Paul Chien

Paul Kwan Chien (b 1947) is a Chinese-American biologist known for his research on the physiology and ecology of intertidal organisms and his support for intelligent design and other forms of creationism.cite news | url=http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&isFellow=true&id=52 | title=Paul Chien, Senior Fellow - CSC | publisher=Discovery Institute |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]

Chien was born in 1947 in Hong Kong and earned bachelors degrees in Biology and Chemistry from Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of California at Irvine in the laboratory of marine invertebrate physiologist, Dr. Grover C. Stephens. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Wheeler J. North at the Kerckhoff marine laboratory of the California Institute of Technology in Corona del Mar, California, he joined the faculty of the University of San Francisco in 1973. His research has involved the transport of amino acids and metal ions across cell membranes as well as the detoxification mechanisms of metal ions. [ [http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/fac_staff/C/chien_paul.html Biography] , University of San Francisco. Accessed 20 December, 2007.] Chien is a fellow the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, hub of the intelligent design movement.

Chien is described in the Discovery Institute's Wedge document as leading its "Paleontology Research program", [ [http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html Wedge document] ] in spite of the fact that, by his own admission, he has no credentials in that field. [cite book
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He has translated several scientifically controverial books by intelligent design authors, such as Phillip Johnson's book "Darwin on Trial" and Jonathan Wells' "Icons of Evolution", into Chinese.

elected bibliography

*Chien, Paul K., Su Xiu-Ronga, Lv Zhen-Minga, Li Tai-Wua, Liu Zhi-Ming. 2007. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1278232 "Analysis of isozymes related to energy metabolism of adult "Tegillarca granosa"."] "Chinese Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology" 4: 163-166, Cambridge University Press.

*Chien, Paul, Stephen C. Meyer, Paul Nelson, and Marcus R. Ross. 2004. [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=639 "The Cambrian Explosion: Biology's Big Bang."] In "Darwinism, Design and Public Education" (Michigan State University Press), pp. 323-402. ISBN 0870136755

*Chien, P. K., X. C. Gan, J. Wang, and C. Q. Duan. 1998. [http://www.ambio.kva.se/ "Relocation of civilization centers in ancient China: environmental factors."] "Ambio" (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), 27:572-575.

*Chien, Paul K., Yvonne Chien, and Arthur Furst. 1993. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a785862341~db=all "Worms as a Substitute for Rodents in Toxicology: Acute Toxicity of Three Nickel Compounds."] "Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods", Volume 3, Issue 1 March 1993 , pages 19 - 23.

*Lin, W., M.A. Rice, and P.K. Chien. 1992. The effects of copper, cadmium, and zinc on particle filtration and uptake of glycine in the pacific oyster, "Crassostrea gigas". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 103C:181-187.

*Chien, P.K. and M.A. Rice. 1985. Autoradiographic localization of exogenously supplied amino acids after uptake by the polychaete, "Glycera dibranchiata" Ehlers. Wasmann Journal of Biology 43:60-71.

*Rice, M.A. and P.K. Chien. 1979. Uptake, binding and clearance of divalent cadmium in "Glycera dibranchiata" (Annelida:Polychaeta). Marine Biology 53:33-39.

*Rice, M.A. and P.K. Chien. 1977. The effects if divalent cadmium on the uptake kinetics of glycine by the polychaete, "Neanthes virens". Wasmann Journal of Biology 35:137-143.

*Chien, Paul K. 1970. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/k1l1p84843271146/ "The coelomic elements of sea urchins "(Strongylocentrotus)"."] "Protoplasma Journal", Volume 71, Number 4 / December, 1970.

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External links

* [http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/fac_staff/C/chien_paul.html Faculty homepage]