Intelligent Design
Egnor rejected evolutionary theory after reading Michael Denton's book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis and said "claims of evolutionary biologists go wildly beyond the evidence." Biologist Jerry Coyne responded to Egnor's article noting that Egnor is no biologist, or even a scientist, but Egnor accepted widely discredited claims in said book (claims recanted by Denton himself in a later book) and "Egnor is decades out of date and shows no sign of knowing anything at all about evolutionary biology in the 21st century." Egnor is a signatory to the Discovery Institute intelligent design campaign A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism and Physicians and Surgeons who Dissent from Darwinism. In 2007 he joined the Discovery Institute's Evolution News & Views blog.
In March 2007, when the Alliance for Science sponsored an essay contest for high school students on the topic "Why I would want my doctor to have studied evolution," Egnor responded by posting an essay on the Discovery Institute's intelligent design blog claiming that evolution was irrelevant to medicine. In a column written for Forbes, Egnor identified himself as a Catholic.
Egnor appeared in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. In the film, Ben Stein describes this as "Darwinists were quick to try and exterminate this new threat," and Egnor says he was shocked by the "viciousness" and "baseness" of the response. The website Expelled Exposed, created by the anti-creationist organization NCSE to debunk the film, responded by saying that Egnor must never have been to the Internet before. The NCSE's claims have since been challenged by the website N.C.S.E. Exposed: No Victim Blaming Allowed!
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