RE: Do any 'leading/accomplished' scientists support young earth theory?
June 18, 2012 at 12:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2012 at 12:41 pm by Anomalocaris.)
If you want a rather high standard of "accomplished/leading" in scientists who also happen to be young earth creationists, try Raymond Demadian. He is the inventor of the MRI, winner of a number of prestigious awards such Lemelson MIT award and national technology medal, and sufficiently accomplished in applied physics to have been nominated for the Nobel prize in physics itself. His nomination had enough merit such that it was endorsed by several Nobel prize winning physicists, including Steven Weinberg, author of the standard model of particle physics and probably the most infleuential physicist after Einstein; and CN Yang, the author of guage field theory and Yang Mills equation, instrumental to modern string theory.
Indeed the fact that he was not awarded the Nobel prize for his seminal work related to the MRI, while his collaborators Mansfield and Lauterbur, was, leD to one of the biggest controversies in Nobel prize selection process in recent years. It was said the Nobel committee cannot OBJECTIVELY judge the actual value of a scientist's work if he also happen to be an out spoken creationist in his spare time.
In his further defense, although he thought his exclusion from the mansfield lauterbur award was grossly unfair, and others have argued Nobel committee ought to recognize outstanding work in one field even if the worker had silly ideas in another, damadian himself never attributed the action of the committe to antagonism generated by his creationism.
Indeed the fact that he was not awarded the Nobel prize for his seminal work related to the MRI, while his collaborators Mansfield and Lauterbur, was, leD to one of the biggest controversies in Nobel prize selection process in recent years. It was said the Nobel committee cannot OBJECTIVELY judge the actual value of a scientist's work if he also happen to be an out spoken creationist in his spare time.
In his further defense, although he thought his exclusion from the mansfield lauterbur award was grossly unfair, and others have argued Nobel committee ought to recognize outstanding work in one field even if the worker had silly ideas in another, damadian himself never attributed the action of the committe to antagonism generated by his creationism.
