Frank B. Salisbury
Frank Boyer Salisbury (August 3, 1926 – December 26, 2015) was an American
plant science.[1]
Career
Salisbury held a
Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He taught for eleven years as a professor at Colorado State University
before joining the faculty of USU.
Salisbury wrote the best-selling textbook Plant Physiology with Cleon W. Ross and edited Geochemistry and the Biosphere with V. I. Vernadskii.
Creationism
A member of
The American Biology Teacher.[2]
In 2006, Salisbury wrote that the "case for evolution is so strong that many aspects are now well established, but it is shortsighted to imply that all the problems have been solved", he also wrote in regard to his 1976 book that he "would take a much less favorable view of the creationist literature than I did then, but I would still point out some problems."[3]
His last book was entitled Case for Divine Design, 2006.
Publications
Books
- The Flowering Process (1963)
- Truth By Reason and By Revelation (1965)
- Vascular Plants, Form and Function (1970) [with Robert V. Parke]
- The Biology of Flowering (1971)
- Botany: An Ecological Approach (1972) [with William A. Jensen]
- Plant Physiology (1974) [with Cleon W. Ross]
- The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist's Report (1974)
- The Creation (1976)
- The Case for Divine Design (2006)
Papers
- Salisbury, Frank B. (1971). Doubts About the Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution. The American Biology Teacher33: 335-338
- Salisbury, Frank B. (1967). The Scientist and the UFO. BioScience 17: 15–24.
- Salisbury, Frank B. (1969). Natural Selection and the Complexity of the Gene. Nature 224: 342–343.
References
- ^ "Frank Boyer Salisbury (1926 - 2015)". Logan Herald Journal. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ McIver, Thomas Allen. (1989). Creationism: Intellectual Origins, Cultural Context, and Theoretical Diversity. University of California, Los Angeles.
- ^ Salisbury, Frank B. (2006). Review of Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for Understanding (2001), by Trent D. Stephens and D. Jeffrey Meldrum, with Forrest B. Peterson Archived 2018-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. FARMS Review 18/1: 313–19.
General
- bio from Salibury papers register Archived 2008-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
- allbooks list of Salisbury's works
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