Percival Davis

Percival William Davis is an American author, a young earth creationist, and activist in the intelligent design movement. ["Paul Nelson and John Mark Reynolds are well-known young earth creationists in both the CRSC and the ID movement in general, despite Dembski's public attempts to distance ID from them. And there are others: Percival Davis (co-author of "Pandas"), Nancy Pearcey, Ray Bohlin (his evasiveness notwithstanding), Charles Thaxton..." in Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. "". Oxford University Press, 2004. page 275]

Davis received a bachelor of arts in zoology from DePauw University, master of arts in zoology from Columbia University, Master's degrees from Columbia University and the University of South Florida, and holds a PhD from the University of South Florida in Instructional Design. He was a professor of Life Science at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida beginning in 1968. [cite news | url=http://www.links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570(1997)2%3A26%3C263%3AAACITU%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9 | title=Antievolution and Creationism in the United States |publisher=Annual Review of Anthropology | date=1997 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-04-06] Davis is married with three children and two grandchildren.

Intelligent design advocacy

The term "intelligent design" came into general usage following the publishing of a 1989 book called "Of Pandas and People" co-authored by Davis and Dean H. Kenyon. The pair suggested that Darwinism, more than a century old, had outlived its usefulness, primarily because evolution was unable to explain all the biological complexities, which they argue show evidence of an intelligent designer. Davis additionally co-wrote "Case for Creation," with Wayne Frair, published through Chicago's Moody Bible Institute in 1983.

In a November 14, 1994 "Wall Street Journal" front page article concerning "Of Pandas and People", Davis is attributed with saying "Of course my motives were religious. There's no question about it."Fact|date=April 2008 However, contrary to what may have been implied in the Wall Street Journal article, Davis stated during a July 2007 interview that he has never granted an interview to the Wall Street Journal.

Also in July 2007, Davis revealed that he has never received any money from "Of Pandas and People", nor has he received any monies from anything related to the book.Fact|date=April 2008

Books

*Davis PW. and Frair W. "A Case for Creation." 3d. rev. ed. (Chicago: Moody Press, 1983).
*Davis PW., Villee C, Solomon EP. "Biology" (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1985).
*Davis PW. and Dean H. Kenyon. "Of Pandas and People". (Texas: Foundation for Thought and Ethics, 1989, 1993) ISBN 0-914513-40-0
*Davis PW. and Solomon EP. "Human Anatomy and Physiology." (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1983).
*Davis PW. and Solomon EP. "The World of Biology", 3rd Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 1986.
* "Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology" (McGraw-Hill)

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