Wendell Bird

Wendell R. Bird (born Atlanta, Georgia) is a former staff attorney for the Institute for Creation Research and served as a special assistant attorney general for Louisiana. As a special assistant he defended the state's "equal time" law, which was ruled to be unconstitutional in "Edwards v. Aguillard".cite news | url=http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2006/CA/705_creationist_lawsuit_against_uc_8_10_2006.asp | title=Creationist lawsuit against UC system to proceed |publisher=National Center for Science Education | date=August 10, 2006| first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-04-24]

He graduated Vanderbilt University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1975) and Yale Law School (J.D., 1978). [cite news | url=http://www.birdlawfirm.com/bird.html | title=Attorney Profile: Wendell Bird |publisher=Bird & Associates Law Firm | date=2008| first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-04-24]

He is the author of "The Origin of Species Revisited", [Thomas Nelson (1991). Under the same title Donald R. Forsdyke, "The Origin of Species Revisited: A Victorian Who Anticipated modern Developments in Darwin's Theory" (McGill University Press) 2001, in a historical and scientific re-evaluation of the development of evolutionary biology, discusses the role of George John Romanes in wrestling with the apparent inconsistencies in Darwinian evolution, as they appeared before the understanding of genomics, in which Romanes made a case for a physiological basis to natural selection.] which compares evolution and a version of creationism he called "abrupt appearance." According to the National Center for Science Education, Bird's work contains a variety of falsehoods, errors, and scientific inaccuracy. [cite news | url=http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/6032_analysis_of_the_melvindale_sci_10_30_1998.asp | title=Analysis of the Melvindale Science Curriculum Sub-Committee Book Recommendations |publisher=National Center for Science Education | date=October 30, 1998 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-04-06]

In 2008 Bird served as attorney for Association of Christian Schools International in the case "Association of Christian Schools International et al. v. Roman Stearns et al.". On March 28, 2008 the defendants won a legal victory when their motion for partial summary judgment was granted, and the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment was denied. [cite news | url=http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2008/CA/774_interim_victory_in_california__4_1_2008.asp | title=Interim victory in California creationism case |publisher=National Center for Science Education | date=April 1, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-04-24]

Books

*Wendell R. Bird, "The Origin of Species Revisited: The Theories of Evolution and of Abrupt Appearance." Thomas Nelson Inc (December 1991) ISBN 0840768486
*John W. Whitehead and Wendell R. Bird, "Home Education and Constitutional Liberties: The Historical and Constitutional Arguments in Support of Home Instruction" (The Rutherford Institute report), Good News Pub (June 1984) ISBN 0891073027
*Wendell R. Bird, "Freedom from establishment and unneutrality in public school instruction and religious school regulation," (1979) ASIN: B0007APYFO
*Wendell R. Bird, "Creation-science and evolution-science in public schools: A constitutional defense under the first amendment". (Northern Kentucky University, 1982) ASIN: B00070SHIA

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