The Pedigree of Creationism

When someone considers the public debate between Creationism (Intelligent Design theory) versus Evolutionism (molecules-to-man/random chance theory), it’s easy to get the impression that only fringe-element Christians and layman believe in God, or acknowledge there could even be a God. That is due to the overwhelming and well documented bias present in the vast majority of educational institutions around the world. However, on closer look a seeker of truth begins to see a far different picture entirely.

When someone talks about a pedigree they are referring to the history, lineage and qualifications associated with the person or object being examined. We need to study the pedigrees of those people actively involved in the discussion, and to be fair we need to concentrate on those who espouse (or at least acknowledge the possibility of) Creationist thinking.

The Pedigree of Creationism will help bring clarification to the validity of those claiming a tendency to believe for Creationism (i.e. an Intelligent Design origin for life) and – by default – against Evolutionism (i.e. a molecules-to-man/random chance origin for life). This is a very short list of some of those people who have espoused a disinclination to believe in random chance as a viable theory for the origin of life. Some of these people are agnostics, some are deists, some are theists and many of them are outright Christians.

 Denis Alexander – a molecular biologist who is the Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

R. J. “Sam” Berry – a geneticist who was professor of genetics at University College, London.

Jun-Yuan Chen – an evolutionary biologist at the University of Nanjing, China. He also is a Paleontologist at Nanjing Institute of Paleontology and Geology of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Francis Collins – a physician-geneticist and a leader of the international Human Genome Project, who is also the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Paul Davies – an English astrobiologist, a cosmologist, a physicist and the director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.

Guillermo Gonzalez – is an astrophysicist and assistant professor at Ball State University, IN.

Sir Brian Heap – is the European Academies Science Advisory Council president, and is also a research associate at the Center for Development Studies, Cambridge.

Sir John Houghton – is the chairman of the John Ray Initiative, an organization dedicated to “connecting Environment, Science and Christianity.”

Sir Fred Hoyle – a British astronomer, mathematician and scientist who coined the term Big-Bang theory, as well as a promoter of the steady-state theory of the universe.

John C. Lennox – a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University.

Alister McGrath – has earned three Doctorates from Oxford University; Molecular Biophysics, Theology and Intellectual History.

Simon Conway Morris – an English paleontologist and Chair of Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Earth Sciences Department at Cambridge University.

Sir Roger Penrose – is a mathematical physicist and philosopher of science. He is also the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

Arno Penzias – is a physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel Prize Laureate.

John Polkinghorne – a mathematical and theoretical physicist, who is also an ordained Anglican priest.

Sir Ghillean Prance – a well-published botanist and ecologist.

Jay W. Richards – author and philosopher.

Allan Sandage – an astronomer and Emeritus staff member of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena.

Richard Swinburne – a philosopher of religion and science and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

Charles Townes – an educator and physicist noted for his work with masers and quantum electronics.

Keith Ward – a theologian and philosopher of religion and Christian theology.

Robert “Bob” White – is a Professor of Geophysics at Cambridge University.

The next time someone tries to tell you that no real scientist believes in Creationism, please point them to this article.