Professor Andrew C McIntosh, Creationist
Newsnight just interviewed someone calling himself an “intelligent” designer, “Professor Andy McIntosh”. But who is this “Professor”?
He’s a creationist, someone who thinks the world was created 6,000 years ago. In other words, he doesn’t believe in the processes of science and technology, and therefore presumably has difficulty using computers or flying in planes. He does of course believe in the “Big Sky Daddy”.
A little Google research turns up a variety of creationism links:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22prof+andy+mcintosh%22
- www.bible-sermons.org.uk/preachers/36-Andy-McIntosh
- csm.org.uk/shop/shop.php?author=1 csm = Creation “Science” movement
- www.c-r-t.co.uk/events.htm crt = Creation Resources Trust
- www.evangelical-times.org/articles/dec03/dec03a08.htm
It appears that Mr McIntosh is a “professor” of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory, Fuel and Energy Department at the university of Leeds, that’s according to bible-sermons.org.uk anyhow, and that leads to perhaps a strange former life before he found the Big Sky Daddy as a legit combustion researcher.
I mean, he’s even researched beetle’s self-explosions.
He is a professor. It seems that some universities have low standards, or perhaps no way to get rid of people who have claimed to believe in scientific falsifiablity but who turned out to have tricked them.
Links to the Department of Fuel and Energy (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fuel/fuel.html) now redirect to http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/speme/. Finally amongst the creationist and god-nonsense I found a link to his page here: Professor Andrew C. McIntosh, Creationist.
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