggested that Darwinism, more than a century old, had outlived its usefulness, primarily because evolution was unable to explain all the biological complexities, which they argue show evidence of an intelligent designer. Davis additionally co-wrote A Case for Creation with Wayne Frair, published by Moody Bible Institute in 1983.
In a November 1994 Wall Street Journal front-page article concerning why he decided to co-author Of Pandas and People, quoted Davis saying "Of course my motives were religious. There's no question about it."[5][6]
Books
- Davis PW. and Frair W. A Case for Creation. 3d. rev. ed. (Chicago: Moody Press, 1983).
- Davis PW., Villee C, Solomon EP. Biology (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1985).
- Davis PW. and Dean H. Kenyon. Of Pandas and People. (Texas: Foundation for Thought and Ethics, 1989, 1993) ISBN 0-914513-40-0
- Davis PW. and Solomon EP. Human Anatomy and Physiology. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1983).
- Davis PW. and Solomon EP. The World of Biology, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 1986.
- Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology (McGraw-Hill)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "P. William Davis". Clearwater Christian College. 2009. http://www.clearwater.edu/academics/undergrad/faculty/WilliamDavis.asp. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ↑ "Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds are well-known young earth creationists in both the CRSC and the ID movement in general, despite Dembski's public attempts to distance ID from them. And there are others: Percival Davis (co-author of Pandas), Nancy Pearcey, Ray Bohlin (his evasiveness notwithstanding), Charles Thaxton..." in Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design. Oxford University Press, 2004. page 275
- ↑ Scott, Eugenie C. (1997). "Antievolution and Creationism in the United States". Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 263–289. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.263.
- ↑ Bennett, Gary L (2008). "A Review of Of Pandas and People as a Textbook Supplement". National Center for Science Education. http://ncse.com/rncse/20/1-2/review-pandas-people-as-textbook-supplement. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ↑ Erik Larson, "Darwinian struggle: instead of evolution, a textbook proposes "intelligent design'." Wall Street Journal, 14 November 1994.
- ↑ "About his reasons for writing 'Pandas', Davis told The Wall Street Journal in 1994: 'Of course my motives were religious. There's no question about it'.""By any other name: intelligent design and evolution". St. Louis Journalism Review. December 1, 2005. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-15671237.html. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
External links
- P. William Davis from Clearwater Christian College
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