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	Jonathan Wells and Darwin's Finches
		Wells does not like this extrapolation, because he notes that in the case of the Daphne Major population, the rains returned, and a reversal of beak size over time was observed.In fact, the climate seems to oscillate between drought and plenty of rain, creating a kind of equilibrium.
		Wells knows this, because he cites the paper where this is discussed in his research notes (Grant PR and Grant BR, "Genetics and the origin of bird species", 1997, PNAS 94, 7768-7795).
		Wells does not dwell on the Grants' argument concerning the factors which contribute to the origin and reinforcement of these prezygotic mechanisms, but this argument is the crux of their work.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/wells/finches.html (2241 words)

	Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution - Review by J. Coyne
		To compound the absurdity, Wells concludes that a cabal of evil scientists, "the Darwinian establishment", uses fraud and distortion to buttress the crumbling edifice of evolution.
		Wells tries to refute this mountain of work by noting that, in 1891, the German biologist Ernst Haeckel published illustrations of vertebrate embryos that exaggerated their similarity, and that some biology textbooks still display these doctored drawings.
		Wells repeatedly fails to grasp the evidential value of phenomena that can be understood only as the result of a historical process, even if the results were not predictable.
	chem.tufts.edu /AnswersInScience/Coyne-IconsReview.htm (1223 words)

	The War Room: Jonathan Wells, RB
		Wells has a good handle on the football, so it will be tough make the man fumble, too.
		Wells finished his college career on a high note, scoring 16 touchdowns and averaging 5.2 yards per carry.
		Areas of concern: Wells is not the second coming of Eddie George, a former Houston selection out of Ohio State; in fact, Wells was a disappointment in his first three collegiate seasons, waiting to blossom as a senior.
	www.houstonprofootball.com /draft/2002/picks/wells.html (325 words)

	Introduction
		According to Wells, the "icons" are the Miller-Urey experiment, Darwin's tree of life, the homology of the vertebrate limbs, Haeckel's embryos, Archaeopteryx, the peppered moths, and "Darwin's" finches.
		Wells says: "Students and the public are being systematically misinformed about the evidence for evolution" through biology textbooks (Wells 2000: xii).
		The textbooks covered by Wells are examined as well, along with the grading criteria (given in the appendix of Icons (Wells, 2000) and on the Discovery Institute's website) that he used to assess their accuracy.
	www.ncseweb.org /icons (918 words)

	Icons Still Standing-Jonathan Wells Comes Up Clean Despite Harsh Criticism: Luskin, Casey
		Wells is not at odds with modern geochemical thought or the scientific data to assert that primitive Earth volcanoes would have contributed to an oxygenic atmosphere.
		Wells also notes that cladistical methods which have established this alleged relationship ignore the fossil record, assume an evolutionary history, and ignore major problems with the implications that dinosaurs evolved to fly from the ground.
		Wells is not at all dishonest to claim that the paucity of fossils useful for investigating the alleged hominid ancestry of humans causes subjectivity among researchers.
	www.arn.org /docs/wells/cl_iconsstillstanding.htm (14508 words)

	A Conversation with Jonathan Wells, Festival Director of ResFest
		Jonathan Wells, the festival director, busy with preparations for two back-to-back editions of the digital filmmaking showcase, last weekend's Chicago date and this weekend's Manhattan fest, took time to sit down and tell us where they have been and where they are going.
		Jonathan Wells: Late last fall my partner and I, who were doing Low Res [Film Festival] together, separated and a lot of the people who worked on Low Res came to work on ResFest.
		Wells: I was working on it full time because the company that Bart and I worked for went bankrupt, so we started going our own separate ways and the direction I wanted to go with the festival was different that were he wanted to go.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Wells_Jonathan_971023.html (875 words)

	Kansas Evolution Hearings: Jonathan Wells, Bruce Simat, Giuseppe Sermonti, and Ralph Seelke
		Well, I will and I'll comment also on the statement that it's replacing up there, namely science is the human activity of seeking natural explanations for what we observe in the world around us.
		Well, sort of-- it's-- besides hard to say, it's actually quite straight forward in that nature has a method, so-- which is a little bit in conflict with-- if you will, with the wording of unguided process.
		Well, for macroevolution and origins, if you're going to teach just from the textbook and those tenets of what it should be able to do, then you're not actually teaching the story-- the entire story of evolution, you're teaching a segment of it.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/kansas/kangaroo2.html (15964 words)

	Evolution: science and belief; Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Without defining "design," Wells asserts that "many features of living things appear to be designed." Then he contrasts natural selection (undirected) with design (directed), apparently attempting to return to the pre-Darwinian notion that a Designer is directly responsible for the fit of organisms to their environments.
		Wells argues that natural explanations are inadequate and, thus, that "students should also be taught that design remains a possibility." Because in his logic, design implies a Designer, he is in effect recommending that science allow for nonnatural causation.
		Jonathan Wells received two Ph.D.'s, one in molecular and cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and one in religious studies from Yale University.
	www.actionbioscience.org /evolution/nhmag.html (6262 words)

	"Icons Of Evolution" by Jonathan Wells
		Wells has indicated elsewhere that he is an "old-earth" creationist.
		Wells argues that all of them are seriously flawed in one way or another.
		Bruce Grant says that Wells has intentionally misquoted him about peppered moths, and that Wells is dishonest.
	www.don-lindsay-archive.org /creation/icons_of_evolution.html (860 words)

	Wells, Jonathan - ARN Authors Page
		Jonathan Wells discusses universal common ancestry and contemplates whether or not any merits provided by the doctirne should exclude it from the general criticism of Darwinian evolution.
		Wells argues that the report, while recommending increased emphasis in America's public schools on biological evolution, fails to point out that students are being systematically misled about the scientific evidence, and it thereby encourages precisely the sort of bad science it pretends to criticize.
		This report by Wells, published in September by Discovery Institute’s Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, examines ten of the most popular high school and college level textbooks and issues grades based on their presentations of the theory of evolution.
	www.arn.org /authors/wells.html (718 words)

	The Intersection: Debating Jonathan Wells
		Wells to the best of my knowledge doesn't debate much, which means you have no idea precisely which daft argument he'll spring on you - could be anything from complicated CSI to godawful thermodynamics.
		Wells rarely does anything more than bring up negative arguments against evolution - as you can see with the Kansas transcript, it takes a lot of work to just nail him down to admitting to be an ID supporter, so this might not be a fruitful tack.
		Wells is, apparently, one of the leading "lights" (dim as it may be) of the creationist movement.
	scienceblogs.com /intersection/2006/08/debating_jonathan_wells.php (5833 words)

	stranger fruit » Wells as scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Well was a PhD student since 1989 [source], recieved the PhD in 1994, and the total production of his research into cell and developmental biology appears to be two (joint-authored) papers which may have stemmed from his post-doctoral work in Berkeley.
		He accepts at face value the statements of the like of Wells while simultaneously leading the reader to believe that Wells, Behe and others are productive members of the scientific community while being “design theorists.” They are not.
		Sure, there are more people doing research within evolutionary biology, but when you look at the typical productivity of evolutionary biologists as individuals, they are publishing papers far more frequently on topic than the people most often cited as ID researchers.
	darwin.bc.asu.edu /blog/2004/04/30/wells-as-scientist (585 words)

	Jonathan Wells
		Jonathan Wells has a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Jonathan Wells has a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University.
		Jonathan Wells has been a strong supporter of IDEA by providing us with various resource materials as well as pledging to come speak at the IDEA Club at UCSD in January, 2002.
		Wells has a very busy speaking schedule but if you'd like to get in touch with him, please contact us at "info@ideacenter.org" and we will try to put you in touch with him if possible.
	www.ideacenter.org /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/781 (648 words)

	The Words of Jonathan Wells
		He is currently a postdoctoral research biologist in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow of the Discovery Institute in Seattle.
		The balance among organisms in an ecosystem is normally quite complex, and ecologists frequently discover that organisms previously thought to be unessential are necessary elements in that balance.
		See Jonathan Wells, "Homology in Biology: A Problem for Naturalistic Science," presented at the Conference on Naturalism, Theism, and the Scientific Enterprise, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin, February 1997 (posted on the World Wide Web at http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/philosophy/faculty/koons/ntse/papers/Wells.html).
	www.tparents.org /Library/Unification/Talks/Wells/nat-select.htm (2519 words)

	The C-Files: Jonathan Wells
		Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute in Seattle says it is about censorship and "fairness." (Detroit News - Sunday, March 14.) It is really about quality education.
		Jonathan Wells, of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, has sent NMSR a letter commenting on several of the points raised in the April 1999 issue of NMSR Reports ("Discovery Institute Goes on Warpath," "Melvindale Book Flap").
		Wells' conclusions regarding the peppered moth example are strongly disputed by several experts in the area.
	www.nmsr.org /jonwells.htm (3373 words)

	Jonathan Wells (creationist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wells has claimed to have been a developmental biology researcher as a post-doctorate candidate at UC Berkeley.
		Wells contradicted his earlier statements about his reason for not accepting evolution by insisting that "I became convinced that the Darwinian theory is false because it conflicts with the evidence." When questioned about the age of the earth, he replied "I think the earth is probably four-and-a-half billion or so years old.
		Wells, along with fellow Discovery Institute member Phillip E. Johnson, denies the mainstream scientific view that HIV is the cause of AIDS and signed the The Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis AIDS reappraisal petition calling for a "reappraisal of the evidence" for the connection between HIV and AIDS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Wells_(creationist) (1333 words)

	Amazon.com: Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth?: Books: Jonathan Wells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Wells discusses the famous comparative vertebrate embryo diagrams-- which should be an embarrassment to any textbook author who includes them--the fallacious way homology is used for evidence of common ancestry, the collapse of the story of Peppered Moths, Darwin's finches, and many more pieces of the Darwinist lore.
		Jonathan Wells' work is a very clear, well-written critique of ten major examples typically used in introductory biology textbooks, mostly at the high school level, designed to convince unwary students that evolution theory is true.
		Wells argues that the examples are far more controversial than they are given to appear to students.
	www.amazon.com /Icons-Evolution-Science-Jonathan-Wells/dp/0895262762 (2167 words)

	Freethought Forum - Shermer vs. Jonathan Wells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He challenged Wells on a couple of points in his speech and again during QandA, and got predictable response of "I don't pretend to know the answer to that".
		I remain unconvinced that Wells (or anyone yet) has presented anything like a compelling argument that Darwinian evolution is "false", but you're free to keep having a go at it.
		Wells' position was that the theory was inadequate to explain apparently useless adaptations, and Shermer's very clear and obvious point was that co-option is actually the best available theory.
	www.freethought-forum.com /forum/showthread.php?t=10491 (2339 words)

	Jonathan Wells and John Scalise: Founders of ResFest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jonathan Wells and John Scalise are the founders of ResFest, a digital film festival.
		Wells and Scalise are also the editor and managing editor, respectively, of RES magazine.
		Wells and Scalise agree there is less competition than meets the eye.
	digitalcontentproducer.com /mag/video_jonathan_wells_john/index.html (394 words)

	Amazon.ca: Icons of Evolution : Science or Myth?: Books: Jonathan Wells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		What some biologists know… and are not telling you In this shocking book, Berkeley-educated doctor of biology Jonathan Wells lets you in on scientific discoveries you won’t learn about from college and high school textbooks—and reveals a dirty little secret known only to some of his fellow biologists.
		As I understood the text, Wells is not attempting to provide an alternative explanation to Darwinism, but rather point out the near-dogmatic fervor to which strict Darwinists adhere to the theory (despite the flaws of that theory).
		Jonathan Wells has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in geology and physics with a minor in biology, a doctorate in religious studies from Yale, and a doctorate in molecular and cell biology from from Berkeley.
	www.amazon.ca /Icons-Evolution-Science-Jonathan-Wells/dp/0895262762 (1770 words)

	ESPN.com - Draft Tracker - Players
		In 1998, Wells carried 41 times for 197 yards and two touchdowns and had a two-yard catch.
		In 2000, the Buckeyes really wanted and needed Wells to step up and take command of the TB position, but he only started three of the 12 games he played in and had a mediocre 136-598-6 with 9-88 receiving.
		However, in '01, he carried 232-1,157-15 with 11-114 and really came on late in the year, when he gained 717 yards and scored eight times in the last five regular-season games and came up big against Michigan.
	sports.espn.go.com /nfldraft/tracker/player?id=4266 (267 words)

	The Lippard Blog: Deception from Jonathan Wells
		P.Z. Myers at Pharyngula reviews chapter 3 of Jonathan Wells' new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, as part of a series of critiques of the book which will appear at The Panda's Thumb.
		This is the heart of Wells' strategy: pick comments by developmental biologists referring to different stages, which say very different things about the similarity of embryos, and conflate them.
		This is a clear case of deceptive writing by Jonathan Wells.
	lippard.blogspot.com /2006/08/deception-from-jonathan-wells.html (493 words)

	CSC - Critics Rave Over Icons of Evolution:
		Wells neglects to mention that insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are all post-Cambrian.” (Scott, p.
		Darwinists often claim that the first is so well corroborated that we are justified in calling it a “fact,” while the second is acknowledged to be a “theory,” generally well supported but still debated in its details.
		Wells “appears” to have earned Ph.D.s from Yale and Berkeley, but the “more complex” truth is that he is no better than a lying, murderous sociopath.
	www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=1180 (11466 words)

	UCSD IDEA Club Hosts Lecture by Jonathan Wells (Report)
		Jonathan Wells has a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale.
		Wells had time to discuss 3 of the "Icons" he discusses in his book--homology, the Cambrian explosion (Darwin's tree of life), and embryology-- and he showed the following diagrams and data in support of his positions:
		We are very thankful to Jonathan Wells for his willingness to come speak at UCSD on the topic of the icons of evolution.
	www.ideacenter.org /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/798 (657 words)

	TDP - Metcalf's Law and Legacy
		Ethernet is the protocol for a dumb pipe, a passive ether.
		That is why it fits so well on a cable TV line and why it will fit even into the multigigabit world of a multimedia future.
		Nonetheless, if there is enough bandwidth for the application, ethernets work just as reliably and well as their deterministic rivals, even for advanced video traffic.
	www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=41&isFello... (4704 words)

	evolgen: Jonathan Wells Fails Introductory Biology
		From what I can gather, this is the chapter in which Wells claims that biology does not need evolution because evolution has no applications in medicine or agriculture.
		Wells actually gets about a paragraph or so mostly right on pages 77-78, describing factors which contribute to the emergence of antibiotic resistance.
		If Jonathan Wells were in the introductory biology course at my university, he would struggle.
	www.scienceblogs.com /evolgen/2006/09/jonathan_wells_fails_introduct_1.php (958 words)

	Comments and report from Dr. Jonathan Wells (one of the four panelists) of the Discovery Institute concerning the ...
		Comments and report from Dr. Jonathan Wells (one of the four panelists) of the Discovery Institute concerning the Ohio State Board of Education Standards Committee Meeting on March 11, 2002 to discuss Intelligent Design
		Jonathan Wells has gave us permission to post his commentary and report.
		At the very least, we were able to air the controversy in a way that (I think) opened at least a few eyes to what is really going on.
	www.creationists.org /20020311OSBEwells.html (1410 words)

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