Casey Luskin

Casey Luskin

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Casey Luskin is an American author and prominent promoter of intelligent design who is the Program Officer in Public Policy & Legal Affairs for the Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute.cite news | url=http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&isFellow=true&id=188 | title=Casey Luskin, Staff - Discovery Institute
publisher=Center for Science and Culture |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-07-17
] Additionally he co-founded the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center, which promotes ID on college and high school campuses across the country.

Luskin has a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Sciences from University of California, San Diego and earned a Law Degree is from the University of San Diego.

He has helped promote the Academic Freedom bills in Florida [cite news | url=http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/18/na-let-there-be-open-debate-over-evolution/ | title=Let There Be Open Debate Over Evolution | publisher=The Tampa Tribune |date= February 18, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-07-16] alongside Ben Stein. [cite news | url=http://www.discovery.org/a/4516| title=Prepared Remarks by Casey Luskin, Discovery Institute, for Press Conference on Florida Academic Freedom Act | publisher=Center for Science and Culture |date= March 12, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] Luskin also writes for the DI's blog, offering critiques of evolution, which have been met with criticism. [cite news | url=http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/wells/luskin.html | title=Response to Casey Luskin | publisher=talk.origins |date= March 10, 2002 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] [cite news | url=http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/i_guess_eponymous_wasnt_on_the.php | title=I guess ‘eponymous’ wasn't on the LSAT | publisher=Pharyngula (blog) |date= July 14, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-07-15] [cite news | url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/07/14/746/ | title=Missing The Wrist | publisher=Discover (magazine) |date= July 14, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-07-18]

Journal publications

*David K. DeWolf, John G. West, Casey Luskin, and Jonathan Witt, "Traipsing Into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller v. Dover Trial" (Discovery Institute Press, 2006).
* Casey Luskin, "Alternative Viewpoints about Biological Origins as Taught in Public Schools," "Journal of Church and State" (Summer, 2005).
*Lisa Tauxe, Casey Luskin, Peter Selkin, Phillip Gans, and Andy Calvert, “Paleomagnetic results from the Snake River Plain: Contribution to the time-averaged field global database,” "Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems" (G3), 5(8) (August, 2004).

References

External links

* [http://www.caseyluskin.com/ www.caseyluskin.com]
* [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&isFellow=true&id=188 Biography] from the Discovery Institute


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