Nick Matzke

Nicholas J. Matzke is the former Public Information Project Director at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and served an instrumental role in NCSE's preparation for the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial.^[1] One of his chief contributions was discovering drafts of Of Pandas and People which demonstrated that the term "intelligent design" was later substituted for "creationism". This became a key component of Barbara Forrest's testimony.^[2][3] After the trial he co-authored a commentary in Nature Immunology,^[4][5] was interviewed on Talk of the Nation,^[6] and was profiled in Seed magazine as one of nine "revolutionary minds".^[7]

Matzke has written many in-depth pieces and has made frequent posts online, including regularly blogging at The Panda's Thumb. He wrote a lengthy paper about the evolution of flagella^[8] and has challenged intelligent design claims that flagella are irreducibly complex.^[9][10][11] He co-authored a critique of Stephen C. Meyer's paper that became important in the Sternberg peer review controversy.^[12][13] He also critiqued Jonathan Wells' book Icons of Evolution^[14] and contributed to NCSE's book Not in Our Classrooms.^[15] Less seriously, he co-authored a research parody based on NCSE's Project Steve.^[16] He first made a name for himself posting on talk.origins as "Nic Tamzek".

He is currently a doctoral student in evolutionary biology at the University of California, Berkeley.^[17]

References

1. ^ "Farewell, Nick". National Center for Science Education. 2007-08-20. http://ncse.com/news/2007/08/farewell-nick-001171. Retrieved 2007-08-26. 
2. ^ testimony of Barbara Forrest, Kitzmiller v. Dover
3. ^ I guess ID really was “Creationism’s Trojan Horse” after all, Panda's Thumb
4. ^ Andrea Bottaro, Matt Inlay and Nick Matzke (2006). "Immunology in the spotlight at the Dover 'Intelligent Design' trial". Nature Immunology 7 (5): 433–435. doi:10.1038/ni0506-433. PMID 16622425. http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v7/n5/abs/ni0506-433.html. 
5. ^ PT posters in Nature Immunology, The Panda's Thumb
6. ^ "Science, Intelligent Design and a 'Flock of Dodos'". Talk of the Nation. February 23, 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7574441. Retrieved 2008-08-17. 
7. ^ Seed Magazine — “Nick Matzke, Legal Beagle” The Panda's Thumb
8. ^ Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum
9. ^ Background to "Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum" (2003)
10. ^ Flagellum evolution in Nature Reviews Microbiology, The Panda's Thumb.
11. ^ Mark J. Pallen and Nicholas J. Matzke (2006). "From The Origin of Species to the origin of bacterial flagella". Nature Reviews Microbiology 4 (10): 784–790. doi:10.1038/nrmicro1493. PMID 16953248. http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/pdf/Pallen_Matzke.pdf. 
12. ^ Meyer's Hopeless Monster, The Panda's Thumb
13. ^ Creationism's Holy Grail: The Intelligent Design of a Peer-Reviewed Paper, Robert Weitzel, Skeptic, Vol. 11, Number 4, pp. 66-69
14. ^ Icon of Obfuscation: Jonathan Wells' book Icons of Evolution and why most of what it teaches about evolution is wrong, Nick Matzke, TalkOrigins Archive
15. ^ Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools edited by Eugenie C. Scott and Glenn Branch ISBN 0-8070-3278-6 http://www.ncse.com/nioc/
16. ^ Eugenie C. Scott, Glenn Branch and Nick Matzke (2004). "The Morphology of Steve". Annals of Improbable Research 10 (4): 24–29. doi:10.3142/107951404781540554. http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume10/v10i4/morph-steve-10-4.pdf. 
17. ^ "Nicholas J Matzke - Graduate Student". 2009-11-06. http://ib.berkeley.edu/people/students/person_detail.php?person=370. 

Persondata
Name	Matzke, Nick
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death