Scott Minnich
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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 Yersinia enterocolitica gene expression and coordinate reciprocal expression of flagellar and virulence genes.[1]
[edit] Biography
Minnich is a proponent of intelligent design, and supports Michael Behe's controversial [2] thesis that what is called "irreducible complexity" in bacterial flagella provides evidence of intelligent design.[3] 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.[4]
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".[5] The Discovery Institute lists this as one of its "Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design".[6] However, in his testimony for Kitzmiller v. Dover, Minnich admitted that the paper was minimally peer reviewed :[7]
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.
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.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Homepage, University of Idaho website, accessed 22 October 2006
- ^ Background to "Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum", N. J. Matzke, September 2006, accessed 22 October 2006
- ^ Promotional page for "Bacterial Flagella: A Paradigm for Design", Scott A. Minnich, accessed 22 October 2006
- ^ Testimony of Scott Minnich, Kitzmiller v. Dover
- ^ Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits
- ^ Peer Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design (Annotated), Discovery Institute
- ^ Day 21 (November 4), AM Session, Part 1, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial transcript, accessed 22 October 2006
- ^ Discovery Institute biography, accessed 22 October 2006
