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Daniel Brannan, a professor of biology at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX. Brannan received his BS in biology in 1975 from the University of New Mexico graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He earned the MS in microbiology in 1977 from the Ohio State University. In 1981, he received his Ph.D. in microbial ecology and physiology from UNM. He worked as a research scientist for the Procter and Gamble Co. until 1988 and has taught freshmen biology, microbiology, behavioral biology, sociobiology, and biostatistics at ACU since 1988. Brannan has published over thirty scientific papers and chapters in books, and presented over fifty invited lectures, abstracts, and workshops at international and national meetings. He was editor of the first practical handbook establishing microbiology of consumer products as a field of microbiology, Cosmetic Microbiology: A Practical Handbook (currently going into its second edition with CRC Press). His research interests have included microbial ecology of thermophiles, biofilms, resistance mechanisms of bacteria to biocides and preservatives, behavioral ecology of pupfish and agouti, and adoption practices of humans and other animals as self-interested behaviors rather than altruism. |
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Confessions of an Evolutionary Biologist
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Review of Clayton's God and Contemporary Science
"Such an approach reduces God down to ways of human thinking. We have taken
the cat out of the box (i.e., Schroedinger's Cat) and put God in its place
wondering if, when we open the box, whether or not he will be active in the
world... Sure, theoretically, the cat might be dead when we open up the
quantum box but, practically, we will never need quantum veterinarians to
study strange feline deaths. I'm glad Clayton limits his commitment to
quantum chaos to affection... As a practical macro-level notion of God's
agency, quantum chaos is just a dumb idea."
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Review of Delvin Lee Ratzsch's "The Battle of Beginnings: Why neither side is winning the Creation-Evolution Debate"
"We hear from Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Edward Wilson that evolution makes it intellectually gratifying to be an atheist. We then hear from Henry Morris and Philip Johnson on the opposite side of the debate that to buy into any form of evolution makes one a functional atheist. Testing either hypothesis against my own beliefs automatically invalidates both camps' positions. Thus, something must be illogical in the claims of both sides. But what is the basis of these non sequiturs? I never began pinning it down until Ratzsch's 1996 Inter-varsity Press book."
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Review of Delvin Lee Ratzsch's "The Battle of Beginnings: Why neither side is winning the Creation-Evolution Debate"
"We hear from Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Edward Wilson that evolution makes it intellectually gratifying to be an atheist. We then hear from Henry Morris and Philip Johnson on the opposite side of the debate that to buy into any form of evolution makes one a functional atheist. Testing either hypothesis against my own beliefs automatically invalidates both camps' positions. Thus, something must be illogical in the claims of both sides. But what is the basis of these non sequiturs? I never began pinning it down until Ratzsch's 1996 Inter-varsity Press book."
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