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Dean Kenyon is an American biophysicist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University. He is best known as a co-author of the seminal 1969 book Biochemical Predestination and as a prominent figure in the Intelligent Design movement. He earned his Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford University and did postdoctoral work in chemical biodynamics at UC Berkeley. In his early career, he was a staunch advocate of chemical evolution. However, by the late 1970s and 1980s, he grew skeptical of Darwinian explanations for the origin of life and concluded that the complex information in DNA was the result of a directing intelligence.
Dean Kenyon is an American biophysicist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at San Francisco State University. He is best known as a co-author of the seminal 1969 book Biochemical Predestination and as a prominent figure in the Intelligent Design movement. He earned his Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford University and did postdoctoral work in chemical biodynamics at UC Berkeley. In his early career, he was a staunch advocate of chemical evolution. However, by the late 1970s and 1980s, he grew skeptical of Darwinian explanations for the origin of life and concluded that the complex information in DNA was the result of a directing intelligence.
