A. E. Wilder-Smith
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Dr. Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915 - 1995), more commonly known as A. E. Wilder-Smith, was a creationist and a chemist, widely recognized by creationists as the pioneer of alternatives to the theory of evolution.
Introduction
Wilder-Smith is author and co-author of over 70 scientific publications and more than 30 books which have been translated into many different languages. He and creationist engineer Edgar Andrews debated biologists Richard Dawkins and John Maynard Smith in the Oxford Union's Huxley Memorial Debate in 1986 where Wilder-Wmith and Andrews lost by 198 votes to 115.
After his death in 1995, Professor Dr. Alma von Stockhausen, Professor at the Gustav-Siewerth-Akademie in Weilheim-Bierbronnen - a small private academy in Germany, which opposes modern natural and social sciences and has strong connections to conservative Catholic organisations like Opus Dei and Engelswerk - had this to say about Wilder-Smith:
“It is to Professor Wilder-Smith that I owe the scientific falsification of evolutionary theory, which had become the scientific concretion of Hegelian dialectics as the alternative to metaphysics and theology. Wilder-Smith was the first and only person to have the courage to refute evolutionary theory as a whole on a principle level. In the meantime there are a number of renowned critics of single aspects of evolutionary theory. But nobody has dared attack or question evolutionary theory as such outside of the narrow confines of their own specialty. This is because no philosopher or scientist has identified and recognized the diabolic perversion of the substitution of principles: development of the spirit out of nature at the expense of individual particularities—instead of the incarnation of the spirit for the redemption of persons enslaved by sin.”
Education
- Studied Natural Sciences at Oxford, England
- Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at University of Reading, England (1941)
- Dr.es.Sc. in pharmacological sciences from Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich
- D.Sc. in pharmacological sciences from University of Geneva (1964)
Bibliography
- 1981 The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution
- 1987 Scientific Alternative to Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
- 1988 He Who Thinks Has To Believe
- 1988 The Creation of Life
- 1990 Why Does God Allow It?
- 1991 Is This a God of Love?
- 1993 Man's Origin/Man's Destiny
- 1993 The Time Dimension
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