Robert T. Pennock

rdf:langString Robert T. Pennock

rdf:langString Robert T. Pennock

rdf:langString Robert T. Pennock

rdf:langString Outstanding Service Award * Friend of Darwin Award * Templeton Science & Religion Course Award and Templeton Prize for Exemplary Paper in Theology and the Natural Sciences * Election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science * Lifetime member of the National Research Council of the United States National Academy of Sciences

rdf:langString Philosophy of science, evolution, criticisms of creationism

rdf:langString Witness at Kitzmiller v. Dover

rdf:langString American

rdf:langString Robert T. Pennock is a philosopher working on the Avida digital organism project at Michigan State University where he has been full professor since 2000. Pennock was a witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs, and described how intelligent design is an updated form of creationism and not science, pointing out that the arguments were essentially the same as traditional creationist arguments with adjustments to the message to eliminate explicit mention of God and the Bible as well as adopting a postmodern deconstructionist language. Pennock also laid out the philosophical history of methodological and philosophical naturalism as they underpin to science, and explained that if intelligent design were truly embraced it would return Western civilization to a pre-Enlightenment state.