Name a young earth creationist with a MA in Geology and PhD in Paleontology from Harvard?

Question

He worked under Stephen Jay Gould.

nondescript: Wouldn't we all be rich if we had a penny every time Dawkins failed to write on science and instead produced an ad hominem. Thanks.

Answer 1

Kurt P. Wise

Answer 2

Exerpt from Dawkins' new book, "The God Delusion":
Wise could have fulfilled his boyhood ambition to become a professor of geology at a real university, a university whose motto might have been 'Think Critically' rather than the oxymoronic one displayed on the Bryan website: 'Think critically and biblically'. Indeed, he obtained a real degree in geology at the University of Chicago, followed by two higher degrees in geology and paleontology at Harvard (no less) where he studied under Stephen Jay Gould (no less). He was a highly qualified and genuinely promising young scientist, well on his way to achieving his dream of teaching science and doing research at a proper university.
Then tragedy struck. It came, not from outside but from within his own mind, a mind fatally subverted and weakened by a fundamentalist religious upbringing that required him to believe that the Eart - the subject of his Chicago and Harvard geological education - was less than ten thousand years old. He was too intelligent not to recognize the head-on collision between his religion and his science, and the conflict in his mind made him increasingly uneasy. One day, he could bear the strain no more, and he clinched the matter with a pair of scissors. He took a bible and went right through it, literally cutting out every verse that would have to go if the scientific world-view were true. At the end of this ruthlessly honest and labour-intensive exercise, there was so little left of his Bible that, (quoting Wise) "try as I might, and even with the benefit of intact margins throughout the pages of Scripture, I found it impossible to pick up the Bible without it being rent in two. I had to make a decision between evolution and Scripture. ... It was there that night that I accepted the Word of God and rejected all that would ever counter it, including evolution."

It's another sad story about religious brainwashing removing another fine mind from the scientific community.

Answer 3

I don't think you're being fair when you criticize Dawkins. He is quoting the man directly. The damning parts of that excerpt are Wise's own admission of closed-mindedness. Further, what good is a degree in a field that you've actively chosen to ignore all that you have learned?

Answer 4

Jeffery b ingesting the 3rd junior