Bruce Grant

Professor Bruce S. Grant is emeritus professor of biology at the College of William and Mary. He has a particular research interest in the peppered moth. [cite news | url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/297/5583/940?ijkey=3Yam%2FBuhfWbGQ | title=Sour Grapes of Wrath: A review by Bruce S. Grant | publisher=Science (journal) |date= August 2002: Vol. 297. no. 5583, pp. 940 - 941 | first=Bruce | last= Grant | accessdate =2007-05-17] He is a defender of the teaching of evolution and has criticized creationist Jonathan Wells, who has cited his work, as "dishonest." [cite news | url=http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/Moths/grant-pratt-tribune.html | title=LETTER: Charges of fraud misleading | publisher=Pratt Tribune |date= December 13, 2000 | first=Bruce | last= Grant | accessdate =2007-05-17]

Grant has a B.S. in Biology from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 1964, an M.S. in Genetics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh in 1968. [cite news | url=http://bsgran.people.wm.edu/| title=Bruce Grant | publisher=College of William and Mary |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]

[http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/171/3/867 An article] on his contributions in research, teaching, and mentoring was published in 2005 in Genetics (journal).

Views

In a review of "", Grant wrote:

:Neo-creationists imitate Paley’s designed-watch metaphor and peddle it like a Hong Kong Rolex, insisting it is authentic science and not religion. But of course it is religion: the intelligence in Intelligent Design demands the existence of a supernatural force or agent, so we might as well call that agent God, for short. [http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-06-01.html]

References

External links

* [http://faculty.wm.edu/bsgran/ Official page]