Creationist
Richard “Rick” Smalley (d. 2005) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for
discovering buckyballs. Damian Thompson
claims that no Nobel Prize winners oppose orthodox Darwinism. [1]
Smalley’s
wife said this about her husband,
“I
remember him pacing the bedroom floor in anger saying evolution was bad
science. Rick hated bad science worse
than anything else. He said if he conducted his research the way that they did,
he would never be respected in the scientific community.”
According
to Jerry Bergman,
“Smalley
at first accepted theistic evolution, but as he studied the issue in detail he
became an outspoken anti-Darwinist. … When Smalley realized macro-evolution as
science was fatally flawed, he intended to openly challenge the evolution
establishment, but cancer took his life before he was able to achieve this
goal.”
Notes:
1) Counterknowledge
by Damian Thompson (W.W. Norton, NYC, NY, 2008), p. 38.
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