Andrew McIntosh (physicist)

Andrew McIntosh
EducationUniversity of Wales (DSc)
Cranfield Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forAdvocacy of Intelligent design
Scientific career
FieldsChemical engineering, combustion, thermoacoustics
WorkplacesUniversity of Leeds
Thesis Unsteady premixed laminar flames  (1981)
John Frederick Clarke

Andrew McIntosh (also known as Andy McIntosh) is a British physicist who is a professor emeritus of thermodynamics and combustion theory at the University of Leeds. He is also the director of the organisation Truth in Science which promotes creationism and intelligent design.

His research-group has received the outstanding contribution to innovation and technology award from the Times Higher Education awards in London in 2010 for developing a technology based on the defence mechanism of bombardier-beetle.

Creationism

In a 2007 discussion with Richard Dawkins on BBC Radio Ulster, McIntosh argued that the principles of thermodynamics are not consistent with Darwinian evolution.

In November 2006, the University of Leeds issued a statement distancing itself from creationism, and described McIntosh's directorship of Truth in Science as being unconnected with his teaching or research.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Andy McIntosh". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Press statement: Professor Andrew McIntosh". Archived from the original on 5 May 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2006., University of Leeds, 29 November 2006. "Professor Andrew McIntosh's directorship of Truth in Science, and his promotion of that organisation's views, are unconnected to his teaching or research at the University of Leeds in his role as a professor of thermodynamics. As an academic institution, the University wishes to distance itself publicly from theories of creationism and so-called intelligent design which cannot be verified by evidence."
  3. ↑ "Beetle defence inspires uni work". BBC News. 9 December 2010.
  4. ↑ Crawley, William (7 January 2007). "BBC - Will & Testament: The Thermodynamics of Andy McIntosh".