Dean Kenyon | |
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Born | 1939 (age 84–85) United States |
Education | University of Chicago (BS) Stanford University (PhD) |
Title | Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biophysics |
Institutions | San Francisco State University |
Dean H. Kenyon (born c. 1939) is an American biophysicist who is Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University, a young Earth creationist, and one of the founders of the intelligent design movement. He is the author of Biochemical Predestination.
He became a creationist around 1976, and gave testimony defending creation science at the McLean v. Arkansas and Edwards v. Aguillard court cases. During the latter case, he co-authored the creation science supplementary textbook Of Pandas and People. The case decision went against teaching creation science in public schools, and the authors then altered all references to creationism to refer to intelligent design before the book was published in 1989. He subsequently became a Fellow of the Discovery Institute, and continued to endorse young Earth creationism.