Molecular and cell biologist Jonathan Wells (1942-2024) was an expert on biology textbooks and biology science curriculum as it relates to Darwinian evolution. He also was one of the nation’s leading advocates for intelligent design, which is the scientific theory that some features of life and the universe are better explained as the result of an intelligent agent than purely random, unguided processes.
Wells earned two PhDs, one in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley, and one in Religious Studies from Yale University. He worked as a postdoctoral research biologist at the University of California at Berkeley and the supervisor of a medical laboratory in Fairfield, California, and he taught biology at California State University in Hayward.
Dr. Wells published articles in Development, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, BioSystems, The Scientist and The American Biology Teacher. His books include The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy (contributing author, DI Press, 2020), Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution (DI Press, 2017), The Myth of Junk DNA (DI Press, 2011), The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design (Regnery, 2007), and The Design of Life (FTE, 2007) which he co-authored with Dr. William Dembski. He is also author of Charles Hodge’s Critique of Darwinism (Edwin Mellen Press, 1988) and Icons of Evolution: Why much of what we teach about evolution is wrong (Regnery, 2000).
