A YouTube video by a fundamentalist loon?
Meyer graduated
Cum Laude in 1981 with a
B.S. degree double major in
Physics and
Earth Science and a minor in
Philosophy from Whitworth College.[1] After graduating, he worked as a
geophysicist for the
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)[7] for four years in digital signal processing and seismic survey interpretation
[1] and received the ARCO
Civic Action Program Leadership Award
[1] in 1984.
In 1986 he received a
Rotary International Scholarship Award to study at
Cambridge University in the United Kingdom where he earned a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science in 1991.
[2] Areas of focus included the history of molecular biology, the history of physics, and evolutionary theory.
[1] Meyer's
dissertation was entitled
Of clues and causes: A methodological interpretation of origin of life studies.
[2]
After completing his
PhD program at Cambridge, Meyer taught on the philosophy of science at Whitworth University as an
Associate Professor of Philosophy for twelve years (1990-2002) and was tenured in 1996.
[1][8] He also taught as a
university professor (2002-2005) at
Palm Beach Atlantic University.
[2] He left his tenured position as a professor at Whitworth in 2002 to direct the Center for Science and Culture full time, which he had helped found with John West in 1996.
[3]
You're a bit confused regarding your YouTube video. Hit the start button and you'll see it was produced by Carl Gallups. Oops.
Encyclopedia of American Loons: Search results for Carl gallups
PPSIMMONS is – or rather was, since it was closed in April 2012 due to repeated copyright infringements – an absolutely insane Youtube channel whose main contributor is legendary
internet kook Pastor Carl Gallups. Gallups’s contributions (and website) are generally devoted to young earth creationism and Biblical literalism. To emphasize how out of touch with sanity they are they also have segments about the nefarious influence of Satan and witches, as well as birtherism (Obama is also the anti-Christ, which would presumably entail that he is not a citizen) and global warming denialism (AGW is a “profit-driven scam,” though it is always a little unclear who, exactly, profits from it).
One of Gallups’s main arguments for creationism is that
all scientists recognize design, and since they recognize design in nature, young earth creationism is true and there
really is no theory of evolution (duh!). As is typical of crackpots, all critical comments to any of their material are quickly erased and the author blocked from further comments. Gallups is also a supporter of the
Question Evolution campaign.
Some of his arguments are presented in his book
The Magic Man in the Sky, which was duly
pimped by the WND. The basic idea is that there’s a world of difference between someone declaring a momentary truth, and the actual “true truth,” and he argues forcefully that scientists “throughout history have a
less-than-stellar trackrecord of accuracy,” and therefore religion (i.e. Gallups) is correct. Among his convincing examples is his idea (false, as it happens) that people back in the days generally believed that the Earth was flat and “held up at the four corners by giant elephants.” Of course, he fails to notice that such and similar ideas were hardly adopted on the bases of
scientific inquiry but rather issued by the dogma of various religions. But you know. Apparently WND was so convinced that they have later
returned to Gallups as an expert on evolution, for instance to comment on the perceived fact that the theory of evolution is about to collapse.
He does have
some novel arguments though there is a reason why they haven’t been used before.
Diagnosis: More exasperatingly idiotic mindfuckery, though Gallups is unsurprisingly a hero of WND and Conservapedia – in short, he seems to have some impact among those who are already completely lost to reason and accountability.
