Darrel R. Falk

Darrel R. Falk
Born	1946 USA
Occupation	Professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene University
Known for	Author and Biologist
Religion	Christian

Darrel R. Falk (born 1946) is professor of biology at Point Loma Nazarene University in Point Loma, California.

Education

Falk attended Simon Fraser University, originally planning on becoming an M.D. eventually. In his second university semester, he signed up for Introduction to Biology, Genetics, and Developmental Biology. Falk graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.^[1] He then completed his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 1973.^[1]

Career and research

He did post-doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia (1973-74) and at the University of California at Irvine, California (1974-76).^[1] He was an Assistant/Associate Professor at Syracuse University from 1976 to 1984. Then a professor at Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Ohio from 1984 to 1988. Since 1988, he has been a professor and the Department Chair at Point Loma Nazarene University.

His research interests have included molecular genetics of Drosophila melanogaster, organization of genes; mechanism of repair of chromosome breaks and molecular changes in the Notch gene in various species of Drosophila; and the use of gene cloning technology to characterize damaged chromosomes at the molecular level and PCR and DNA sequencing to compare homologous gene sequences in different species of Drosophila.

He has also authored a book on the creation-evolution controversy titled Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology (InterVarsity Press, 2004), with a foreword by Dr. Francis S. Collins.

He is also the director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute outreach program and Executive Director of The BioLogos Foundation. Falk is a Christian and believes in evolutionary creation or theistic evolution or BioLogos.^{[citation needed]} He has been critical of the intelligent design movement, which he says is a philosophical/religious movement and not a scientific one.^[2]

Publications

• Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology (InterVarsity Press, 2004)
• Affirming: The Brightening Lamp (with Arthur F. Seamans) (Point Loma Press, 2002) ISBN 0965269868

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Darrel R. Falk". Point Loma Nazarene University. 2009. http://www.pointloma.edu/page2934.aspx. Retrieved 2009-12-28. 
2. ^ Falk, Darrel (December 28, 2009). "Science & the Sacred » Signature in the Cell". BioLogos Foundation. http://biologos.org/blog/signature-in-the-cell/. Retrieved 2009-12-28. 

External links

• Dr. Darrel Falk at Point Loma Nazarene University
• One man’s odyssey to reconcile belief and biology Falk tells his journey to find acceptance as a Christian evolutionist. Science & Theology News.
• Works by or about Darrel R. Falk in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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