It seems that this creationist had his papers pulled from a website after supposedly misreprestenting his academic qualifications.
I believe he is the same person quoted in the Creation/Evolution book.
Robert Gentry;WT source`not academically qualified'
by badboy 5 Replies latest jw friends
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AlanF
Gentry is an SDA young-earth creationist who got a physics degree specifically to be able to support his religious ideas. No one outside the YEC community pays any attention to his claims, because when his writings are carefully examined, they're found to contain many errors. He's proved to be a lousy physicist. And yes, he's used in the WTS Creation book as a reference for their claim that man has been on the earth for only a few thousand years. Pretty funny, the JWs using a YEC to "prove" the recent origin of man. Of course, the Creation book's author made it sound like it was actually Popular Science magazine making an editorial comment instead of Gentry spouting his religious views.
AlanF
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ozziepost
Alan and badboy: very interesting points.
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Badger
Creation Science is full of troops like that. When the JW's quote a "secular" source, though, they never expect to have it challenged...try it sometime.
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OICU8it2
I remember many years ago, reading an article in "Popular Science" by Robt. Gentry. It concerned radio isotope dating and stated essentially it had been determined that many dates were off by a factor of a thousand. I was so impessed I sent the article to the society's writing dept. Shortly after, it appeared as testimony in the new "Reasoning" book, I think. I don't recall if they acknowleged my mail or if that even was the reason the quote appeared. Now, of course things have changed completely.
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badboy
OICU8it2, how interesting that they seemed to have got that info from you.
ALANF, its seems this guy didn't even have the cited qualifications.