Scott Minnich

Scott A. Minnich is an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Idaho, and a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. Minnich's research interests are temperature regulation of "Yestis enterocolitca" gene expression and coordinate reciprocal expression of flagellar and virulence genes. [ [http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/mmbb/p_minnich_s.htm Scott Minnich's page] , University of Idaho website, accessed 22 October 2006]

Minnich is a proponent of intelligent design, and supports Michael Behe's controversial [ [http://www.talkdesign.org/faqs/flagellum_background.html Background to "Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum"] , N. J. Matzke, September 2006, accessed 22 October 2006] thesis that what is called "irreducible complexity" in bacterial flagella provides evidence of intelligent design. [ [http://www.apologetics.org/products_bacterialflagella_video.htm Promotional page for "Bacterial Flagella: A Paradigm for Design"] , Scott A. Minnich, accessed 22 October 2006] Minnich testified in favor of the defendants in "Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District", a 2005 federal court case regarding the teaching of intelligent design at the high school level. [ [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day20pm.html#day20pm30 Testimony of Scott Minnich, Kitzmiller v. Dover] ]

In 2004 Minnich and Stephen C. Meyer presented a paper to an engineering conference, the Second International Conference on Design & Nature, entitled "Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits". [ [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2181 Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits] ] The Discovery Institute lists this as one of its "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design" [ [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2640 Peer Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated)] , Discovery Institute] . However, in his testimony for "Kitzmiller v. Dover", Minnich admitted that the paper was minimally peer reviewed : [ [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dover/day21am.html#day21am62 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Trial transcript: Day 21 (November 4), AM Session, Part 1] , TalkOrigins archive, accessed 22 October 2006]

Q: And the paper that you published was only minimally peer reviewed, isn't that true? A. For any conference proceeding, yeah. You don't go through the same rigor. I mentioned that yesterday. But it was reviewed by people in the Wessex Institute, and I don't know who they were.

Minnich has also been involved in research regarding the Shroud of Turin. [ [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43062 Surprising new study on Shroud of Turin : Simple technique could have been used to produce image] , WorldNetDaily, Aaron Rench, 26 February, 2005, accessed 22 October 2006] In 2004 he served as a member of the Iraq Survey Group, which looked for evidence of biological warfare preparations by Saddam Hussein's regime. [ [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=90&isFellow=true Discovery Institute biography] , accessed 22 October 2006]

Minnich previously served as assistant professor at Tulane University. He received his Ph.D. at Iowa State University, and conducted postdoctoral work at Princeton University and Purdue University.

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* [http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/mmbb/minnich.asp Homepage at the University of Idaho]
* [http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=90&isFellow=true Discovery Institute biography]
* [http://www.iscid.org/scott-minnich.php ISCID page]